Skills assessment: how to find ideas for career change?

Skills assessment: how and why?

Discover the skills assessment and its potential to find career change avenues that really suit you.

A skills assessment is a fantastic tool when used properly. In this article, I invite you to discover what represents a turning point in a career for many people. Whether it's to find your strengths, to explore the possibility of career change, or to explore a business idea, there are many reasons to undertake a skills assessment. It could also be to regain self-confidence or understand your place in the job market. Don't miss the following few lines to learn about the opportunities available to those who choose to undertake a skills assessment.

The skills assessment: what is it?

A skills assessment is a right recognized by the French Labor Code. It involves analyzing an individual's professional skills, aptitudes, and various motivations. Generally, it is recommended to begin this type of process every 10 years during a career. This will be a supportive process. Most of the time, the advisor will also request phases of personal work.

If you feel like you're stagnating in your career, or if you want to take stock of your skills and market value, this approach is worth considering. However, you should consider the need to discuss your professional and personal life . This will allow the advisor to truly understand your profile and provide you with coherent answers. You may open up completely new horizons that you hadn't considered.

The objectives of the skills assessment

For many people, a skills assessment is an opportunity for career change. It will allow you to highlight your professional skills and qualities to better market yourself on the job market. It also helps you identify career development opportunities based on the candidate's profile. By assimilating your conscious and unconscious strengths, as well as your areas of discomfort, you will benefit from a better understanding of your abilities.

A skills assessment can also be a tool for getting through a difficult professional period. You'll be able to understand the professional environments that allow you to perform well. A true vector of self-confidence, it will help you regain your confidence throughout your professional career. This type of support can also help validate the feasibility of a professional project. Starting a business or retraining can thus be undertaken with greater confidence.

The implementation of an action plan.

Depending on the results of the skills assessment, it will be possible to put a real action plan in place. If the results are conducive to starting a business or changing career paths, it will be possible, for example, to consider available training.

For some people, the skills assessment is an opportunity to highlight the lack of maturity of a project. Areas for improvement can then be defined, allowing you to begin the project in the best possible conditions. Your business project could, for example, represent a supplementary income while you gather all the resources necessary to make a living from it. It's also possible to explore other career or development paths.

This plan can also help implement actions that will allow for professional development to a position similar to the one currently occupied. Moving to a job, even when it is very similar to the current profession, requires the development of a plan, allowing you to know how to achieve the defined objectives.

My advice for a successful skills assessment.

For a successful skills assessment, there are a few mistakes to avoid. First, I advise you not to wait until you've reached your breaking point to begin this process. If possible, it's up to you to identify the first signs of weariness with a position or career. This will allow you to begin the skills assessment in the best possible conditions.

By starting a skills assessment early, before a situation of burnout or loss of meaning in your professional life occurs, you will have the ideal timing. If you already find yourself in one of these two situations, it is perfectly possible to implement an action plan quickly. You must choose a counselor who will help you move forward, taking into account your strengths and weaknesses.

Which skills assessment should you choose?

When you search the internet for "skills assessment," you might be lost among the wide variety of results. However, there are some questions you can ask a counselor. Do you specialize in a particular type of assessment? What does a typical session look like? Which of your qualities will be useful to my approach? I encourage you to trust counselors who will be transparent about these three key questions.

For my part, I have chosen to specialize in skills assessments for career changes or business creation. Thanks to solid experience in human resources, and a career punctuated by the management of three companies, I have the necessary skills to support this type of profile. If you would like to conduct a skills assessment, do not hesitate to contact me. I will be happy to detail the typical content of a session. You will then know if my way of seeing things matches your expectations. See you soon to build your future!

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