You're not starting over.  You're starting from experience. Do any of these sound like you?

● You’ve been out of the workforce and aren’t sure how to explain your break — or where to begin. ● You’re pivoting to a new field and feel like you’re starting from zero, even with years of experience behind you. ● You know something needs to change, but analysis paralysis has you stuck.     Maybe confidence is the biggest thing standing between you and your next step?

Who can benefit?

Mid-career professionals returning to work after a career break, pivoters exploring new fields, and anyone re-evaluating what work should look like at this stage of life. Dedicated content is included for professionals returning after caregiving. This course helps you answer the question “What’s next?” with clarity and confidence. You’ll reframe your story, identify what you bring to the table, and build a concrete plan for moving forward intentionally, one step at a time.

Here's what you'll do in this course:

Normalize career transitions and manage the emotional side of change

Career transitions span skills and mindset. You'll learn why change feels unsettling even when you want it, and how to move forward with more confidence and less second-guessing.

Identify your transferable skills and position them for a new direction

Explore new directions through low-risk, practical strategies. You'll take inventory of what you've built across your career and learn how to articulate it in ways that land with employers in a new field.

Use self-assessment tools to clarify your values, needs, and work style

Build a personal transition plan aligned with your skills, strengths, and stage of life. You'll work through guided exercises that help you name what you want next — and why it fits where you are right now.

Course Curriculum

8 Chapters · 19 Lessons

  1. 1
    1. What Career Change Really Feels Like Free preview
    2. How Successful Transitions Happen Free preview
  2. 2
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      Getting Started

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      Course Workbook

  3. 3
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      Why People Change Careers: What’s Driving Change and Is Now the Right Time

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      Assessing Your Interests, Values, and Strengths

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      Understanding Your Work Style

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      Exercises & Resources

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      Networking to Explore New Paths

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      Upskilling with Intention

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      Strategic Volunteering and Other Low Risk Ways to Explore

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      Exercises & Resources

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      How to Communicate Your Transferable Skills

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      Exercises & Resources

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      Defining Your Value, Targeted Shortlist, and Networking

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      Customizing Applications, Speaking to Your Pivot, and Bridge Positions

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      Be Clear, Connect the Dots, Prepare for Questions

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      Wrap-up & Next Steps

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      Post-Course Survey - Navigating Career Transitions

VIDEO INSTRUCTION

40+ minutes of modular video instruction with coaching-style guidance throughout. Each workbook exercise and resource is referenced in context during the video segments, so you’ll know exactly when it’s most useful.

WORKBOOK

Career Transitions Workbook (exercises + structured reflection tools)

TOOLKIT

• Career Transition Assessment • Guided Core Values Exercise • Career Fit Inventory Assessment • Work Style Comparison Worksheet • Strategic Volunteering for Career Transition • Career Transition Networking Guide

Leanne Rodd

Coach Led, Leanne Rodd 

Chief Talent Officer, FlexProfessionals The Job Search Essentials Series is taught by Leanne Rodd, who leads recruiting, programming, and HR at FlexProfessionals. With 20+ years of experience – the last decade in staffing – she’s seen firsthand what helps professionals get hired and what holds them back.  As a board-certified career coach, she shares practical, insider strategies that help professionals showcase their value and stand out in today’s job market.

Start today, and move your career forward. 

This course helps you answer the question “What’s next?” with clarity and confidence. You’ll reframe your story, identify what you bring to the table, and build a concrete plan for moving forward intentionally, one step at a time.

$59.00

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