Careershifters blog

You'll find us scribbling away here every week bringing you hot topics, bright ideas and fresh thinking to inspire and guide you as you change career...

The importance of reflection while testing out new careers

By Sab on 31 August 2010 at 12:11

Throughout this process of trying out career areas it’s really important to give yourself credit for taking these trials and testing things out. Every new experience is a lesson and something to build on, even if you’ve tried something and it felt like a complete waste of time - it never is, there’s always a lesson to be learnt.

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Fighting the media gloom: Graduates and young people can have amazing careers

By Sab on 24 August 2010 at 12:31

The overall impression I’m getting from mass media, and the public who voice their views in the mass media,  is that the only work path (still! Still in 2010 they think this!!)  is to run yourself ragged trying to impress/appeal to employers and examiners. There is no mention of setting up your own business, or going freelance, or having a portfolio career, or even taking a less- than-great part time job to financially help you while you get your real dream career going.These ideas and options could really help young people right now.

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Fear.less magazine and blog - inspiration for your career change

By Sab on 12 August 2010 at 18:01

I found fear.less stories a few months ago and some of the people they interview have amazing insight and wisdom that could help you with your career change.

The site produces free downloadable magazines each month and they are always worth a read (and like me you may find yourself highlighting choice insights).

They also have a zippy blog with related posts, so if you're dealing with your fears and limiting beliefs about career change at the mo, get yourself to their site!

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The power of re-framing: Be your own Career Change Spin Doctor

By Sab on 12 August 2010 at 16:55

In day to day life, we're not so often aware about how we put a spin on every circumstance that happens to us (or that we make happen). We don't sit around and debate what 'spin' we're gonna put on eg a job loss or our spouse relocating for work.

But the 'spin' or 'take' that we put on these things (often big, life changing things) is crucial as to an extent it determines our emotions and feelings to these happenings, which in turn will determine our actions. And this is also true of when we start to think about potential careers that we might like to do in the future.

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Check out our new career change workshop video!!

By Sab on 5 August 2010 at 14:01

Here at Careershifters we are very excited to share with you our new career change workshop video, which we hope will inspire you.

In the video you will see people who have made successful career changes and get a taste of what are workshops are like.

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Graduates who want to leave their profession a few years after qualifying - don't stay there just because you think you should!

By Sab on 4 August 2010 at 16:37

Simon from Position Ignition recently wrote an article for us about graduates who go straight into professional careers with a lot of specific training (such as accountants, lawyers, doctors) and find after a few years that they really don't enjoy their line of work.
I have some friends who are in this situation and I think it will become very very common for graduates in these areas to leave the profession earlier, rather than spend forty years doing work they don't enjoy. You can read my take on the issues and ideas that come up in this blog post!

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New free skills assesment site for career changers

By Sab on 3 August 2010 at 15:03

You may have tried out some of the online tests Nisa Chitakasem tested in her recent article. Well, we have another one for you!

It's hosted by the University of Essex's online business support portal VentureNavigator, and is totally free to use by anyone at any stage of their career.

You receive personalised feedback and tips linking through to skills related articles on VentureNavigator by signing up at http://www.venturenavigator.co.uk/skills

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Career change ideas and inspiration from a free weekly magazine...

By Sab on 2 August 2010 at 13:53

For a while now i've been picking up a free magazine each Wednesday when I pass through tube stations here in London called 'Stylist' magazine. It has a couple of full page features every week that are relevent for career changers, male or female! I always find them interesting to read, and may help you consider jobs you might not have before, as well as stories of people who have their own businesses.

I believe you can get it in main cities in the UK, at central London tube and rail stations, in some French Connection shops, and better yet it's now available online here

Relevant pages are: 'Work Life' (around page 13) and 'Sixty Second Therapist' (the last content page in the magazine)

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A succession of new careers — fluidity in todays working style

By Sab on 30 July 2010 at 15:10

I've been thinking about how many of us are looking for careers and working styles that afford a greater measure of variety and independence, with scope to grow and change, and how this relates to changes in lifestyles generally over the past ten years or so. In this blog post i'll be looking at how being part of the international digital generation has a clear influence on our working life choices... and argue it should be a good thing!

 

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Career Inpiration: Career change or life renovation?

By Sab on 28 July 2010 at 17:24

I’ve been thinking about dream career changes – and actually, a lot of the time when I let my mind wander to what could be, it becomes more than just the job itself.  Often a ‘career change’ can be more like a life change – it can mean relocating, working in a different way (eg freelance rather than employed by a company), focusing more on friends/family/hobbies, and creating a different way of living your life. Not only can the job itself be an important part of the change, but how about how you get to work? To have no more long hours of commuting on tubes and crowded suburban trains is a huge lifestyle change. Or, if you relocate to another place, your commute could be windsurfing to work (oh yes, there is a guy in Brighton who does this!)

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