Strategies that successful career changers useand how to make them work for you.Nearly all of us have entertained the notion of changing careers. Feeling burned out at work unfulfilled or just plain unhappy with whatever were doing we long to reinvent ourselves on a new and different career path. But how do we make this transition successfullyIn this update of the groundbreaking classic bestselling author Herminia Ibarra presents a model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything weve learned from amp34career expertsamp34amp8212and is tailormade for changing careers in todays uncertain world. Career transition is not a linear path toward some predetermined identity according to Ibarra but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of amp34possible selvesamp34 we might become. Successful reinvention comes not from deciphering and analyzing our past but from inventing and testing our possible futures.Using new examples of people in different stages of a career transition Ibarra identifies the three critical strategiesamp8212experiment with new professional activities and identities interact in new networks of people and make sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilitiesamp8212that all successful career changers use. She shows how you can use these strategies toExplore your possible selvesCraft and execute amp34identity experimentsamp34Create amp34small winsamp34 that keep momentum goingConnect with role models and mentors who can ease the transitionArrange new learnings into a coherent storyNow with actionoriented exercises to help you work successfully through your own career transition this updated edition gives you the tools to discover a new path and find success in your new career.