Careershifters blog

If you're at the start of your career change, this is a great nugget of audio for you! We spoke to one of our recent participants, Richard, about his experience at one of our recent workshops...

Careershifters’ shiftlogger Sab has written her own guide for career changers and she’s giving it away for FREE! Come and take a look...

The Careershifters Careers Clinic will be taking place at One Life Live (now part of the Vitality Show) again this year from the 18th to the 21st March at Earls Court, London. It is a fantastic opportunity to have a 15 minute session with an expert career coach and meet some of the Careershifters team.

Do you love the web? Want to be one of the people that makes new and exciting web developments happen? Well The Scott Trust Ltd, owner of Guardian Media Group plc, is offering an exciting new opportunity  to help two career changers start a new career in software development for the web. They are offering bursaries to people that couldn't otherwise afford it - particularly women going back to work...

Last night I had a lot of fun hosting our first ever teleseminar.

I was in conversation with two of the UK's leading career coaches and the founder of Careershifters about how to make a successful career change in 2010.

Amongst other things, we covered:

• The practical steps to get started with your career change
• The key obstacles for a successful shift - and how to overcome them
• The secrets of making a successful career change

We also introduced our exclusive Shift Club, which will be launching next week.

If you missed the call, don't worry!

You can download the full recording here: http://www.careershifters.org/files/audio/How-To-Change-2010-Teleseminar.mp3.

We're only keeping this available until Sunday, so make sure you download it now.

And here's what some of our listeners said afterwards:

• "Hearing that Sarah and Selina did exactly the same thing and took that bold step, has made me feel even more confident that this is right and this is part of my journey. This was a brilliant teleseminar..."
• "Well done on an excellent seminar"
• "Thanks for the teleseminar, I really enjoyed it!"

We hope you enjoy it too.

Again, here's the link: http://www.careershifters.org/files/audio/How-To-Change-2010-Teleseminar.mp3

It can be hard to think that work can be brilliant and, even if you do learn to believe that work can really be fantastic, it can be hard to think it’s possible for yourself. This is where I was stuck until Careershifters' Selina Barker encouraged me to seek out those who were doing work they loved, and ask them how they did it. Here is what I discovered...

"Don't ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs
Is people who have come alive."

- Howard Thurman

There's often a lot of talk of knowing your 'values' when it comes to career change. I decided to go and find out whether figuring out your values really is so important and how it can help you when changing career. I was so impressed that we now have these values as a key part of the Careershifters workshop #1: How to discover what you really want out of your work"

World of Difference UK is giving over 500 people the opportunity to undertake two month paid placements with a UK charity of their choice...

We're all about finding ways to have fun and brighten your day at work and so we love the new competition by Shoot Experience - "Workin' 9 to 5" - they're inviting anyone up for the challenge to get a group together at work and snap 9 shots that show a day in the life of your office, working 9 to 5...