If the way generative AI is used in your workplace leads you to reassess your current job, Stapleton suggests the following five-step plan to find a new career that you love
1. The key is to take a step back and be proactive about the choices you want to make. Don’t be swayed by the easy option, or what others suggest should be your next move. Take the opportunity to first think deeply and clearly about what you really want from a career.
2. Consider your values, interests, strengths, what gives you a sense of purpose, what motivates you, what skills you want to use, what you’d love your working day to look like, and the type of environment you want to work in.
3. Pull together a shortlist of careers what seem to align well with these, and explore what they’re like in reality. Test them out by arranging shadowing, work experience, volunteering, talking to people in those professions, take short courses, attend events — anything to help you understand what that career is really like in real life.
4. From these experiences, assess how well these careers match up to what you said you wanted in a role. Use this assessment to help you decide which career is going to be right for you.
5. Once you’ve made the decision, create an action plan that details all the steps you’ll need to take to move into your new role or career. Break this plan down into small, micro steps you can start implementing straight way, and be sure to monitor your progress as you start to make things happen for yourself.
