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Posted by Ale Ion on July 3rd, 2022

Making a Career Change. Career Advice for a Post-Pandemic Workplace

There’s nothing quite like a pandemic for prompting reflections on the truly big questions like “What do I want to do with my life?”.

Lockdown has given us extra thinking time away from the hustle and bustle of the commute, the distractions of the open plan office and our busy personal lives.

It’s therefore unsurprising that according to a recent survey by Aviva, 60% of workers are planning a career change in what is being called “The Great Resignation”.  Sometimes it’s only when you step off the treadmill and see where you are, that you realise you want to be somewhere different. 

Corinne Mills, Managing Director of Personal Career Management a leading career coaching company, shares her insights on managing your career in a post-pandemic world, where the workplace and our relationship with it, is rapidly evolving.

Shape how you work

The pandemic has opened the possibilities of working in different ways.  Remote working has reduced many of the tensions associated with office life, such as a stressful commute, an overbearing boss or the interruptions of a shared communal space.  It’s also brought a new authenticity as we tend to be much more comfortable within our domestic setting than the performance playground of the office.  No wonder that according to the EY 2021 Work Reimagined Survey,.4 out of 5 workers say that they would find another job rather than go back to work in the office full-time.

Yet while there are undoubted benefits of flexible working, there are career risks in this too. It would be very easy for your professional world to become small and transactional.  This leaves you in danger of being overlooked and therefore vulnerable.  It’s much harder to build wider and substantive relationships with people when there’s few opportunities to mingle but it is going to become even more important that you do. 

Developing your visibility post-pandemic doesn’t only mean updating your LinkedIn.  You’ll need to find opportunities to grow your job and get in front of key people.  Talk to your boss about how in addition to working on your key tasks, you might also develop particular areas you are interested in, especially if they give you exposure to new people and other parts of the business. 

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