Are your skills transferable? Could you take your skills into a completely different industry - or a different part of your organization?
Will Swanson, Vice President HR Shared Services Schneider Electric, tells us how, despite not being 'an HR guy', he used his experince in shared services and continuous improvement to move into an HR leadership role.
' Although I may not have known it at the time, we started to talk about what was involved and I realized that this was just really the operational backbone of human resources and a lot of the things that I had employed in the business space, I could employ here too.'