How the Careershifters Guide that I wrote ended up helping ME change career!

By Selina Barker

After my week's holiday - where I spent my time writing the Careershifters Guide and got to live out my ideal career and lifestyle - work got more unbearable. It wasn't the fault of the people there, or the job. It was a great company and a great job, it just wasn't the job for me and now it stood in stark contrast to that week where I'd got to work in the way I dreamed of.

I found myself coming home and complaining constantly about how I wasn't enjoying my work anymore and I hate being that person. Finally I said to myself 'either you suck it up and quit complaining or you do something about it'.

But what could I do? How was I going to make it happen? Funnily enough, it was the chapter in the very Careershifters Guide I had just written that showed me the way...

One evening I was reading through one of the last Chapters in the Guide about 'Selling Yourself'. Cath, Managing Director of Careershifters, and I were reading through it together to do a final edit and proof read.

The Chapter opens with "At some point, in making your career change a success, you are going to have to sell yourself, you're going to have to start getting really good at packaging yourself up as an opportunity that can't be missed." A lightbulb went on. If I really wanted this, I needed to find a way of selling myself as an opportunity that can't be missed.

Little did Cath know, as were reading through the Chapter, I was following the exercise that I had written myself just weeks before, and putting together my own sales pitch that I'd be presenting to Careershifters just days later.

I had never expected that the Careershifters Guide would end up being a pivotal influence on my own career change!

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