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How to Hack Your Career Pivot in 5 Steps
Seven years ago, I began my career underemployed on an inpatient mental health and addiction unit making $13/hour in a job that required a four-year degree and a nursing assistant certification.
Changing careers is hard. Once underemployed, I had limited success applying to new jobs online until I started building engagement outside of work. After three years in that role, and a measly $2.50/hour raise spread out over those three years, I began to design a new way forward.
After leaving mental health four years ago, I’ve transitioned from food service to conference planning to economic development to workforce development to talent acquisition, where I’m now an executive recruiter working with values-driven leaders across the country. Yeah, I’ve been busy.
I serve on local boards, became a philanthropist, helped start a local partnership to catalyze social justice work in Phoenix, and I’ve successfully transitioned from surviving to thriving.
The five steps below explain how I engineered and continuously improved my career pivots over the past four years. I’ve transitioned from underemployment to gainful employment and landed in a role where my basic need to make the world a better place is supported.
