Strategies that successful career changers use-and how to make them work for you. Nearly all of
us have entertained the notion of changing careers. Feeling burned out at work unfulfilled or
just plain unhappy with whatever we're doing we long to reinvent ourselves on a new and
different career path. But how do we make this transition successfully? In this update of the
groundbreaking classic bestselling author Herminia Ibarra presents a model for career
reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from career experts-and is
tailor-made for changing careers in today's uncertain world. Career transition is not a linear
path toward some predetermined identity according to Ibarra but a crooked journey along which
we try on a host of possible selves we might become. Successful reinvention comes not from
deciphering and analyzing our past but from inventing and testing our possible futures. Using
new examples of people in different stages of a career transition Ibarra identifies the three
critical strategies-experiment with new professional activities and identities interact in new
networks of people and make sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging
possibilities-that all successful career changers use. She shows how you can use these
strategies to: Explore your possible selves Craft and execute identity experiments Create small
wins that keep momentum going Connect with role models and mentors who can ease the transition
Arrange new learnings into a coherent story Now with action-oriented exercises to help you work
successfully through your own career transition this updated edition gives you the tools to
discover a new path and find success in your new career.
