Defining Career Makeovers

Let’s kick off this blog by defining what exactly is meant by a Career Makeover. Is this like one of those reality shows that transform your house? Your image or the way you look? Will you have a team of people arrive at your company’s doorsteps, tell you to leave for a few hours, and magically change your cubicle into an office, your job from your current duties to that of a CEO, or show you the way to a new organization where they’ll appreciate your efforts until the day you retire? Not exactly, the Career Makeover is a tool used by the individual to help them decide which direction to take to complete an effective one. No changes to your house or yourself may be necessary. You may not even want CEO duties, because you may be content with your current position. You just want to be certain that you have it over a longer period of time and that you stay valuable and appreciated. Others may wish to explore the possibilities of gaining new employment earning more money, with new responsibilities, in a new organization. Some may find that a Career Makeover, dare I say it, has helped them learn that their job can be enjoyable.

One day recently I developed a definition of what a Career Makeover exactly is. The definition created was used from learned terms, concepts, and personal experiences over the past 15 years.  A Career Makeover used in this blog is defined as;

                “a strategic, contingency plan that utilizes the planning process model.  This will allow people to maintain marketability, add new skills, network, and learn to work in a service heavy, technologically, collaborative society.  The goal is to position yourself for growth or change in your career within an outsourcing, social society. “

Using plain language, developing a Career Makeover starts with the individual by developing a contingency plan that will help map out how to maintain marketability, add new skills, learn how to network and its importance, and learning that the job market has changed. How we complete tasks, the processes used, and the people we cooperate with is completely different from 20 to 30 years ago. These concepts will all be explored in this blog over time.

First, please come to the conclusion that most of us need some kind of Career Makeover and that the workforce landscape looks different than from years past. Please take this journey with me and share your ideas and thoughts as well as topics you would like to read about. I hope my readers get as much enjoyment from this blog as I get putting it together.