any advice for a career change?
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If you are willing to start at a lower level you may have to "dumb down" your resume, meaning lower your experience and responsibilities. When I switched jobs I had to do that so they would stop telling me I was overqualified for everything.
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First of all no one can specifically tell you how to start a new career.\n\nYou must do your homework. Ask yourself these questions:\n\nWhat do I want to do?\nWhat skills do I have?\nWhere do I want to work?\n\nThen you will be able to have a better idea of how to start your new career.\n\nIf you can network with people who might be in the field or industry you are interested in.\n\nCheck out this website from Monster. It is about career advice topics you can use to start your research.\n\nGod Bless and best of luck with finding your new career!
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If you're not sure what to do, I would go to a career counselor.  I spent about 5-7 years wasting my time in a career I didn't enjoy.  I was skeptical at first to going to one too.  It definitely changed my life but you have to be open to it and understand that it will tell you more about yourself and then you'll have to figure out a job that fits.\n\nAlso, you can try this site:  http://www.jobpodge.com\n\nIt's a site of real life job experiences.  My counselor recommended it to me when I wanted to find out more about certain careers and had no idea who to talk to about it.  Good luck!
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change job.  It is better to work in an environment where you feel like a part of a team.
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Look for a new job. If you don't like your lifestyle, change it. You only have one life to live. Don't you think you should be living it in the way that you want to? \n\nToo often we are led through life instead of making our own way. It can be frightening to make changes, but sometimes change is necessary to achieve the things we truly want from life.\n\nThe exception would be if you truly love what you are doing and it doesn't feel like work to you. The way to know if you are doing what you should be doing in your work is if you would do it even if you weren't being paid for it. If not, you are probably not in the right job. Look around (but don't leave your current job until you find something else.)
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Try this.\n1)Identify in your personal career development plans(HR).\n2)Show Willingness to sacrifice personal time. money and commitment towards self-redevelopment.\n3)Request for possible lateral movement to an IT delpartment perhaps via job sharing?  job shadowing?\n4)Show the readiness to move to another company if denied AND especially you have finished your formal training.
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Might want to start with what you don't like about the job?  Is it the people, profession, industry, job function, etc.?  And tackle problem from there.  \n\nThen find out what are other options.  Transfer to other dept? Other location?  \n\nIf nothing works, and you definitely want to get out of it, a good place to start would be figuring out what you LIKE to do that will also bring you income.  (Some community colleges offer classes in that perspective.)  Also talk to your friends to find out what your strengths are.  Hit the newspaper and see if anything interest you.  Start from there and see how it goes.  \n\nGood luck with job search.
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You will have to bypass the recruiters, personnel clerks, and such.  Find a company you would consider, with your background one which does international business, and write to the president (if smallish) or the department head, and ask for advice on a career change.  Don't send a resume.  Call back in a couple of days, and try to visit with him on the phone (I use "him" as a convenience, not to be sexist), and ask if you could come speak to him in person.  In the meantime, do a bit of research on the company (S & P and the like), so you can speak intelliginstly about THEIR needs.  He may ask for a resume then (he probably knows what you're really after, the whole point is to get in the door), ask you for additional time, or wish you luck.  This at least will get you some interview experience.  Good luck!
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It really depends on your aptitude, interests and goal. There are a great deal on opportunities to choose from. spend some time reviewing the specialties and then seeing when kind of path you could take once you leave the service.
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Contact the school you graduated from.  Almost every school has a Career Center/Career Resource Center, and they offer services to graduates, too.  You should be able to work with them to update your resume, look through job postings and get some pointers on the current job market.  \n\nGood luck, hope it helps!
