Arjun Patel is a Career Development Coach and Organizational Psychologist with 11 years of experience guiding mid-career professionals through industry transitions, skill obsolescence challenges, and strategic upskilling decisions. He holds a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and specializes in labor market trend analysis.
Arjun Patel completed his PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the University of Michigan, focusing his dissertation research on career adaptability and transferable skill identification during technological disruption. He began his career in corporate talent development at a global consulting firm before transitioning to independent coaching and advisory work serving professionals navigating career inflection points. Arjun has guided hundreds of clients through successful career pivots—from traditional industries into tech, from specialist roles into leadership positions, from corporate employment into entrepreneurship—teaching them to reframe accumulated experience for new contexts rather than starting from zero. He maintains active research involvement, tracking emerging occupation trends, analyzing job posting data for early skill demand signals, and studying the impact of automation and AI on various professional categories. His coaching methodology integrates psychometric assessment, strategic skill gap analysis, personal branding for career transition, and decision frameworks for evaluating when to deepen expertise versus when to diversify. Arjun regularly presents at career development conferences, contributes to Harvard Business Review and Fast Company on workforce evolution topics, and collaborates with university career centers to improve transition support for mid-career learners. He writes to help ambitious professionals escape the trap of linear career thinking, recognize transferable capabilities they undervalue, and position themselves for emerging opportunities before markets become saturated. His approach is pragmatic and market-informed rather than purely motivational, emphasizing strategic positioning over positive thinking alone.