The Art of Career Change for Introverts: How to stop chasing the wrong jobs, utilise your strengths, and build your ideal career

by Rebecca Healey

Do you feel trapped in a job you hate? Have you repeatedly switched jobs, only to find yourself in a new place, but with the same old problems? Does the life you dream of always seem to be just out of reach? Our career choices are driven by a multitude of factors.  But what if we’ve been consistently programmed to make the wrong choices? What if those choices eventually start to impact on our health, relationships, productivity, and even on the quality of our sleep? An estimated 36 – 50 percent of us are thought to have introverted personality characteristics.  For this significant proportion of the population, the pressure to conform to an extroverted world can be all-encompassing.  From early years, to the schoolroom, to the world of work, introverts’ inner preferences are overridden in favour of outward acceptance within teams or groups. But on the inside, this imbalance between inner preferences and outward actions can end up taking those with introverted characteristics down a path of energy draining life traps. So, how do we change course for the better? Rebecca Healey left a decade-long career as a city-based management accountant in her early thirties. She went on to train in medicine, qualifying as a doctor in 2016. A self-proclaimed introvert, she was inspired to write by the recurring challenges experienced across two distinctly different industries, and the strategies she adopted to overcome them. Using her own experience, she has created 10 landmark steps to set you up for career change success. Following these steps will equip you with the tools you need to carve out your dream career, without sacrificing your health or identity in the process. In The Art of Career Change for Introverts, you will learn how Packed with pearls of wisdom and inspiration, this book will ignite the changes you need to flourish in a way you had never thought possible. Whether you’re searching for your dream career, your next role, or preparing for a promotion, The Art of Career Change for Introverts will empower you with the ideal launch pad for success!

Genres: Business

100 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 7, 2020

About the author

Rebecca left a decade-long career as a city-based management accountant in her early thirties. She went on to train in medicine, qualifying as a doctor in 2016. She has since worked in a number of NHS hospital settings in the North of England, additionally setting up her own functional medicine practice, RJ Health & Wellbeing. A self-proclaimed introvert, Rebecca was inspired to write by the recurring challenges experienced across two distinctly different industries, and the strategies she adopted to overcome them. She continues to write regularly on topics related to health and wellbeing, stress management, and nutritional medicine.

Reviews

[boxer_dogs_dance · Rating 4 out of 5]

A selfhelp book with some useful advice

The first half of this book did not excite me. Her information about introversion and extroversion strikes me as old news today. However, the second half of the book has useful advice about goal setting, visualization and changing habits to achieve goals. If you think that could be useful to you, then this book is one place to efficiently gain that knowledge. A good book for anyone trying to make changes in their life, but not unique in what it offers. Still, I learned things I didn't already know.

Edit to add that the book contains a bibliography and footnotes.

[Irial O'Farrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Worth a read, if you’re trying to figure out your career

This book is a comprehensive root-and-branch analysis of what happens to a human when they are unhappy in their job/career. The author’s approach is very thorough. She starts by encouraging the reader to really reflect and understand what is not working for them currently and provides suggestions as to how to make small adjustments that for some people, might well sort out their concerns. She also does a great job of linking mental unhappiness with physical manifestations of illness and how to protect against them. I love how well she links the theories to what happens in real life.

If you suspect you might be an introvert (you find yourself needing time away from others to re-charge your batteries) and you’re trying to figure out your career or next move, this book will give you some food for thought and some exercises to help you gain clarity.

[Dan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too short, too pricey, and nothing that can’t be found elsewhere

This book is long on platitudes and short on new information. It spends a lot of time going over the differences between introverts and extroverts. While there are some interesting tidbits, most people who would buy this book already know they’re introverts so it seems superfluous.

The exercises are basic and unoriginal, and don’t seem to be tailored to introverts in any meaningful way. Basically introverts should be aware of our introverted tendencies while we do the standard tasks pulled from other books and courses. Which again, isn’t all that helpful since we already know we’re introverts.

It’s mostly repackaged information and at 100 pages still not enough content to justify the price.

[The Book Dragon's Hoard by A.V. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book if you’re starting on your quest for change and even if you’ve already started, this book offers some nice reminders on how to make change happen to best effect and with the best results tailored to you. As someone who works in this field, I appreciate Healy’s thoroughness. I would also like to add that there is much in this book that is universal, so even if you don’t consider yourself an introvert, you will find sections of this book very useful.

[Paige · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick read with some easily actionable ideas. I enjoyed this and the timing was perfect for me. Quite simple concepts.