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Career Transitions Workbook

The Career Transitions Workbook is a guide to moving your career ahead. Whether you are shifting
jobs, reentering the workforce after a long period of time, or looking for your first career, this
workbook can help you find a focus, make a plan, and develop tools to help you succeed on the job,
in the workplace, and in life.

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Where Where
This book focuses on four main areas: Do I Want Am I

 Identify things you’d like to be doing to Be? Now?
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 Identifying your skills and abilities
 Developing a plan for your career
 Creating a career portfolio and résumé What's Creating
to help you get a job or a promotion the Tools
My Plan? I Need

Transitioning Careers

This workbook was created to help you explore your career choices and make the shift to a new job
or career. Your focus may be on exploring careers, getting a job right now, gaining experience to
advance your career, or totally shifting and restarting your career. Successful career transitions
happen when you:
 Know why you want to make a change
 Understand your values and what is important to you
 Focus on your talents and strengths
 Identify the skills you have that will transfer to different careers
 Create a plan to achieve your career goals
 Develop tools to help you get the job you want.

When you find a job that matches your interests, values, and strengths, you will be successful in
your career.

Career Portfolios
Career Portfolios are designed to help people prove themselves and compete in school and
workplace settings. A career portfolio is an organized binder containing work samples, certificates,
awards, and materials that show proof of a person’s skills and experiences. It is created by each
person to showcase their unique skills and abilities in a job interview or review.
People use career portfolios to:
 Get a job

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