Feeling like you don’t have enough experience to move into a new career is a common conundrum. You have an idea of your dream sector, and you have plenty of experience from your current work, but you’re lacking the specific skills or work experience needed to move into your dream role.
The dreaded catch-22: you need prior experience to gain a job, but you need a job to gain professional experience.
Being stuck in this situation might impact your confidence, compounding barriers to a successful job search.
In this month's chapter of St James's Place Financial Adviser Academy's Switch in Six, career expert Shoshanna Davis, known as the “Fairy Job Mother”, shares her fresh, empowering tips, tackling this challenge head-on to help you take back control of the next step on your career path, towards securing that new job.
Shoshanna encourages you to realise; no career change begins from zero. You already have many valuable qualities but might just need a helping hand to proof point any relevant skills for job applications and job listings.
Her chapter also offers step-by-step strategies to create experience and build relationships through effective networking, to build back confidence.
The Switch in Six campaign champions bold transitions, bringing together expertise and actionable advice to help every reader find job opportunities that are a good fit. Through Shoshanna’s signature blend of encouragement and realism, this chapter arms career changers with the practical tools, the skills employers value, and the self-belief to build the future they want, from where they are.
By reading the next chapter of the Switch in Six, you'll learn how to take a proactive approach to gaining experience and developing the transferable skills that will appeal to potential employers. Shoshanna Davis will guide you through how to gain the insights and build the confidence you need to refocus your career switch, and secure that next job.