Are you thinking, every day, “I need to look for a new job!”

Are you dreaming about starting off fresh with a completely new career, and getting career change advice can be hard, you need to ask yourself these questions! where you can challenge yourself and work with that energy boiling inside of you? Where you can actually get value against all that expertise you display? Or preparing yourself for an entirely different job role in a new industry?

It might as well be the case that you have been hiding that thought away somewhere in the corner of your head for it seems like an impossible and overwhelming hard work, or maybe you are not aware of the path to be taken in order to switch your career?

I have been successful at reinventing my career for more than 3 times and I have full faith that life will not always offer you a chance to move away from a meaningless job where you are not satisfied and feel under-utilized.

The most frequently asked question from me, which is also top-rated, is, “How do I recreate my career without compromising on the salary?” Every time that I landed a new career, I received somewhere in between 10-30% raise in salary.

How do we get there?

Reinventing your career simply means that you have to alter your skills, qualifications and successes in a way that you can end up in a new job role easily. It required a solid vision, intense planning and someone who can lead you to it. Of course, it is a possibility and below are the steps that I have suggested to people who ask me for a change of career path:

Find out skills that are transferable.

If you have been working for say over a period of 5 years, then you certainly have skills that can be transferred from one industry to another or from a job role to another job role. Some of the major examples include: managing teams, budgets, negotiating on contracts, aiding in revenue generation or gaining market share.

Other such skills include your personal characteristics like leadership, acting as a mentor for others, bearing risks, acting as a driver for your goals and achievements or a problem solver. These skills carry weightage from one industry to another and are generic enough for any job role and carry credibility of providing for value in employees.

Smartly match up your devised skills to the job description.

Read out job descriptions posted on various portals like Monster.com and other business journals to get a fair idea of the specific skills that you are looking for in the industry you want to land in. Find out the job description mentioned on company websites, if there are any, to get a clear idea.

Now, when you have done your homework of figuring out the relevant job description, you can match your transferable skills to the very job roles you have identified as an interesting opportunity. If there is a gap that needs to be filled, you can always try freelancing or volunteering.

Industry conferences and seminars are a great way for networking opportunities. Talk to people in the relevant industries to see if they influence you and seek advice from them.

Renovate your resume.

Frist things first, entering a new career would mean renovating and restructuring your resume to cater to the needs of the job roles you are seeking. Highlight the skills that are required in the desired job which means skipping out a few things from your previous job role. This calls for a brand new resume.

It is important to know that hiring managers are more interested if you can pull off their job rather than what you have done before. So polish your resume to get their attention.

The right attitude is necessary.

Attitude can work wonders for getting the job you want. It requires passion, a can-do attitude and optimism in your approach if you want to walk into that new place and mark an impression. One can never have all the skills required in the particular job role but you can certainly highlight the ones that you seem are important and you have them.

Everybody has that flare of confidence residing amongst them. When you plan to set to a new career path and into a new job role, you need to make the hiring manager understand the firm belief and confidence that you have within you. When you are on to reinventing that career of yours, attitude acts as a major ingredient in doing just that.