Do you feel stuck? Don't know where to start? Fed up with no progress? We've been there!
The whole Careershifters team have been through their own career changes. We learnt during our shifts that one of the hardest things for us to do was simply to get started. In fact, it took us months to even believe it was possible to have a career you love. Then it took us months to build up the confidence to make the shift and even longer to work out how to make the change.
During this time, we were feeling miserable, stuck and unmotivated — affecting the people we cared about most: our family and friends.
Looking back, we realised that we could have done a few simple things to avoid a lot of this heartache. And that’s why we designed the Careershifters workshop.
Through this workshop, you learn how to choose a new career, the right way
The first step to any career change is to get a clear understanding of what is important to you so that you can then figure out what the right career is for you — that's what this workshop is all about!
Often career changers ‘jump in at the deep end’ of career change, trying to list job options before thinking about what exactly they want to get out of a career change. This can result in a lot of frustration, and rarely results in a good career change.
Why? Because picking a new career without understanding your basic ‘me-criteria’ is akin to closing your eyes and picking a career at random. No wonder people spend years going around in circles trying to decide what to do next. Through this workshop, you learn how to choose a new career, the right way.
With a real understanding of yourself you can create a list of your career ‘must haves’ and ‘deal breakers’. This means:
- You will have criteria for deciding which careers to explore and which to eliminate
- You will understand how to filter your search by what makes you tick, what motivates you, what environment is right for you
In short, you'll go away with the tools, techniques and knowledge you need to make your career change a success.
We've hand-picked some of the UK's leading career coaches to lead the workshop
Featured in Time Out, Guardian, Telegraph, The Times, Metro and Woman's Hour, Careershifters has been running the UK’s leading career change workshops since 2006.
We have teamed up with three of London’s leading career coaches and human behaviour specialists, Sonia Lakshman, Marc Jerrard and Rowan Johnson, to deliver the definitive, top-draw workshops. In short we think they're pretty good, and we think you will too!
Sonia Lakshman
Sonia Lakshman is a regular contributing coach for Careershifters, and helps her clients figure out what they'd really love to do.
Before qualifying as a coach, Sonia worked in music and media including for Universal Music and the BBC, liberating herself from her office desk to strike out for a life of more freedom and fulfilment - and since then has helped 100's of people work happy.
Marc Jerrard
Marc Jerrard is one of the UK’s top performance coaches and an expert in human behaviour. He has designed and delivered professional career development workshop programmes for professionals from graduate to CEO level in FTSE 500 companies around the world. Marc has been featured by Careershifters for his outstanding approach to helping people identify the career that is right for them.
Rowan Johnson
Passionate about personal and professional development, Rowan Johnson has enjoyed a varied and exciting career. For many years she was a primary school teacher and physical education lecturer before becoming an Executive and Performance Coach. She gets her buzz from mentoring, training, motivating and coaching individuals to maximise their potential. Rowan is a Master NLP Practitioner and Hypnotherapist, Stress Management Counsellor, Style Coach and Personal Trainer.
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