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Change Careers

Do You Really Need To Change Your Career?

Career transitions can be as simple as managing a promotion and as complicated as crafting a completely new career. As any career changer will tell you, it is useful to talk with someone about a possible career change.

Northeastern offers lifetime career services for Alumni. If you are thinking about a change in your job or career, make an appointment to talk with Cath Amory or Susan Loffredo. Phone appointments are available if you live far away.

To get started, doing a check in with yourself about what you want at this stage in your life is crucial. Update your sense of yourself in light of your experience and of the marketplace as it is today.

Self-assessment, formal or informal, with or without help, is the place to begin. Done it before? Do it again – this is a new chapter in your life.

Researching The Options You Generate In Self-assessment Is The Next Step

THE TRUTH About Career Changes?

  • Career transitions are challenging; get the help and support you need.
  • Taking enough time to reflect, explore and talk to people will pay off.
  • If your current job is toxic, is it a new job - rather than a new career that you need?
  • Career changers amost always take an economic step back as they enter a new field.
  • Completing a career change usually brings relief, exhilaration and a sense of renewal. Along the way, the emotional backdrop to career change is often a roller-coaster ride.
  • Making a change is an option at any age; don’t assume you are too old to make a new beginning!