HBR Guide to Changing Your Career
Series: HBR Guide
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: La Vergne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781633693111
Subjects: Career changes; Mid-career; Secondes carrières; Mi-carrière; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Management; Reference; Skills
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Intro; Contents; Introduction; Section One: Understand What's Going On; Ch 1: Reawakening Your Passion for Work; Ch 2: Why So Many of Us Experience a Midlife Crisis; Section Two: What Do You Think You Want to Do?; Ch 3: Developing a Strategy for a Life of Meaningful Labor; Ch 4: Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want; Ch 5: Two Ways to Clarify Your Professional Passions; Ch 6: For Career Direction, Use Your Imagination; Section Three: Is Career Change Right for You?; Ch 7: Not Taking Risks Is the Riskiest Career Move of All; Ch 8: Can You Actually Afford to Change Your Career?; title: Ch 9: How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong CareerSection Four: Get Going; Ch 10: Test-Drive Your Path; Ch 11: Research Your Destination with Informational Interviews; Ch 12: Change Your Career Without Having to Start All Over Again; Ch 13: Turning Your Complex Career Path into a Coherent Story; Ch 14: Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition; Ch 15: A Scorecard to Help You Compare Two Jobs; Ch 16: How to Build Expertise in a New Field; Section Five: Get Inspired; Ch 17: Why You Should Have (at Least) Two Careers at the Same Time.; title: Ch 18: Advice from a Serial Reinventor: An Interview with Nilofer MerchantCh 19: From Accountant to Yogi: Making a Radical Career Change; Index.