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Resources for your successful career change - our new section has just launched

By Richard on 24 November 2008 at 18:46 in Careershifters Blog

It's something that you've asked for and it's something that we've long wanted to include in the site... and now it's here.

Check into our brand new Resources section.

Whether you're looking for a coach to help you navigate your career change journey, psychometric tests to better understand yourself, information on retraining courses, help with starting your own busines, assistance with writing your CV, or pointers on how to take time out from your career, we've started to pull together the people we believe are the best in the business in these areas.

Our aim? To create the most comprehensive list of recommended people, organisations and suppliers that can help you further in your successful career change.

And, to help us do that, we'd love to hear your suggestions on who we should include. Let us know here and let us know too what you think of the new section!

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Coaching – a sign of success

By Jessica McGrego...

There is a misconception that hiring a career coach is like admitting failure in your career and this idea can put a lot of people off. But hiring a career coach is no different to hiring a tennis coach when you want to improve your game. Jessica, a professional career coach and regular contributor to Careershifters, explains what career coaching is all about. More

Careershifters' 25 Top Tips to kick start your career change

By Richard on 7 January 2008 at 12:51 in Careershifters Blog

Top TipsFresh into the New Year, we're delighted to launch our "25 Top Tips to kick start your career change".

Over the last few months, we've asked some of the UK's leading career coaches for their top tips about how to make a successful career change. Then, with the help our of very own design and illustration wizard Neil, we've pulled these together into one easy-to-read PDF booklet.

So, if you’re thinking about a change in 2008, or have already started the process, these nuggets of wisdom will, we hope, help you create a career that really gets you jumping out of bed in the morning.

And not only is this PDF packed with valuable advice, it's also free for our newsletter subscribers.

You can download your copy at www.careershifters.org/toptips.

Please let us know what you think!

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