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Career Change Reverse Construction to IT

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  • 08-08-2015 5:02am
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    LegacyUser
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    So to cut a long story short I finished college a few years ago pretty much when construction had fallen to its knees in Ireland, I had worked during the boom in construction.

    I got frustrated with the industry and the uncertainty surrounding it and did a postgraduate in computers and worked in the IT sector for a while but did not like it.

    Now I left IT and am working in the UK in construction. I get the sense people think I am a bit odd when they find out that I changed lanes career wise twice. But at the time construction was losing all the jobs and IT was gaining them.

    How to put a positive spin on it? Some recruiters/interviewers tend to look for positives and others negatives.

    I keep telling myself that IT is a useful skill to have and that computers are changing everything that we do etc but in reality I may have been in a better position now if I had left Ireland sooner to work in construction and be in a better position to come back as things pick up.

    Cheers


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