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Gold Coast Office: Level 15, Corporate Centre One, Cnr Slatyer Ave & Bundall Rd, Gold Coast Queensland 4217 Australia.
Phone 0487 185557
Career Change Advice -
6 Keys to a Successful Career Change
Some of the best career change advice I frequently give to clients is to get them to ask themselves this question:
"What work was I born for?"
Every one of us was born with specific talents and abilities but most of us aren't using them in our current work.
Your gifts need to be used in your work life if you are to experience true fulfillment, satisfaction and good financial reward.
The purpose of this website is to show you how to achieve that.
Hello, my name is Simon Davies; I'm a qualified career counsellor from the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Australia.
Providing career change advice and helping people in their job search has been the
focus of my work for over fifteen years. You Have Tremendous Ability!
This career change advice has helped many people find a career that matches with the individual personality or motivational style that is unique to them.That might be a job working for someone else. Or perhaps in your own business.
Everyone has abilities, something of value to offer in the world of work. I believe there are no exceptions to this rule.
Most people who come to me for career change advice either:
- grossly
underestimate their abilities or
- they say "I don't think I have any"
Comparing Yourself Can Be Dangerous
The biggest mistake people
make in life
is NOT making a
living at doing
what they
most enjoy
Malcolm Forbes
(1919-1990)
Any career change advice
usually starts with addressing your gifts and abilities.
Malcolm Forbes
(1919-1990)
When I talk to people about their gifts and abilities, many people initially think of others people's gifts and abilities!
Isn't that interesting?
Why would they think of other people?
One of the reasons for this is that the words 'gifts and abilities' have a connection in many peoples minds to 'extreme' gifts and abilities.
So we begin to compare other people who have extreme gifts and abilities, or at least better abilities than ourself.
And perhaps how these other people have managed to get to become successful with their abilities.
This comparing ourselves with others can be dangerous.
Why?
Because comparing ourselves with others is focusing on the wrong issue.
Successful people in life aren't always comparing themselves with someone else. They know who they are and what their giftings and strengths are.
They don't get sucked in to the insecurities and competitiveness of having to be better than someone else.
I've noticed that the people who are truly in touch with their own unique bents are very relaxed and very encouraging to other people.
When we know who we are, and that we are truly functioning in our own strengths, others are not a threat to us.
One valuable career change advice tool that can accurately identify your own strengths is the inborn job skills assessment.
This is the very best assessment exercise that I know of to help people on their new job search quest.
Which Is the Better Job - Doctor or Garbage Collector
Can a doctor say to the garbage collector; "I have a better job than you". Can the arborist say to the IT professional, "I have a better job than you".No.
Having the best job has nothing to do with the type of job a person does but rather, are they naturally suited to that job.
In fact a rubbish collector could very well say to the doctor "I have a better job than you" and he could be right if the doctor was not gifted for that job.
God Don't Make No Flops
It doesn't interest me what you are doing for a living,
I want to know what you ache for...
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love,
for your dream,
for the adventure of being alive,
...I want to know what sustains you from the inside
when all else falls away....
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Before any career change
advice can be effective, we need to consider how we came to have our natural inborn abilities.
I believe they are with us from the moment we were born.
In the bible it says that God has "shaped each of us" and that he knit us together while we were in our mothers womb.
You may be familiar with the movie Chariots of Fire where Olympic athlete Eric Liddell said;
I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast, and when I run, I feel God's pleasure......To give up running would be to hold God in contempt.
Just a Job or Something Significant
There is a desire in the heart of every human being to expend their life on some significant purpose.A life where you can make a difference in the world.
A life that when it is finished, you can say:
"I'm glad I dedicated my life to doing that"
And I believe there is a direct correlation between you utilising your natural abilities and realising that significant purpose.
Central to effective career change advice is getting to know the truth about who you really are in regards to your natural abilities.
Know
Thyself
-Socrates
-Socrates
Because knowing the truth about your own abilities unleashes a new freedom in your world of work and in your entire life.
Without that truth about yourself, any career change advice is based on wrong foundations. It is unlikely your job search quest will ever amount to anything fulfilling.
