Things you should know before you go for Career Switch

 Things you should know before you go for Career Switch

Satisfaction with the job is really important to yield good results, however many people in Canada are facing the same problem and want to switch their current job and have started looking for new opportunities , this has been specially observed for the immigrants in Canada.

The thought of changing career and trying to get into a new profile /role in different sector ,at this moment is dangerous and challenging as it can put people into debt and people might have to financial crisis.

So, now the question arises “IS MY DECISION CORRECT FOR CHANGING CAREER ,AND AM I READY TO LEARN NEW TECHNOLOGY ? “

Since, the whole of career change is a very complex process as it deals with learning of trending technology and skills , so sometimes it may not be a good decision to change career if a person is not mentally prepared for learning something new. But there are so many job opportunities in Canada in various  fields like medicine, engineering and information technology sector with a fact that these career are paid very well and can be helpful in uplifting of financial status.

Several steps have been taken by many charities for helping the people interested in changing their career by guiding them about the skill set required and developing of personal attitude  ,behavior and a lot more basic skills. One of these charity is Windmill Microlending  a which is national charity and works for the people who need guidance about job switching . The charity has also developed a professional guide which is free of cost, and covers points related to career options and switching job.

This development is called as Career Change Navigator and it is very helpful development which makes you take a right decision of either to change or not to change career  , it also give tips for changing and developing professional skills required consists of a series of question which needs to be checked by person making or thinking to make career change .These series of questions are known as checklist question , below the few checklist questions which have been taken from the Career Change Navigator, for complete access to the content one needs to download it.

#checklist Question 1: Do you know ,what will you achieve after this career change? 

Are you tired of doing the same job and want a little advancement in your job ? Do you want improvement in you salary ? Not able to dedicate attention towards both your job and life together? Then you definitely need to change your career .

#checklist Question 2: Have you checked what are the skills you are lagging into and how to develop these professional skills?

Since, switching from one career to another you definitely need to learn and train yourself about the new technology, also you need to invest some money for developing and learning new skills .People need to work on their soft skills as well as professional skills. Many people do go for part time jobs and earn money so that they can invest in better ways on themselves.

#checklist Question 3: Do you have good financial support behind you to invest in your training, further learning?

It’s vital for a person to have a good financial support or at least no financial problem when thinking about career change as, making transition from one career to another needs some investments to be made .This kind of investment may be high as one need to be fully skilled to enter a new profession, so In this case many people go for part time job for earning money but before doing this one should ask himself, Can you manage study and work together ?

These were the few questions which should be answered before thinking of changing career, so that there is no problem faced in future.

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