How certain is your career?
Are you facing uncertainty within your role? Are you finding yourself overlooked for new projects as you do have what they are looking for?
Do you know what skills you have to offer?
This is common problem especially for business professionals who have concerns as to what their next step should be.
Do you settle for another job? Go it alone as a self-employed freelancer? After all, you still have 20 years at least to go before thinking about retirement.
Six months after leaving work and looking for your new position, you still find it hard. So you settle for less than what you are worth in a new position. This is generally when people come to see me; at their crisis point.
You have the skills, now it’s time to adapt them
Today’s business professionals are in possession of vast amounts of the intellectual property and skills. But very few are even aware they have them. They don’t realise what they have that can be converted or be transferred to another industry.
Many business professionals have the potential to start their own micro business. They have the opportunity to turn their vast knowledge into scaleable assets. They are either not aware of what they have or they don’t know how to do it.
The opportunity to turn skills into a six figure income is a viable proposition for most. It just takes the right methodology, business model and marketability to become a highly valuable commodity.
It’s time to act
If there is a likelihood you are set to leave or transition away from your current career, whether by choice or circumstance, are you prepared?
If you are in that potentially dangerous position of an uncertain career, don’t wait to see what happens. Act now to have a game plan in place, or at least a plan B.
Know and own your skills
Now for some tough love.
Certainty is a luxury few people have in today’s market landscape. As such we need to take decisions that put us in control.
So for those uncertain of their career future, before you decide anything you need to know what exactly you could offer the market.
I have provided you with an easy to complete Skills Map worksheet. It will give you insight and confidence on what you can offer the market today. Once completed you will have more to offer and have a more certain future.
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- Starting a New Business – The Prepared Business Owner - August 22, 2019
