Careershifters blog

Our very own Selina (aka Careershifters' Content Director) has just completed a marathon career shift.

Never one for a boring life, Selina has tried her hand at all kinds of things in search of career nirvana including serving chocolate delights to festival goers, making ceramic jewelry, running Spanish workshops and temping in different parts of the world. But after a long search, she's now finally found her dream vocation - and in an unexpected place.

You can read all about her "job that fits" in her latest ShiftLog entry and you can check out her eventful (often moving) journey getting there in her previous ShiftLogs.

Needless to say, we're massively proud of her!

We're having a little celebration in the Careershifters team today. Why? Well, we're now ranked no. 1 on Google's UK site for the term "career change".

This is fantastic news for the team that has worked so hard to get us here. More importantly though, we hope it means that more people find us, more people get inspired about what they can do with their careers, and more people who are currently fed up, unhappy or unfulfilled in their work take the plunge and shift to a career that makes them jump out of bed in the morning... which, is ultimately what we're all about.

You might be interested in hearing about one of the largest entrepreneurial gatherings happening in the UK this year. Your Life Your Legacy, will bring 2,000 entrepreneurs together from 14-16 April at Alexandra Palace in London. Meet successful small business owners, learn how to build winning teams and discover how to both create wealth and contribute to the world at the same time. Careershifters has teamed up with the organisers to offer you tickets priced at £118.70, rather than the normal £399. This offer is only valid until April 8th. Click here to book now!

It was great to be back once again at One Life Live, which seems to get bigger and busier every year.

A warm welcome to those of you that signed up on our mailing list. We'll be announcing the results of our free prize draw in the next two weeks.

In the meantime, for those of you that were asking about our upcoming workshops, you can find out all the details in our Events section. These consistently get booked out, so if you're interested in coming, make sure you sign up soon.

Finally, a big thank you to our two Careershifters' coaches, Grace Owen (pictured) and John Williams. Grace and John not only talked themselves hoarse giving out free careers advice to dozens of people, but have also kindly donated some of their coaching as prizes for our draw.

Cath Roan, our Managing Director, has been featured in the Times today, in their article on how to make a career change.

(more of Jessica Hagy's brilliant index cards are here).

Fresh into the New Year, we're delighted to launch our "25 Top Tips to kick start your career change".

Over the last few months, we've asked some of the UK's leading career coaches for their top tips about how to make a successful career change. Then, with the help our of very own design and illustration wizard Neil, we've pulled these together into one easy-to-read PDF booklet.

So, if you’re thinking about a change in 2008, or have already started the process, these nuggets of wisdom will, we hope, help you create a career that really gets you jumping out of bed in the morning.

And not only is this PDF packed with valuable advice, it's also free for our newsletter subscribers.

You can download your copy at www.careershifters.org/toptips.

Please let us know what you think!

Did you know?

• Half of what college students learn will be outdated before their third year of study
• The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs... by the age of 38
• The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 won’t have existed in 2004
  

Further evidence, if we needed it, that career change will be an increasingly common phenomenon - and indeed the norm - in the future. And there's lots more in this fascinating video by Karl Fisch.

(via Winning By Sharing)

The Careershifters London workshop - 'Reginite your Career' - has been picked out by Time Out as one of the Top 40 Things to do After Work in London. It's official - London loves us!

So if you want to find out what all the fuss is about, come along to the next workshop. And if you're happy with your job but know someone who could do with a good strong dose of inspiration and practical advice about changing career, then tell them about the workshop and send them to the Careershifters website - www.careershifters.org - to sign up before tickets run out.

Hot on the heels of our Facebook group, we now also have a group on LinkedIn, which will enable you to connect with like-minded career shifters through the LinkedIn network.

Just click on this link to join - http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/36063/66E2E313609E.