Defining career change

Before anyone embarks on a significant career reevalution it is useful to realise that change can encompass many different "styles'
  1. Changing some aspect within your current career
  2. Changing where you work ( eg. relocating within same organisation)
  3. Changing who you work with ( moving departments or teams)
  4. Changing how you work – e.g. from employee to self employed or self employed to business owner
  5. Changing job or role yet within the same career, industry or organisation
  6.  Adding to an existing career as a bolt on extra ( the start of a portfolio career)
  7. Radical change of direction – leaving one career or industry and moving into
  8. An entirely different role in another career altogether requiring retraining of some sort
Change is covered in more detail in our eworkbook "Easy career change - good career choice".
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These fellows "change" every day!
When people think of career change they nearly always assume it means am either/or radical decision.  They fear losing something or that it means they are being demoted or that the future is somehow scarier than just leaving the status quo. It is so true though that making no decision is also - a decision!

In reality - career change is more about improving both where you are going professionally and how you get there.

It might require a major overhaul but it might also merely require on or two career planning skills improved.
career planning Medical Forum style is NOT about "leaving" anything.
Some thought provoking quotes
Don't assume anything - find out.

Career change might be as much about making changes to you as to the career

Career change is a lot less scary than most people consider it to be

Changing attitude might at times be more important than changing the job - and may indeed be a prerequisite for making any long lasting, appropriate and effective changes at all to how and where and at what you work.

No time put to career planning generally means no career plan.

Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results could be considered a form of madness.

Questioning ones career path, reengineering it or looking at it differently does not equate invariably to leaving it.