How to complete a successful career switch by government employees!
Completing a positive career switch from a government position can be more fun and easier than you think. But it certainly doesn’t feel that way. The shock of suddenly being rejected from your comfortable and supposed secure government career must be devastating. Then figuring out what to do next becomes more confusing and frustrating.
Positive steps to complete a desirable career switch
- Relax. Stop blaming yourself for this predicament. You did nothing wrong. Your rejection was out of your control. Welcome to the human race! We in the public sector have faced being fired more often than recognized. I was fired from my dream job after only 5 years because I performed it too well. I made my owner filthy rich in a short period of time and he could not handle it. His deep insecurities and drug use threatened his egos because he could not publicly show that he generated the profits. So, he arrogantly disposed of me to prove that he could get the acclaim for the company profits without me. Many of us survived and thrived because we were fired. You can too.
- Connect with people you love and respect you. Reengage with family and friends who support you for being you. Spend more time with your children and especially your grandchildren. Enjoy the feelings of being accepted and encouraged by those who care for you. You deserve it.
- Participate in activities you enjoy. Take that trip you wanted, jump into your favorite hobbies. Go fishing; play more tennis or golf, or remodel rooms in your house. Enjoy being human away from work.
- Get help to feel acceptance of your situation. Join or even start a support group of other laid off employees to share your feelings and recognize you are not alone, and you are OK. It is good to vent your negative feelings of being dismissed. And hear others do the same. Purge your need to look at the past to open the doors to the future. Using a therapist to rid yourself of the negative feelings of the past can also help.
- Get help to refocus on switching to the best career for you. Connect with friends, family or others in your support group to help you go forward into your next life. Also consider engaging professional help from the right support people. You may consider engaging a career coach, career counselor, career advisor or connect with career headhunters and recruiters.
My goal was to find a career that I can be passionate about and not feel like I am going to a “job” every day.
After my coach sessions with my TCC coach, I was able to find my true calling and feel confident about my decision. Additionally, I also improved other aspects of my life, such as my personal relationships, health habits and time management skills, as they hold as much weight in my life (if not more) as my career.
Julie Dahl Huntington Beach, California
Obtaining a New Career at 50 is easier and more enjoyable than you think.
There are 2 work selection process to make your career switch
One is the most used process that rarely works, and the other is a new process that works virtually every time.
- The commonly used “Trial and Error” method. Emphasis on “Error.” Here you only look at the possible career options. Your options are overwhelming. Return to government services? There are scant openings with fierce competition from others. Find a job in the public corporate world? Doing what with whom? Becoming an independent contractor? Or starting and running a business? If you are confused and frustrated, welcome to the human race!
You are handicapped because you are uncertain about what your best career is. Why? Because you know so little about your unknown passions, about what you don’t want to do, about your hidden talents and/or your mixed priorities to know which option to pick. But you pick one anyway and give it a “try.” Then you make huge adjustments to the position, to the industry, to the customers and bosses. History has proven that you will eventually make so many adjustments you will find yourself in positions you don’t like. Wondering how you got there. Forcing you to consider seeking new positions using the same T&E method to produce the same end results. (I personally used this method 10 times after being fired and failed every time.)
However, if you feel you know what your best career switch is then go for it. You are one of the lucky ones. - Engage a Career Coach to attain ideal career. Your career coach will reveal you to you. So, you will discover your hidden passions, your self-imposed obstacles (The things you do not want to do) your beliefs and values, your many buried talents, and clarify your priorities. This way you focus on creating your Ideal Income Position on your terms. So, you can “Go to Play Every Day and call it work. And your career coach will also hold you accountable to you. So, you execute the steps to Get your Ideal Income Position once and for all. (I personally used my chosen career coach to finally discover and create my own Ideal Income Position and attain life balance all at once)
Using Headhunters and Recruiters to get your Ideal Career
Headhunters and recruiters can be excellent avenues to connect with your chosen organizations to attain your next ideal career. They are paid to find and recruit qualified candidates for organizations to fill specific job openings. Once you know the jobs you want and the organizations you want to work for (your discovered through career coaching) linking up with headhunters and recruiters who represent these jobs and organizations will put you on the inside track to be considered for the many jobs that are rarely posted. And the more you reveal to the headhunters and recruiters about the details of jobs you are very motivated to perform, the easier and more motivated they will be to represent you to your chosen organizations. You provide them with excellent fits with the organizations because they know you are so motivated and capable of fulfilling these jobs. Everyone wins. You win, the recruiter wins and the hiring manager of the organization wins.
Conclusion
Take advantage of the crossroads of your career life you were thrust into. You have more control over making your next career choices than you think. Following the above steps or the 7 secrets to find the job you want will help you make the best career switch for you. To convert your sudden dismissal into the new life you always wanted and deserved. Go for it!
Enjoy the trip!
Blog Author
Brought to you by Bill Dueease Founder/President of The Coach Connection who struggled through 27 coaches in 6 months to find the good career coach who was right for him. And find him he did. Bill is not a coach, but a thrilled coachee. Through the remarkable career coaching self-awareness process, he discovered his passion and talents were to create and operate his own business so that others would be able to find and select their ideal life coach with only one call and avoid all the pitfalls he encountered. He started TCC in 2001 to fulfill all his goals and personal requirements and never looked back. He shares his full story in his online book entitled “Go To Play Every Day and call it work” which he has been enjoying since 2001.
