Building on your skills lets you apply your experience and wisdom immediately and usually results in a smooth transition to a new field. The down side may be the time it takes for you to find work that’s truly satisfying.
Ms. Kuffner, 53, switched to the career industry using her functional skills, but it took about eight years to make the transition from her former profession. While she was working as a nurse, an architectural firm that designed hospitals asked her to be its liaison between the hospital staff and the architects.
Ms. Kuffner spent five years with the firm as a nurse consultant, while teaching Lamaze classes at night. Ready to do something else, she leveraged her knowledge of health care to land a job as a recruiter for a search firm specializing in health-care professionals.
After about two years, Ms. Kuffner realized that she still liked health care but wanted to draw on her coaching and mentoring skills in her daily work. "I wasn't aggressive enough for the executive-search business," she says. She began doing outplacement project work for First Transitions, then joined the firm full time. "I identified other environments where I could use my clinical nursing background," she says. "That's what made me appropriate for each one of these positions."
Start a parallel career. 找一个“副业”。This strategy allows you to keep your full-time job, while working weekends or at night in a second profession. You can accomplish the same goal by volunteering. However, "parallel careering" means being paid in a second profession, says C.B. Bowman, vice president and senior counselor for Lee Hecht Harrison Inc., a New York-based outplacement firm. Earning a paycheck in the second field gives you credibility.
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