5 Benchmarks to Digest

In today’s world, it is hard for people to thrive in the job market, let alone survive in it. I know from personal experience trying to change careers it has not been easy. COVID not only changed the world in health precedents but in how we view the “office” as well. Pre-coronavirus about 20% of teleworkers/office staff worked from home. After the virus that number sky-rocketed to 71% according to Pew Research results from their 2020 article.

That number alone is one that speaks for itself in how office workers' jobs have changed not only in how they look, but in how the workforce views flexibility and availability for work. Working from home offers less travel, less expense, less time carved out of your personal space, and more time to flex your work hours.

But what does that mean for some of us looking at a career change, or better-paying jobs in the non-existent high-rises of the big city? It means that we need to learn how to navigate a new job market and interview field. It means that some of us will have to hunt hard for those remote jobs that will understand our work ethic since we were not in the field pre-pandemic times in America.

There have been some hard realities to wanting to shift in a career when you are economically responsible for a mortgage, a child, and have transition work to do to leave your current profession in good hands. How you transition speaks a lot about how you are as a person and how you will be as a new employee.

I have compiled a list of quick tips and reflections on my journey to finding that perfect new niche I have been searching for in the job market. After over75 applications, 12 Zoom interviews, 5 live interviews, and working two to three jobs in a combination of my full-time day job and other part-time and freelance opportunities There is a definite science to not settling for anything less than you really want in a career change.