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Before You Chase That Hot
Industry...
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Peter Vogt |
Today's
red-hot, I'm sure to get a job in it industry can easily
be tomorrow's deserted career wasteland. Ask any of the
thousands of Americans who switched to the information
technology field in the '90s solely because it was the
booming industry of the moment.
Have we learned nothing from the dotcom hallucination?
asks Bill Treasurer, author of Right Risk: 10 Powerful
Principles for Taking Giant Leaps with Your Life and
president of Giant Leap Consulting, an organizational
development company in Decatur, Georgia. °Workers
continue to hop on the bandwagon and head to the gold
rush only to find that the gold is done gone.
When your primary reason for switching careers is to go
where the money and opportunity seem to be at the time,
°the dangers are high, he warns.
Several of today's hot fields happen to be in healthcare
-- nursing, pharmacy, medical laboratory technology and
radiology, for example. Maybe you're tempted to pursue
one of those fields simply because it looks like a sure
thing. Be careful: There's more than the job market to
think about. Ask yourself these critical questions as
well:
Why Is It Hot? Will It Stay Hot?
It's possible a field is hot because there's an employee
shortage stemming from high turnover, poor working
conditions or other ongoing issues, says former career
counselor Kenneth McGhee, a financial Aid specialist at
Northern Illinois University and author of Eleven
Leadership Tips for Supervisors.
You've got to think critically about how long the field
will remain hot and why, says McGhee.
An example would be the trend toward training certified
nursing assistants to do basic LPN, RN, respiratory
therapist, physical therapist assistant and occupational
therapist assistant duties,says McGhee. Short-term
courses, usually at a local community college, are used
for this purpose. If this continues, and with CNAs
making less money per hour, how long will other health
professions stay hot?
What's Necessary to Succeed?
If you're a technical writer and you decide to go into
nursing, do you have the skills and desire to deal with
doctors, patients, families and a myriad of other
healthcare people on a daily basis?asks William
Schaffer, a career counselor in Silicon Valley and
author of High-Tech Careers for Low-Tech People. What if
you're a highly skilled software engineer and your new
job will require you to report to someone you consider
to be your educational inferior? These problems can be
licked, but you've got to be aware they exist up-front,
especially before you spend time and money reeducating
yourself.
What's the Inside Scoop?
It's one thing to simply read about a hot career, but
you can't stop there if you want an accurate picture of
it. You need inside information from people actually
working in the industry.
Who do you know who has succeeded in the field? What
appeals to you about the work they do each day?
Have you booked a time to work with or shadow this
person who is doing what you say you want to do? asks
John O'Connor, president of Career Pro, a career
transition firm in Raleigh, North Carolina.If this is a
career/life decision, wouldn't it be worth taking one
day out of your life before you invest your time into
going for this career and making this big change?
Be Brutally Honest
If you enjoy working with people and don't mind a job
that can be very stressful at times, well, then nursing
is great, says Valerie Sejko, director of career
services for the Hamden and Shelton campuses of New
England Technical Institute in Connecticut, which offers
a perioperative nursing training program. But what if
you dislike working with people? No matter how hot
nursing is, you'll never be happy in it. And you'll
probably be a really bad nurse, too.
According to Barbara Moses, president of Toronto-based
BBM Human Resource Consultants and author of What Next?
The Complete Guide to Taking Control of Your Working
Life, people trying to second-guess the job market are
playing a futile game.
They'll never beat it, and they'll become unhappy in the
process,she says. |
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This
article originally appeared on Monster.com.
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