You Know You Need a Career Change. But What Do You Actually Want Next?

What do you do when you know something needs to change in your career… but you have absolutely no idea what the next move should be?

That’s exactly where Rebecca found herself.

After more than 15 years across experience design, leadership, coaching, and transformation, she knew there were parts of her work she loved, problem-solving, facilitating, helping people make better decisions, but she wasn’t sure what that translated into as a career.

Then redundancy gave her the space to stop, reflect and rethink what came next.

In this episode of the Career Confidence Podcast, Rebecca joins Georgie for a very real conversation about sitting in the uncomfortable middle of a career change, resisting the urge to jump straight into another familiar job, and using design thinking to work out what you actually want next.

Rebecca shares how she stopped focusing on job titles and started looking at the work she genuinely loved doing, the problems she wanted to solve and the values she wanted her next chapter to align with.

And then something interesting happened.

Once she got clearer and started sharing more publicly about the work she wanted to be known for, someone from her existing network reached out with an opportunity that was almost exactly what she had been trying to create.

In this episode:

How to recognise when you’ve outgrown your current career path

Why the “uncomfortable middle” is a necessary part of meaningful career change

Why jumping straight into another familiar job can take you back to exactly where you started