# 178: Your Experience Can Be Leveraged To Make A Career Change Without Retraining

In today’s episode of the Career Change Maker podcast, I talk about how your experience can be leveraged to make a career change without retraining.

The reason I am talking about this is that I was having a conversation with somebody who is in a place where she's thinking about making a move. She has been working in the same space for the last 10 years. So, she was enquiring whether the kind of moves she wants to make is going to be possible because she's been in the same position for the last 10 years.

 Episode Highlights

·       02:40 - People think that this experience is only relevant to where I am right now, and if I was going to do something else, I need to build up a whole another bag of experience.

·       06:52 - The same way that you can bring value by bringing in your perspective and your lawyer brain in a commercial discussion, or in a negotiation, the same way that you can take what you have and use that in a different setting.

·       07:20 - Just because you're coming from a slightly different practice area doesn’t mean that there isn't any value that you can bring to an organisation.

·       09:25 - When we're thinking about leveraging our experience and we're thinking about making moves, please don't assume that you're going to have to start again. 

·       11:25 - If you're trying to make a pivot, you can be very proactive to position yourself as someone that is interested in that area that is developing that skillset and knowledge in that area. 

What you will learn:

1. If you think about some of the most brilliant business minds in the world, people who are charging the way forward in terms of innovation. Often, they spend time outside of the industry and out of the space that they operate in on a day-to-day basis. The reason why they do that is that stepping outside of your industry allows you to see things differently. It allows you to have a different perspective, and as a result, it inspires you. 
2. When people are talking about the experience that you've gained, it's not just about the experience doing the job, in terms of the technical piece, it’s all of the experience that comes with you operating in this type of environment for this length of time and all of those skills that you have developed and you have displayed are transferable to other environments. But in order for you to transfer them, and view them to articulate how it's valuable, you need to appreciate it as a skill set. You really need to appreciate the experience that you've gained as valuable so that you can talk about it as valuable.
3.  You can leverage the experience that you have to move into the type of role that you want to be doing. If you're unsure about how you can do that and what the step looks like how you would be able to leverage LinkedIn and how you would be able to position yourself then I would love to have a conversation with you.

Other episodes you may also enjoy:

Episode 110 - Making Major Career Changes With Louise Glendon

Episode 111 - The Biggest Reason You Are Reluctant To Make A Career Change
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