My former career coach was fond of saying, "Every job is temporary," and "You are a business of one." She meant that given the fast-paced changes in the economy, becoming too dependent upon a job with benefits is not a good idea because that job and those benefits can disappear pretty quickly when things change. In this week's episode, I stress the importance of upgrading your technology skills while considering whether you want to change your job or career. You can go to different places for help, like your local WorkForce centers or online services like Udemy.
You should also think seriously about what you want in your next job or career. What kind of people do you want to work with? What kind of culture do you want? Chances are you are trying to escape your current workplace's toxic culture, so paying attention to these things is important.
If you think that 2021 is the year you want to make a career change or undertake a new job search, don't miss out on one of the Masterclass presentations I am offering this week. The first one will be Thursday night, January 21, 2021, at 7:00 PM EST. The second will be offered on Saturday, January 23, 2021, at 1:00 PM EST, and the final presentation will be Monday, January 25, 2021, at 4:00 PM EST. Register at https://event.webinarjam.com/register/26/27l48aml.
I hope to see you there!
My former career coach was fond of saying, "Every job is temporary," and "You are a business of one." She meant that given the fast-paced changes in the economy, becoming too dependent upon a job with benefits is not a good idea because that job and those benefits can disappear pretty quickly when things change. In this week's episode, I stress the importance of upgrading your technology skills while considering whether you want to change your job or career. You can go to different places for help, like your local WorkForce centers or online services like Udemy.
You should also think seriously about what you want in your next job or career. What kind of people do you want to work with? What kind of culture do you want? Chances are you are trying to escape your current workplace's toxic culture, so paying attention to these things is important.
If you think that 2021 is the year you want to make a career change or undertake a new job search, don't miss out on one of the Masterclass presentations I am offering this week. The first one will be Thursday night, January 21, 2021, at 7:00 PM EST. The second will be offered on Saturday, January 23, 2021, at 1:00 PM EST, and the final presentation will be Monday, January 25, 2021, at 4:00 PM EST. Register at https://event.webinarjam.com/register/26/27l48aml.
I hope to see you there!
Are you a teacher who's feeling stressed out and overwhelmed. Do you worry that you're feeling symptoms of burnout or are you sure you've already gotten there? Have you started to dream of doing some other kind of job or perhaps pursuing a whole different career, but you don't know what else you're even qualified to do. You don't know how to start a job search. You just feel stuck. If that sounds like you, I promise you're not alone. My name is kitty Boitnott. I'm a career transition and job search coach. And I specialize in helping burnout teachers just like you deal, not only with the stress and overwhelm of your day to day job, but to consider what other careers might be out there waiting for you to join me for teachers in transition. In some episodes, I'll be speaking to stress management techniques and how you can manage your stress on a day to day basis. In other episodes, I'll be talking about career transition. What tools do you need to be successful in a job search when you're moving from one career into a totally different track. These are questions that you need answers to, and I can help you find those answers. My name is kitty. Boitnott welcome to teachers and transition.
Speaker 2:Welcome back to episode 95 of teachers in transition, the podcast and the YouTube channel. I am kitty voice, not the owner and founder of teachers in transition and not coaching LLC. If you've listened to this podcast in the past, you know that I alternate topics each week, one week, I will talk about stress management strategies and alternating weeks. I talk about career transition last week, I talked about stress management during stressful times. And this week, I'm going to talk about some, some tips that I recommend that you keep in mind as you are considering whether or not you are ready to make a career shift or to start a new job search here in 2021. The good news is that as we start to get people vaccinated, the economy is going to slowly, but surely start to gear up. What is unknown is whether or not many of the jobs that disappeared will ever come back, at least as robustly as they were, uh, in, in presence before the pandemic. Um, I'm thinking in particular of restaurants and hospitality jobs that may not come back because maybe companies won't need as many in places around the country or, or the world that said, surely we will start to see restaurants opening up again. And surely people who are eager to start traveling again, we'll give a visit to the hospitality sector and there will be other opportunities too. I'm sure that we haven't foreseen jobs that didn't exist a few years ago. We'll start to pop up. That has always been the case and it's happening more and more often. Now my previous career coach was fond of saying that every job is temporary and that you are a business of one. Each one of us is a business of one. One of her principle tenants was that as individuals, we need to get away from the idea that our job supports us or provides us with our abundance. And that in fact, individually, we have the resources to create our own abundance and to become our own source of income. Now, in that, in that case, she's talking about people who strike out on their own becoming entrepreneurs and bloggers and podcasters, who are able to monetize their message so that they can support themselves independently without the comforts, if you will, of a traditional job and PR, and again, part of the message was that traditional jobs in the way that we've thought about jobs in the past are perhaps fading away or morphing into a new kind of employment. I mean, we've already seen many companies cut back on their benefits. Um, they've cut back on the full-time employees that they have. They've, uh, hired more part-time people who aren't eligible, excuse me, aren't eligible for benefits to begin with. And so we ha individually, we have to adjust to those new realities and except that we have to figure out other ways to find and create benefits for ourselves so that we have healthcare and we have life insurance, and we have those things that we need to have, even though we may not use them on a day-to-day basis. So I want to encourage you to think about what kinds of endeavors you would be interested in pursuing if you were to incorporate into your own daily mantra, every job is temporary, and you are a business of one. How might that change? How you look at your current circumstances, your current job or career. I also want to encourage you whether you are now, this is, this is good advice, whether you're thinking about changing your job or not, but all of us can bet anything that includes me. We can all benefit from up grading our technical skills in the event that we need to make