Home featured Featured Opinion SME Inspiration Featured How to change your career in five steps Gavin Culmsee March 31, 2014 Do you leap out of bed every morning at the thought of going to work? Does the workday fly by without watching the clock? If you answered yes – good on you – for those of you who didn’t, you’re not alone. Australians change careers up to seven times in their lifetime and as many as thirty per cent of us are considering a career change this year. Yet consumer confidence remains shaky and unemployment has reached its highest level in more than a decade. So how does one leave perfectly good employment for the unknown? Here are five steps for a winning career change. Work out what success looks like to you , not others Weigh up what you value most in your lifestyle and create your own personal benchmarks for success. Is it about a larger salary with better benefits? Or having flexibility in work hours to spend more time with family? Is it starting your own business to capitalise on a brilliant idea or investing in a franchise to manage some of the risk of small business ownership? By determining your main goals, you can measure success by your standards and will feel more fulfilled in the long run. Do your due diligence before diving off the deep end Start planning for your career change at least six months before you make the jump. Join relevant professional