CREATING YOUR CAREER GAME PLAN
How to start building resilience
Putting resilience to work
Although the local economy is recovering, the global pandemic is still ongoing, and the situation still remains precarious. As such, developing resilience now seems more important than ever. But where do you start? You should begin by looking inward and understanding what makes you tick. Here are some suggestions:
How do you make a resilient mindset work for you in your career planning, especially now that the world is a very different place from what it once was? A resilient mindset isn’t set in its ways. If job applications alone aren’t working for you, try attending online events to broaden your professional network and search for other avenues. Alternatively, you can relook your resume and applications and get external feedback on how you might improve them further. And if your dream industry is not hiring at the moment, think about some other options you can consider. But you can also turn your attention to picking up more skills to ensure career resilience as well. If the industry you want to enter requires certain skills or knowledge you don’t currently have, don’t just throw your hands up in defeat! Take the time to go for courses or read up on those topics. Courses are also not necessarily long – in fact, there are six-hour courses on popular sites such as Coursera.
• Look back on times in your life where things went well and when they didn’t. How did you respond to these scenarios? What do they say about how you react in both good and bad times? • Be honest with yourself about your weaknesses and fears. Why do they scare you or bother you? Are you satisfied with how they are? If not, what will you do to try and remedy that? • Check if your campus career services centre runs workshops for selfawareness. If they do, check them out
Learning how to approach your career journey with a resilient mindset is a key part of staying employable – whether during uncertain times or stable ones. Make it a point to keep practising it every chance you get, and see the difference it makes in terms of how you think about yourself – both as a person and a professional!
• Pinpoint strategies or measures that have kept you calm and helped you address unforeseen circumstances in the past. Whether it’s just mapping things out on paper, or turning to spirituality to ease your mind, just go with what works best for you • Be kind to yourself. Being confident in your strengths starts with loving yourself more • Accept that change is the only constant in life, and learn to embrace it • Learn to approach mistakes and rejection positively – see them as learning experiences or opportunities for feedback • Remember this simple truth: Your past setbacks are not an indicator of your future success! directory 2022 | 19
