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Part 4 of a four part series by Richard P. Johnson, Ph.D
Founder: ReCareer, Inc.
A New Vision of Working With Midlife Career Changers
Part 4: Five (Surprising) Foundational Competencies Necessary for Midlife Career Transition Success
A successful midlife career change requires much more than a set career search skills and a good resume. Your midlife career change is your personal response to your inner call; it's your investment in the mission of your life; it's your answer to that yearning for deeper significance. For solid success in midlife career change we need to start from the inside out. So many of my clients ask me the question: "Where do you think I can find career success?" I always tell them that this is the wrong question; the right question is, "How can I translate my unique success into today's labor market?"
Five competencies are absolutely mandatory to answer this fundamental question, that's why I call them the foundational competencies ... they lay the groundwork so you can build a strong career structure upon them. They're surprising because we seldom see them addressed in standard career coaching schema. We need to start our midlife career transition here with these five.
- Find your personal story within Your personal story is written inside you, and it contains all the raw data necessary for you to discern what's really important for you. How have you defined yourself so far, and is this the way you want to continue to define who you are? To answer these important questions you need the opportunity of looking deeply at your life to date and identifying the core beliefs that you've been using to guide you. Pull out the "real you" from the story. It's hard work but it's worth it.
- Uncover the underlying standards you use to make authentic career decisions. Most of these "standards" are either self-imposed or they're "borrowed" from others. Are these standards real enough in today's world? Are they a formula for personal success today, or are they non-functional antiques from yesterday? When you don't know what's really important for you, what you stand for, then you're vulnerable for falling for whatever comes your way. This is a sure way to undermine your midlife career transition.
- Develop transition resiliency. Move toward commitment and away from alienation. Move toward internal control and away from powerlessness. Move toward challenge and away from threat. And move toward being connected and away from separation. How do you achieve this? Resilient living is a way of thinking that determines the find of world in which you live - a world of loss, characterized by scarcity, loss, and fear, or a world of growth characterized by unity, cheer, abundance, and goodness. This may sound hokey, but it's the way our mind works; we latch onto certain words, certain ideas and these become the filters for all that we allow to enter into us.
- What is your unique success equation? Never forget that you are absolutely unique, a one-of-a-kind personality that is identical to no one. You define and achieve success differently than anyone else. Our pragmatic world likes to categorize us into groups. This can work against your clear vision of who you uniquely are. Success means getting in touch with yourself, being yourself as fully as possible, and expressing your uniqueness in positive ways through your work. Learn to celebrate you uniqueness, and come to "own" it as the wonderful distinctiveness that it offers you. Don't put yourself in a box trying to "fit in." Rather, appreciate your unique career value. How have you communicated that value previously? This is your unique success equation. There is a special formula that is yours alone; learn to use it well ... here is where and how you find success.
- Get clear about your goals. What is the message that you are called to communicate to the world. I know this sounds pretty global, and yet it's central to midlife career transition success because your message translates into your goals. Goals are a requirement of transition; without them our career transition begins to wither; without goals we begin to wither as well. Along with clarifying your message, you need to identify your unique "voice." What part of you has control of you? Is it the part that wants to accommodate, to conform, and even to appease? When we're so busy deferring to other people's goals we forget our own and begin compromising to a point where we actually lose our grip on our unique goals ... we forget them, and in the process we forget who we are too.
These are the five essential competencies of personal discernment that you need to "sit with" for some time before you can successfully launch yourself into a midlife career transition that will bring you personal fulfillment as well as meet your individual needs. These will bring you beyond simple career success and toward authentic career significance ... that's what midlife career transition is all about.
About our expert:
Dr. Richard P. Johnson Ph.D. is a nationally recognized spokesperson in the field of retirement, career transition and adult development, having written and lectured extensively in those fields. His fresh ideas and enthusiasm for the wholistic aspects of adult development and maturation have inspired scores of maturing adults to follow their hearts and live more abundant lives. He is a dynamic, engaging, and compassionate teacher who delights in seeing his students grow in body, mind, and spirit.
He is the former president of the American Association for Adult Development and Aging, and the founder of ReCareer Inc., a coach training organization offering certification in mature career/life planning, as well as empowering individuals for the changes necessary in the new information economy.
Dr. Johnson is the creator of the ReCareer Success Inventory ©, the Retirement Success Profile ©, the LifeOptions Profile ©, and the Retirement Options © program, developed from over 20 years of retirement research and dedicated to helping people lead enriched and fulfilling lives in their second half of life.
For more information on ReCareer please contact us at:
info@recareerinc.com
314.369.3445
www.recareerinc.com
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