From the course: Managing Your Design Career
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Changing fields or industries
From the course: Managing Your Design Career
Changing fields or industries
- Let's discuss the many places that you can take your career outside of your organization. We'll start by exploring different career paths on your journey, like maybe entering a new field, or a new industry. If your design discipline no longer challenges you, you may want to find a position that can offer you new business perspectives, and a broader experience. Let's meet a second design professional, who's also going through a career change. Linda has been at an agency as the art director for the last seven years. Her passion is being intimately familiar with a brand, and she's built some deep relationships with her clients. She's now explored and wants a role where she could have a broader capability to manage a team, go deeper with a specific brand, and she's particularly interested in retail, fashion, or the hospitality industry, with an affinity for luxury brands. So Linda evaluated her current situation, and after evaluating her career happiness and her overall current…
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