Shuki: This means a lot of advantages the worker has accumulated over the years go down the drain – professional know-how and experience, or connections in the field.
Motti: That's why someone who wants to make a career change should first evaluate every related or overlapping profession. For example, someone who worked in the field of medicine could consider working in fields like diet, beauty or physical fitness. And someone who worked in the field of bookkeeping should evaluate jobs involving the sale of office equipment or consulting or services for accounting firms, or retraining programs for positions in bookkeeping, accounting and tax consulting.
Shuki: It seems both of us are worthwhile examples of adopting this approach. For years you were a police officer involved in personnel. When you were released from the police force you started an independent company that dealt with retraining for candidates who left a prior field, in addition to career planning services for them, and today you have a job in a similar field at Pilat. Thus you changed your area of expertise in accordance with your changing needs, but you didn't change your field of work. You continue to carry out the same type of work and deal with the same professional milieu. You maintained your know-how and professional contacts.
Motti: Absolutely. Our ties over the years is a good example. You did the same. You were a salaried employee for several years in the fields of human resources and work relations. You lectured, provided consulting services and wrote about these fields, and then you continued working in these fields as a self-employed professional. And when you started writing books you continued carrying out the same work, only the platforms changed.
Shuki: One of the problems in career planning is the fear of change. The fear of the unknown.
Motti: This is a powerful psychological trap that makes many people hold onto the present set of circumstances to maintain the status quo. Added to it is another human tendency to defend the commitments they've taken on, i.e. the initial choice they made. Therefore they continue to invest in what they're used to doing, working at the same jobs and getting drawn up into an unthreatening routine without objectively evaluating the possibilities and risks, both in the area they are working in and in facing the real alternatives before them.
Take, for example, someone who studied biology and worked at a job in the field, such as teaching or research. He doesn't feel real gratification at his job, but dreams of doing new and different things. Yet he's afraid to make a change because he would "lose" his job security and the salary he's been promised.
Therefore in career planning one need not act intuitively. It's important for someone trying to make a change in his life and work patterns to invest resources in systematically investigating the reality of the situation by gathering information and data before making a major decision
Take, for example, someone who studied biology and worked at a job in the field, such as teaching or research. He doesn't feel real gratification at his job, but dreams of doing new and different things. Yet he's afraid to make a change because he would "lose" his job security and the salary he's been promised.
Therefore in career planning one need not act intuitively. It's important for someone trying to make a change in his life and work patterns to invest resources in systematically investigating the reality of the situation by gathering information and data before making a major decision
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