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Oh hon, how old are you?  You sound JUST LIKE me when I was just finishing up school.\n\nNo one can (or should) tell you what to do with your life, especially not a bunch of strangers who know nothing about you.  It's a hard decision, and one that you need to really do a lot of soul searcing on.\n\nGo ahead and keep going to school.  Take a wide variety of subjects, and see what tickles your fancy.  Then do some research on those careers - what a typical work day is like, what a normal salary is, how much education is required, what the job market is like now, and what the projected job market will be like once you've finished your degree.\n\nI know you may be asking just to ask, but in case you are really looking for serious advice, I hate to see anyone do it the hard way like I did (married, working full time and going to school, too.)  I THOUGHT I knew what I wanted to do, and jumped straight into it my freshman year of college to find out I hated it.  Two major changes later I finally ended up dropping out.\n\nSo, since it sounds like we have a lot in common, besides accounting (what I do now) I have also considered - financial advisor, psychologist, teaching, engineering, and architecture.  I also plan, sometime in the next few years, to start my own business as a contract bookkeeper.\n\nEdited - typos galore :)
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I started going to college for a Business Administration degree, but changed like most.  You could do practically anything in the business world (entry/mid level wise).  I.e. Customer service supervisor.  I guess it depends on what you want to specialize in.
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Be open-minded\n\nI was in that same rut until I quit my last job and changed careers to a completely different field.  I make a fraction of the money and have nowhere near the opportunity for advancement… but I love the work I do so none of that really matters anymore.\n\nThe best advice I can give is to not fall into the mindset that you need to work a certain job at a certain level in a certain field.  When I left my last company I went through a few months of unemployment.  Although I could have gotten the same type of job at a fraction of a percent higher pay rate than I left at, I passed.  \n\nI looked at some of the other skills I knew I had developed and used at various jobs and focused my resume on those instead of the obvious.  Although I had worked in IT for years, I realized that I had twice that in Customer Service experience since much of IT is still customer based.  That opened up a massive number of jobs and even allowed me to qualify for much higher level ones than the one I had left.\n\nIf your problem exists in advancing within a company once you get settled in, you’re not alone.  The people I’ve seen advance are the “yes” men, who buy into the corporate logic and never dispute or raise any objections to it.  Hollywood glamorizes the individual thinker and tells stories about people succeeding by being different (ever see the movie, “Big”?) but real life is entirely different.  If you don’t feel like selling your soul to a corporation, you can consider turning to non-profit work or opening your own business.
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Only your supervisor can change your supervisor. If your degree won't fit where you thought it would take you, you CAN change yourself. Change your target market, change anything you want that is about YOU. The secret I have found, is not to try and fit you abilities into the mainstream, but to find the gap that is always there and fill that. Thus becoming part of the mainstream in a seamless manner as if you were always there and an important part of the chain. Indispensable to the people that come behind you. Once I learned this lesson I grew and prospered & find it the most important tool. Right up there with,\n"sell yourself, not your product." If people won't take to you, they wouldn't buy a free pass to heaven from you. Good luck & NEVER take seriously a "NO."
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First Step: Know which Field you want to get into (You probably have this step down). If not then go to a career assessment center/workshop and find out what careers are good for you and your lifestyle.\n\nSecond Step: Have a strong and yet truthful resume. There are plenty of self-help books available on this topic. Depending on work experience should not be more than 2 pages long maximum (1 page is usually preferred). Make sure your resume is tailored to fit the job you are applying for. Have a cover letter to go with it.\n\nStep 3: Presentation is very important whether it be your resume or your personality (especially at interview time). \n\nStep 4: To really get that job.....the following keywords are very important..'Networking' with the right people. Doing 'research' on potential companies and basically being in the know of what will be expected of you.\n\nStep 5: Apply for jobs online through company websites and also through job websites like monster.com etc, in person at job-fairs, word-of-mouth among friends and relatives, university career centers, local and national classifieds in newspapers, and last but certainly not the least through Recruiters/Headhunters.\n\nIf I have to sum it up in a sentence. You want to be very convincing to your future employer that YOU are the person they have been looking for. I hope this information helps. Wish you the best.
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focus on 1 career path at once.\n\ntry things. start something.\n\nthen you'll know what goes and what doesn't, for you.\n\nyou can always change the track if it is totally wrong.\nbut, usually it isn't. you need to give dedication to something... then you'll know better.\n\nI guess.
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keep updating your skills and learning new technology\nOnce you start getting complacent..then its time for a change