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5 Things to Do When You Must Choose (or Re-Choose) a Career

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What do you do when you absolutely must choose or re-choose a career?

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Choose (or Re-Choose) a Career

Life happens. There are times when change comes whether you asked for it or not. What about those times when you must choose a career?

  • Maybe it is high school graduation and time for a real job

Or it happened that you must RE-choose a career?

  • Maybe it is college graduation and you just realized there are limited opportunities for communication majors
  • Maybe you’ve been downsized and the job market in your field is a wasteland

What do you do? Here are 5 things that will actually help when you need to choose or re-choose a career.

  1. Don’t panic! If you panic, you’ll spin your wheels. Instead frame this experience in a healthy way: God has brought you an adventure. Think of this as a journey. It will be exciting to see what God does next! (This is a good time to contact me to do some Career Coaching, btw.)Trail-Guide-to-Carerr-Exploration-for-Adults
  2. Discover and redefine. Spend a little time going back to square one about yourself. Take a look at your personality, strengths, weaknesses, values, and interests. Think about the things God has shown you through your life experiences. Discover a few new things about yourself; remember and redefine the things you have forgotten. Download Trail Guide to Career Exploration for Adults to help you do this. Then download the Trail Guide to Writing Your Personal Mission Statement as the last step in discovering and redefining yourself.
  3. Dream big and decide your limits. If you had a magic wand right now, what would you simply LOVE to do as a career? Spend a little time exploring O-Net, the Dept of Labor’s resource for all things career. You can find job descriptions, outlook for future in that job, and suggestions of similar jobs. Also decide your limits…How long can you wait before you have to take a temporary position? Sometimes career development is a process that requires a short time at Plan B jobs.Trail Guide to Writing Your Personal Mission Statement VickiTillmanCoaching.com
  4. Develop your tools. Do you need to update your resume? Refresh your interviewing skills? Time to get busy! That is part of what you will do in your coaching with me at VickiTillmanCoaching, we can work through Skype or Google Hangouts to discuss and develop your skills.
  5. Do some good deeds. I’m not kidding. Remember, what you sow you reap. You need some good to happen to you, so make some good happen for someone else. That’s how the kingdom of God works.

Go have an adventure! God has you on a new career journey so enjoy the process. Contact me when you’d like to have a guide through the process!

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Where You Are Right Now Matters

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Where you are right now matters. Where you are headed matters, too!

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Where you are right now matters. Your life matters. Your gifts matter.
Remember that when you are in transition. Everyone goes through transitions…graduating high school or college, marriage, relocations, or simply times of feeling like “This is NOT what I signed up for…”.

It is easy to get stuck in a transition time. Easy but not necessary.

That’s what coaching is here for. To help guide you through those transitions, to help you find your way, to make the journey and ADVENTURE not a trauma.

Vicki Tillman will be your coach and guide as you:

  • Discover your gifts, your mission, your possibilities
  • Dream the God-given dreams about what happens next and what the adventure will be like
  • Discover the skills and tools you need to thrive all the way through your journey

If you are searching for a meaningful career, Vicki will help you:

  • Discover your gifts, understand the ways God has been working through you and in you throughout your journey so far
  • Dream about various career options and pray about God’s will
  • Devolop your practical college or job application skills, your soft skills and networking abilities, and your confidence in interviewing

If you are going through a life transition of any sort due to relocations, grief, or any other event that forces change in your life, Vicki will help you:

  • Discover your strengths for thriving through this transition so that it becomes an adventure, not a burden
  • Dream about what it looks like for you to flourish in the present and even more so, in the future
  • Develop the skills, confidence and networking strengths that will give you the courage to launch on this great journey feeling strong

If you are going to get married (or are a young married couple) and are ready for DELIGHTFUL pre-marital coaching. Vicki will be your certified SYMBIS (Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts) facilitator. She will invite you to take the fun, online SYMBIS questionnaire and using those results, Vicki will help you:

  • Discover your strengths as a couple and compensate for your potential weaknesses
  • Dream about your lives together as a flourishing, healthy couple
  • Develop the skills you need to communicate, love, and respect each other

Where you are matters. There is a good, meaningful, flourishing life ahead. Contact Vicki today to get your journey underway!