Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, & Career Design

Strategic Career Transition: Leveraging Your Strengths to Change Careers

Dec 4, 2023

30:48

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Learn the importance of self-discovery, strengths, networking, and test driving conversations in crafting a fulfilling and purpose-driven career. Discover how to uncover your strengths, identify burnout, and use your network to explore new career paths. The podcast also discusses the process of career transition, the value of coaching, and the significance of leveraging strengths and past experiences. Plus, get a preview of an audiobook featuring career changers and a sneak peek into the next episode on using strengths for career success.

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Quick takeaways

Recognizing the need for change and transitioning from an unfavorable role is vital in crafting a fulfilling and purpose-driven career.

Exploring different roles that align with your strengths and preferences, through informational interviews and networking, can lead to discovering a better career fit.

Deep dives

Recognizing the need for change

The podcast episode begins with the host, Scott Anthony Barlow, discussing the importance of not letting the success of a job be determined by tasks that don't align with personal preferences. He emphasizes the need to find work that is unapologetically aligned with the individual and shares his personal experience of feeling unfulfilled when his role at Target changed, highlighting how this is a common issue people face in their careers.

Introduction

2min

Finding a Role that Matches Your Strengths

5min

Navigating Career Transition

16min

Career transition and the importance of moving forward

7min

Exploring an Audiobook and Previewing Next Week's Episode

2min

Have you ever had a role that had one focus and then morphed into something else over time? In less than 2 years, Nick’s customer success role began to change to be more of a sales role – which did not fit him. Join Scott and Nick as they explore the importance of self-discovery, strengths, networking, and test driving conversations in crafting a fulfilling and purpose-driven career.

What you’ll learn

How uncovering your strengths can help in a career transition and lead to a more fulfilling career
How to identify if you're approaching burnout in a role you once love
How Nick used his network to explore a new career path

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

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Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

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