Career planning and professional reorientation

The following aspects are crucial for creating a career plan:

• Your personal vision forms the basis of your career – at the beginning it is essential to find out what is important to you.
• A good overview of the different options is a good first step – careers advice is very helpful for those starting their careers and those who have graduated.
• The next step is career planning with clear goals and intermediate goals and concrete next steps.
• When you have clear goals and plans, a good strategy on how to achieve them is crucial.
• Professional application training is helpful for your first job or a job change.

Individual career planning should encourage you to think about your professional future. Career planning can help you define goals and increase your chances of achieving them. It can offer orientation in all career phases:

• The entry phase – career planning is important for initial orientation and helps you in choosing your studies and career. It can make starting a career easier and create a feeling of security.
• The development phase – concrete planning helps to develop the necessary skills for one’s own career. It is important to acquire the right qualifications, develop specialist knowledge and gain valuable experience.
• Orientation phase – if you are already established in your job, a clear vision of your career can help you set priorities, master challenges, deal with stress and bring your work and private life into balance
• Identity phase – At different points, a desire for more fulfilment in the job can arise and then career planning helps to initiate necessary changes or to dare a reorientation

It is important not to make hasty or ill-considered decisions out of frustration. A professional reorientation needs to be carefully considered. Career planning can help to make a professional reorientation as successful as possible. The following considerations are helpful:

• What is your personal vision?
• What kind of work do you like?
• Which position suits your interests?
• In which environment can you live out and develop your strengths?
• What feedback did you get from outside?
• What values ​​are important to them?

A coach accompanies you throughout the change process – from the analysis of your current situation and career planning to the implementation of your new goals and next steps.

• Analyse: Together we look at your current situation and consider what changes are possible in your current environment and when it is time to initiate changes and leave your comfort zone.
• Career planning: We analyse your personal vision and professional goals and plan your next career steps based on this. We consider all options – do not exclude any from the outset – and look for alternatives and possible job profiles. For their future path, it may be that they need retraining or that they have to cut back on their salary.
• Implementation: You make a decision, draw conclusions and act. I support you in this process.

Professional reorientation means leaving your usual work environment and initiating changes – this can be a new position, a new area of ​​responsibility or a completely new job. The courageous step into self-employment is also a professional reorientation.

A career change helps you find a path that best suits you and your current situation – Career change is about a change or adjustment – just like a GPS calculates a new route – either because we have a new destination or have taken the wrong path.

Professional reorientation is possible at any age – whenever you have further ambitions and goals in your professional life. Spread over their working life, most adults today have a variety of jobs – in very different industries and with very different tasks. They experience many phases of reorientation and reorientation in which careers advice can help.

The desire for a change often arises from new professional opportunities or opportunities. Through inspiration from outside, new ambitions or new interests and motivation to develop new competences and skills.

However, many people also long for a reorientation because they currently feel dissatisfied or overwhelmed in their professional life. Challenges or negative feelings that drag on for weeks or months are a sign that a change is needed. If you no longer enjoy your job and have to force yourself to work every day, you will benefit from a reorientation.

Changes in your private life can also make professional reorientation necessary, e.g. an illness or difficult life situation that no longer allows you to do your job as before, but also starting a family or simply a desire for more work-life balance.