I help people gain career clarity for my work. I decided to make this post because I've kept seeing this question come up in one form or another. This is a combination of the posts I've been putting up to answer people's questions. I figured I'd throw it out there for everyone to see.
When you're in your 20s, finding your career path is really a common question that many people. So don't worry, you're totally normal.
The best thing to do if you're not sure is to experiment and get a taste for different lines of work so you gain a deeper self-awareness of who you are, what the workforce is like, and how it's like to work with a range of personalities, cultures, and backgrounds.
Through this process, try to figure out your interest, skills, lifestyle preferences, values, and personality on top of the market trends in fields that pique your interest. Luck will play a factor too, the community you're in will matter a lot (especially if you end up in a toxic situation or meet a great mentor).
Often, the problem is you don't really know what you want to do and you keep pitching a generic resume to a bunch of different career paths. Recruiters see right through that. Quoting Lewis Carroll, "If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take." It's the same for your career - you gotta start with your destination in mind. Afterwards, you can plan backwards so you can target relevant work to build towards that final goal and write your resume, cover letter, and prep your interview correctly. I have a free resource here on how to find your career path.
A major part of what you'd like to do is based on your personality because that part is intrinsic to what type of work makes you satisfied. Personality also largely affects what kind of job roles are suited for you. For example, if you're really introverted, you'll be hard-pressed in a sales role that requires constant socializing. If you like new ideas, staying in a job that doesn't have much change would bore you. You can take a free psychometrically valid personality test here using the gold standard of personality testing (Big Five) that will then give you work advice so you have more clarity.
You need to develop the mindset that while the future of work is about career soft skills, you need 2-3 hard skills to make yourself marketable. They have to be broad hard skills that automation can't mimic (e.g. narrow skill = working the cash register = dead job). I've also published a whitepaper on that topic here if you want to know the details of how to prepare for the robots (who are here already btw).
Once you figure out where you want to go, try to get a full-time job that works towards your destination. If you can't land a job, upskill and build a portfolio via freelance work (e.g. Fiverr, Upwork) so that employers see you're serious your career. After all, why would they gamble on you if you're betting on yourself? Sell them on your soft skills while they know you're hard skills are developing.
The reason is this... Employers hire on fit (personality), skills (portfolio), and then experience - in that order. Convincing them you've got the first two should negate the third because you're still relatively young.
I talk about how to develop the right career change mindset here. I have 7-8 videos all filmed and coming out the next few weeks all about soft skills and surviving the future world of work with AI and automation. The best thing to do is to identify what are your core transferable soft skills and really hone in on that wherever you go.
I hope this helps everyone asking this question right now... especially in such volatile times.
The good news is after this pandemic blows over, there are 22 million jobs in the USA that need to be filled so the best time to start preparing is now.
Hang in there everyone, you'll be okay. 👍
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