The document provides tips for a successful mid-career change. It advises to analyze current job satisfaction levels and determine which aspects are appreciated or disliked. It also recommends assessing interests, values, and skills through prior roles and jobs, and determining if core values and skills are being utilized in the current career. Finally, it suggests brainstorming alternative career options, researching those fields, conducting informational interviews, job shadowing opportunities, volunteering, taking classes, boosting skills, and considering new jobs in the same industry that employ existing experience.

1. Tips for a successful mid-career
change

2. Analyse your current job satisfaction
Analyse your current job satisfaction level. i.e. Which
facets of your current job do you appreciate and dislike?
Are you relating your dissatisfactions to the subject of
your work, your company lineage or those you are
working with?
While you're analysing this, there are some aspects you
can work on at your current job to assist you prepare to
proceed when there us chance for a change.

3. Assess your interests, values, and skills
Analyse prior successful roles, volunteer work,
proposals and jobs to specify selected activities
and techniques.
Specify whether your core values and skills are
being dealt with through your prevailing career.
Free online tools are available to help you assess
career choices.

4. Assess alternative careers
Brainstorm opinions for career choices
by surveying career preferences, and
talking about your core values and
abilities with friends, family, and spouse.
If you have trouble coming up with
opinions, consult a career counsellor for
professional guidance.

5. Look into job options
 Perform an introductory comparable
evaluation of various fields to specify a few
targets for extensive research.

6. Get personal
Discover as much as possible about those
areas and reach out to special contacts in those
areas for informative interviews.
LinkedIn is a great aid for finding contacts in
certain career fields of interest.

7. Set up a job shadow (or two).
Cloud over experts in fields of central interest to
examine work first hand.
Your college career office is a favourable place
to get at alumni volunteers who are inclined to
host job shadowers.

8. Try it out
 Specify volunteer and freelance workouts
associated with your target region to assess.

9. Take a class
 Analyse academic opportunities that would
link your prior experience to your new field.
 Reach professional groups in your target
area for recommendations.

10. Boost your skills.
Find out ways to acquire new skills in your
current job which would provide the path for
a change.

11. Consider a new job in the same industry.
 Suppose alternative positions within your
current business which would employ the
industry understanding you already have
e.g. If you are working as a store manager
for a vast retail chain and have exhausted of
the night and weekend hours, consider
shifting to corporate recruiting within the
retail industry.