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Fear.less magazine and blog - inspiration for your career change
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!
The power of re-framing: Be your own Career Change Spin Doctor
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.
Read on!
Graduates who want to leave their profession a few years after qualifying - don't stay there just because you think you should!
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!
New free skills assesment site for career changers
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
Career change ideas and inspiration from a free weekly magazine...
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)
A succession of new careers — fluidity in todays working style
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!
How To Tackle Limiting Beliefs When Changing Career
Limiting beliefs block our true potential, our talents and prevent us getting what we really want in life. The moment the negative voice in your head starts reminding you of your fears and doubts, try the following steps.
Career Inpiration: Career change or life renovation?
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!)
Career Inspiration: What drives and motivates us after our basic needs are met?
This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.