6 Reasons why a career development session might be your best decision this year

It’s no act of heroism going it alone when it comes to deciding on your career options or pathways, it can be costly and time consuming. Career change can be a minefield to navigate, especially for the inexperienced person and it may not be enough to just ‘google it’. We are in the information era and not all of the information we find is good, real or trustworthy.

In these uncertain times where there are more people changing industries than ever before, it’s important to get it right so you can secure a stable position in an industry that is here to stay. And more importantly, if we have learnt anything of late, it’s to find happiness and balance in our career choices.

Recently, my twenty-two-year-old son had a major motorcycle accident right when he was about to sign up for an apprenticeship in landscape gardening. After two years of rehabilitation, he found himself physically unable to resume where he left off in the chosen career. Destiny seemed to have a different plan for him. During this time, he was stressed and depressed with moments of anxiety and uncertainty clouding his judgement of what to do next. So, we arranged a Career Counselling session for him and it changed his life direction in ways we had never considered… For the best. He is now studying Environmental Science at university! So…

• How does a young person make what seems like a lifelong decision about their career?
• How does anyone wanting change make current informed decisions about their job?
• How do you know what aligns best for you and your personality?
• If you left your industry due to current mandates, how can you pivot what you know to do something different without wasting your years of experience?
• How can you turn your passion into profits and find true career happiness?

Here are 6 reasons why you may want to consider a Career Practitioner Session, where these and more questions will be answered;

1. Your career has been forced to change due to redundancy or current mandates – this is the perfect time to ‘reassess’ what you want in life moving forward and a career session can highlight way to redirect your experience into something new, fresh and secure. This doesn’t mean starting from scratch, a good career counsellor will help guide you into a career that helps you utilise what you already know with minimal expense and time.
2. You’re about to leave school and are not sure what direction to go – This is so common amongst young school leavers and there is a lot of pressure to ‘decide what you want to be when you grow up’. Most young people haven’t even had a chance to find out what they are good at or what they even like in a career. The pressure can impede decision making and clouds unknown possibilities. Sometime a single career session and psychometric testing can shed light on the unknowns and help you find your direction.
3. You don’t how to get into your chosen field and what options are available – A Career Counsellor has experience in how to enter different industries. They can help you research career pathways that match your current skills and guide you with an action plan on how to get to your career goals.
4. You want to utilise your current experience, not reinvent the wheel but are not sure of the options or how to pivot. This is a key strength of an experienced career counsellor. There are so many options available for experienced workers to change what they do without too much delay, expense or time wasted. You may have more options than you realise and with a little planning, you could be a custodian of your industry before you know it.
5. You are unhappy in your current job and want to do something you feel passionate about. With careful planning, psychometric testing, a career analysis, and a solid action plan, you may find out that being paid for doing what you love isn’t so hard to achieve after all. Let a Career Counsellor help you into a position you will enjoy and thrive in.
6. You are unsure what growing labour market trends there are and want to do something you’ll find employment in easily. This is particularly important if you are planning on studying as you can spend a long time getting a degree for an industry that has low employment rates. By seeing a career practitioner you can get the latest labour market statistics and discover emerging industries and upcoming jobs you hadn’t even thought of yet.

So, the moral of the story is, you do not have to go it alone. The best investment you can make when changing your career or deciding on a job is to engage the assistance of someone trained to help you find your pathway to success, what ever that means to you.

If you are keen to arrange a career session, please contact our office for a referral. You may even want to help people in career transition by becoming a Career Counsellor yourself. We offer an accelerated Nationally Recognised Certificate IV in Career Development that will give you the training you need to help others.

Speak to our consultants today.

To your success,

Janelle Manton
Senior Trainer and Assessor