I've been reading about Steve Bannon, and see he made some crazy transitions in his career, from Naval Officer, to Goldman Sachs veteran, to owning his own boutique firm, to hollywood producer, to media boss, to chief strategist for Trump.
I am wondering - how can you learn to make such boss transitions between such starkly different fields/industries?
I find things these days are much more concentrated than they used to be. You look at a typical job description, and companies are looking for people with significant deep experience in a couple of primary fields, rather than stints spent across multiple careers.
In terms of my own experience, I am hoping to soon make a big transition, though not sure exactly into what. What I have going for me is a diverse set of work and living experience - working in legal/advisory consulting for 3 years and now legal services product management the last 2 years.
My network is mainly built through client relationships I forged through time at my current firm (a small to medium sized consulting firm but with international presence and business), but I'm scared to touch these contacts while still at my current employer. The other problem is the contacts from this network are mainly out of my state of residence. My in-state network built off my own personal networking is very weak as our US office is based in a smaller state where there aren't really a lot of industries beyond real estate and tourism with much representation.
Part of me feels like you got to be in a bigger city to eventually make a more extreme transition (Bannon probably made killer contacts while at goldman sachs courtesy of living in NYC, which gave him media contacts to eventually parlay into Brietbart and Hollywood).
I am wondering - how can you learn to make such boss transitions between such starkly different fields/industries?
I find things these days are much more concentrated than they used to be. You look at a typical job description, and companies are looking for people with significant deep experience in a couple of primary fields, rather than stints spent across multiple careers.
In terms of my own experience, I am hoping to soon make a big transition, though not sure exactly into what. What I have going for me is a diverse set of work and living experience - working in legal/advisory consulting for 3 years and now legal services product management the last 2 years.
My network is mainly built through client relationships I forged through time at my current firm (a small to medium sized consulting firm but with international presence and business), but I'm scared to touch these contacts while still at my current employer. The other problem is the contacts from this network are mainly out of my state of residence. My in-state network built off my own personal networking is very weak as our US office is based in a smaller state where there aren't really a lot of industries beyond real estate and tourism with much representation.
Part of me feels like you got to be in a bigger city to eventually make a more extreme transition (Bannon probably made killer contacts while at goldman sachs courtesy of living in NYC, which gave him media contacts to eventually parlay into Brietbart and Hollywood).