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Career change

Meaning in job interviews & careers, with examples

nounCommon term

In job interviews & careers, career change means: A move from one type of work or profession to a different one, for example from teaching to software development.

In Turkish: kariyer değişikliği, meslek değiştirme

How it is used

You make or consider a career change, and a person doing it is a career changer. Cover letters often explain the reason for the change and focus on transferable skills. Informally, people say 'switch careers'.

Example sentences

  1. At 35, I made a career change from nursing to health data analysis.

  2. In my cover letter, I explained why I want a career change.

Common collocations

  • make a career change
  • consider a career change
  • mid-career change
  • career changer
  • transferable skillsSkills you have gained in one job, course of study or activity that are also useful in a different job or industry.
  • career pathThe series of jobs and roles a person moves through during their working life, or a planned way to progress inside a company.
  • upskillTo learn new skills or improve the ones you have, often so that you can keep up with changes in your job or industry.
  • career gapA period of time when you were not working, which shows as a gap between jobs on your CV.

More terms: Career Development

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