17 Common Fears About Career Change

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Have you ever stayed in a job or a career longer than you should have done?

Why was that?

I recently started to think about all those reasons that clients shared with me about why they came to me to support them in their career move.

Sometimes, they were forced into making the move as a result of redundancy, other times, they realised that staying where they were was making them unhappy.

During our conversations, I realised that there were so many of these reasons that resonated with me, I could understand exactly where they were coming from. Take a look and see which ones are the same for you? What have forgotten? Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below.

1. Fear of failure
2. Losing status
3. Starting from the bottom again
4. Not knowing how or where to start looking for your next move
5. Uncomfortable with marketing yourself, your skills and your expertise
6. Being unsure of how to make your skills relevant in a new industry
7. Dislike of change and the uncertainty it brings
8. Concern that you might make the wrong decision and regret moving
9. Fear or losing some employment rights…