“Another factor adding to the confusion, reports Bialik, “is that workers sometimes take on enough new responsibilities to meet a technical definition of a career change without leaving their general field.”
Sorry. To me, that IS NOT a career change. Being a doctor, quitting practice, going back to school, getting a law degree, THAT is a career change.
Changing jobs, even staying withing the same company, IS NOT a career change. You are STILL in the same industry. It’s a job change, not a career change.
It depends on what kind of job they did before. If they got promoted to a new position that would certainly be a career change. Otherwise they could go to a new company and do the exact same job they did before. That would not be a career change