Three Reasons Why People Change Careers

09/26/21 • 19 min

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Have you ever wondered why people change careers? Did you have a dream career when you were young? If you did, what happened to that dream?

I always ask my podcast guests what their early career aspirations were when they were a little boy or girl? We’ve had some really interesting answers and for a few of my guests, they actually realised those childhood career dreams.

Interestingly, according to a recent Flex Jobs Survey, only 10% of adults work in their childhood dream career.

How have your dreams and career aspirations changed over the years and where are you now?

Are you satisfied?
Do you wake up each morning with a spring in your step, looking forward to all you will accomplish professionally?
Are you eager to work with your team, in person or remotely?
Do you admire and/or respect your manager?
Does your physical work environment make you feel energised and inspired?

Over the past 20 years as a career coach, almost all the clients I’ve worked with have come to me because they have said, ‘No’ to most of those questions above.

And most of them have come to me not because they decided to do something about that situation of their own volition, but because they went through redundancy or had lost their job and had to get professional support.

When I ask how they felt about the redundancy, many have said they’d been unhappy for years however didn’t do anything about it as they were afraid to make a change. Or they didn’t know where to go to get support.

Don’t you think life is too short to be unhappy? Or to feel unfulfilled?

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Have you ever wondered why people change careers? Did you have a dream career when you were young? If you did, what happened to that dream?

Interestingly, according to a recent Flex Jobs Survey, only 10% of adults work in their childhood dream career.

How have your dreams and career aspirations changed over the years and where are you now?

Are you satisfied?
Do you wake up each morning with a spring in your step, looking forward to all you will accomplish professionally?
Are you eager to work with your team, in person or remotely?
Do you admire and/or respect your manager?
Does your physical work environment make you feel energised and inspired?

Over the past 20 years as a career coach, almost all the clients I’ve worked with have come to me because they have said, ‘No’ to most of those questions above.

Don’t you think life is too short to be unhappy? Or to feel unfulfilled?

>>> For career clarity and confidence, download Jane's career resources at janejacksoncoach.com

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Jeff Young - The LinkedIn Guru

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Jeff Young is #TheLinkedInGuru. For the past 13 years Jeff has been helping the global community to understand how to use LinkedIn as a powerful networking tool – by developing genuine relationships.

I met Jeff on LinkedIn (of course!) as I was drawn to his warm and engaging style of posts. When I discovered what a fascinating life he's led having made some amazing career changes and career reinventions, I knew I had to interview him for Your Career Podcast.

Before I share this wonderful interview with Jeff, if you are finding things a challenge in your own career and want professional career transition and career development support to create the career you know you deserve, find all you need in the CAREER SUCCESS PROGRAM at www.janejacksoncoach.com/academy

Now let’s introduce my very special guest, Jeff Young!

Prior to becoming The LinkedIn Guru, Jeff’s career took an interesting journey from project management to IT consulting and then human resources.
He discovered that his unique technical and people skills were highly valued as the Director and Account Manager with Intellinex, an eLearning venture of Ernst & Young, where he lead and mentored thousands of professionals across numerous organisations.

Upon retirement, Jeff knew that he was not ready for ‘retirement’ as most people know it. He began a new chapter of his life providing valuable volunteering work as teacher on all things LinkedIn for relationship development.

He has been called #TheLinkedInGuru and he now regularly trains professionals on how to harness LinkedIn to network effectively.

Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, Jeff travelled the world in his corporate career, working 70-80 hours per week.

Now, in his chosen field as a teacher of LinkedIn, he has created the ideal ‘second career’ with the wonderful balance of ‘work’ (he doesn’t think of it as work as he has found his ‘why’), relationship development, friends and family.

Jeff is part of Shelly Elsliger’s #decidetobekind club (of which I am also a member) and together they encourage all to share kindness and support across the LinkedIn platform.
Listen to this fascinating story from a warm and wonderful gentleman who loves to connect over a coffee, a conversation or chocolate!

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The Great Resignation and #ThisLittleGirlIsMe

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The Great Resignation and #ThisLittleGirlIsMe
Wow – 222 episodes already! For those of you who know me, I’m half Cantonese and half English (born in Malaysia) and so the number 2 sounds like the word ‘easy’ in Cantonese.
I have to say, getting to 222 episodes hasn’t been EASY, but it has been a lot of fun and fuelled by my passion for providing inspiration to you for your career success.

I’ve two things I’d like to chat about with you today – The Great Resignation which is sweeping the world of employment, and a wonderful movement with the hashtag #THISLITTLEGIRLISME.

Below are the links I promised you in this episode so you can register for my next webinar and also the link to my full story.
** Update - the 11 October event is now over but you can download many [free] career support resources at https://www.thecareersacademy.online and https://www.janejacksoncoach.com

1. Register for my 11 Oct 12pm [AEST] Zoom webinar on The Great Resignation and Career Clarity https://www.bit.ly/zoom11oct

2. Link to my article about #ThisLittleGirlIsMe https://janejacksoncoach.com/this-little-girl-is-me/

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