Careershifters blog

Interesting article in the Guardian about salaries and the value of work

Last weekend the Guardian published an article about salaries, and interviewed a cross section of people working in very different sectors about their income. Those interviewed include some career changers, and I found it interesting to read about how everybody works for different reasons - some for love, some for money, some to make a difference and a lot of people trying to balance money with satisfaction. The article might help you think about what you want from your working life alongside money, and also potential career options.

Keep On Going With Your Career Change

Do you feel like you're just being handed set-back after set-back in your career change? Are the repeated brick-bats really starting to get you down? Jessica McGregor Johnson offers some wise advice about how to keep going when you feel like giving up.

Take an Investor Mindset in Your Career Change

Are you using your resources (time and money) effectively to help your career change? If you feel money could be the barrier to your change, it might help to think of what you can do to invest in your career change, and ways in which you can use the resources you have right now to help you move to where you want to be.

Why all Career Changers Should Consider Location in Their Plans

Career change can be more than about the work itself. It can lead to a relocation or drastic lifestyle change. The Questions that this brings up are relevant to all career changers - how do you want to shape your life?

Finding A Job With Reduced Physical Ability

Career coaching group Position Ignition offers some valuable advice about work options for those with reduced ability, from insomnia and RSI to chronic migraines and speech impediments. If you're considering how to tailor your next career to suit your own personal needs, read on!

Four Tips to Avoid Regret when You Shift Careers

We have a guest blog post from Kate Willson who writes about how to move on smoothly to a new career without regret.

As the days get darker, make your career change!

Use the remaining weeks of 2010 to set the wheels in motion for your career change! What could you do between now and the first day of 2011 to explore new career areas, get your motivation up, and/or get some work experiences and new skills?

How To Find Your Genius

Not playing to your strengths in your current work? Desperate to find the right career fit? Brian Cormack Carr explains how reawakening your own hidden genius can help!

Understand Yourself: Four Personality Tests And A Warning

One of the first stops on the career change journey is knowing yourself. Sarah Cooper examines four personality tests and provides two useful tips to help with your career change.

Temporary funks and dead-ends

Should I quit? When do I quit? Isn't quitting for losers?! The difference between a temporary unhappy period at work, and a neverending negative job situation.

Not playing to your strengths in your current work? Desperate to find the right career fit? Brian Cormack Carr explains how reawakening your own hidden genius can help!

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