Working Identity, Updated Edition, With a New Preface

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Contrary to popular wisdom, career change is not a straight path forward to some predetermined identity, but a crooked journey along which we try on the "possible selves" we might become. Successful reinvention comes not from deciphering your past achievements and driving toward a new identity that fits this past version of yourself, but in inventing and testing your various possible selves and possible futures.Gives readers a radical new way to understand how career change really happens and the tools for successfully making a change in their careers or professional identities.Turns conventional career advice on its head and redefines the process for making a career transition—not as an exercise in deciphering your past achievements and driving toward a predetermined new identity that fits this past version of yourself, but in inventing and testing your various possible selves and possible futures.Reveals the three critical career strategies that all successful career changers use: experiment with new professional activities and identities, interact in new networks of people, and make sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities.Shows that learning from direct experience and from experimentation is a powerful source of new and critical information to successfully make a career transition.Contains updated examples of people in different stages of a career transition, showing how they implemented this "learning by doing" approach to the career transition.Audience:People who are starting to question their commitment to their current career or professional identity.People who want to change their career but don't know where to start or are anxious about leaving behind years of time and effort invested in their current profession.People who are in the midst of changing their jobs, careers, or professional identities and are looking for advice to make and sustain their transition.Career coaches and career development professionals.