HBR Guide to Changing Your Career

This new addition to the HBR Guides series helps readers with the big questions about changing career. It includes advice on getting an accurate picture of your skills and abilities, thinking about what your career could be, not what it is now, developing a compelling way to tell your story, building expertise in a new field and landing a new role.

Your next act starts now.

You're ready for something new, but it's hard to start over. Just the idea of trading the security you have now for the unknown or throwing away the education and time you've invested in your current career can plunge you into a swirl of indecision and anxiety. But mixing things up every few years is an increasingly normal and cyclical part of a healthy work life--a way to gain new skills and stretch your existing ones by applying them to different contexts.

Whether you know what you want to do next or you're still evaluating options, the HBR Guide to Changing Your Career will help you:

• Imagine other professional selves
• Identify the skills you need--and those you already possess that will transfer to another industry
• Assess the financial implications of the change you're considering
• Try out new roles without endangering your current job
• Explain a seemingly winding career path

• Pitch yourself into a new role

  Autorentext

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Klappentext

You're well into your career and yet you're not where you want to be. Perhaps you've done everything you need to do to be named a partner, but your firm has encountered a crisis that's put all promotions on hold. Or perhaps the dream company everyone said you'd be perfect for hasn't been such a perfect match after all. How do you envision possible new professional selves, explore your options, and embark on a dramatic career makeover when you have a mortgage to pay, college funds to feed, and you're quickly approaching retirement age? Can you really set aside the years you've invested in your education and current industry? How can you make a radical change when there are so many demands on you? This guide will help you:Get an accurate picture of the skills and abilities you bring to the tableBreak free of what your career is now to consider what it could beCreate experiments that won't sabotage your current jobDevelop a compelling way to tell your story--even if the job you want seems unrelated to the jobs you've hadBuild expertise in a new fieldLand a new role

Zusammenfassung
The guide for professionals in their 30s to 50s on breaking out of a career rut and finding their way toward the next satisfying chapter of their work lives.