Navigating Career Changes with Herminia Ibarra

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever dreamed of starting again? Maybe after 5, 10, 15 years in the same field, your heart’s just not in it anymore. Today’s guest wrote her book based on years of interviews with professionals in this exact position. Herminia Ibarra’s Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career breaks down the process of career reinvention, giving readers the tools to identify their next steps towards a more fulfilling career. Herminia has a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Yale University and teaches this subject as a professor at London Business School. Today, Herminia sits down with Jessi to break down the three ways of “working identity” and leveraging them to achieve your new career goals. Follow Herminia Ibarra on LinkedIn and check out her book here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir, now in paperback. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. To continue the conversation this week and every week, join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:23.2	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jessie Hempel and this is Hello Monday. It's our show
0:27.9	about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.
0:33.6	I've got this really good friend, Erin, who always wanted to be a doctor, as long as I have known
0:38.4	her, and it's been a really long time. I met her in college where she was always knee-deep in
0:44.0	organic chemistry books. Erin went to med school and then she did a residency and she spent years
0:50.1	working as an ER doc. In fact, she's still doing it, but recently, Erin's come to a realization.
0:58.0	It's been building for a long time, but the pandemic definitely exacerbated it. She doesn't like
1:03.9	her job. In fact, Erin doesn't want to practice medicine at all. She doesn't even know exactly what
1:10.1	she wants to do, but just not that. So what do you do when you get to the middle of your career?
1:16.7	And you decide you need a change. Maybe you're lucky enough to know what you want to do.
1:22.8	More likely, like Erin, you know what you don't want to do.
1:27.0	Today, we're going to talk about how you reinvent yourself.
1:31.2	Our guest is Hermania Ibarra. She's a professor of organizational behavior at London Business School.
1:37.8	Hermania has been thinking and teaching about making these kinds of transitions for decades.
1:42.9	And she has just released an updated version of a book that first published 20 years ago.
1:48.3	It's called Working Identity. Unconventional strategies for reinventing your career.
1:54.9	Hermania will help us better understand the connection between our work identity
1:59.4	and our variability to change. She'll push us to rethink what it means to network
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