What happens when we’ve climbed the traditional corporate ladder as far as we can go and exhausted all backup plans, or those plans no longer hold the same appeal they once did?

The truth is, you may not always see a job change coming, but it will happen to all of us at some point in our careers—especially in healthcare. Career transitions are consistently listed among the most stressful events of a person’s life. But if you do things right and prepare yourself before the job change comes, it’s not as traumatic.