Careershifters blog

Why recruitment agencies are the last place to turn to when you want to change career

Here's one for the ladies - Red's Hot Women Awards are offering the chance for women with inspiring career change plans to win one month of paid-for work experience at some of the UK's most exciting companies.

The wait is over!

We've just launched our Careershifters Guide -- the no-nonsense step-by-step guide to making a successful career change -- and The Shift Club Online -- the exclusive email group that will support you every step of the way.

There are only 50 places available, so make sure you snap one up before they all go (in fact, they're literally going as I write this!)

Click here NOW to find out more...

Ready for a career shift?

The Times have featured Careershifters and our MD Cath Roan today in their step-by-step guide to making a career change.

Also mentioned in the article is our soon-to-be-launched Shift Club.

We're launching the Club on 19 May and there will only be 50 places available. If you'd like to register your interest to be first in line and receive a FREE seven-part taster of our new Careershifters Guide, click here now!

Is now the time to make a career change or life change?

Cath Roan, Careershifters MD, joined author & philosopher Alain de Botton and entrepreneur Sahar Hashemi on BBC Woman's Hour today to discuss the realities of find meaning in our work in the midsts of the current recession.

You can listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jwxz4/Womans_Hour_27_04_2009/

We've got something exciting to tell you.

As we announced a few weeks back, we've been beavering away on a no-nonsense Guide to Changing Career.

The idea has been to bring together everything we've learnt, warts and all, from working with hundreds of career changers (including ourselves!), over the last five years and to create a step-by-step, no-nonsense guide to what it takes to go from feeling miserable at work to creating a career that you truly enjoy. In short, the kind of guide the founding team wished we'd had when we made our own career changes.

We've toiled late into the night, we've tested early versions with our audience, we've scapped huge amounts of stuff, rewritten sections, added new bits and put the final polish on... and are now at the stage where the guide is just about finished (hooray!).

In fact, we're so excited about it that we want to give you some of it for FREE so you can get a real flavour of what it's all about.

So, the Careershifters Guide taster series, consisting of 7 FREE email tutorials, will show you exactly how the Guide and The Shift Club can help you find out what you want and how to get there.

You get seven emails, over two weeks, starting on Monday 20th April, showing you:

1. Before you set off - the 3 stages to making a shift
   A career change is a journey. We'll show you the map.
2. How to get started
   To begin with you need to figure out what you really want. We'll show you how.
3. How to imagine having a job you love...
   How to start building up a picture of the kind of career that will suit you best.
4. How to work out the career that is right for you
   So you've got a shortlist of options? Next we'll show you how to pick the right one.
5. How to change career AND pay the bills
   We're in a recession. We'll show you how to change career AND balance the books.
6. How to get the skills you need
   Retraining is one of the most popular ways to shift -- we''ll show how you can do it.
7. How to work out what's stopping you
   We'll show you how to silence that voice telling you "it can't be done".

Interested? Hurry - registration ends soon.

Click here to sign up now!

If you're currently in the process of looking for a job, you might be interested in "Spring to Life", a new, free downloadable guide that has been launched by The Stopgap Group. The guide includes handy advice on creating a winning CV, preparing for a tough interview and keeping motivated through the process.

And we're super happy that Careershifters got a mention as one of the resources to go to for further help.

You can read more about the guide and download a copy here: http://www.thesggroup.co.uk/springintolife