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Understand your drivers
Clearly articulate motivation for change and the key drivers shaping career decisions
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Career check in
What is driving your change?
Your career influences
Identify your key capabilities
Identify and prioritise the experience, skills and motivations to carry forward into the next role
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Understanding life roles
00:30
Discover your life roles & career possibilities
3 versions of you
Skills in the age of AI
Engage your network
Map and engage network to gain insight, advice and support for career direction
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The value of a network
Activate your network
Research target roles
Understand target roles and industries, including required skills and how experience aligns
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Research industries
Research development pathways
Test thinking
Validate career interests through practical experience and informed exploration
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The process of elimination
00:38
Test your interest through learning
test your interest through hands on experience
Build career confidence
Demonstrate capability through evidence-based examples and confidently communicate value to others
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Build evidence of your capability
00:33
Develop and practice your career narrative
Target and create opportunities
Define and prioritise aligned roles, and proactively pursue opportunities that support career transition
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Define your target role and take action
Career transition Program

Making a career change is daunting – often, while you are in it, the pathway feels unclear and progress feels slow. Career change can unfold over a number of years, involving many knock-backs and periods of self-doubt.

Given how challenging this process can be, its critical to spend time identifying the why behind your change to guide decisions about your direction. Are you being driven by external job market factors, or factors internal to your life and priorities? This step of understanding your own motivation for a career change helps inform the development of goals which will align with what you really want, increasing the likeliness you will feel fulfilled and have some longevity in the change you make.

 

External job market factors

  • Careers are increasingly shaped by a VUCA environment — rapid change, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity within industries, technology, and workforce expectations.
  • Modern career pathways are often non-linear and influenced by planned happenstance, where unexpected opportunities, networks, and experiences can significantly shape direction and progression.

 

Internal and family factors

  • Career decisions are influenced by evolving life stages, personal growth, and development needs, with priorities changing over time.
  • Individuals increasingly seek stronger alignment between work, wellbeing, lifestyle, and personal values through work-life integration.
  • Family expectations, caregiving responsibilities, cultural influences, and financial needs also play a significant role in shaping career choices and transitions.

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