Big Ideas 2021: How the pandemic has changed career outlooks for 2021

Hey, everyone, it's Jato Donald from working daily.

And today I want to share with you my Prezi

on big ideas for 2000 and 21 specifically around how

the pandemic has changed career outlooks.

So I'm gonna walk you through four main areas.

First, we're going to talk about priorities.

So one of the things that's happened over the course

of the last nine months is that people have really

put their priorities in order.

They've had a lot of time Thio, evaluate and think

about various things.

And when you do that kind of self reflection, there's

a super opportunity for you.

Thio. Apply what you've learned about yourself to your career,

so let's take a closer look.

So, first of all, just looking at your career as

a whole, it's really important to be honest with yourself

and say, Am I happy with the way my career

is now?

Based on all that's changed in the world, all that's

changed in my own life.

Is this really the career path that I want to

embark upon or is now the time to start thinking

about making a very strategic change and move more towards

things that would make me feel happier and more satisfied.

We're also going to find ourselves evaluating our physical self

right during the pandemic.

You know, some people got super fit and other people

used food and other things as a way to kind

of, you know, self medicate.

Either way, you look at it as we go forward

in 2021.

I predict that health and wellness will play a huge

role because we'll want Thio feel stronger again and, you

know, make healthier choices, which puts us in a much

better position, physically and mentally, to go after new career

changes. And, of course, that does lead into mental self.

I mean, what a year for us to think about

this. I don't think anybody hasn't been impacted some way

mentally with all of the dramatic changes that have gone

on. In fact, there are studies that show that when

a large group of people, when a society goes through

a dramatic change like the one we have, it takes

us all from a happiness level of here down to

here. But when it's over and we come out of

it, the good news is usually the whole group ends

up happier overall.

So I think that's very encouraging news for anyone that's

kind of been suffering.

Maybe with, you know, depression or anxiety, there are going

to be opportunities in 2020.

Make that better.

And I think figuring out what you want to do

in your career and moving towards something that makes you

feel happier is one of the ways to help you

support yourself in that mission.

And then, of course, there's family and friends relationships.

We've strengthened a lot of relationships This year we've realized

which relationships really count, and probably to some degree which

ones don't.

So I think you're going to see people, um, expanding

and making certain relationships of priority in 2021 also think

we're gonna see a lot of people letting go of

toxic or unhealthy relationships.

That's very important because your relationships play a huge role

in your ability to, um, pursue a career path that

makes you happy.

So you need to surround yourself with people who support

that mission.

Alright, lastly, hobbies and recreation.

This part, I think, is probably most exciting to me.

There's something I always say right now.

The bigger the disruption the bigger the innovation.

And what I mean by that is that the massive

amount of disruption that's happened, especially when it comes to

careers and work, is going to bring about a lot

of innovation.

New companies, new ideas, new job titles, new roles, new

opportunities and one place where I think that's gonna be

particularly huge is in hobbies and recreation.

A lot of people have picked up all sorts of

hobbies and a new pastimes as a result of the

crisis and are finding that these might be things they

could turn into income.

You know, we were already in what they called a

gig economy before the pandemic hit.

I think we're gonna see more and more people pivoting

towards building hobby careers that might even turn into full

time careers.

All right, so now we're gonna move on, and we're

gonna start to talk about, um, those growth moments whenever

we have a trauma like this, when whenever we have

something this dramatic happen, Um, there's always a lot of

post traumatic growth, and you can look that up.

It's a really thing, and the thing that we have

to think about is that we can apply post traumatic

growth in a lot of constructive ways to our career.

So first of all, it might be a full on

career change.

You might realize you know what?

I'm done this cruise not fulfilling to me anymore.

It's not taking me the direction I want to go

in. I'm going to do something about it, Another place

we're going to see.

Growth is this idea of flexibility over money.

I think one of the deciding factors for many people

will be.

Do I really want this job where I feel like

I'm a slave to it?

I'm working on these crazy hours just for a few

extra bucks?

Or do I want to free myself and take a

lesser paying job that offers me a lot more flexibility

and creates a healthier lifestyle, and then another area we're

going to see this is in the overall definition of

success s.

So this is something that's been important to me for

the last 20 years.

I've always focused on career coaching to help people feel

more satisfied in their careers, and the way to do

that is to redefine success on your own terms.

I think a lot of people are going to say,

G. I realize now I've been following society's expectations with

me or other people's expectations of me and pursuing definitions

of success that didn't really work for me.

And I think when you wake up from that and

you realize you can craft your own definition of success,

you open up a lot of career doors.

