With many people being assigned new duties and responsibilities during this crisis, it is natural that they are beginning to question if these will remain part of their role longer-term.
If your own work duties have changed in some way during the pandemic, the lockdown period will have hopefully given you the opportunity to reflect on those changes and how they fit with your career ambitions and goals – if they do at all.
If you’re keen to keep the changes to your job that arose due to coronavirus-related disruption – whether that’s working in a different department or in a role with a different focus – then it’s important to formally and professionally vocalise your wishes.
For some, the changes to their role have been welcomed. Such changes may have allowed them to utilise untapped skills, while gaining experience in different areas and generally pushing themselves out of their comfort zone.
Others, however, will have decided that the changes to their role resulting from the coronavirus crisis aren’t aligned with the direction they want to take their career. They may not have enjoyed the experience and might feel that their skills were better utilised in their pre-crisis role, and thus understandably want to return to their former duties as soon as possible.
Either way, if you have the opportunity after the COVID-19 crisis to initiate a permanent change to your role that will help move your career forward in the right direction for you, the following advise will help ensure it happens quickly and in a way that works for you.
