4 myths about making a career change

Why does it seem like so many people have made career changes?

How did they do it? 🤔

This was the question I was asking myself when making my career change.

By all measures my career pivot ended up being a raging success. I pivoted from teaching high school to working at Microsoft in four months.

But it almost didn’t happen.

Let’s back up to the summer of 2014.

I knew I wanted a role in tech, so I did what most people do – I started on LinkedIn.

But LinkedIn’s algorithm told me I wasn’t qualified for anything except what I had already been doing.

LinkedIn was wrong.😯

Not only did I land a role at Microsoft, but a year after that, I was in my dream job at a startup that went public.

In four years I was able to 2.3x my income and become a hiring manager, building and leading a team of 8.

But I knew that I wasn’t special. I saw how much the career landscape was changing and how hiring teams NEEDED career changers.