How to Reinvent Your Career
How to Reinvent Your Career
If you have lost your job or are in a career that you dislike, there is hope. In her latest book, How to Reinvent Your Career: Make Money Doing What You Love, Dr. Diane Hamilton explains: There is, in fact a way to find YOUR definition of that dream job and make the money you deserve every day.
“Mike Leonard of NBC Today‘s Show states: There has never been a better time to take note of Dr. Diane Hamilton’s wise and encouraging advice. Use this book as a road map to a better career and a more fulfilling life.”
Many people have recently lost their jobs, forcing them to recreate their jobs and their lives—allowing them to finally do what they love. There are more freelancers and new businesses than ever before. Out of some abominable situations can come great ingenuity.
Looking to reinvent your career? Dr. Diane Hamilton, author of the newly released book, How to Reinvent Your Career, has the experience and tools for creating a new work identity. After remaining in the same company for 20 years, she found the power to leave and reinvent her career and her life. Over the course of her working career she has reinvented herself 10 times, and with each job came a new lesson—both about life and the working world. Turning life lessons into real solutions, today Dr. Diane Hamilton is an author, speaker and teaches courses at multiple online universities.
The first step Hamilton recommends for reinventing a career is finding out what are the “tasks” one truly enjoys doing on a day to day basis. Starting in an administrative job, Diane realized early on that she loved to do paperwork and work on computers. To many people, this is the worst part of the day but for her, a satisfying way to spend her days. Now, 25 years later, Dr. Hamilton is very happy doing these things as an author and online university professor. Everyone has different passions. Once one learns what actually leaves them fulfilled, it is time to do the research and find the job that fits that skill set. Ultimately, enjoying what you do every day will squash those “Sunday Night Blues.”
Yes, believe it.
Some jobs are perceived as the “dream job” when in fact it is different for everyone. “I had what seemed to be the perfect job from the outside when I was a pharmaceutical rep. I rarely had to work a full day, I traveled, barely spent any time ‘in’ an office and was financially doing very well,” says Hamilton, “However that was someone else’s dream job, not mine. I refer to this situation as being locked into the golden handcuffs. There are ways to make money and still do the work you love.”
Personality tests are one way to find out what is the most suitable career to the individual. They are not to be underestimated. In her book Hamilton, a qualified Myers-Briggs instructor and certified emotional intelligence expert, explains the use of personal SWOT analysis, something commonly used by organizations, can be a great personal tool toward the road of job satisfaction and success.
Above all, times are changing fast. There is new technology and now with the advent of social marketing there is a new way to communicate every day. Being adaptable to change and knowing the right ways to network for mutually beneficial relationships are skills that can be carried over into any career. Taking this time to keep up with the times is an investment in the future—the path to that career dream come true.
About the Author
Diane Hamilton has a doctorate in business management. She currently teaches bachelor-, master-, and doctoral-level courses for six online universities. She has written several books including The Online Student’s User Manual, The Young Adult’s Guide to Understanding Personalities and How To Reinvent Your Career. To find out more about her writing, visit her website at https://drdianehamilton.com or her blog at http://drdianehamilton.wordpress.com/. Review copies are available.
How to Reinvent Your Career: Make Money Doing What You Love is available October, 2010 ($16.95/ Amazon). ISBN: 0982742819/9780982742815
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20 Words to Change Your Life
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLZxJZ70MQ4&hl=en_US&fs=1]20 Signs You Are Ready for a Job or Career Change
For now … Ask yourself if any of these sound familiar . . . if they do, you may be ready for a change:
1. You dread Mondays
2. You’re tired of your routine
3. Everything is a countdown until your vacation
4. You need a pep talk to go to work
5. Other people ask you why you keep doing the job you have if you hate it
6. You feel you’re missing out on family time
7. You’ve been passed over more than once for a promotion
8. You’re not the same person you were when you took the job, due to a major life change
9. Your industry is suffering
10. Your health is suffering from stress
11. You’re not making the money you need to survive
12. Your job lacks security
13. You’ve always wanted to work for yourself
14. The future of your job position or industry is not positive
15. You lack passion for what you’re doing
16. There’s an opportunity that didn’t exist in the past that interests you
17. Your current job is boring
18. You have a new manager and they’re not what you’d hoped they would be
19. Your benefits have been cut
20. You feel unappreciated
Do You Need Help Finding a Job or Reinventing Your Career?
| Area Where I Need Help | Solutions |
| I need help with computer skills. | http://www.gcflearnfree.org/computer/topic.aspx?id=140 |
| I need help with grammar and spelling. | http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com |
| I want to take understand personality assessment that gives a basic idea of personality type. | http://www.humanmetrics.com/#Jung, Myers–Briggs(free site, but not as accurate as the actual Myers–Briggs test)Read my daughter’s (Toni Rothpletz) and my book The Young Adult’s Guide to Understanding Personality.
Monster.com and CareerPath.com have a personality quiz Personal.ansir.com Careerplanner.com Livecareer.com Assessment.usatests.com/ Jobtest/?v http://jobsearch.about.com/gi/ o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn= jobsearch&cdn=careers&tm= 17&gps=179_834_1003_630&f= 21&su=p284.9.336.ip_p554.13.336.ip_ &tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A// tools.monster.com/perfectcareer http://www.discoveryour personality.com/Strong.html |
| I need help getting connected to people to start networking. | LinkedIn.comFacebook.comMySpace.comNaymz.com
Ryze.com Twitter.com Meetup.com |
| I need help finding jobs, learning to write résumés, and general career advice. | Monster.comCareerbuilder.comjobs.aol.comRead the book What Color is Your Parachute, by Richard Bolles
Check out the Bureau of Labor Statistics Careerjournal.com Workforce.com Talk to your school counselor Careermaze.com Mediabistro.com Higheredjobs.com |
| I need help paying for education. | Staffordloan.comCollegeboard.comFafsa.ed.govTuitionpay.com
Afford.com Read my book The Online Student’s User Manual, which is also helpful for all online student questions other than financial. |
| I need help with diet and exercise information. | sparkpeople.combodyforlife.comfitday.comdietfacts.com |
| I need help with optimism and happiness. | Read The Art of Happiness,by the Dalai LamaRead The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey |
| I am getting older and need career advice for my age group. | aarp.org/money/workCareermaze.comhttp://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/econ/workers_fifty_plus.pdf |
| I need help to avoid work-at-home scams. | Read my articleInvestopedia.com/articles/pf/09/work-at-home-scam.asp?&Viewed=1 |
| I need some other suggested reading to help me reinvent myself. | Read Career Renegade, byJonathan FieldsRead Reinventing Yourself, bySteve Chandler |
| I need help with information about expected salaries. | Salary.comIndeed.com salary toolNew York Times Salary ToolsGlassdoor.com
TheRileyGuide.com |
| I need help keeping track of my job search progress. | Myprogress.comWorksolver.comExecrelate.com |
| I need help researching companies for interviews. | Google.comExecrelate.comCareerTV.com |
| I need help finding out about good places to work. | http://www.aarp.org/money/work/best_employers/http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/
bestcompanies/2010/ www.hoovers.com/free biz.yahoo.com/ic/ ind_index.html |