Meaningful work honors the deepest part of your being. It is the embodiment of your gifts and talents and all that you value. Finding it in a safe, intelligent requires these six steps: 1. Soul Searching. Your journey begins with self-examination intriguing. This goes beyond looking at your work experience and skills.

Also consider their values, interests and personality preferences. This can be done informally through the use of specially designed exercise or can be made formally through professional assessment tests. Overall, the soul searching phase allows you to develop a comprehensive personal profile that will help to develop the possibilities for future work. 2. Identification of options. The key word here is “options”? “No answer.” In this step, you use your profile of “clues” from Step 1 to brain and heart of the storm as many possibilities for future work as possible.

This is one of the most creative of the change process? and the best way to do it one or more friends or colleagues who have a broad view of the enterprise market. At this point, it is important to begin to create a compelling future vision for their work and life. The act of creating your vision is inspiring, and that can really help pull your career change journey forward. 3. Tests. Testing has three purposes. The most obvious is to avoid a big mistake by jumping to a solution too quickly. The not so obvious are the purposes to network deeper into an area you think you would like to make a career and to learn as much as possible on this issue from an internal perspective rather than from afar. It is experimenting with a purpose? while maintaining an open mind and heart. 4. Development of Transition Plan. Outside of their tests is a clear path? where you can set a specific new career goal and create the strategy and steps that will get you there. Your goal may be radically different work, the same work in different environment or starting a new business or some combination of these three. 5. Application. During the implementation phase? that can begin even before leaving their current employer – you begin to put pieces of your transition plan into action. You can begin a course of study, reduce their expenses, if warranted, and / or even make physical preparations such as relocation or building a home office. Of course, to minimize your personal and financial risk, you want to do everything possible while you are still working. 6. Integration. Applicants often think that once the change is made, your career transition is complete. I think it’s more accurate to call the “beginning of the end.” A physical transition into new work is a thing? but the transition from your “underneath” layers (like work patterns, assumptions) is another thing. The career change usually lasts from one to three years. And the trend is just ‘jump’ anywhere. It helps to have a great vision and know that in reality is the actual method of madness! Patricia Soldati is a former President and COO of a national funding organization that changed his working life in 1999. Now, as a compliance specialist career, she guides unhappy in the work of significant corporate professionals – both inside and outside the corporate walls.