NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Is It Time to Leave Your Job? Tips for Smart Moves and Strategic Growth
30 Jan 2025
Learn how to decide if it’s time to change jobs or careers and understand how to strategize before you make a big career move. How do you know if it’s time to leave your job? What steps should you take before making a big career move? Host Sean Pyles talks to author and SiriusXM host Dawn Graham about how to evaluate your current job satisfaction and recognize the signs that it might be time for a change. They begin with a discussion of identifying personal values, assessing career alignment, and tips for navigating conversations with managers. They also delve into strategies for approaching major career shifts, from exploring new fields to building the skills and network necessary to succeed. They discuss actionable strategies for testing a new career path, overcoming the challenges of starting over, and networking effectively to stand out. In their conversation, the Nerds discuss: career changes, how to change jobs, signs to leave a job, switching careers, professional growth, career move tips, leaving a job, job dissatisfaction, career pivot, networking strategies, job search tips, workplace burnout, how to talk to a manager about leaving, new career path, finding a new job, changing careers in 2025, job skills development, career alignment, values and career decisions, professional energy, job growth, building career confidence, quitting a job, making a career switch, career planning, job search strategies, LinkedIn networking, and how to stay motivated at work. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Welcome to NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast. I'm Sean Piles. For better or worse, we tend to think of a new year as a good time to make changes. Maybe we want to get in better shape or eat healthier foods. Maybe we want to move to a new home, city, or state. Maybe we want to stop procrastinating or keep our homes better cleaned or both. Or maybe we're thinking about a change in our careers.
A new survey out from the Gallup organization finds that employees across the U.S. are looking for new opportunities at the highest rate since 2015. That's even beyond what we saw after the pandemic with the great resignation. Gallup calls it the great detachment.
With this episode, we continue our January series, Your Money in 2025, by taking a look at how you know when it's time to move on from your current job situation, whether it's looking for a change within the company that you currently work for, or looking outside to something entirely different.
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