l2hvn Posted August 18, 2006 Posted August 18, 2006 I am seriously thinking about changing careers, but I have no experience in the field I want to get into. How can I get experience if nobody wants to give me a chance? It's frustrating to say the least.
norajane Posted August 18, 2006 Posted August 18, 2006 Career changes are tough. One way to try to break in is to craft your resume so it doesn't focus on your specific jobs, but focuses on your skills, the ones that would be useful in the new field. If your college has an alumni career placement center, you can try and schedule some informational interviews with alumni who work in the new field and get their advice on what skills are important to highlight, and what their advice would be to try to break in. Sometimes, you have to accept that you have to start at the bottom and work your way back up. An option is to try and get some temp work, or temp to hire work in the new field.
Author l2hvn Posted August 18, 2006 Author Posted August 18, 2006 can you get education in that field? Yes I can. I am actually going to take a class starting next week. However, I'd like to get my foot in the door as soon as possible.
Author l2hvn Posted August 18, 2006 Author Posted August 18, 2006 Career changes are tough. One way to try to break in is to craft your resume so it doesn't focus on your specific jobs, but focuses on your skills, the ones that would be useful in the new field. If your college has an alumni career placement center, you can try and schedule some informational interviews with alumni who work in the new field and get their advice on what skills are important to highlight, and what their advice would be to try to break in. Sometimes, you have to accept that you have to start at the bottom and work your way back up. An option is to try and get some temp work, or temp to hire work in the new field. Thank you, norajane! They're very helpful. I suppose my resume needs further revision. I did try on applying for the lowest position but to no luck. Where I live, a lot of companies prefer people who speak another language (ahem.. Spanish). Not fair.
blind_otter Posted August 18, 2006 Posted August 18, 2006 I did try on applying for the lowest position but to no luck. Where I live, a lot of companies prefer people who speak another language (ahem.. Spanish). Not fair. Have you ever been to Europe? Everyone is bilingual. And not everyone speaks English, either. A lot of the road signs are in German and French, or French and Italian, or in all three languages. I suppose it's not fair, all over the world.
Author l2hvn Posted August 18, 2006 Author Posted August 18, 2006 Have you ever been to Europe? Everyone is bilingual. And not everyone speaks English, either. A lot of the road signs are in German and French, or French and Italian, or in all three languages. I suppose it's not fair, all over the world. I've always wanted to go to Europe... *sigh... one day. And btw, I am bilingual (I speak Tagalog) and I do know Spanish... although I'm better at it reading as opposed to oral.
Outcast Posted August 19, 2006 Posted August 19, 2006 See if you can get a volunteer position doing similar work.
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