Explore your options

By Anonymous

Posted in: How to make the change
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Once you're clear on what really makes you tick - where your strengths, skills and passions lie - you can start to explore what careers and work-styles would best suit you.

You may already have a few ideas. So this is now a time to flesh out some of these ideas: find out what those careers are really like, what it takes to make your way into them, what courses you might be able to take and who out there can help you.

Here is how Careershifters helps as you explore your options:

'Explore Your Options' articles, exercises and expert advice from top career coaches

Our Careershifters career coaches have helped hundreds of people to successfully change career, now they're giving their guidance and practical advice to you for FREE. Here's a few to get started with:

Shift Surgery

Every month our coaches offer free online coaching to our users and you could be the next patient! The best questions are published online (anonymously if you request it) for everyone to learn from.

All you have to do is submit your career change dilemma (we get a lot of requests for online coaching and can't unfortunately answer everyone, but we're working on it!).

Workshops: Reginite Your Career

Monthly evening workshops that offer a night of inspiration and practical guidance for anyone thinking about or in the middle of a career change - TimeOut rave about them!

Shiftlogs

Learn from the experiences of career shifters as they blog about their career change journey and how they went about exploring their options.

Support from the Careershifters team and members

Whenever you leave a message on the site the Careershifters team and members know about it and are there to offer support and advice. So whether you want to share a top tip or ask for help you'll find someone from the community ready to respond! Join today for free and get involved.


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What people are saying about Careershifters

"I had a career in sales and now I run my own sales training company.  The Careershifters workshop gave me the motivation to get on and do things, as well as some good direction with regards to the sort of activities I needed to put in place."

Matt Hayden

“After attending a Careershifters workshop I had the energy and drive to start researching how to get into teaching. I applied for a course, had an interview, got a place and left my old job in less than a week. It was so easy when I finally decided to go for it.”

Nikki

"Careershifters helped me realise that there were many small steps I could take towards improving my job satisfaction. Gaining greater focus has given me a renewed enthusiasm for my work, giving me the confidence to negotiate a one year sabbatical."



Cath Rooney

"This website has been a lifesaver for me over the past year!"

Lindsey

"The Careershifters workshop started me on the path to changing from the Practice Manager of a GP Practice to Community Engagement work that meets the needs I identified at the workshop."

Diane Cassidy

"For 17 years I worked in the travel industry. In the period of unemployment and after attending the Careershifters workshop I retrained and am now employed as a trainer and coach. I'd recommend the workshop to anyone who may not know what they want to do."

Paul Kensett

“Thanks to Careershifters I'm shifting my career! Have been thinking for a while about the direction I'm going in and after looking at your website and reading some of the advice I realised that I've got to go for it.”

Justine

“As of yesterday, I officially have a new career and start my new and exciting role next week! So a massive THANK YOU to all of you at Careershifters for your support. You really do deserve every success in what you're doing.”

Liz

"The Careershifters workshop helped me realise that it’s never too late to change your career, that these advances take time and, I am confident that if I stick with my ‘plan’ I won’t make another wrong career move."

Claire Coveney

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