Moving to a New Employer
- Stay within your industry - - - same or better job.
- Stay within your function, but change industries.
- Find a completely different job, one using some transferable skills.
- Become a management consultant, employed or on your own.
- Set up in business for yourself.
- Acquire new skills and do something new.
How to decide
- Most managers in the midst of a major career transition try to decide what to do next on the basis of soul searching alone.
- This is like trying to decide which house to buy without even looking at any!Or trying to decide whether you like an exotic type of food without first tasting it!!
- Solution? --- Networking:
- Talk to people doing what you think you might like to do.
- Ask them questions just as you would do if they had travelled to a foreign country which you were thinking of visiting.
- Interview them to get the flavour of what they do and try to visualize yourself doing it.
- They may suggest some options you had not thought of or other people to talk to.
Management consulting?
- Becoming a self employed management consultant seems an obvious option. After all, you do have a great deal of unique and valuable experience to offer other companies.
- The problem is you will lack credibility on the sales front if you have no track record as a consultant and few contacts.
- Better to join an established consulting firm for a few years to build up a small network of satisfied clients, either on a full time or subcontract basis.
- Only opt for the latter if you are assured of work.
- This will give you the credibility to get consulting assignments on your own. Or, get a contract with your existing employer before you leave.
Career Transition Tips
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