Making An Empowered Career Pivot

It is a common misconception that changing industries or roles requires "starting from zero." Instead, I advise my clients to focus on capitalizing on their unique value.

• Identify Your Pillars: Look beyond your specific job history to find core strengths like relationship-building or commercial judgment.
• Leverage Industry Knowledge: If you have deep experience in a specific sector, look for roles within that same industry that leverage your skills.
• Focus on Problem Solving: Companies hire to solve specific problems. Ask yourself: "Which problem can I uniquely solve first?" 

The 3-Phase Strategy for Career Moves

Sometimes we want to go from 1 to 100 overnight, but the most successful pivots are often done in stages. By being strategic about how you get to your ultimate goal, you ensure you aren't just getting a job, but building a path.

Phase 1: Compile Skills & Gain Clarity

This phase gives you direction and helps you identify your transferable skills. By mapping your experiences, strengths, stretch projects and the work you’ve done, you will start to see clear patterns. These patterns help you identify which career paths are actually worth focusing on, instead of chasing everything or guessing your way forward. 

Phase 2: Rebrand Yourself For Where You Want To Go

This is where you rebrand yourself to be seen as an optimal candidate for the role you want to attract. 

Instead of listing out every past experience or trying to explain your entire career history, this is where you start to connect the dots. 

Focus on the transferable skills you already have, and how those skills apply directly to the roles you are targeting. 

A Deloitte study shows that around 87% of what’s required in a new role is transferable. So this phase isn’t about reinventing yourself, but amplifying what already exists and bringing it together into a clear, concise story that points directly to your next role. 

Phase 3: Advocating For Yourself

Think stories!  This is about communicating your expertise at the core. 

Create a bank of career stories that help you get in front of decision-makers, and make networking conversations feel natural and confident. Come up with strong examples to share in interviews. These stories showcase your transferable skills in action. 

Final Thoughts

Career pivots are about highlighting the good work you’ve already done, weaving these experiences into a clear, compelling story, and positioning yourself as a strong, credible candidate for where you want to go next. 

This is how you make an aligned, intentional career move, without throwing away everything you’ve built. 

Inside the Career Accelerator, I give you the structured approach to gain clarity, rebrand and advocate for yourself to land premium career opportunities, and be seen as a top 1% candidate for the career paths you actually want. 

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Rooting for you,
Angel Kilian
Founder | Career inFocus