a change. Now let's remember some changes are forced upon us. I worked with people when I used to volunteer for a group of job seekers here in my city. I was a regular coach and presenter for, uh, two groups, actually, who were people who were in the midst of their own career transition. Most of them were in their forties and fifties, and almost all of them were there by, by chance, as opposed to by choice. In other words, they had lost their jobs. Their jobs had disappeared. They had been downsized. They had been let go for any number, any one of a number of reasons, cut backs, mergers financial issues that the company was having performance issues on occasion. And so these folks would come to these two groups to get the support that they needed and to network with one another so that they could meet new people who might be able to offer introductions. As they got to know each other better. They also created accountability groups so that they could keep one another on track and accountable so that they didn't let a week go by that they didn't submit a resume or go to some kind of networking event. So the, the, the thing about those folks was that they were there, not because they wanted to be, they weren't making a change because they had chosen to change their job or career. They were there because they had been forced out of their job. And depending on what was going on with each one of them, it took some longer than others to finally find the right fit. But each week we would have people announcing that they had landed a job, which we would all celebrate. The important thing is for you to be on the offensive, not to be waiting for something to happen like that, too, but to be prepared. And one of the ways that you can prepare yourself is to upgrade your technology skills so that you are on the cutting edge. Now, there are places where you can go to get training there w w you know, workforce, um, opportunities at your local community college or in your, your County or city where you can go to get training if you want it. And sometimes the training is free. You can also enroll in, uh, programs, courses that are not a lot of money on you to me or you Demi. I still haven't figured out exactly how to say the name, but it's U as in university, D as in David, E as in Edward, M as in Mary and Y as in yellow.com, check it out. You can, as a, as a new user, you can get some really good solid courses for not a lot of money. And if you think you might need to upgrade some of your technology skills before you are ready to make the changes, the time to be doing that, or as you consider making the change in your career, this is a good time to be doing that. So consider where you might need to boost some of your skills. And as you do that, consider how and where you want to be using those skills. Where do you want to plug them in? So I want to encourage you to also think about the kind of work you would be looking for that would drive what kind of training you might need to upgrade your skills. Think about the kinds of people you want to work with. Think about the culture of the company. You would be interested in working for it. Part of the reason that teachers are getting so burnt out is frankly, the culture inside of their building has become toxic, and it is wearing people down. And I don't know who to blame for the toxicity. I don't know if it's because of the testing or because of the emphasis on accountability. I wonder if it has to do with poor training for principals, because there are way too many principals who are not exhibiting leadership abilities, but are instead using a strong arm management strategies, which don't work on teachers. It just drives teachers away. Teachers are looking to be whelming just about anybody who's working, wants to be inspired to do the work, not, not knocked over the head for not doing something. Right. So think about that. What kind of culture do you want to work in and what kind of individual do you want to work for? So you might want to take a look at what is the mission and vision statement of the company that you're looking to transition into. These are important considerations, and often they are considerations that people neglect to take a look at when they're in the midst of a career crisis. So all of these are suggestions for how you approach your job search or your career change, depending on where you might be in the process. The takeaways are to remember that every job is temporary, which means no matter what job you go for, you shouldn't get too attached to it. You need to remember that you are a business of one, which means that you have it within you to provide your own source, your own abundance. And finally, you need to consider if you were to make a change, what kinds of skills do you need to upgrade or home? And is there technology that you need to be taking into account that you might need to upgrade those skills as well? So that's it, as far as this week's message, please feel free to email me@kittyboitnottatgmail.com. If you have any questions or suggestions for topics moving forward, please leave a review. I love, I would love for you to do that. It helps people to find this podcast so that they can also benefit from the messages that I offer each week. Do take a look at the show notes. I am getting ready this week to offer three separate masterclasses on jumpstart, your job search for 2021. The first one will be Thursday night, the 21st of January at 7:00 PM. The second one will be Saturday, the 23rd of January at 1:00 PM. These are Eastern times, by the way, the third presentation will be on Monday, the 25th of January at 4:00 PM. Eastern. Now each of these classes are the same information. I'm just providing them on three different occasions in order to accommodate people's schedules. And during the presentation, in case you haven't sat in on one, I'll be talking about the main challenges that job seekers and career changers run into when they first start out and how to avoid making some of those mistakes. I'll also be promoting my jumpstart, your job search for 2021 program, which is rolling out this month, January, 2021. I am preparing to start a new coaching cohort. This will be group 15, have been group coaching since March of 2017. And the new group will be starting out February 1st. So during this last, the last week of January, next week, I will be promoting the program in, in the event that you might be interested in joining us, joining us. So if you have any questions about that, if you'd like to receive a link, uh, and you can't find it in the show notes, email me, I'll be happy to email you the link. That's it for this week, have a wonderful week. Please stay safe. Please wear a mask when you're out and I'll see you next week.
Speaker 1:So there you have it. An episode of teachers in transition. I hope you enjoy the information and I hope you'll plan to come back. Please subscribe to teachers in transition so that you can be alerted of future episodes. And let me know if you have any questions or topics that you would like me to specifically cover in a future episode, I'm more than happy to help with individual questions as well. So email me at kitty Boitnott at boys, not coaching.com. If you are interested in finding a new career or just enjoying your life more, this is the place to start. I'm Katie Boitnott. And this is teachers in transition.