Using redundancy to change your career

There’s a great article on Career Rocketeer about how to survive a redundancy.

The second point is particularly interesting:

…. With studies indicating that 70-80% of people hate their jobs, losing your job can provide you with an opportunity to re-examine and re-invent yourself and take a completely new career direction to a job that really inspires and motivates you.

Redundancy can be the trigger for career change. A video on the Guardian careers site features people who successfully changed career.

Although redundancy often comes as a complete shock, it can also give you the opportunity to work out what you liked / hated about your previous job, and what sort of career best suits you. Meredith Haberfeld has written a great article about career values (see her second point) and in an earlier post, I wrote about the practicalities of career change.

Not everybody embraces change for the sake of it. Redundancy could be the impetus you need to get of the rut – especially if you count yourself in that 70-80% of people who hate their jobs.