There' s no such thing as a lifetime job guarantee.
Just 10 years ago, people could reasonably expect a lifetime job guarantee and accepted the fact that they would work in a specific occupation or industry for the best part of their working life. People also took a certain amount of comfort in the predictability of their working life and the peace of mind that security of tenure offered.
Nowadays, it’s normal to change jobs every three to five years or even more frequently in some occupations. In fact, the average worker can expect four or five complete occupational changes during the course of their working life.
Take my situation as a classic example - after graduating from a private boarding school and with no idea what I wanted to do, I worked as a jackeroo, trained as an Army Officer, worked as a bus conductor, spent 10 years in the public sector, recruited Accounting and Finance Executives in Sydney, managed a division of the AMP Group of Companies and for the past 10 years have been self employed as the Director of the Coast’s oldest private recruitment agency, the EastCoast Human Resource Group. I still have twenty working years ahead of me and goodness knows what I will be doing with myself over that time.
This means you need to become an expert in managing your own career – you need to know what you want to do in your working life and how you’re going to get there! You need skills, knowledge and self-understanding in areas such as:
· What are your key strengths?
· What are your personality traits and “job fit” needs?
· What jobs out there best suit you?
· How can you best go about finding out about interesting options?
· How can you evaluate and decide on your career goals?
· What are the best ways to go after what you want?
· How can you prepare powerful letters of application, a great resume and other self-marketing documents. In fact, you will need networking skills and how to best prepare yourself for that all important job interview.
Over 60% of jobs are never advertised. Relying on advertisements in the newspaper or on the Internet job boards is one of the least effective ways to get work.
To be really effective in your job search, you need to know what type of job you are best suited to so that you can implement a creative self-marketing campaign. The skills, knowledge and self-understanding to direct and manage your career are rarely learnt at school or even at university.
The EastCoast Human Resource Group recognised the need for a professional career services on the Coast through their recruitment work with thousands of job seekers and appointed Mitch Lawrie to head up their new Careers Division.
Depending on the focus of the career coaching, immediate and long-term benefits can include:
· Clearer career direction and improved career satisfaction;
· Reduced periods of unemployment or under employment;
· Better career management and job search skills to use throughout your career;
· Improved life balance with the associated health and relationship benefits;
· Greater long-term financial rewards;
· Confidence, personal development and career-life success!
People spend more time researching and planning their next vacation than their career, despite the fact we spend about 86,400 hours of our lives working and this work forms the basis of our sense of identity, wealth and many of our relationships. Career coaching provides all you need to get the most out of your working life!
Your career decisions are too important to leave in the hands of just anyone, especially well intentioned family and friends. We employ highly skilled professionals with appropriate university qualifications and broad life experience. We are as practical or as in-depth as you and your situation require. It’s your call.
If you’d like to know more about how you can benefit from our Career Service, call Chris Whisson now on 5443 6022 for a friendly obligation free chat.
The EastCoast Human Resource Group is a specialist recruitment consultancy and careers advisory service. For more information call 07 5443 6022 or visit http://www.eastcoasthr.com.au/
We specialise in placing exceptional staff for a fee on a permanent or temporary basis. Recruitment service details.
We offer the most professional career services including career assessment, career success coaching, job search strategies, resume preparation, and interview coaching. Career services information.
We specialise in placing exceptional staff for a fee on a permanent or temporary basis. Recruitment service details.
We offer the most professional career services including career assessment, career success coaching, job search strategies, resume preparation, and interview coaching. Career services information.
