Transferring Your Transferable Skills
The first time I hear you've lost your job, it is difficult to begin immediately to focus on your transferable skills. It feels like the end of the world, as they were based on it to buy the necessities of life. Whether you liked the work or not is difficult to have to forcibly taken away from you. But no longer. It's natural to feel depressed. It's natural to feel fear. But once you accept these feelings are normal, natural and healthy and have taken the time to grieve, time to move on. Take a break. Do not just rush into the work available in the first place. Take at least a day to do something you enjoy, more if you can afford. This may cost money or it could be a freebie, like a long walk on the beach, followed by a picnic on the rocks. But eventually you have to focus on the next step. What work is going to do now? Try not to think only about the last job, or who have had recent work. The fact that you've done this before, does not mean you will be happy to do it again. Were you happy to do it before? If so, why are not you doing now? Instead of thinking of individual tasks and activities you enjoy doing and are good at doing. Write them. If, in the process, you think of the tasks and dislikes much doing, also noted in another list. Continue until you have run out of things to write. Now look at your list. You are not looking for a job, however, that looks for patterns. What kinds of things are on your list? Are they all related to the organization? Are they all related to computers? Are they all related to talk to people? Are they all related to work with their hands in any way? What connection do you see yourself in the list? What patterns? Note any patterns you see. Perhaps you have one that comes with strength. If so you are lucky, because their interests are clear, making it the choice of work you want to make it easier. What if you have multiple masters? Your task now is what you should consider how these patterns can work together in a kind of work. For example, I love working with computers, and I love working with people and help. Employment: I write resumes of job seekers, and help with job search. These are people, both singly and groups, and computers. Consider how your interests, abilities and skills can work together. What could be causing your use list of things you like doing, or at least some of them? If necessary, take time out of this "job" to the vision of what they seem. Sit or lie down, close your eyes and imagine just doing things in the list of tastes. Where could they do? What kind of location? Outdoors? Indoors? Busy? Quiet? Where do you see yourself? Once you see yourself using your "like to use" skills, ask yourself what is the result of any. What "work" as a result? What occurs, whether tangible or intangible? If your interests are very different you may have to do this exercise several times to cover everything, but do not give up. Write what you see when you're dreaming, after each session. If you're really having trouble with this, try the last thing at night before bedtime. This brings us to your subconscious really committed and will work on it overnight to reach creative solutions. If you do this, I suggest you have a pen and paper beside your bed, so if you wake up at 2am with a brilliant idea, you can scribble on the pad before going to sleep, or you could lose your head morning. Look through job advertisements in newspapers or online, and assess how they could fit several works that might not otherwise consider. You can move to another job, because many of their skills are transferable, which means they can be transferred easily from one job to another. Let me give an example. My experience is working as a career counselor, and clients one-on-one or facilitating workshops on various issues surrounding the job search. But when I moved to my current location, I could not find work doing this. I had to wait until the new government contracts began to escape, and employment agencies were hiring again. I found a job in the paper that interested me. This is unusual, as only 7% of all people who really get to work on paper, but I have done in this case. The work was for a weight loss consultant. I've never had a weight problem, so can not refer or bring the misery of the people or the difficulty of keeping a food program. I do not cook, and tend not to eat the healthiest diet in the world, and at that time I was addicted to diet cola! Not the ideal candidate for this job, you might say. Well, yes and no. Obviously, the landlord is willing to train the new person hired in the current weight loss program, because everyone is different. So do not be a problem. What skills are needed to be a consultant for weight loss? People come to you with a problem. You outline the process for them you know that will help them achieve their desired goal. You have to listen to their customer problems, frustrations and encourage them when things do not go well for them. She looks just like employment counseling until now! You have to know the details of how to achieve the objective. Once formed in the weight loss program that would know. Once again, very much like to help people go after work. That fall, what to do, and I can help. Potential customers in clinical weight loss was a presentation about the program, and then had answers to their questions. Had for years been facilitating workshops on all aspects of finding work, and answer customer questions. As I thought through this work in the weight loss clinic, I realized that I liked the skills used in both career counseling were exactly the same as those needed in the weight loss clinic. It was just a different topic of information. So I wrote a curriculum focused on my transferable skills that work equally well in both areas. Then I wrote a letter explaining, in case the employer does not "shoot" herself, as the skills that have career guidance are a perfect complement to weight loss. I got the job and worked there for a year successfully. It was not my dream job because I still have very little interest in how to lose weight and keep it off, and even less interest in the specific uses of certain foods in this process. However, I learned everything very easily, and continued to enjoy my one to one consultations with clients who need help, and presentations to potential customers. My employers were perfectly happy with me, and I stayed until I found the job I wanted back in employment. If you're one of those readers who just made a comment to you about how you have all these skills, but no, I want to stop! You may not have exactly the same skills I have and the chances are most of you would not be happy if you did use. Each person is different. But he does have skills. You have between 500 and 700 skill. All adults. My example just goes to show that once you have identified the skills you have and enjoy using, should be open minded to new areas that can be used in a job you can enjoy, although not one that would have previously considered . So go ahead with that list of jobs that would fit his skills. Keep a list of, say, 6 of your favorite writing skills, and take them wherever they go, and, if necessary, ask who is with the type of work they can think of that fits these jobs. The rule here is that the list of skills should not contain words that indicate that certain jobs. For example, my advice and facilitation skills adjust for weight loss indicated by the style. But if I had declared as "advice on job search and resume writing", and "facilitated career planning workshops," how long do you think the tenant weight loss have continued to read my resume? Take all use specific words were, only the list of generic skills. Show the list around, and be open to any ideas that come. Never say "no" to any idea - they just take away with you and consideration. Within each seed is inadequate idea of a perfect world. It's your job to find, study, contemplate and find that gem. As you move to your next job, do not settle for less than they're worth. You are worth being happy. You do worthwhile work that fits who you are as a person and the skills you most enjoy using. You just have to decide what is and then go get him, tiger!