Options
if you are leaving your current employer...
- Stay
within your industry - - - same or better job.
- Stay
within your function, but change industries.
- Find
a completely different job, one using some transferable skills.
- Become
a management consultant, employed or on your own.
- Set
up in business for yourself.
- Acquire
new skills and do something new.
But how to
decide?
- Most
managers in the midst of a major career transition try to decide
what to do next on the basis of soul searching alone.
- This
is like trying to decide which house to buy without even looking
at any!Or trying to decide whether you like an exotic type of
food without first tasting it!!
- Solution?
--- Networking:
- Talk
to people doing what you think you might like to do.
- Ask
them questions just as you would do if they had travelled to a
foreign country which you were thinking of visiting.
- Interview
them to get the flavour of what they do and try to visualize yourself
doing it.
- They
may suggest some options you had not thought of or other people
to talk to.
What about becoming
a management consultant?
- Becoming
a self employed management consultant seems an obvious option.
After all, you do have a great deal of unique and valuable experience
to offer other companies.
- The
problem is you will lack credibility on the sales front if you
have no track record as a consultant and few contacts.
- Better
to join an established consulting firm for a few years to build
up a small network of satisfied clients, either on a full time
or subcontract basis.
- Only
opt for the latter if you are assured of work.
- This
will give you the credibility to get consulting assignments on
your own. Or, get a contract with your existing employer before
you leave.
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