Career Redirection: 4 Weeks to Reinvention

By the end of the four weeks, you should have:

• Clarity about what you actually want from your career
• Confidence in your strengths and transferable capabilities
• Direction toward a specific career path
• Options rather than feeling trapped in their current career
• A compelling career story explaining their transition
• A gap analysis showing exactly what they need to develop
• A career positioning strategy
• A 90-day transition roadmap
• Specific actions and accountability mechanisms
• Greater confidence making career decisions independently

Week 1 — DISCOVER: Understand Where You Are & What You Really Want

Objective: Create clarity around your current career situation, dissatisfaction, strengths, values, motivations and aspirations.

4 Contact Hours

1. Career Reality Check
   • What is working/not working?
   • What is draining vs energising?
   • Why does the client want change now?
2. Career & Life Audit
   • Career history and key turning points
   • Successes, failures and lessons
   • Patterns in previous career choices
3. Strengths & Natural Talents
   • Skills, capabilities and transferable strengths
   • What the client does exceptionally well
   • What others consistently come to them for
4. Values, Drivers & Career Needs
   • Core values
   • Money, status, autonomy, security, purpose, flexibility, creativity, impact
   • Ideal working environment

1 Support Hour

• Review discoveries
• Answer questions
• Reflection/accountability
• Additional exercises based on gaps identified during the week

Benefits

• Reduces career confusion
• Creates self-awareness
• Identifies hidden strengths and transferable skills
• Separates genuine aspirations from external expectations
• Gives you a clearer understanding of why they want to change

Outcome:
A personalised Career Clarity Map identifying the client’s strengths, values, motivations, frustrations, needs and desired direction.

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Week 2 — REFRAME: Discover New Career Possibilities

Objective: Expand the client’s thinking beyond their existing career identity and identify realistic new possibilities.

4 Contact Hours

1. Breaking the Career Identity
   • “Who am I?” vs “What have I been doing?”
   • Challenging limiting beliefs about age, experience, qualifications or income
2. Transferable Skills Mapping
   • Translate existing experience into new career contexts
   • Identify portable capabilities
   • Identify skills gaps
3. Career Possibility Exploration
   • Generate multiple career directions
   • Explore adjacent careers, industries and roles
   • Consider entrepreneurial, portfolio and consulting options where appropriate
4. Career Direction Evaluation
   • Compare potential pathways
   • Fit with values, strengths and lifestyle
   • Income potential
   • Market demand
   • Entry barriers
   • Risk/reward

1 Support Hour

• Research and discussion of potential career directions
• Review career options
• Challenge unrealistic assumptions
• Refine the shortlist

Benefits

• Expands the client’s perception of what is possible
• Converts existing experience into marketable capabilities
• Prevents premature commitment to the first attractive option
• Creates confidence about transferable skills
• Provides a rational basis for career decisions

Outcome:
A Career Opportunity Portfolio containing approximately 3–5 viable career directions, with a clear preferred direction emerging.

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Week 3 — DESIGN: Build the New Career Strategy

Objective: Turn the preferred career direction into a practical career transition strategy.

4 Contact Hours

1. Define the New Career
   • Target role/industry
   • Ideal employer/client
   • Desired working environment
   • Career positioning
2. Personal Brand & Career Story
   • “Why me?”
   • Repositioning previous experience
   • Creating a compelling career narrative
   • Explaining the career change confidently
3. Gap Analysis
   • Knowledge gaps
   • Skills gaps
   • Qualifications/certifications
   • Experience gaps
   • Network gaps
4. Career Transition Roadmap
   • 30/60/90-day strategy
   • Priorities
   • Milestones
   • Resources
   • Risk management

1 Support Hour

• Review career positioning
• Refine the career story
• Troubleshoot barriers
• Accountability around transition activities

Benefits

• Transforms an idea into a practical strategy
• Builds confidence communicating the career change
• Creates a compelling professional narrative
• Identifies exactly what needs to be developed
• Prevents the client from wasting time on low-value activities

Outcome:
A Personal Career Transition Blueprint with a defined target, positioning, skill-gap strategy and 90-day roadmap.

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Week 4 — LAUNCH: Take Action & Create Momentum

Objective: Move the client from planning into measurable career-transition action.

4 Contact Hours

1. Confidence & Psychological Readiness
   • Fear of change
   • Imposter syndrome
   • Fear of failure
   • Fear of financial uncertainty
   • Building an empowered career identity
2. Opportunity Strategy
   • Networking
   • LinkedIn/profile positioning
   • Recruiters
   • Direct approaches
   • Informational interviews
   • Internal opportunities
   • Consulting/freelance opportunities where relevant
3. Career Transition Action Plan
   • Weekly actions
   • Networking targets
   • Applications/conversations
   • Learning objectives
   • Accountability measures
4. Future Career Vision & Commitment
   • Define the desired future
   • Identify success measures
   • Anticipate obstacles
   • Create contingency strategies
   • Make a personal commitment to action

1 Support Hour

• Final coaching/accountability session
• Review commitments
• Remove final obstacles
• Establish post-program accountability structure

Benefits

• Converts confidence into action
• Reduces procrastination and overthinking
• Creates measurable momentum
• Gives the client a repeatable career decision-making framework
• Leaves the client with a clear plan rather than simply “feeling inspired”