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6 Top Ways To Get The Support You Need For Your Career Change

By Piya Khanna

Featured Article: Featured articleAre those closest to you casting doubts over your career change plans? Being around people who will encourage you and give you momentum is key. Change expert Piya Khanna gives you her 6 top strategies for how to create a supportive environment for yourself. More

How Can You Tell The Difference Between A Passion Or Interest?

By Jessica McGrego...

Jessica McGregor Johnson looks at how both interests and passion will inform your next career move, and how to use them to create a new career direction. More

Coping With The Critics

By Brian Cormack Carr

When embarking on change, you may attract critics - those who appear to want to run your idea or dream into the ground. In this article, Brian Cormack Carr looks at the different types of critics you may encounter and how to handle them. More

How to Tell Loved Ones About Your New Career Direction

By Andrea Perry

Just as you have to adapt to changes when making a career move, so do those close to you. They need time and support too! Andrea Perry suggests how best to introduce the idea of your career change to your friends and family. More

Building Your Dream Career Change Team

By Brian Cormack Carr

Brian Cormack Carr shows how important it is to build a support team for yourself when changing careers, to keep you on track and to celebrate your successes! More

How To Cope With Negative Reactions From Those Close To You When Changing Career - Part 2

By Sarah Cooper

Sarah Cooper offers her thoughts on how to deal with the doubts and fears of those close to us when changing career. More

How To Cope With Negative Reactions From Those Close To You When Changing Career - Part 1

By Sab

Have you shared your career change ideas with those close to you, expecting support, only to receive doubts or strange looks? Careershifters Editor Sab offers her advice and tips on how to cope with negative reactions from family and friends during career change. More

Trying To Change Career All Alone

By Sonia Lakshman

Sonia Lakshman tells us why doing a career change all by yourself is definitely not the best way to change career, and how having other people on board can bring you the change you need. More

Creating The Connections To Make Your Career Change – A Two-Way Street

By Andrea Perry

Brilliant article by Andrea Perry on how career shifting is all about making connections and how to go about it... More

WhereTo Find Support And Guidance

By Jessica McGrego...

Career change requires support, not only to keep you motivated but also to help with any emotional turbulences and to ensure you stay on track. Here are suggestions on how to identify your 'true' supporters and a practical exercise on how to become your own champion supporter. More

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Nikki

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Matt Hayden

“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

"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

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Lindsey

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How to get support