MANY professionals would like to make a career transition, but the thought of starting over can be too demoralizing. Luckily, there are ways to shift jobs or even careers without giving up your professional status.

Here are three ways to capitalize on your experience:

1. Leverage the halo effect: People are generally susceptible to the "halo effect" — viewing others as being totally good and competent, or totally bad and incompetent, based on an initial evaluation. If you’re an experienced professional, you should use this psychology to your advantage. Once you’ve proven successful in one field, others are likely to view you as excellent all around.

2. Make use of your advantages: If you’re an experienced professional, you’ve likely accrued two assets that younger "reinventers" may not have: connections and money. For example, if you’ve built up a nest egg, you may be able to take time off to volunteer at a high level for a cause you believe in, gaining experience and paving the way to a job offer. And even if you’re transitioning from the field where you made your name, your contacts may have relationships with top performers in other industries whom they can introduce you to.

3. Find opportunities where inexperience is a virtue: If a company is in trouble, it’s often receptive to hiring an unconventional candidate as a leader. Outsiders without industry experience are risky choices. But research has found that they’re also disproportionately likely to be the best leaders. If you make that case forcefully — and can explain why your skills from your previous career compensate for your inexperience — you may become a desirable candidate.
http:// www.bdlive.co.za/business/management/2016/05/29/three-tips-for-changing-your-career-without-starting-over

thanks. Never knew I could be FTC. wow am delighted. Today's is a great day.

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cool...

nice!

I like this. Because I was almost gonna ask, for a person that studied Industrial Chemistry and started off with direct sales/ marketing(as usual with fresh graduates around here). How do one jump into industrial processing companies as a quality assurance personnel without starting afresh.

nice tips

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@OP I especially agree with your point number 2. If you have the resources to cater for your needs and are able to offer yourself as a volunteer, you may be able to prove yourself to potential employers

After initiating those tips,be ready to adjust and persevere!

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I ve got am interesting story here

I moved from financial sector to development consulting.

It's a long long story but really interesting

nice tips,this came to me as a wonderful technique for what am about delving into now.Thank you OP

These just what am going through right now,may God leads me in a good path

phlamy:
I ve got am interesting story here

I moved from financial sector to development consulting.

It's a long long story but really interesting

hey man,

please share. you may choose to open another thread for the purpose. a lot of people will learn from your experience.

thanks.

Op, give us a Nigerian version to this ur downloaded online article.

All this copy and paste thingy hardly work in 9ja environment.

#bestwishes

Nice write up,however,as a linguist you want to change your career to law,tell me how you would achieve that without returning to the university to study law and law school to get an LLB?

hmmm

Nice one

How do i get a volunteer job?
In need of one.

How do i get a volunteer job?
In need of one.

Interesting