Clear signs that it's the right time to make a move in your job or career

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CAREER

Are you working just for the salary?

If you feel that your job has become so much of a routine that you spend your days counting down the time until you get to go home, that your talent and skills are not being used at all and you actually have no clear career path from your employer, you are most definitely stuck in a dead-end job.

When having the mindset that “your job is just your job”, the impact of this will basically imply that you’re just waking up every morning and making your way to a job you aren’t really giving your all to.

If you look at your job as just a job, it’s calling for boredom to kick in, or a feeling of stagnation which then brings about an opportunity for “job hopping” as one thinks that, if you make a move, your job will give a different perspective.

However, job hopping in the long term actually hampers your chances of employment as companies are wary of canthat don’t stay at a company for long.

Having a rewarding job can mean so much more than just an income.

Each person should have a goal in their job and this goal will lead to a career.

A career can bring meaning to you every day you spend doing your job.

Often, we graduate with qualifications that we are not sure what to do with, or how to incorporate these into our current jobs.

We should be looking for opportunities and drive ourselves to make our job have a purpose.

Your job has a purpose for the company, but does it have a purpose to you?

Once you are in a job it does not mean you cannot continue with further studies.

Try to enrol for as many courses, postgraduate diplomas or extra certificates that can ultimately improve your knowledge and skill-set.

“Your job has a purpose for the company, but does it have a purpose to you?”

You have the power to put yourself into a position where you turn your job into a career.

Align your qualifications with opportunities and experience, and the rest will fall into place, but you have to consciously make the change to steer your career in a totally new direction if you are indeed feeling like you are stuck — noone is going to do it for you.

Your ideas are constantly “shot-down” and ignored. When your good ideas on how to improve things or finding better ways of getting things done are constantly ignored, it might be time to move on. Your opinion is not valued.

Everyone needs some recognition for a job well done every now and then, but receiving none probably means you’re not going to be thought of when it comes to a promotion or more senior role either.