Career Reinvention

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Are you contemplating a career change? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Monica Higgins, a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education. They talk through what to do when you’re having trouble breaking into a new field, you want to leave a secure career path for something riskier, or you’re eyeing a new industry but don’t know where to start.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research,
0:22.5	talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.6	Today we're talking about pivoting your career with Monica Higgins. She's a professor at the
0:37.2	Harvard Graduate School of Education.
0:39.3	Monica, thanks for coming in the show. Thanks for having me. Is it easier to do these pivots today?
0:45.2	Are employers more open to people who don't have a linear career path? Well, today, of course,
0:52.0	we're dealing with this pandemic. And so employers right now are
0:57.2	feeling themselves at risk. So that means it's in some ways more difficult for them to take a
1:04.7	chance on somebody who doesn't have a proven track record in a particular area and somebody
1:08.9	who's just kind of pivoting or exploring. But on the
1:11.9	other hand, they have to do that. So if you can convince folks that perhaps some of these things
1:18.5	you did in the past could apply in a new way, then that could be a real win-win. And that's what you're
1:23.6	looking for. What are some of the biggest obstacles that people face when they're
1:27.6	trying to reinvent themselves? You know, part of it is just simply their mindset to kind of think,
1:35.6	yeah, I've done that well, and I can do that well and I'll get rewarded for it, but what do I
1:39.6	actually want to do? And that's a very different question and it requires that you step out and start
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