Ten years ago, rarely you can meet someone who has the courage to change the profession. And today even the experts with the experience, for one reason or another out of work, ready to drastically change their destiny. Change specialty - conscious or forced - the process is painful, rarely occurring without loss. Whether the game is worth the candle?
The Western experience
In the West the processes of transition have been studied in depth and, to a certain extent, controlled: if the labour market is brewing a serious crisis, measures are taken in advance.
At the transition of Europe on electronic payments of Bank specialists were pre-Paleocene, others had to retrain. Another example: during the formation of the IT industry developed countries willingly invited foreign programmers on temporary contracts, because it was obvious that with the development of industry the need for the high number of mid-level programmers will gradually disappear.
Another important factor - free migration. It is not necessary to change the job: if your country or region, there is no demand for workers in your profile, just change the place of residence. Labour migration to Ukraine - is a new phenomenon, and many of our compatriots, it seems easier to change your profession than the address.
In the West people, getting profession, understand that this is only the first step in their professional activity: it is impossible to stop, have to learn life so that today you can become truly successful. Practice has proved that narrow specialist risk to remain without work. So today in Europe and the USA, first of all, are fundamental skills - ability to manage, communicate, solve tasks quickly and accurately.
In love on their own
The changing economic model of society has led to the emergence of a mass of new professions: realtors, and PR specialists, managers of all stripes, advertising specialists, marketing specialists, insurers, and so on - all does not count. In these areas inevitably had to come people from other areas. Including those for whom a change of profession is normal and constant re-evaluation of values, the search for new ways of self-realization is a way of existence.
Psychologists who study labor relations, called this group the restless pioneers: people can easily change their previous professional installation on new. Their main problem is the inability to determine the time when to stop, so people of this type rarely achieve perfection in any case. In the first stage, they really can move mountains, but once the novelty effect disappears easily come off and go in search of new experiences.
Willingness to change their profession on their own, to learn, to learn new skills, alas, is not a guarantee of success in a new field. Therefore, it is important to properly choose a new activity, so that after some time did not have again to look for something new. Moreover, our employers do not always have a positive attitude towards candidates that have changed the profession.
There is no luck...
More numerous category are those whom circumstances have forced to change his profession. These people found themselves in a difficult psychological situation, but this does not mean that they will not be able to become successful in a new profession. On the contrary, as a rule, they develop a flurry of activity at the new place of work and achieve impressive results.
But there are people who under no circumstances would not agree to change your profession. For them, maybe except some professional maneuvering, the search for new niches within the same specialty. These people are the backbone, the Golden Fund of any profession. And even forcibly changing specialty, they continue to keep the bar high. So, a good psychologist can be a successful HR Director, consultant or trainer, engineer - talented programmer or system administrator, philologist - a successful PR Manager, press attaché or advertiser.
Midlife crisis
There is a hypothesis, according to which a person can engage in the same activity no more than 8-10 years, then get bored and stops to bring satisfaction.
Therefore, professional crises occur with a certain periodicity. Often a midlife crisis, coming at 35-40, coincides with another professional milestone. And then many very successful people are trying to radically change his life: businessmen, as a rule, open a new business or pass the reins hired managers, and sometimes looking for new interests and out-of-business managers change the activity or move to another company. Sometimes the crisis comes at the moment when the specialist understands that he reached the peak of their career and grow up already, seemingly, nowhere. People who can control themselves and the situation, the crisis usually is not protracted.
Those who rely on the decisions of other people, fate and other beyond their factors, the crisis may last for years and even lead to complete loss of professional identity. Money factor of professional success becomes an end in itself. The main danger in this case is that, once on this path, a person loses the understanding of professional values. And even changing the work on the more interesting or significant, it will not be able to perform its functions properly, and hence to achieve real professional success.
Someone is always out of step
All of the above does not mean that the lack of career growth and professional success should be viewed as a life collapse. There are lots of other ways for self-realization. If your promotion has slightly slowed down or stopped altogether, this does not mean that we need urgently to change their job or even profession.
We should not forget about the so-called career horizontally - professional development. Besides, life is not limited by the performance of professional functions. Sometimes it is good just to do some interesting work, for example, learn to ski, scuba dive, to embroider, to plant cacti. Having achieved success in the chosen path, too, can feel quite an accomplished man.
Changes in society in the last decade, the rapid development of business, the labour market has led to a change of priorities. "Die" some professions, there are other, traditional spheres of activity are undergoing significant changes. Features so many eyes run.
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