How to understand that you have a career crisis

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

If the thought of work starts to twitch your eyes, the time in the office drags on endlessly, and in the evenings you only have enough strength for TV shows - it is likely that you are overtaken by a career crisis. Is it being treated? Yes. How to diagnose it before things get really bad, and what to do next? Let's tell you now.

1. Imagine you have $ 10 million in your account

Formulate all your main "wishes" - what will you do with them? If they include a desire to develop your business, invest in it, and if you work for hire, stay at your job or continue doing the same, but, for example, starting your own business, or taking an unscheduled vacation, you have no career crisis. … If you immediately shout “I want to do nothing,” there is a crisis.

2. Take a vacation

The surest way to distinguish accumulated fatigue from a crisis is to go on vacation. At least a week. Alone or with people who do not want to hear about your work.

Disconnect the phone, do not open mail, do not go to Instagram of colleagues.

If you don't have money for a big trip, you can go to the dacha, to your friends, to your grandmother in the village, the main thing is to disconnect from your usual rhythm, be a vegetable and enjoy it. The formula for a good rest is to disconnect your brain from the routine: try to do something new every day so that the days are not alike.

After a week, your rested brain will tell you what you need. If the thought of work no longer causes disgust, and even you miss your boss a little, then it was just fatigue. If the memories of work are still nauseous, it's time to act.

3. Make a "career map" for yourself

List all your key professional skills, think about what other areas they might be useful in. If your knowledge of Klingon or your love of Chinese tea hasn't come in handy before, that doesn't mean they're useless.

Write down on a piece of paper all the professions that intersect with your skills, and think in which of these directions you would like to move.

4. Use the "three stripes" method

A great way to start moving towards your dream job (for example, to the position of Marketing Director of the Russian division of Google).

Divide a piece of paper into three strips. In the first, write down all your skills and abilities: necessary, essential and additional (knowledge of the second foreign language will go here, for example). The second column lists, in the same order, the skills required for the job of your dreams. To find them out, you need to look at the resumes of at least 10 people who have worked in this position at Google or in other companies in the same industry. In the third column, compare the first two and write down what you should learn in the near future. Don't forget to add a future section in column three to include the skills that a Google CMO should have in 3, 5, or 10 years, depending on when you plan to get into this position.

If you diligently do everything according to this plan, in a few years you will come to the company perfectly prepared. Or, on the way, you will realize that you want something else, consciously choose a new career and live happily ever after with it.

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