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Career Change: Recover from the job from Hell!
from: John GrothBad Career Move: How to Recover!
After looking for a new job for awhile you’ve finally accepted a new position. It fit into you career plan and looked like a good fit. Now after a few weeks you think you’ve made a terrible mistake. You worry about the move and wonder if you should make another career move to rectify the situation.
Before you jump into another bad situation maybe it would be productive to evaluate the new job and see what factors are causing your concern. Even if you’ve made a mistake you can ameliorate the situation and lessen the fallout.
First, allow yourself time to adjust. There are few career moves that don’t cause doubts and concerns. Change is difficult and no matter how well you adapt. When settling into a new job and new community you may not have noticed how much you miss friends and familiar surroundings. Many times that loss will not be fully felt until you fall into a new routine.
An additional feeling of anxiety is the frustration of trying to perform in an unfamiliar environment. Previously you knew the players and how to get things resolved while at the new job seemingly unnecessary steps may be required to get the most routine things done.
Are you putting undue pressure on yourself? In your efforts to succeed you may be placing unreasonable demands on yourself. Perhaps a careful self assessment may be necessary.
Maybe after getting into the job and learning more about the expectations you believe the job may be too big for you. Before making this judgment you should spend some time reflecting on the heightened requirements of the position and the organization. Be realistic, perhaps you need time to grow into this aspect of your career.
Your dissatisfaction may also be the result from the risks in taking the new position. If you knew the organization was in financial trouble before you took the job, for example, this alone can cause increased stress and anxiety.
If you had limited supervisory experience before you accepted the job and now you have more extensive supervisory responsibilities may also be adding to your stress. Maybe you inherited an unhappy group that will improve as you get to know the employees and they learn to trust you.
With some an organization’s culture may cause problems. This aspect of the job is difficult to access during the interview stage. Now you find you do not fit in with your supervisor or peers. If you cannot make the necessary adjustments it may be appropriate for you to begin looking for other employment.
In assessing the issues consider maybe you took the job for the wrong reasons-a large salary increase caused you to ignore warning signs.
Now what do you do? After you have carefully considered each issue and still believe the new job will not work continue to perform as the employer expects. If the employer reaches the same conclusion and makes the first move and terminates you, move on and don’t carry any anger with you about the situation. If you stay under no circumstances should you complain or whine about the job or the organization.
If you decide to leave, start looking for a new job right away. In the next situation go in with your eyes open, ask questions and completely research the new situation. With a positive attitude and what you learned in this situation you can make the best of a bad career move.
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