Guides

• How to change careers when you don’t know what to do next

  Not sure what to do next? A step-by-step guide to changing careers: start from your tasks, check your interests, test ideas cheaply, take one step.

• Career change at 30: how to find a new direction

  Thinking about a career change at 30? How to use your first years of work as evidence, where to look first, and whether to go back to school.

• Career change at 40: how to find a new direction

  Thinking about a career change at 40? How to switch careers at 40: build on your experience, plan money and time, and test a direction first.

• Career change at 50: how to find a new direction

  Thinking about a career change at 50? What research says about age bias, how to use your experience and network, and how to test a direction first.

• Jobs for former teachers: where your classroom skills fit

  Jobs for former teachers leaving the classroom: training, instructional design, technical writing and more, with US pay data and how to test a move.

• Transferable skills: how to find yours and use them

  What transferable skills are, how to list yours from the tasks you’ve done, examples by background, and how to show them on a CV.

• Easy career changes that pay well: moves that reuse what you do

  Easy career changes that pay well are moves that reuse what you already do. Examples with US median pay, and how to check if a move is easy for you.

• הסבה מקצועית: איך לבחור כיוון חדש כשלא יודעים מה הלאה

  לא בטוחים מה הלאה? מדריך להסבה מקצועית: להתחיל מהמשימות שעשיתם, לבדוק מה מעניין אתכם, לנסות רעיונות בקטן, וגם איזו עזרה חינמית יש בישראל.

Free tools

• Free career interest test: 30 quick questions that show which kinds of work you lean towards.
• Elevator pitch builder: a 30-second and a 60-second pitch for your career change, with examples.