We need to clear this up. We used to find ourselves, at Better Work Heroes, switching between different definitions of what a career change is.
What we want is for everyone to achieve a career that they love.
That can be many things:
- Making your current career better.
- Finding a better career to move into.
- Starting your own business.
- Changing the way you do your career (for example, freelancing).
Career change, by it’s formal definition is all about moving to a different type of job from the one you are currently doing.
We think that still covers all of the above examples. You could end up still doing your current job, but in a different way so that it seems like a different type of job, it achieves your objectives for a career change.
The Better Work Heroes definition of a career change is this:
Taking action to change the way you make a living for the betterment of your life in general.
Your values might mean you differ in what the betterment of your life means, but that definition outlines the simple goal of our work here at Better Work Heroes.
We want you to take back control of your career so that it works for you, rather than you working for it.
- If your top values mean you want to spend more time with your family, a career change will help you with that.
- If you want to make a difference in the world with your work, a career change will help you do that.
- If you want to be more active, healthier and fitter as a result of your work, a career change will help you do that.
The world is your oyster when it comes to a career change. The seemingly tricky part is narrowing down to what it is you actually want out of your career.
It seems tricky, but with career coaching it becomes a lot simpler.
As career coaches, we take people through the process of understanding what they want out of their career, life and much more. You can do your narrowing down, safe in the knowledge that you are getting right to the heart of what you want.
After that, it’s about setting up in the right way to guarantee success. Yep, there are ways you can guarantee success. It’s completely within your control.
Taking action to change the way you make a living for the betterment of your life in general.
We want you to be the Hero of your own career. We want you to take back control of your career. We want you to be excited to get stuck into your work every single day. We want you to break the restrictive chains of what you thought a career should be from what school, parents, bosses or whoever told you in the past.
Your career is yours to mould into whatever you want it to be.
In fact, instead of ‘Career Change’, we’d love to call it ‘Supermassive Career Power-Up’.
Oh, how we’d love to call it that.
But calling it a fancy name is not our goal. Making it happen is our goal. If that means calling everything we do ‘Career Change’, then that is fine by us.
What you’ll find is that we use words like supermassive, supercharging, heroic, epic and lots of other super-based words because that’s what we feel about what careers can be.
Do you think you might need a career change (or maybe a supermassive career power-up 🙊)?
Check out these common signs that you might need a career change.
If you want to arrange a free conversation about career change with a coach, send us an email to info@betterworkheroes.com.
We want to see you fulfil your potential!