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How Old is Too Old for a Career Change?

By Nisa Chitakasem

If you are changing career later in life, you have not missed the boat, nor have you run out of runway. Ths article show you how to use your experience to your advantage! More

Hitting a Career Crisis When You Used to Love What You Did...

By Sonia Lakshman

What do you do when a career that’s worked for you stops working? Suddenly you find yourself - an expert in your field with many years of experience, serious credibility and a hard earned reputation – and you're miserable. It’s a bit like realizing that the person you have loved and lived with for many years is no longer the person you want to be with. You don’t want it to be that way; you desperately want to get back the early years, when things were great, when you were alive and engaged, hopeful and inspired. But you can’t. It’s over. And you are left, feeling trapped, oarless, hopeless. So what next? Career coach, Sonia Lakshman, offers some excellent guidance... More

Can we ever say it's 'too late' to change career?

By Andrea Perry

Can we really change career no matter what age we are or is there a cut-off point after which it becomes a whole lot harder? Well, according to career change expert, Andrea Perry, 'it depends'. She offers her advice on how to approach career change later on in life. More

It's never too late to Careershift

Careershifter question

By Anonymous

Although I have spent a huge amount of time trying to determine what I may like to do I am completely stuck. At the moment I need to find some work and it is likely that I will return to the same work because I cannot find the answers.

ShiftDoctor answer

By Richard Butler in ShiftSurgeries

To help you move forward I'd like you to consider each of your issues separately. Find a person, a friend or relative whom you trust and whose advice you value, to act as a sounding-board and test each of the ideas with them.

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