BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Career Change
- a switch in profession or in type of job, often to a different employer. Career change may be planned as part of the continuing professional development (CPD) or career development processes, or it may be forced on an employee by downsizing, ill-health, or a change in personal circumstance.
Additional Resources
- Are You Ready For a Career Change? | BTalk Australia
- (8min 12) Ready for a change? Are you at the stage where you think you can get more out of your life? Is your job dragging you down? Well, the good news is it's never too late to change. That's a message from a book by Alison Haynes called "Change:...
- Blog posts 2008-07-27
- Thinking About a Career Change?
- Lifelong careers are rapidly becoming a thing of the past, at least in western Europe and North America. People now have more than three career changes during their working life, according to statistics. But what does that mean exactly? The University of Nebraska defines career change as...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Career Change Decision-Making
- Are you facing that career change decision-point? Do you wish you were? Take it slowly and make sure what you really want to do is change careers. Remember that career change is a natural life progression. Most studies show that the average job seeker will change careers several times over...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Is A Career Change On Your Horizon?
- Anyone can make a career change if they really want to. But to do so, you'll need to know what related skills and experience you bring to the table. And you'll need to know how to sell yourself to a prospective employer. Career change is inevitable... you can count on...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Midlife Career Change - Interview Questions For A Midlife Career Change
- Are you considering a midlife career change? If so, this paper provides information on preparing for a job interview and the answer to some tough interview questions will help you in the process. As a rule, we do not get many job interviews in a lifetime, so it is not...
- White papers 2008-07-12
- Career Change - Throw Your Career A Change Up In Mid-Stride
- One of the first steps to take is deciding if career change is really what's necessary. Sometimes employees may assume they're stuck at their jobs with no hope for the future, thinking that changing careers is the only way out. A proper self-analysis is required because making an effort at...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Ten Tips on Making a Successful Career Change
- If a person is looking for more than just a better job perhaps the person is looking for a more rewarding profession, one that better aligns with skills, interests, values, and plans for the future. But exactly how does a person go about making a career change? It's important to...
- White papers
- Do's And Don'ts Of Career Change
- A career change can be riddled with mistakes and ambiguity for many people, even those in mid-career. This, as a consequence, relegates them to where they are despite additions to their job and personal skill sets and the larger market scenario. This paper explains a small but indicative list of...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Steps To Planning A Successful Career Change
- If you've decided that it's time for a career change, you'll need to do some extensive planning to ensure you can successfully break into a new field, and to make sure that your new career path is one that will be professionally satisfying. A good plan will also ease the...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- The 10 Biggest Career Change Mistakes - And How To Avoid Them
- Career change is no walk in the park. If it was easy, the castle gates would have burst long ago under the stampede of restless corporate warriors. Even with a burning desire to escape, the gritty issues of money and future work loom larger than life. Add in the trauma...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Career Change Training Courses To Enhance Your Life
- Sometimes, the career choices we make in our life will warrant career change training courses, to keep us in line with the times. While your professional credibility will be enhanced, you will the stand the chance to be the preferred candidate of choice for the employer. The expectation of the...
- White papers 2009-04-29
- Reasons To Consider A Career Change
- If you're bored, unchallenged or simply dissatisfied with your current job, you might have already started looking for a new position. Consider this, however - is a change of workplace enough, or should you be thinking about a career change, too? If any of the following situations given in this...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Career Change Resume With Volunteer Experience
- This is a template for Career Change Resume With Volunteer Experience.
- Tools & templates
- Managing Emotions During Career Change And Job Search, Part One
- How can you manage your emotions during your career change or job search? To answer this practical and wise question, let's first define what emotions are. Emotions, also commonly referred to as feelings, are energy released in your body in response to perceived events, that is, to data received via...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Does Your Career Change Itch - Or Burn?
- Itchers have a quite a few avenues for regaining their balance - setting firmer workplace boundaries, finding a fulfilling outlet outside of work, engaging in physical and emotional self-care that allows you to better shrug things off. Burners - you can do these things, too, but it's probably not your...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Career Change: A Glittering Invitation To The Emotional Stal
- As much as you are yearning for career-change, and as much as the trends actually favor it, just contemplating a shift is a glittering invitation to four emotional stalkers who love nothing better than to play a nasty game of team-tag at your personal expense. When you unmask these bandits...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Former OK State Univ. professor finds success in career change to
- Susan McCarthy was teaching French language and literature at Oklahoma State University in 1984 when she decided it was time for a career change. A friend had left education to join a financial services company and McCarthy decided she would follow a similar path. She joined...
- Research articles 2006-07-18
- Planning A Career Change
- Career change is not a one-off event, it's a process - and usually a longer process than you imagine. It can be separated into two phases: long-term and short-term, which may overlap, each requiring a completely different approach and mindset. The long-term phase requires you to be open, undirected and...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Does The Thought Of That Interview For A New Job Or Career Change Scare You
- Does the thought of that interview for a new job or career change scare the hell of you? Cause you needless anxiety and worry. Worry not. True one has to be discriminate in their choices. If this is your first job or first employment in an industry then this approach...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career
- The Idea in Brief Are you one of the growing number of people struggling to make mid-career changes? Searching for ten easy steps to professional reinvention? Or awaiting flashes of insight--while opportunities pass you by? Would...
- Articles 2008-02-13
