| With the gruesome job loss statistics that have piled | | | | their workforce. |
| up since mid 2008; you may be among the many U.S. | | | | It's more tolerable holding a part time or unstable |
| citizens recently 'unemployed'. By now, you could be | | | | temp-job if you can make-the-most of your time |
| looking seriously at career change ideas. | | | | spent. Learning "value-added" skills that will hold their |
| A lot of career people polled, have revealed their job | | | | own in any career portfolio while (temporarily) stuck in |
| search has been ongoing for upwards of a year and | | | | a less-than-ideal job position can either leverage or |
| more. Congress has made it easier by extending | | | | enhance a situation that would otherwise stall your |
| unemployment benefits for the eligible, but where does | | | | career progress. |
| that leave you in the long term outlook? | | | | If you're essentially marketing yourself already in basic |
| Career change ideas usually mean tooling up for some | | | | job search mode, what about re-positioning yourself as |
| retraining and upgrading of specific skills that enhance | | | | an independent contractor rather than simply a job |
| your marketability and hire-ability. Unless you're | | | | hunter? |
| prepared to go further in debt or find some career | | | | You "re-frame" yourself as someone that employers |
| advancement programs that are State-funded; this | | | | can outsource-to, instead of having to hire you as an |
| could imply further out-of-pocket expenses for a | | | | "employee". They might find it easier to award you a |
| budget already impacted by job loss and/or reduced | | | | specific task within a project if they know they're not |
| household income. | | | | committing to a permanent position. When you deliver |
| If you've been job hunting long, you have already been | | | | positively on the contract, who knows what it will lead |
| frustrated by the reality that our economy has | | | | to? |
| definitely imploded in certain sectors. Your old position | | | | What I'm really talking about here is transitioning to your |
| may never come back in quite the way you imagine. It | | | | own business. Check out the freelancing possibilities. |
| may be time to "re-purpose" your skill set. This implies | | | | The web has introduced unimaginable opportunities |
| leveraging and repackaging your career experience in | | | | inaccessible until now. You can take on various |
| transferable, alternative and creative career avenues | | | | outsourced projects and not even live in the same city |
| that you might not have considered before. | | | | as the employer. |
| One thing is for sure. The Internet is offering | | | | Once you change your mind-set from the "employee |
| unprecedented ways to gain exposure to prospective | | | | mentality' to being a business owner or independent |
| employers and listing your career resume′ | | | | contractor/freelancer, you might discover all sorts of |
| online. Using the web to job prospect and list your | | | | ways of financing your new-found freelance status. |
| bonafides is vital and universal - virtually a necessity if | | | | The two other areas I've found to be effective income |
| you want to get noticed. Social networking sites, job | | | | multipliers that can help finance your alternative career |
| forums and online information clearing-house web sites | | | | path as an independent freelancer are; (internet-based) |
| can be a boon to the career change seeker. | | | | affiliate marketing and network marketing, or any |
| My career change ideas have taken me from simple | | | | combination of both that is appropriate to your |
| job replacement to exploring the concepts of three | | | | particular career niche. |
| alternative career areas that you might also add to | | | | For instructive online examples of how to creatively |
| your list of possibilities. | | | | add multiplexed revenue streams to your own career |
| Outsourcing and Freelancing | | | | change ideas, view the web pages of some |
| The fact is that many companies in today's global | | | | contemporaries who are actively pursuing the |
| economy have been forced to cut back on their labor | | | | freelancer lifestyle. Maybe their online efforts will get |
| pool in hopes of staying competitive and profitable. This | | | | your creative juices flowing. See how you can adapt |
| has also meant that they outsource job placement and | | | | their model to help bolster your own career transition. |
| use temporary and part time positions to streamline | | | | |