Navigate Career Transition is for learners at a turning point between study and work: a final-year student stepping into a first job, a graduate in the first weeks of a new role, or an adult studying towards a change of direction. It keeps you company while one chapter closes and the next takes shape.
It helps you find steadiness and courage for the move in front of you. The wisdom is organised around research on how people reshape their working identity and move through transitions, so each part speaks to a real situation rather than to careers in general.
Inside are two PDFs, both with your name on every page: a printable deck of A4 cards and a matching ebook. The sections follow the situations of a working life, among them Starting a New Job, Making a Career Change, Facing Job Loss/Unemployment, Starting Your Own Business and Dealing with Workplace Conflict, with themes such as adapting, building confidence, learning, connecting, courage and reinvention. Each card has a theme, a short description and an image on the front, and on the back a set of quotes from many voices and wisdom traditions, with room for your own notes. The ebook holds the same wisdom as a flowing book, to read on a tablet or phone or to print and bind.
I suggest you begin with the situation you are in right now. If you are about to start your first job, print the Starting a New Job cards; if you are studying towards a new field, begin with Making a Career Change. Read the quotes slowly and write beside the one that speaks to you.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, LearnSmart4Life