Changing Careers Simplified: Executive Coach Reveals How to Transition from One Career to Another by Identifying Your True Value Added to Any Employer or Customer.

INTRODUCTION

This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of CHANGING CAREERS SIMPLIFIED, which you’ll learn about in the next chapter.

However, before we continue, it’s important to understand that this book is one of forty books that comprise a new Success Training Program.

This program was created for you, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve.

The first ten volumes (see OTHER BOOKS) address these core competencies of your effectiveness and success in business:

Followership, Delegating, Planning, Organizing, Communicating, Problem-Solving, Awareness, Training, Motivating, and Character-Building.

The second ten volumes (see Other Books) provide a more detailed explanation of how to master these ten specific business skills.

Writing, Speaking, Team Building, Managing Risk, Coaching, Managing Projects, Managing Meetings, Achieving Goals, Making Decisions, and Building Consensus with a Team.

I created this series to give you the essential best practices and critical success skills needed to rise above the crowd, be the best at whatever you do, and stand out rather than just fit in.

I’m Ed Murphy, the founder of The Effectiveness Institute. After graduating from West Point, I served 24 years as a US Army Officer during both Vietnam and Desert Storm, traveling all over the world.

After the military, I spent the next 20+ years as an Executive Coach in Corporate America, working with hundreds of business executives, small business owners, and teams in Seattle, San Diego, Kansas City, and Phoenix.

During my career, I was always searching for why some people are more effective and successful than others. 

As a result, I discovered that they were able to achieve extraordinary success by doing these three things:

By consistently producing excellent results.

By adding greater value to all those who helped them produce their results - especially their boss.

By treating all those with whom they worked with respect and kindness, regardless of how they were treated.

This SUCCESS TRAINING PROGRAM was created to help you do these three things better than anyone else.

I created this Success Training Program based on all the best practices I’ve learned from the best and brightest people with whom I served over my 78 years on the planet.

What makes this program so unique is that it:

Gives you the most actionable best practices needed to consistently produce excellent results that you won’t find anywhere in academia or corporate America. 

Teaches the most critical success skills used by the most effective people in their field, which you were never taught in school.

Provides step-by-step instructions for each best practice, explaining:

What to do.

How to do it.

The tools needed to make it happen.

No one else does that! Think about it!

These are all simple things you can easily learn today and use tomorrow.

I know you'll enhance your value as you learn, use, and share what you learn here.

Join us and discover why our readers come away saying,

I wish I knew this stuff years ago.

This program is my legacy, my small contribution to making a difference in the lives of all those I leave behind.

Enjoy the book!

Also, if this information could help someone else, please let them know. If it makes a difference in their life, they’ll be forever grateful to you, as will I.

To your SUCCESS!

Founder of The Effectiveness Institute

Stop wishing you were better and do something about it today.

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CHANGING

CAREERS SIMPLIFIED

This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of CHANGING CAREERS SIMPLIFIED, which explains how to transition from one career to another by identifying your true value added to any employer or customer.

It’s the 38th volume in a forty-book series of a comprehensive Success Training Program (see OTHER BOOKS).

Here, you’ll learn how to use the most actionable tactics, techniques, and tools to enhance your ability to transition from one career to another.

Many people think that the career they start with will remain their career throughout their lives.

It’s been my experience that this is only true for doctors and lawyers.

For the rest of us, we will change careers several times.

I’ve changed careers seven times so far, and I’m still kickin!

So, relax! The good news or bad news is that the career you start with will not be the career you end with.

I bring 21 years of experience as an Executive Coach, helping hundreds of people, from recent college graduates to CEOs, find meaningful employment.

I worked for four of the largest consulting, outplacement, and e-cruiting companies in America in Seattle, San Diego, Kansas City, and Phoenix.

This book is unique because it:

Comes from my struggles finding employment and my clients' struggles over two decades.

Reveals the Truth about changing careers to the calling you were meant to have.

Provides several valuable assessments of your true value added.

Helps you find your compelling reason and purpose for serving others.

Teaches how to explore different careers to find what you’re seeking.

Reveals how to test the waters to find your career direction.

Includes all the things you want to know and the top things you didn't realize you needed to know.

And much, much more!

Everything in this book has worked for me and my clients, and I know they’ll work for you!

Important Warnings

Here are my most important warnings for those seeking to change their career.

Warning 1:

Don’t quit your job unless you have a guaranteed better job. If you quit, you lose two valuable things: Unemployment insurance and Severance.

Warning 2:

Don’t fall into the trap of waiting until your unemployment insurance and severance runs out before starting your search. It could take at least one month for each $10,000 in the pay you seek before you find a new position, or longer. Always be looking for a better opportunity even after you become reemployed!

Warning 3:

Don’t take your foot off the job search accelerator! Just because one opportunity looks great, don’t slow down your search. This great opportunity could disappear at the last