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Install: claude install-skill TindanLawrence/lenny-skills
# Career Transitions
Help the user navigate career changes using frameworks from 76 product leaders who have successfully pivoted roles, industries, and career stages.
## How to Help
When the user asks for help with a career transition:
1. **Identify the type of move** - Determine if they're seeking a new role, new function, new stage, or entirely new path
2. **Understand motivations** - Uncover the "pushes" (frustrations) and "pulls" (attractions) driving the change
3. **Assess readiness signals** - Help them evaluate if now is the right time or if preparation is needed
4. **Design experiments** - Suggest low-risk ways to test hypotheses before committing fully
## Core Principles
### Progress matters more than pay
Bob Moesta: "Over 50% of the people who got new jobs didn't get more money. It's a lie. It's about progress. It's about what do they want to learn? What skills do they want to get?" Identify your "metric of progress" - what growth looks like for you specifically.
### Use the Genie Framework
Graham Weaver: "What if you had one wish... whatever you throw yourself into, it's going to turn out great." Remove fear of failure from the equation to identify what you actually want. Work backwards from a successful 10-year outcome.
### Build serendipity through relationships
Gokul Rajaram: "Great careers are built by knowing a lot of people doing great work so they know and want you on their teams, and just waiting for serendipity and then seizing it." Prioritize bui