THREE KEYS TO CAREER CHANGE

You can always find or create a job for yourself if you are willing to change your job, change your location or change the amount you’re asking to a lower amount.

If there is insufficient demand for your particular skills and experience, first you will have to learn to do something else and provide skills that are currently in demand.  Employers don’t care about your past.  They care only about your future and your ability to contribute value to their customers.

You can change your location.  Sometimes you will have to move from one part of the country to another, from where there are few jobs to where there are more jobs.  Many people transform their entire lives by moving from an area of high unemployment to an area of low unemployment.

The third thing you can do to get back into the work force is to lower your demands.  Remember, because your labor is a commodity, it is subject to the laws of supply and demand.  If you ask too much, people will not hire you, because customers will not pay your demands in the price of the product or service that your organization produces. It is not the employer who is forcing this downward revision in wage requirements; it is the customer, through his or her buying behavior.

There is a small, creative minority in America who is never unemployed.  No matter what happens, they always have a job; sometimes two jobs.  If they lose a particular position in one place, they find another position doing the same thing, or something else, somewhere else.  They are fast on their feet.  They move quickly and they don’t accept unemployment as an option.  And they always have jobs.

There are always jobs to be done.  Even in the worst economy, there are always problems to be solved and consumer needs to be met.  For this reason, all long-term unemployment is ultimately voluntary.

There are more opportunities for you to fulfill your dreams and aspirations in the American economy than have ever before existed, or exist anywhere else in the world.  You can be, have, or do anything that you can dream of by preparing yourself for better and better jobs.  It is never crowded at the top.  There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.  Your job is to get good, get better, and then make yourself indispensable.

Now, here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, examine the trends in your company and your career. Determine where the market is going and what you need to do well if you want to be a leader in your field.

Second, be prepared to change your job description, lower your demands or move to somewhere else if necessary so you can get and keep the ideal job for you.

Refuse to put limits on your imagination.