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<\/a>This might sound obvious but many people sit in jobs they dislike because they think its the career they ‘should’ have, instead of what they want to do. Work out what factors you need for job satisfaction, be it money, interaction, creativity, spontaneity, a specific industry or way or life. How many hours a day are you looking to work? What do you need to be happy in the work place and does your prospective job allow you to do that? Figuring out what to do next in your career involves thinking how you want to spend your days, not just what salary you want at the end of the day.<\/p>\nPlay to your skills<\/h2>\n
There are many crucial cross roads in your path to your dream career. Sometimes it take a few wrong turns to end up in the right place. Don’t let this deter you as these are all valuable experiences that could lead to greater opportunities.<\/p>\n Good luck from Adzuna HQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What should I do next? This is the difficult decision that everybody has to make at some point in their career. Whether you are leaving school, graduating from college or you have reached the end of the road with your current job, it is time to look to the horizon and do something different. Here Continued \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,3],"tags":[254,206,209,189,207,208],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-advice","category-jobs","tag-career-advice","tag-counsel","tag-dream-career","tag-skills","tag-strengths","tag-talents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>What are you good at? Consider your skills, talents, strengths and weaknesses, then work out ways to apply them in the workplace. Get a pen and paper and write them all down focusing on how you can turn them into something marketable. There are uses and benefits to even the oddest skills. Armed with this information you are one step closer to figuring out what to do next.<\/p>\nTake counsel<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Take advantage of every bit of guidance you can get your hands on. This is a tough decision and a problem shared is a problem halved. Utilise your networks, consult friends and quiz experts. You need to figure out where you want to go and what you want to do. Sometimes getting a fresh perspective on the decision will uncover potential options you had not previously considered.<\/p>\n