How can you use goal setting to transition from a career break to a new job?

O início para avaliar seu momento profissional é ter clareza do seu momento atual, buscar autoconhecimento para entender quem é você, quais suas habilidades, competências e o que você busca para sua carreira. Gosto de explorar bastante esta fase com as minhas mentoradas, assim fica mais fácil construir um planejamento de carreira

Tenho trabalhado com orientação de carreira e na minha experiência, percebo que o autoconhecimento e o projeto de vida são fatores determinantes na avaliação da situação. O que você deseja para o futuro? Como gostaria de atuar? Tudo bem trabalhar feriados, finais de semana? Ter clareza sobre situações da vida que são importantes para você irá te auxiliar na escolha estratégica da sua carreira.

Setting clear goals during a career transition is crucial. By assessing your current situation, you gain a deeper understanding of your skills, interests, and values. This self-awareness forms a solid foundation for setting realistic and targeted goals, helping you navigate the job market more effectively. Utilizing self-assessment tools, career coaches, or mentors can provide valuable insights and guidance, enhancing your strategic approach to securing a new job aligned with your aspirations.

This is one of the top challenges faced by career seekers: Gaps, pivots, and transitions. How do we overcome them? 1) Clarity - understand your target role 1st 2) Research - every aspect of role, skills, keywords & industry 3) Identify - your skills/experience/education that aligns 4) Determine your career level & pay based on experience 5) Be honest w/ yourself when assessing job fit (qualify at 75%) 6) Demonstrate relevant experience on resume/profile w/ % impact If this process is difficult for you...hiring a coach or mentor is what you need. Gaps - can be covered in multiple ways w/ education, projects, volunteer, side hussles. It's all in how you package your brand. Then speak intellectually about the experience!

Evaluar la situación antes de buscar empleo es fundamental. Al identificar tus habilidades, intereses y valores, estableces una base sólida. Personalmente, he guiado a individuos en esta autoevaluación, fusionando sus pasiones con las demandas del mercado. La clave es alinear metas con la realidad laboral actual. Con enfoque y apoyo adecuado, es posible convertir una pausa en una oportunidad laboral vibrante y significativa. ¡Visualiza tus objetivos y avanza con confianza!

SMART goals help you achieve clarity, track progress, ensure realistic and achievable goals, align with career objectives, and set timeframes. They act as a practical guide to keep you focused, motivated, and on track during the re-entry process, increasing the likelihood of a successful transition.

What makes SMART goals beneficial for me is that they smartly hold me accountable to myself. In these busy times the use of technology (apps) can help us to keep track of the SMART goals, all in all getting you closer to achieving your desired career change.

However, methods such as OKR are also great for achieving goals. Define your big goal, e.g. a job by date XY. Break down your goal of a new job. What are all the things you need to do to achieve this? e.g. research jobs, write applications, prepare for interviews. Break these down into small steps and subtasks that you tackle one after the other. A weekly review will help you to monitor this.

Monitoring and evaluating empowers you to review your plan to assess whether it is leading you in your desired direction. It gives you an opportunity to revise, realign and recalibrate. The end goal being : to result in your desired career change.

Goal setting is key for a career transition. Define clear objectives, breaking them into actionable steps. Regularly monitor progress, adjust goals if needed, and celebrate milestones. Evaluate results to refine your strategy. This structured approach enhances focus and accountability, guiding a successful transition from a career break to a new job.

Definitely tracking and monitoring your action points towards the new goals are imperative. Observing goals through metrics of improvement even if only small will empower you to keep going or force you to pivot slightly in order to have a more realistic way of achieving your outcome

En mi travesía profesional, descubrí que supervisar y evaluar resultados es crucial. Llevar un diario detallado de logros y desafíos permite un análisis más profundo. Utilizar KPIs como la tasa de respuestas ofrece métricas tangibles para evaluar el progreso. Celebrar los hitos fortalece la motivación, mientras que aprender de las áreas de mejora permite ajustes estratégicos. Este enfoque proactivo no solo guía, sino que también maximiza las posibilidades de un cambio de carrera exitoso.

From my experience, understanding that a “Career Break” doesn’t mean to stop learning or growing. Most people associate career breaks with idleness or unemployment, but that period can make all the difference in your life if planned and used wisely. A lot of people use career breaks to hone certain skills or acquire specific knowledge or qualifications, or even to experience few of the many things life has to offer away from the usual 9 to 5 rhythm. Whether travelling, self reflection, or just spending more quality time with loved ones; ultimately what really matters is the person you will become as a result of what you did in your career break and how you will utilize all what you’ve learned to transition to your next phase of life!

The penultimate step to goal setting in an occupation transition is to revisit your WHY. Reexamine the core reason you have a career in the first place. Is it to directly help people, improve processes, fight injustice, create generational wealth, or change the world? Realign yourself with your ultimate goal, then set mini-goals. This maneuver makes goal setting easy when transitioning from a career break to a new job. It's a less stressful way to adjust from something old to something new. It's the perfect ratio of your head and heart.