It’s the start of a new year and a new decade. You’ve been thinking of doing your own thing for a while so is this going to be the year you finally make it happen? John Williams has been helping people make their own businesses work for the past 5 years. Here he offers some top tips on how to make it happen...

What do you do when a career that’s worked for you stops working? Suddenly you find yourself - an expert in your field with many years of experience, serious credibility and a hard earned reputation – and you're miserable. It’s a bit like realizing that the person you have loved and lived with for many years is no longer the person you want to be with. You don’t want it to be that way; you desperately want to get back the early years, when things were great, when you were alive and engaged, hopeful and inspired. But you can’t. It’s over. And you are left, feeling trapped, oarless, hopeless. So what next? Career coach, Sonia Lakshman, offers some excellent guidance...

We get a lot of people coming to Careershifters in a hurry to change career as soon as possible. The problem is, if you try to rush through your career change you'll often skip over essential steps and it will end up taking you even longer to find the career that's right for you. So what can you do if you want a new career, but you're in a rush?

If you're trying to leave a job that has been making you miserable for years then the big fear can often be that you'll end up in yet another job that you don't enjoy. So how can you make sure that you don't end up with yet another career that doesn't suit you? Career change coach, Sarah Cooper, says it's all about putting your ideas to the test...

With the dawn of the credit crunch, more and more people will be finding themselves faced with redundancy. Career coach Jessica explores how redundancy can in fact be a great opportunity to make positive changes to your career...

The key to multiple income streams is that you get to decide the shape of your life. You can focus on your strengths and have variety and fulfilment in your life. Interested? Read on...

One of the most difficult aspects of a career transition is wading through the feelings of uncertainty that all career shifters experience at some stage. Sharon Peake however, has discovered not only how to handle these times of 'not knowing' but how you can actually use this uncertainty to your advantage when going through career transition...

We've all done it...full of good intentions we write down a 'to-do' list - an action plan for the week ahead - that will have us moving forward with our career change and then...the week passes and the actions remain untouched. Most of us are quick to blame 'things' getting in the way - 'I just haven't had the time', but usually the reason goes a whole lot deeper. Career coach Andrea Perry takes a look at what is really going on when we find ourselves procrastinating...

This is a brilliant comprehensive guide by career coach, Sonia Lakshman, on financing your career change, packed with useful tips and information on everything from applying for a study grant to apprenticeships to winning the money you need for a career change. A must-read if finances are holding you back in making a career shift.