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Changing Careers Mid-Stream: Make the most of your experiencesBY: Guest User | Category: Careers | Submitted: 2010-02-22 09:26:55
If you've worked for the same company for a while, or even if you have been intentional in ensuring that your career path was specific and could be tracked by an outside observer, a career change can present a difficult challenge. If all that you have ever done is in the technology field, how do you convince a potential new employer that you are the best person for an animal husbandry job? One of the best ways to ensure that an employer can see your potential for a new position in a new industry is to make it clear to them that the skills you have developed in another industry are transferrable to the new industry. At face value, working for Microsoft doesn't provide much for a person who is interested in working with a zoo, but if you get down to the everyday requirements of the job, there are a lot of things that can be highlighted as parallels. Think through what a standard day in each of your career paths looks like. A typical day for a zookeeper may involve planning diets, preparing food, cleaning enclosures, training animals, planning and performing shows, creating educational tools for guests at the zoo, and monitoring the health and wellness of the animals. A typical day in the life of a programmer might involve working on cross-functional work teams, attending meetings about products and strategic objectives, researching the market for competitors' products, and doing the actual work of programming. At face value, these jobs couldn't be more different. But when you look at what each person is doing, there are a lot of similarities. Both jobs involve making presentations (one to zoo guests, the other to colleagues), working to achieve a common goal with people from different departments (one with other trainers, the other with programmers), keeping an eye on the overall objective and making concessions or advancing your specific task in order to make the entire company stronger, and working with clients to ensure a positive experience. When crafting your resume and cover letter, don't shy away from pointing out the obvious change in career. The potential employer will notice it regardless, but mentioning it in your resume might give you a few more seconds worth of the employer's attention as he/she scans it (usually, a employer only spends about ten seconds skimming a resume before moving on to the next one). Another way to highlight your interest and dedication to the new career path is by adding volunteer experience, professional affiliations, and specific coursework that you have taken in that realm. If you don't have any of these, it would be a good idea to spend a few months gaining hands-on experience in what you are interested in doing before you apply for jobs. This will not only give potential employers a better first impression of you, but it will also give you a chance to determine whether or not you will like the change that you are trying to make. No matter what it motivating your career change, but taking a few steps in the beginning, you can increase your chances of enjoying and succeeding in your new line of work. Article Source: http://www.writearticles.org/ About Author / Additional Info: Comments on this article: (0 comments so far)
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