Lie No. 1: You Can Be Anything You Want to Be
An important part in finding out who we are in the world of work is to first find out who we are not.The truth is, you can't be anything you want to be. Or more precisely, you can't be anything you want to be and be happy.
When a person realizes they are in a job that is a wrong fit for them,
that' s often the stage at which they might embark on a new job search quest and seek some career change advice.
Deep
in our hearts, we all
want to find and fulfill a purpose bigger
than ourselves.
Only such a larger purpose can inspire us to heights we know we could never reach on our own.
For each of us the real purpose is personal and passionate: to know what we are here to do, and why.
Dr. Os Guinness
Only such a larger purpose can inspire us to heights we know we could never reach on our own.
For each of us the real purpose is personal and passionate: to know what we are here to do, and why.
Dr. Os Guinness
Ironically, that can sometimes be 20 years or more into a career and of course for a good number of people, that event never occurs in their entire working life.
Only a very large purpose can inspire and motivate you to heights you could otherwise never reach. Thats why once your inborn job skills are identified you can look forward to your dream career.
You will feel like a new person.
Have you ever noticed that sometimes your energy levels are like a blazing fire for some projects?
That's because the heart of who you are is wonderfully awakened as it discovers a good match between the innate abilities you were born with, and the task at hand.
Where Do I Start
These inborn job skills are the skills that you are naturally wired or motivated to use.It's what makes you tick. When you are using your inborn job skills, you are doing something you love and often lose all sense of time.
Find out what your inborn job skills are and get career change advice on how to obtain those types of careers that best fit you.
I want to encourage you to eagerly seek out your hearts deepest passions. Or perhaps rediscover passions that you once had but have somehow got lost along the way.
This career change advice will give you confidence to consider new possibilities about yourself.
What might you be good at if the doors were truly opened on your natural inborn job skills.
On This Web Site
- Career change advice on how to discover what your inborn job skills are and how to match them to types of careers that you are naturally good at.
- Find out more about the very successful, yet underutilized job search methods. Methods that will make your job search quest more likely to land that dream job.
- Improve your job interview success, with my top ten
job interview tips, including how to handle those sometimes difficult job interview questions. - Learn the six secrets about successful career change resume writing.
- Show you why you probably shouldn't be taking career tests.
- Take a look at whether or not you might be suited to self employment or a "work at home career".
Most Workers Aren't Happy In Their Job - But That's Easy to Fix!
According to research up to 80% of thecurrent workforce is dissatisfied in their career?
A lot of us appear to be in the wrong job.
And a good number of us 'fell' into our first job at an early age after our job search quest was based on a lack of good information about ourselves.
We then went on to base our future career choices on the experience we gained from that first questionable career decision.
We began to accumulate a lifetime of work experience based on what was probably a wrong choice in the beginning.
Our
plans miscarry
because they have no
aim.
When a person does not
know what harbor he is
making for,
no wind is
the right wind.
-Seneca
-Seneca
The result is that we have become frustrated and miserable in our career and we often feel 'stuck' and unsure how to take the first step in our new job search quest.
If this sounds like you, you are not alone.
The good news is that a fulfilling career is not only possible but your God given right and your responsibility to pursue.
Find out now what your unique inborn job skills are.
If you would like help in any area of your career or job search,
you can ask a job search or career question in my career forum.
This is currently a free service and I generally respond to all questions within 24 hours.
This is currently a free service and I generally respond to all questions within 24 hours.
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Simon Davies Career Change Counselling
Brisbane: Level 20, 300 Queen St, Brisbane Queensland 4000 Australia
Gold Coast: Level 15, Corporate Centre One, Cnr Slatyer Ave & Bundall Rd, Gold Coast Queensland 4217 Australia.
Phone 0487 185557
Brisbane: Level 20, 300 Queen St, Brisbane Queensland 4000 Australia
Gold Coast: Level 15, Corporate Centre One, Cnr Slatyer Ave & Bundall Rd, Gold Coast Queensland 4217 Australia.
Phone 0487 185557
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