How can you make 2024 the best year you've ever had? It starts with a better vision and plan for yourself. How do you get a better vision and direction? That begins with great questions.  This ep details out the 5 questions Scott uses every year to make the next year even better than the last! Take a listen to find out all the questions Want help making your career change or making your career extraordinary? Schedule a conversation with our team and we can learn about you, your situation and figure out the very best way that we can support you!  Click here >>> https://happentoyourcareer.com/schedule/

Bonus: 5 Questions to Make Your Next Year Extraordinary

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What do you do when you realize you were wrong about what you wanted for your career? How do you overcome the imposter syndrome of pivoting to a completely new career? You may have gotten a master's degree… maybe even a PhD, so now what? Was it all a waste of time? How do you move into a new field? If you’re struggling with this, or curious about how people make the transition into a new industry when all of their experience is in a different field, you’ll want to hear Amy Dickerson’s story! Amy went to school to become a physical therapist but changed her mind soon after she graduated. Learn how she pivoted into a brand new industry and became the renowned career coach she is today. What you’ll learn  The importance of recognizing when your chosen career path isn’t the right fit for you. Strategies for identifying your unique strengths and leveraging them in your career transition. Insights into overcoming imposter syndrome by detaching your identity from your career    Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit   happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or  buy the print or ebook here! Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation   Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out! Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.   Related Episodes  Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify /  Apple Podcasts) Designing Career Experiments and Testing New Careers (Spotify /  Apple Podcasts)  

How to Harness Your Signature Strengths to Conquer Imposter Syndrome

After working with thousands of people who have made intentional career changes, we've learned a lot... including how long it normally takes to make this type of change.  We've found that every single person who changes careers goes through the exact same milestones. Listen as Scott walks through these milestones and gives a timetable of how long you can expect an intentional career change to take!    Schedule a call with our team! https://happentoyourcareer.com/schedule/  

BONUS: How Long Does an Intentional Career Change Take?

What if you could try out a new career before committing? Turns out, you can! Discover how to use career experiments to test new careers without the commitment. Learn what a career experiment looks like from the inside — Our guest, Bob Kalish, is currently experimenting with consulting after working as a concept chef for 24+ years! In this episode, Bob explains how he found opportunities to experiment through his network, and exactly what he’s looking to have answered during his experiments. What you’ll learn  How to design career experiments to validate your presumed ideal career and job search direction The importance of testing out what you believe you want out of your next role before committing Strategies for conducting paid research to explore potential career paths Tips for leveraging your network and test-driving conversations to clarify your career change goals    Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit   happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or  buy the print or ebook here! Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation   Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out! Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.   Related Episodes  Six Career Experiments To Help You Discover Your Ideal New Role (Spotify /  Apple Podcasts) How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify /  Apple Podcasts)  

Using Career Experiments to Pinpoint Your Ideal Career

This podcast is not just for people who don’t like their jobs. Sometimes you feel the itch to make a change even when you’re in a really great situation, and that’s completely normal! What if the grass is truly greener on the other side? Bobby's story walks through his career change concerns, and he and Scott provide practical advice on navigating the process of leaving a really good job in hopes of something even better! What you’ll learn  Embracing change is natural - It's okay to make a career change even if you're currently in a good situation How to set boundaries with yourself and current organization when beginning your career change How to roll with the punches of career change and come out with a role you love, even if it's not the role you expected  Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit   happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or  buy the print or ebook here! Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out! Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over. Related Episodes  How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify /  Apple Podcasts) Designing Career Experiments and Testing New Careers (Spotify /  Apple Podcasts)  

Career Wanderlust: Leaving a Job You're Great At in Search of an Even Better Fit

If you want to take more control of your career there’s no way around it: You are going to have some awkward conversations with your boss. But what if having a few of these well-planned, uncomfortable conversations could get you everything you want out of your work (along with your boss’s stamp of approval)? Well, it turns out, they can! Our guest today, Jason Bollman, is proof of that. He shared his initial career change story on the podcast a few years ago. If you haven’t listened to that, it’ll be helpful to fill in more of his story:  listen here! Jason attributes much of his success since his initial career change to continuing to have difficult conversations with leadership. He has created a new role in his organization, gotten himself onto numerous projects that interest him, and has continued to pivot his career to fit him better and better!   What you’ll learn  How to prepare effectively for uncomfortable conversations with leadership How to build trust with your organization and foster an environment where you can grow How to know if your company is taking advantage of you  Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit   happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or  buy the print or ebook here! Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation   Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out! Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.   Related Episodes  Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It’s Time (Spotify /  Apple Podcasts) Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify /  Apple Podcasts)  

Bonus: 5 Questions to Make Your Next Year Extraordinary

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