Career Change

How to Make a Career Change to Earn More Money

By Rom Antony Day

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Having being in the personnel management and employment services field (e.g. recruiting sales, training) for a little bit more than 17 years already with United States of America companies, many a times clients and people in general have asked me for suggestions about how they might go about a career change. Their reasons for wanting a career change have varied; however, all in all an underpinning team has been wanting a more rewarding job financially and along the way a more challenging, more structured and often the reverse, more stimulating and fun corporate culture, less pity, less gossipy and more result-oriented and at times the opposite (process-oriented) where perhaps they can make a difference in whatever matters to them.

As I think you might know, giving suggestion in this field without really having a good grasp of the individual’s situation is not such a good idea for if they give you faulty information, you will give faulty advice. And I am not an adviser.

Nevertheless, based on my experience and the ideas presented in the annual guide “”What Color is Your Parachute”, I can offer three basic items of food for thought you can use by asking yourself three basic questions which may help you guide your own personally determined alternatives, decision and plan of action. These items are in my prior readings prescribed by the above mentioned guide which I second.

1) Do I want to change the actual work I do?

2) Do I want to continue or change the industry in which I work?

3) Would doing item one, two or both allow me the best bang for my buck; in other words, will I be able to earn a higher income by doing item one, two or both.

Generally speaking, doing both is more difficult than doing item two. Item one alone is a bit more challenging than item two alone. The guide referred to earlier explains this in greater detail per my recollection of my most recent reading of it several years ago. You could find it at most libraries and bookstores.

Depending on the direction you would like to take, if I were you I might consider different strategies depending on the answer to these, say, three items check-list.