HBR Guide to Changing Your Career

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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 selvesIdentify the skills you need--and those you already possess that will transfer to another industryAssess the financial implications of the change you're consideringTry out new roles without endangering your current jobExplain a seemingly winding career pathPitch yourself into a new role 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? Ch 9: How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career Section 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 Ch 18: Advice from a Serial Reinventor: An Interview with Nilofer Merchant Ch 19: From Accountant to Yogi: Making a Radical Career Change Index