This document provides impactful next steps for making a career pivot, including structuring your process, assessing your resources, determining your skills and interests, targeting organizations to connect with, preparing for interviews, and continually reviewing your plan. Some key actions are allocating daily time for research and networking, identifying monthly expenses and salary needs, removing fears through positive mantras, matching skills to passions, developing a bucket list of target companies, tidying social media profiles, conducting informational interviews through your network, practicing interview skills, and fine-tuning marketing materials like resumes. The overall message is to take action and take charge of your career transition through an organized and proactive approach.

1. Part 2 – Impactful Steps to Making a Career Pivot
Yue-Wen LIM
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2. Have you decided?
Last week:
 Career Pivot….changing relative to your strengths and
experiences
 Thought triggers and mental preparations
 Examine the real reason why you are unhappy
 Adjust your expectations
 Have a Plan
 Prepare your family
 Don’t quit….. yet!
If “Yes”, then some impactful next steps

3. Impactful Next Steps
 Structure your process
 Assess your current resources
 Determine your fears, transferable skills, passion and
interest
 Determine your preferred company culture / bucket
list
 Connect
 Be prepared
 Continually review

4. Structure Your Process
 If you are still employed
 Be discrete
 Allocate 30-60 minutes a day
 If you have “time flexibility”
 Structure your day like a work day – have a routine
 Allocate specific times for
 Research
 Connecting
 Informational interviews
 Allocate “office space”

5. Assess Your Resources
 Monthly expenses
 30-60-90 day plan and milestones
 Prioritise
 Be realistic and practical
 Identify your “walk-away” salary rate

6. Fears, Skills, Passion, Interest
 Remove your mental roadblocks
 List down your fears
 “fear of failure” is often the basis of all fears
 Consider the process as a journey of experimenting
 Mantra eg “I am in control”
 Identify your transferable skills (objective, quantifiable
and provable)
 Match these with your passion and interest
 Remove “burnout skills”

7. Targeted Organisation
 Identify a preferred company culture and criteria
 “Must haves” vs “nice to have”
 Develop a bucket list of companies
 Develop options
 contract or part time opportunities
 horizontal opportunities
 related companies or industries too
Find problems which you can solve

8. Connect
 Tidy up your social media (linkedin)
 Reach out to your network
 Conduct informational interviews
Career pivoters have greater success thro network
recommendations or referrals, than via standard online
applications which are designed to automatically weed
out “unqualified candidates”

9. Be Prepared
 Practice interview skills (F2F and virtual)
 Develop Interview FAQs
 Fine tune your personal branding statement/s
 Resume and Cover Letters

10. Review
 Continually review your thought triggers
 Continually review your plan
Take Action, Take Charge!