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Treat your next career change like a verb When I called career strategist Jenny Blake to talk about job shifts, my motivations were admittedly selfish. I had just made a career switch myself: After working in a business role at Quartz, I’d pitched myself for a new one in its newsroom (and landed the gig). I wanted to know how Quartz readers could approach career changes—or, in other words, pull off the proverbial pivot. But I also wanted to hear how I could make the most of my own.
Blake has spent years thinking about shifts, switches, and restarts at work. She’s the author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, the host of a podcast about career shifting, and someone who’s made plenty of turns in her own career. And when I asked Blake about making a pivot, she was attentive to how I phrased the question.
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