INTRODUCTION
According to Mondy and Noe (2005), career is a job that has been chosen to be accomplished during one’s working life. Career is the progress and actions of the person’s occupations or sequence of jobs held by someone throughout a lifetime which is until that person end up the careers. Most of the situations, people do not just referring to one position only but often looking for another jobs which composed of the jobs held, titles earned and work accomplished over a long period of time. There is an increasing trend to employees changing jobs more frequently, while employees in some cultures and economies stay with one job during their career. For example, an individual's career could involve being an engineer, though the
It may also be boring, dull, and unsatisfying. People at this stage already have their own skills and the abilities in contributing a fairly good idea. So it is the time assesses the skills and interests as well as the financial requirements to determine which new career path is right for them.
FACTORS INFLUENCING MID-CAREER CHANGE
People will try to change their career when they realize that they are not find their current job challenging enough, or they are experiencing job burnout, or perhaps who have lost their job or their company went out of business after they turn to the midlife stage. Although at this stage, the situation can be so stressful, but sometimes it can also be really productive since that career will be reinvention after 40. There will be variety of reasons why people try to change their career. The four reasons why people change their career are due to the career plateau, obsolescence, career change and feeling undervalued.
i. Career plateau
By definition, a career plateau is a point in the career of an employee where the possibility of vertical promotion within the official hierarchy becomes very low or absent altogether (WordWeb). People will often reach career plateaus when they continue to work for the same organization for a long time and those who belong to the core of an organization. The feeling of boredom, frustration, tension, loss of enthusiasm, lack of team