| Changing jobs is quite natural for many people | | | | Today more and more people are changing their |
| nowadays. Specialists kept on switching companies | | | | specialty. Social psychology defines this |
| looking for a better place to work at. But their | | | | phenomenon as professional reorientation. Mostly it |
| functional responsibilities still remain the same. | | | | applies to young people. Older people have less flexible |
| However, such rotation without the change of your | | | | thinking - their professional life is influenced by |
| occupation is not 100% useful. Psychological research | | | | prevalent stereotypes and they have too high |
| has showed that a person will have more chances to | | | | demands for themselves. People older 35 are afraid |
| succeed if he changes his vocation once 5 - 7 years. | | | | of taking risks. Even if his life-time dream was to |
| Thus he will acquire new knowledge and experience | | | | become an executive of car manufacturing company, |
| and he will learn how to deal with new unusual tasks. | | | | he won't set himself to writing a resume. The idea of |
| Even if you have created a dynamic plan for | | | | cardinal retraining seems senseless and even careless |
| developing your career from a clerk to a senior | | | | to older people. Most of them can neither afford no |
| manager in a particular company new responsibilities | | | | do they want to spend their time and money for |
| don't substitute old ones, but are just added to the | | | | obtaining a second education. Two categories make |
| existing duties. In other words, you don't change your | | | | an exception of this statement. They are housewives, |
| activity - but the sphere of your responsibility becomes | | | | who have adult children and now are free to take up |
| wider. In fact, a person keeps on working in the same | | | | their career. Another category is retired servicemen. |
| professional area. However paradoxical it may be, | | | | Both groups come across a lot of objective and |
| but after a few years since submitting your sales | | | | psychological difficulties. Psychologists admit that only |
| resume you are more likely to lose your sales | | | | few people with a specific temperament are capable |
| competence than to gain or improve it. You get tired | | | | of abrupt changing their professional life. The ability to |
| of routine work; you fulfill your duties mechanically with | | | | take reasonable risk in your professional life - is the |
| no zest and enthusiasm. That is why psychologists | | | | major factor of success. And on the contrary - fear |
| suggest changing the content of the work not its place. | | | | of changes or failure inhibit your success. You will |
| Human resource managers still make the same | | | | always have a well -paid job if you learn to regard |
| mistake: they are looking for the applicants with at | | | | studies and job changing as a natural component of |
| least a year - relevant experience. They don't consider | | | | your working life. A well - known American |
| retrained specialists or those who have no experience | | | | businessman, the author of several books on business |
| in the pertinent area. They don't take into account that | | | | psychology wrote: "It is not worth sticking to your |
| inexperienced candidates have considerable | | | | primary vocation for being rewarded a golden watch |
| advantages over the experts: they have no | | | | when you are retired." Think, may be it is time for |
| professional stamps/ clichés, they are ready to | | | | you to stop sending your teacher resume from one |
| improve themselves, and they have sincere interest | | | | school to another and consider better choices. |
| for the new job and others. | | | | |