Your first step is to find the Resumeble website and get yourself a professional-written resume. Start sending it out to a range of jobs that you may like and see what replies you get. The tips in this article are fine ways to help you build a career, but while you are implementing them, you should be sending out resumes. Think of it as playing the lottery. You are getting on with your regular life, building your career, but those outgoing resumes are your lotto tickets. They are the things that may pay off completely unexpectedly and they are the things that may change everything.
Step One – Figure Out the Job Field You Want
Back in school, you were told to pick certain types of jobs, but that is dumb. In the real world, you pick a field and then you take the jobs in that field, so look for fields. For example, if you didn’t like history, then picking paleontology as a field probably wouldn’t work.
Step Two – Look For the Jobs You Want
Now you have picked a field, go looking online for some jobs that would interest you. Look at where they are located, how much they pay, and what you need to do. Figure out if there are a lot of them and look at what they are asking you to do. After you have decided on the field of jobs you want, and you have taken a look at the job landscape, start looking for the types of qualifications and experience they want.
Step Three – Getting the Qualifications
There are two ways you can do this, and the first is to finish your education, enter higher education, and pursue the qualifications you want. If you left education years ago, then consider going back to college, but try to work qualifications into your current job. You can perhaps take lower-paid jobs that allow you to earn qualifications as you go.
Step Four – Getting the Experience
Taking the advice offered in the introduction is a good route to take in this regard. There is a chance that you will “luck out” and simply get a job in your desired field. If not, you can try volunteer and internship work, but you may be better off taking similar jobs and working towards getting the jobs you want. When people say, “Oh I started in the studio’s mail room before I became a director,” what they mean is that they found a way into the organization, and then they ruthlessly pursued the relevant experience in order to get the jobs they wanted.
Step Five – Learn New Skills
Experience is a big selling point when you are moving from one job to a better paid job. There are things you can add to your resume that make you a more attractive prospect as you get jobs after jobs. Back in the old days, you would get a job and then work your way up the ranks. These days, you get a job, you get lots of experience and skills, and then you apply for jobs up the ranks with other companies.
Step Six – Make Friends
It is both what you know and who you know. Getting experience is good, as is getting qualifications, but the most important thing is that you get to know people in your field of work. Make friends and help each other with your careers. That is why it is important to get jobs in your preferred field, even if those jobs are starter jobs and low-paid jobs. They help you build relationships with people. The trick is to work your way up and not get stuck in the same low-paid jobs for too long.
