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Career Pointers Archives Planning Ahead Makes Sense I recently began working with a client who - while still currently employed - made the decision to hire a career coach. She explained to me that she had been feeling increasingly anxious about her position, and on top of that, her boss had started to act strangely of late. When her boss asked her to write up an updated job profile, she could see the writing on the wall, and figured that she wasn’t going to wait for the inevitable “restructuring”. She made the decision that she was going to pro-actively seek a new employer. If she was going to lose her job within the next couple of months - she wanted to be prepared. If possible, she wanted to be the one who decided on the time of leaving. Reading this, you may agree that this is a wise course of action, but in my experience, it is more rare than you’d think. Most people live in a deep state of denial: “Everyone else may get laid off, but not me. They would never do that to me.” And when it does happen - they’re in shock. More importantly: they’re completely unprepared. They don’t have an updated resume, they have no clear idea of where their next job might be, they often can’t even think of what they’d really like to be doing in their next job. Panicked - they often apply to every posted job they remotely qualify for, and accept the first job offer that comes along. And so the cycle begins again. Research has shown, that knowledge workers will have 3 - 5 distinct and separate careers over the course of their working life. What this means for anyone who is at risk of lay-off is that you may have to spend a bit of time determining not just what your next job is, but what your next career will look like. And who better to help you do that than a career coach? Last updated on Oct 25, 2006 at 04:13 PM
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