Readiness for Change

Friday, March 15, 2013

Welcome again to Lets Get Working. Today I want to tell you about the 6 stages of change and how they can help you reach your goal. I will use finding a job as an example.

1. Pre-contemplation – you may be unaware that you need a job or not concerned to get one as you are happy to live on the money you have.

2. Contemplation – you become aware that you want money to buy nicer things or you want to contribute to society to make your life matter.

3. Preparation – you then might start exploring and researching what you can do to find a job by asking yourself questions like: What job do I want? What do I need to do to put together a resume and my portfolio? How do I apply for jobs and how do I need to behave in an interview, etc.

4. Action – you then start working on researching jobs you want to do, creating a resume and writing a cover letter and applying for jobs or cold calling businesses and talking to your network about jobs they may know are available.

5. Maintenance – you may not get a job straight away so looking for work may become an automatic process.

6. Termination – once you get the job you no longer need to keep looking but now the new working behaviour you developed to look for work is now helping out in the job at hand.

Until next time,
Enjoy the journey!
Martha!

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Ange from Nova TTW St Marys posted on 8 May 2013
Wonderful your Blog is really is helping the trainees understand where they are mentally in the Job Seeking Process