This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.

I'm your host, Mac Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max Lest. It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career.

Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the tools and tips you need to get the work that you want.

It's common now to change careers and you'll likely do so at least once

and perhaps several times. And to do it successfully, you need to know what works and what doesn't

work when you make the switch. Charity McDonald is here to talk about the three paths for a career

pivot.

She's an author, speaker, and career in leadership consultant, and Charity joins us from Somerset, New Jersey.

Well, let's jump right into it, Charity.

When you talk about a career pivot, what do you mean exactly?

Yes, career pivots are very, they're very common

in most people's careers. So if we're talking about it being an internal process where

someone's deciding they want to level up in leadership in their career, or it's an external

issue, meaning that maybe they've been somehow displaced from their job due to reduction in force.

Now they're in a position where they have to move through a career transition and that does require a pivot.

So sometimes it's a voluntary choice and sometimes circumstances force you to make a career pivot.

When people do choose to do it voluntarily, what's driving that typically?

Yes. So a lot of people do find that they are not necessarily, for whatever reason, the position they may have outgrown

the position, they may feel that they're not being challenged enough, or they feel there

aren't opportunities to grow within the role that they have. Those tend to be the main

reasons why people make that decision to move forward and make a career pivot.

And you mentioned a moment ago, Charity, that career pivots have become common.

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