Okay, then we're moving on and we want to talk

about innovation when it comes to careers, because that's gonna

be a big topic.

What did I tell you?

Bigger disruption, bigger the innovation.

Lots of new careers, not toe blue cos I mean

the next Google apple, Facebook.

All these companies are going to start to come out

of the woodworks as a result of the massive change

that we've seen over the last year.

So, as I said, one way that you'll be able

to make a career change is turning hobbies into careers.

Um, you know, we live in a NW, influence the

world in a storytelling world.

Social media Lots of people are learning how to monetize

and build careers, giving away advice and and doing crafts

and other things and and sharing all of that on

social media.

So that's just one way that I see hobbies becoming

careers. But I think other people will take their hobbies

and realize there's certain aspects or skills that they've developed,

that they could apply to full time jobs.

There's lots of ways to take your hobbies, the things

that you love to dio and use them to make

your career better.

Of course, it's getting creative with careers.

This is another thing I think we're going to see.

People are gonna go in and say, You know, this

job doesn't fulfill me anymore.

I want to craft a new job for myself.

Here's how I can create value.

Most important thing we can remember is that companies hire

us because we save or make them enough money to

justify our cost.

Once we figure that out, we can start to look

for the ways that we would prefer to deliver that

value. And that's how we could start to customize a

career path and create something new for ourselves and, of

course, redefining brand new role.

So when you have something like this that has, like,

just completely decimated everything we've ever known about career and

work and how companies should be run.

The result is that a lot of new jobs get

created to address all the new concerns.

And if you take a look at how your industry,

your job, your company has been disrupted, I guarantee they're

thinking about some new things that have to be managed.

If there is something of interest to you there that

could be the new career direction, the new path, the

new job that you take on.

But you have to look forward and identify it all

right, and lastly, we're going to talk about preparing for

the ships.

So listening to this information, I'm hoping that I'm inspiring

you to realize that there's some serious opportunity out there.

You know what we look for?

We get.

So if we look for roadblocks and we look for

problems and we look for failure, that's what we're going

to get.

But if we look to the future with excitement, if

we look for innovation, if we look for no ideas,

we'll find those two, especially when it comes to our

career. But we still need to prepare for it.

So the first thing I'm going to tell everyone to

do is a skills assessment.

You wanna think about all the skills that you currently

have and any new skills that you've acquired during the

pandemic and then prioritize them and figure out which ones

you want to leverage the most.

What skills do I have?

And what skills do I that air new do I

think I can use to create value?

That's what you're trying to make happen.

You also want to think about your shortfalls.

You have to be realistic.

None of us are perfect.

So if you're looking for a new career direction, you

could take all these transferrable skills with you.

But you should also figure out where my gaps and

how might be able to close those gaps with training,

education or something else.

Now, after that, I want you to think about your

network. We say your network is your net worth at

work a daily, and the more your networking, especially online

right now, works considered completely acceptable, the better.

Lincoln has done many studies to show that we are

all probably about six degrees of separation away from our

next job, and that many of us will get our

jobs for something called weak Ties Week.

Tiger, When you know somebody who knows somebody who works

at a company you wanna work for, they make the

introduction and they're not, you know, overly vouching for you.

They're just putting you together.

But that mere connection through somebody else elevates the chances

that you get the job.

This is the kind of networking that will become so

important as we move forward.

And, of course, learning how to tell your story.

Social media has made us all storytellers.

We live in a storytelling world for as long as

we can remember.

Storytelling is the most memorable way for somebody to hold

an idea or a thought in their head like a

light bulb.

So what we have to do is tell compelling stories

when we're out networking so that people remember us that

way when they hear about a job or an opportunity

like a light bulb will come to mind and they

will reach out to us.

And this is where this all brings it together.

The most important thing I can tell you is that

leaving a lasting impression when you're telling your stories is

to create that Ah ha moment.

So make sure that whatever you're sharing has something really

important and insightful to say so that it is more

memorable to the people that you're sharing it with.

So there you have it, folks.

The four steps that we're all going to go through

a SAS realize, Understand, as we head into 2021 especially

if we're thinking about making a career shift.

I hope I gave you a lot to think about

today with this presentation.

Remember, if you wanna win, you gotta work it daily.

So take this information, carve out 10 minutes a day

and start thinking about what you want in your career

in 2021 beyond and realize the sky's the limit, because

again, the bigger the disruption, the bigger the innovation.

And if you look for opportunity, you will find it

Big Ideas 2021: How the pandemic has changed career outlooks for 2021

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