How To Make A Safe Career Change In 2023

Is changing careers among your goals for 2023? Check out tips to turn this plan into reality

If your New Year's resolution was to change careers, it's time to start getting your hands dirty. Dissatisfaction with the work environment, increased salary expectations, lack of prospects for evolution, aspiration to greater flexibility in working hours... All of this weighed on the New Year's resolutions of many Brazilians who want to change careers.

However, many fears soon surface, such as the fear of judgments and the very uncertainty of the Brazilian economy in the midst of so many political changes. Taking the first step towards this change is not easy, causing many people to give up before even trying.

“When you identify in yourself. such dissatisfaction with your work, to the point of making you want to leave everything. it is important to stop. and see if it is the activity or environment that has been bothering you”, warns Cecília Barçante, manager of Refuturiza employability platform . “If the answer is the environment, just look for other companies. But if it is the activity that bothers you, the search must be for a structural change and it must be done in yourself.”

Process Of Choosing A New Career

It is important to keep well-defined objectives in mind, so that the professional can choose a new career more assertively. 

“The process of changing professions. does not involve as many stages as it seems. but it is important that all of them are carried out calmly and assertively”, says Cecília. 

“If you've already established. that you want to start the transition. ask yourself what you expect from the new phase. and review the objectives to determine the role you want. It is also important that you talk to professionals who perform functions similar to the ones you want, create a strong network, invest in training and join optimized talent banks for jobs that arouse your interest”, she adds. 

Starting Over Requires A Lot Of Health - Including Mental

You have to prepare well for the change. Being mindful even of mental health makes all the difference in this delicate moment.

“In some cases, when there is a decision to change careers, the person is already a senior or is at an advanced level in their area. The moment of exchange is, therefore, a new beginning, in which it is necessary to have emotional intelligence to understand that you have started over and that you are learning a new trade, there is no way to skip steps”, says the specialist.