Career Change Quiz

Is it time for a career change?

Answer True or False to the following questions and see where you rate:

1.    You have started to make excuses about why you shouldn’t go into work.   True/False

2.    You lie in bed at night, dreading the sound of your morning alarm because that means you have    hours before you have to go to work.  True/False

3.    The thought of going into work make your stomach churn True/False

4.    You’ve considered changing your career but are afraid that you’ll make a mistake True/False

5.    When you think about your future, your current career does not seem to fit. True/False

6.    You browse the internet looking for job opportunities. True/False

7.    You are seeing signs that suggest your job will become obsolete (e.g. technological advances, consumer buying habits etc). True/False

8.    You wanted to enter a different career field but your personal circumstances required you to take your current job True/False

9.    The work you are currently doing bores you and you find it hard to motivate yourself. True/False

10.     You feel your current role does not make best use of your skills, talents and education. True/False

11.    The only thing that is appealing about your current job is your work colleagues. True/False

12.    If you had all the money you needed and you knew that you could not fail, you would be doing something else. True/False.

13.    You drifted into your current role because you couldn’t think of what else you could do.  True/False

14.    Your current role provides limited scope for promotion. True/False

15.    You cannot see yourself doing the same role for the next 20 years. True/False

16.    Someone told you that you would be good at your current role, so you went along with it. True/False

17.     You took your job as a temporary measure, many moons ago and now you’ve not got a clue what else you could do. True/False

18.    You dreamt about being in your current career and worked hard to get there but the dream is not matching the reality. True/False

19.    You are worried that if you switch careers you may need to start at the bottom again. True/False

20.    If someone contacted you about the work that you currently do, you would find it every hard to give a positive picture True/False

21.    You would like to change careers but worry that this could impact your financial security. True/False

22.    Your work often feels unnatural and frustrating to you. True/False

23.    Your career does not support the lifestyle that you would like to have. True/False

24.    You know deep down inside that you would be better off doing something else but feel stuck because you don’t know what to do or where to start. True/False

25.    You would love to do work that had more meaning and purpose. True/False

Total up, how many “true” answers you circled.

 

Five or more true answers. This may confirm what you already know in your heart, your current career is not working for you.

 

Go through and think about the questions that you said “true” to.

Have you stayed in your current career because it felt like the easier option, or you were worried about the impact of making a change? Or is it simply that you don’t know what you could do or where to start to make changes to your career.

 

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Less than 5 “true” answers.  You may already be in the field that is right for you but what needs to change is your working environment. For example working as an accountant for a music company is very different to working for a big 5 accountancy firm.

 

The cultures within the organization are different.  Go back and revisit the questions that you responded true to. What scope is there within your current field to get your needs met? Is it that you need more responsibility, to work in an organization that is more aligned with your values, a promotion or a sideways move?