You Know You Need a Career Change. But What Do You Actually Want Next?

What do you do when you know something needs to change in your career… but you have absolutely no idea what the next move should be?

That’s exactly where Rebecca found herself.

After more than 15 years across experience design, leadership, coaching, and transformation, she knew there were parts of her work she loved, problem-solving, facilitating, helping people make better decisions, but she wasn’t sure what that translated into as a career.

Then redundancy gave her the space to stop, reflect and rethink what came next.

In this episode of the Career Confidence Podcast, Rebecca joins Georgie for a very real conversation about sitting in the uncomfortable middle of a career change, resisting the urge to jump straight into another familiar job, and using design thinking to work out what you actually want next.

Rebecca shares how she stopped focusing on job titles and started looking at the work she genuinely loved doing, the problems she wanted to solve and the values she wanted her next chapter to align with.

And then something interesting happened.

Once she got clearer and started sharing more publicly about the work she wanted to be known for, someone from her existing network reached out with an opportunity that was almost exactly what she had been trying to create.

In this episode:

How to recognise when you’ve outgrown your current career path

Why the “uncomfortable middle” is a necessary part of meaningful career change

Why jumping straight into another familiar job can take you back to exactly where you started

How Rebecca used design thinking to approach her own career

The questions to ask yourself when you don’t know what you want next

Why your values matter just as much as your skills

How to stop defining yourself by job titles and start thinking about the problems you love solving

Why experimentation is often more useful than trying to have your entire future figured out

How networking and visibility helped Rebecca attract her next opportunity

Why sharing what you know online isn’t just “self-promotion”

What redundancy taught Rebecca about job security and identity

Why AI doesn’t have to mean panic — and how to start using it to make your work easier

Why a learner’s mindset will be one of the most valuable career skills over the next few years

How to identify the human skills you want to double down on as AI changes work

One of the biggest takeaways from this conversation?

You don’t have to know the exact answer immediately.

Sometimes the most important thing you can do is resist the urge to jump into solution mode.

What are you really good at?
What kind of work gives you energy?
What problems do you love solving?
What do you want to be known for?
What are you no longer willing to compromise on?

Rebecca’s story is a brilliant reminder that clarity doesn’t always arrive in one big moment.

Sometimes you have to sit with the uncertainty, experiment, learn, put yourself out there and let the next opportunity reveal itself.

As Rebecca puts it: great opportunities come from movement.

If you’re in that uncomfortable middle right now, this episode is for you.

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Connect with Rebecca:
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