{"id":8406,"date":"2026-07-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/tages-anzeiger-christian-bartholet-career-change-mid-life\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:00:00","slug":"tages-anzeiger-christian-bartholet-career-change-mid-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/en\/tages-anzeiger-christian-bartholet-career-change-mid-life\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Tages-Anzeiger: Christian Bartholet on changing career direction in mid-life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>How do you make a fresh professional start at 45, 50 or 55? In \u201cAlpha\u201d, the executive job market section of the Tages-Anzeiger of 4 July 2026, our CEO Christian Bartholet answers in an interview \u2013 for those who want to change and for those who have to.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The wish to change direction rarely has a single cause. Personal questions about energy, values and life plans meet a labour market that is shifting ever faster through geopolitics, digitalisation and artificial intelligence. In the conversation, Christian Bartholet shows how to approach this phase in a structured way \u2013 and why frantic activity after a dismissal rarely helps.<\/p>\n<h3>Key points<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Three questions belong on the table regularly, not only in an emergency: who you are, what you can do and what you want.<\/li>\n<li>Your market value lies in the problems you solve better than others \u2013 and in your willingness to acquire the skills in demand.<\/li>\n<li>After losing a job it pays to pause rather than apply everywhere. Those who tell their story without bitterness are convincing in conversations.<\/li>\n<li>The more senior the position and the older the person, the more the network and the hidden job market matter. Contacts need to be cultivated before you need them.<\/li>\n<li>LinkedIn is your personal business card and should be kept up to date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/grass-partner-tages-anzeiger-2026-07-04.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article (PDF, in German)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Source: Tages-Anzeiger, \u201cAlpha \u2013 Der Kadermarkt der Schweiz\u201d, 4 July 2026. Interview: Marianne Rupp.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Christian Bartholet is CEO of Grass &amp; Partner AG. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/en\/team-member\/christian-bartholet-en\/\">View his profile<\/a> \u00b7 Facing a career change yourself, or supporting one in your organisation? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/en\/contact\/\">Get in touch with us.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you make a fresh professional start at 45, 50 or 55? In \u201cAlpha\u201d, the executive job market section of the Tages-Anzeiger of 4 July 2026, our CEO Christian Bartholet answers in an interview \u2013 for those who want to change and for those who have to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"How do you make a fresh professional start at 45, 50 or 55? In \u201cAlpha\u201d, the executive job market section of the Tages-Anzeiger of 4 July 2026, our CEO Christian Bartholet answers in an interview \u2013 for those who want to change and for those who have to."},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aktuelles-veranstaltungen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassgroup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}