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By Tony Jacowski

 Analyze the Reasons for the Change

Deciding to change your career isn’t something that happens all of a sudden. It is something that is the culmination of long contemplation on the possible effects and after effects of the change. The crux of the issue, however, remains that whatever you wish to pursue post-change should be something that you are deeply passionate about and which can give you the happiness you find missing in doing whatever you are presently engaged in.

If the change that you are contemplating is not something that fulfills the above conditions, it is probably not worth doing at all. If you feel discontented with your present job even though it gives you a good salary, it may be a good time to consider switching jobs.

A career change should be about personal satisfaction, fulfillment and happiness.

Don’t Rush Into Things

Any decision on a career change should be unhurried and based only on a thorough research of what other opportunities exist. They should be matched against the skills and other attributes you possess, as also those that you would need to acquire.

The question of what monetary compensation you will be able to make is of lesser importance; but nevertheless, it cannot be ruled out completely. Therefore, your research should encompass all relevant aspects in detail, making everything absolutely clear about what to expect from your new endeavor.

If you find it difficult to do this on your own, you should probably try to work with a career coach before finally making the switch.

Methodically List All Available Options

A career change is something that has far reaching implications and consequences. It can completely change your life, and a wrong decision can lead to damage that may be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to repair. Therefore, it is necessary that you categorize all options you have in terms of careers that interest you.

This can be helpful in letting you segregate options that interest you most and concentrate only on those options. While trying to select what you are best suited for, you need to do some introspection. Pick an option and ask yourself what reasons led you to explore it, whether you need additional education and training, and what risks and opportunities you will come across when pursuing it.

The answers you will get will be extremely important and help to clear up any doubts. A career change is something that is going to affect your whole life - and that of those who are dependent on you. You really cannot afford to make this decision until you are very clear in your mind as to why you need to make the change and what the exact ways in which you are going to act.

The gamut of a career change can involve a great amount of time and expense, and it would be fatal to jump into it without being armed with all necessary information.

Having all available information allows you to focus on the career that suits your skills and abilities like best - and to work towards it to achieve greater satisfaction and happiness in life.

Tony Jacowski is a quality analyst for The MBA Journal. Aveta Solution’s Six Sigma Online offers online six sigma training and certification classes for six sigma professionals including, lean six sigma, black belts, green belts, and yellow belts.

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Ecuador: The Next Generation Travel Professionals
By Peter Lauffer

 Very often I hear about new tourism related businesses who open their doors somewhere in the country. The various careers in tourism who can be studied at the local universities are in very high demand by students, who just finished their college.

In Ecuador, tourism is often considered an easy way to earn money. For this reason, new tourism businesses are created carefree and its owners seem to have excellent intentions at the beginning.

Because Ecuadorians are excellent hosts, most people think that to receive a foreign visitor is the same easy thing as to receive a good friend. Unfortunately is this perception not always right.

Sad to say that the very low level of education, combined with a practically non existing quality control from the authorities, let fail a lot of the newly created businesses. This situation often leaves disappointed investors alone with a big whole in their finances.

Too much amateurism is reigning in Ecuador’s touristic education. Beginning with the universities who teach tourism careers without any practical knowledge from the sector. There are different tourism careers available, but there are no studies about how many professionals are needed in each career.

The reality today is that a graduated has a title in tourism, but has in fact very little technical and practical knowledge about his profession. As an example, how can it be explained that in Ecuador students have to learn 2 foreign languages at the same time, often instructed by teachers who don’t even have a diploma in the language they instruct.

After graduation, the universities leave their students very often without the foreign language skills needed to start successful a career.

Other educational problems occur because most of the teachers have never worked in tourism, and most of them don’t even have the necessary contacts who would help them to know what the expectations from the industry and their employers are.

Another deficiency is that there are no controls of the graduation process itself, that means the final “tests” are controlled totally by the universities themselves. The instructors of each discipline “test” their own students.

This process opens doors for corruption and there is absolutely no control in which quality and quantity the tested knowledge was transmitted to the student.

This inadequate education in tourism has not only the effect that lots of graduates don’t find a study related job after they have their diploma, it is often a frustration for their family too.

The family often invests a lot of money in the academic work of their child, in the meaning that he or she should have a better life afterwords. If the graduated does’t find a job in his career, the family is often very disappointed because years of saved money seems to be invested badly.

The practical part of a career should be learned in a well coordinated and organized training in career related businesses. Business owners should be motivated to employ trainees, and to take the time to introduce them to the practical part of their career.

There should be exact plans for every trainee what to do in a company, depending on the level of their studies. The practical work should be, of course, part of the final qualification.

A nice side effect for the participating company would be to have an interesting possibility to pre-select future employees.

For the Ecuadorian tourism industry should it be a priority to ensure an excellent education for future professionals.

Only this way the tourism in Ecuador can have a healthy growth in future.

More and more good trained young people have to be involved in our interesting industry. They help to ensure an excellent reputation of Ecuador in the world and ensure an excellent standard of living for themselves and all of us.

Peter Lauffer, General Manager of TrueColors

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