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Career Change Transition

A field-switch plan you can actually live on: honest reasons, a funded runway, informational interviews, tested options, the right retraining route and a dated move into the new work.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Career Change Transition, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Pillar

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Area

50

Projects

195

Starter tasks

🧭 Career Growth

Career Change Transition

Moving into a new field through research, informational interviews, retraining, transferable experience and a realistic financial runway.

  1. Push and pull reasons for changing field
  2. Longlist of candidate fields to explore
  3. Financial runway for the switch
  4. Minimum income number and pay cut tolerance
  5. Transferable experience inventory
  6. Change timeline and decision window
  7. Confidentiality plan at your current employer
  8. Household agreement on the change
  9. Career change research notebook
  10. Weekly exploration session
  11. Informational interview pipeline
  12. Thank-you and follow-up routine
  13. Monthly runway and savings check
  14. Target-field reading habit
  15. Network map for the target field
  16. Retraining study rhythm
  17. Monthly continue, adjust or stop checkpoint
  18. Quarterly review of the change plan
  19. Field glossary and working vocabulary
  20. Three-field side-by-side comparison
  21. Informational interview technique
  22. Choosing a retraining route
  23. Entry requirements and licensing check
  24. Short course taster before committing
  25. First entry credential for the new field
  26. Your career change story in sixty seconds
  27. Translating past achievements into the new field
  28. Work shadowing day in the target field
  29. Volunteer or pro bono project in the new field
  30. Paid side work as a field trial
  31. Go or no-go decision on the leading field
  32. Bridge role combining old domain and new function
  33. Funding the retraining
  34. Realistic entry level in the new field
  35. Enrolling and starting the retraining course
  36. First batch of applications in the new field
  37. First industry event as a newcomer
  38. Final month in the old career
  39. First three months as a beginner again
  40. Changing field as a parent of young children
  41. Changing field mid-career with a mortgage
  42. Leaving a licensed profession
  43. Moving from corporate work to public or charity sector
  44. Moving from office work into a skilled trade
  45. Career change after health or injury
  46. Using a redundancy as the moment to change field
  47. Negotiating level and pay as an experienced changer
  48. Hybrid niche combining both fields
  49. Second-year review of the career change
  50. Helping the next person who wants to change

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Push and pull reasons for changing field

Most people who want out of their field can list what they are running from far more easily than what they are running towards, and a change built only on push factors often lands in the same problems with a new job title. Writing both lists down, then separating what is about the field from what is about this employer or this manager, tells you whether you need a new career or just a new job.

First tasks

  • Write every frustration with your current work on one page, without editing
  • Tag each frustration as field, employer, manager or role
  • List five conditions you want in your next work, not job titles
  • Write a one-paragraph conclusion and share it with someone who knows your work

Longlist of candidate fields to explore

Career changers tend to fixate on one dream field before checking whether two or three neighbouring ones would suit them better. A longlist of eight to twelve fields, drawn from your interests, your existing skills and the work of people you admire, gives the exploration something to narrow down rather than something to confirm.

First tasks

  • Note three people whose work you envy and name the field each works in
  • Add fields that reuse your current domain knowledge in a new function
  • Write one entry fact and one open question beside each field
  • Cut the list to a top five and date the decision

Financial runway for the switch

A career change usually costs money twice: once in retraining fees or reduced hours, and again in a lower starting salary while you build credibility. Knowing exactly how many months your savings cover at your essential spending level turns a vague worry into a number you can plan around, and it decides how fast or slow the change has to be.

First tasks

  • Download the last three months of bank statements
  • Total the essential spending and divide by three for a monthly figure
  • Work out months of runway for no income, part-time and entry-level pay
  • Set a target runway and a monthly amount to save towards it

Make it yours.

Install Career Change Transition, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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