what is the best way to transition out of financial services?

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Apply to jobs in other industries. Pretty simple.

That’s not working for me🙃🙃🙃

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What type of roles are you interested in? Why do you want to transition out of financial services? It would also help to contact a few recruiter's to assess the opportunities that you are interested in.

Recruiters haven’t been too helpful. Some are just like sorry can’t help you so I’ve been applying on my own. I’m trying to get ma accounting/finance role at a more interesting company like media entertainment beauty health and wellness. I just don’t love the grind of financial services

If you want to transition into a different industry that is understandable. If recruiters have not been helpful, you should try your network. Maybe someone in your network can introduce you to someone who works in the industries you are interested in media, entertainment, beauty, health and wellness. Hopefully someone else will respond with some other suggestions. You can also try applying on the website of the companies that you are interested in.

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