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  • 10 Tips Before Changing Careers to Teaching
  • You may call it a career transition or changing
    careers to teaching, career change to education,
    career move, or a job search.
  • Are you bored while you are at work there is no
    challenge left?
  • Are you tired all the time experiencing job
    burnout?
  • Has your life changed in a major way maybe your
    kids are grown and money isnt the motivator?
  • Do you want to make more money?
  • Do you want to gain a broader base knowledge?
  • Does the future look bleak in your current field
    or occupation?
  • You cant stand your supervisor or boss any
    longer?
  • Are your co-workers hostile or bullies?
  • Does your position use too many of your
    weaknesses?
  • Did you just have a brain-wave and discovered
    your calling?

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  • 1. Evaluate Your Job Satisfaction
  • When you are planning a career change, it
    is important to first evaluate your level of
    satisfaction in your current job. To do this,
    keep a daily journal to track your reactions
    regarding daily work-related situations, as well
    as to help you track the highs and the lows of
    your work life. This will give you some
    perspective on what aspects of your job you
    dislike. It will also, in turn, help you to
    decipher whether the issues you have are with the
    career field itself, or with your coworkers,
    department, or company culture. This will help
    you to make sure that it really is time for you
    to start looking for a new career, and not just
    that you are undergoing a certain rough patch
    that some much needed vacation time can fix.

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  • Why Are You Making a Career Change?
  • Making a life-changing decision can be a
    very daunting task. You want to make certain that
    switching career paths is in fact what you want
    before you go ahead and do it. Remember the
    education you had to acquire and the various
    skills you had to develop in order to obtain your
    current job? Choosing to now change careers will
    require the same effort. However, making a career
    change can definitely be worth it! So ask
    yourself this question, before you move forward.
    You need to make sure you are doing it for the
    right reasons.
  • 3. Assess Your Skills, Core Values, Motivators,
    and Interests
  • To effectively manage your career change,
    you will need to first evaluate your interests,
    core values, adaptability, work skills, and other
    related aspects by reviewing your successful
    roles in past jobs, projects, and activities.

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  • You also have to identify the skills you
    developed or implemented recently in your current
    job and whether you enjoy these tasks or not. If
    you dont find satisfaction in many of the main
    skills and responsibilities you maintain in your
    current field, you know that you need to make a
    drastic change.
  • 4. Identify Potential Career Alternatives
  • You can evaluate other career alternatives
    by networking with people like your friends,
    colleagues, your family, or your counselor.
    Visiting ONET Online or a physical library (they
    still have these) for career information can also
    help you obtain valuable career advice and help
    you to discover viable options.

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  • 5. Perform an Initial Comparative Assessment
  • It is important for you to first conduct a
    comparative assessment on various careers based
    on your skills or proficiencies so you can
    identify several niche targets for more in depth
    research. You dont want to make the mistake of
    jumping into another career, only to find out it
    is also a poor fit. You need your new career
    direction to target your desires and match your
    values, motivators strengths, and ambitions.
  • 6. Research, Research, and Research Some More
  • You need to be absolutely positive as to
    why you want to change professions. Some people
    enter a different profession without
    understanding its unique challenges. Never enter
    a new profession thinking it will be easier than
    your last job. This will not be so. You might
    enjoy it more, but all professions are going to
    have difficulties and challenges.


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  • It will also help you to understand what
    type of skills and characteristics you will
    require in order to excel in the new position. In
    order for you to gain more information about
    possible careers, you need to read as much as you
    can and find out if you have contacts in your
    network of friends and colleagues who already
    work in these fields that can help you with your
    job search.
  • 7. Evaluate Your Transferable Skills
  • Do you possess the characteristics
    necessary to excel, such as patience,
    communication skills, organization, time
    management, problem solving, etc.? 

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  • Do you have transferable skills from past
    jobs that would help you in this new position?
    How do you react in situations of turmoil? How
    fast do you learn new concepts? Can you figure
    out problems on your own? Do you work well in a
    team-oriented and/or independent work
    environment? Upon first glance, these questions
    may not seem relatable to your future or your
    present position, but if you dig deep and look at
    your current job responsibilities, you will find
    that you have many transferable skills, and are
    able to make them work in a new career.
  • 8. Make a Realistic Plan
  • A career change is not something that will
    happen overnight. It will take time, effort,
    sacrifices, and probably money in order to make
    it happen. You will need to put together a strict
    budget to ensure you will not run short of funds
    to make the transition. The end goal will
    definitely be worth the effort and risk (as long
    as youve done your research!), but you need to
    be realistic on your time line. For this reason,
    it is very beneficial to make a plan.

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  • 9. Will You Need to Go Back to School Or Take
    Online Courses?
  • Depending on the new profession you will be
    entering, oftentimes a career change means having
    to retrain. This could mean going to night
    classes, attending courses, or having to gain an
    additional degree, licenses, or certifications.
    Depending on what will be required, these will
    take time, money, and effort for you to
    accomplish. Therefore, this is a very necessary
    aspect of your career change that you need to
    consider. You need to be honest with yourself
    about whether you are willing to take four years
    to gain another degree.

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  • 10. Are You Able to Be Flexible?
  • Undergoing such a large life change like
    changing careers is going to require a lot of
    time and effort. In order to accomplish this, you
    are going to have to be flexible. For instance,
    are you willing to go back to school, take on an
    unpaid internship, or work multiple part-time
    jobs in order to gain experience and skills in
    your new profession? Are you willing to come in
    early, give up lunch hours, and/or stay after
    work to offer extra help to colleagues and learn
    your new duties? Will you strive to develop your
    own skills to ensure you are the best
    professional that you can be in this new role?
    These are questions that really need to be
    analyzed and answered before you commit yourself.

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    (North America) or 780 513-0010.
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