Strategies

Five Things to Consider Before Starting a New Career

Understand the likely challenges before telling your employer to take this job and, well, you know.

Photographer: Patrik Mollwing for Bloomberg Businessweek

Before starting a new career, consider the likely challenges.

① Get your head on straight. Be confident and clear about what you want. “Know yourself, know your value added, and be open to how that might translate,” says Ariel Schur, chief executive officer of ABS Staffing Solutions LLC.