Career Change and Development: Find The Job You Love

Explore a five-step structure to guide your career change: assess your current situation, analyze your resume and personality, interpret results, brainstorm ideas, and set a detailed future plan.

Discover how the course works: after each video, watch, download and fill rewritable PDFs, save all files in one folder, and follow the five steps to map your career aspirations.

Evaluate your current professional status and your change request to uncover why you want a career shift, exploring internal company changes, new areas, or self-employment as options.

Navigate the analysis phase of the five-step model by mapping childhood and youth career aspirations, your resume, and your personality to define professional success and desired employment.

Evaluate your resume using a traffic light system to map satisfaction across studies and work history. Reflect on the reasons for joy or dissatisfaction to guide future career choices.

Identify your personality through self-reflection and external input from family and friends, map your general and job interests, strengths, and fit between personality and work style.

Explore what professional success means to you, honestly assess your salary expectations and costs, set personal goals, and use the 50/30/20 rule to balance money and meaning in work.

Explore how happiness arises from holistic life factors. Rate your life satisfaction and prioritize work, family, relationships, and hobbies to guide you toward finding a job you love.

Explore your preferred employment path, employee or self-employed, and define key factors like company size, location, work arrangement, hours, vacation, and work atmosphere.

During the evaluation phase, analyze your answers to reveal happiness factors and align your interests, strengths, and priorities with categories: professional interests, strengths, personality, life priorities, dream company or self-employment.

Collect your desired activity areas during the idea phase, the fourth step. Brainstorm solo, with trusted people, and with a neutral adviser to align careers.

Find inspiration by researching peers on LinkedIn or Xingu, reach out for inside perspectives, and explore roles on Jump On platforms like StepStone, Indeed, Monster, plus career orientation tests.

Select your desired areas of activity and draft a future plan that aligns with your life planning and priorities to guide your job ideas and skill development.

Create a concrete future plan blending professional goals with personal life, prioritizing short-, medium-, and long-term actions, and using a timeline with two-, five-, and ten-year milestones.

Take initiative to apply for positions across several target areas, assess the environment and salary to match your criteria, and use interviews to verify fit and ask decisive questions.

Discover steps to career change and development, navigate doubts and fears, envision your professional future, and learn about individual career coaching with Julia Minos.