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The Top 5 Places Where Career Changers Find Their Passions

By Nisa Chitakasem

You’ve decided you’re tired of a career you feel absolutely no enthusiasm for and that it’s time to find a new one. So how do you know which careers you want to target? In this article, Nisa Chitakasem shares five places where successful career changers typically find new ideas and activities to try, eventually identifying their true passions. More

"I’m actually quite happy in my career but I’m being made redundant. What now?"

By Sab on 3 August 2011 at 10:37 in Careershifters Blog

Are you being made redundant from work you enjoy? In this blog post I share a useful technique to help you feel motivated about your career options, whether you want to stay in your current career or want to take a new direction.

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How To Stay Engaged At Work While You Change Career

By Nisa Chitakasem

Feeling drained at your current job? Energy reserves low when you want to work on your career change in your free time? Nisa Chitakasem shows how you can stay energised at your day job while you change career. More

How Taking A Break From Your Norm Can Trigger Career Change

By Sab on 25 July 2011 at 10:58 in Careershifters Blog

Are you 'trying to work out' your new career path but to no avail? Let go, try new things, and let inspiration hit you when you least expect it!

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How to Create Your New Career Direction

By Jessica McGrego...

In this article, coach Jessica McGregor Johnson explains how you can take elements that you enjoy from your current career, and combine them with fresh inspiration to create your new career direction. More

Going On Holiday Is Like Changing Career!

By Grace Owen

Career coach Grace Owen explores how during the holiday season you can take some practical steps to changing your career for the better and offers her essential ‘holiday guide’ for those struggling to find their dream job.. More

Writing the Careershifters Guide on top of a demanding full-time job was tough!

By Selina Barker on 22 August 2009 at 14:48 in ShiftLogs

Writing the Careershifters Guide while doing a demanding day job was tough. Really tough. And not just for me - the whole team were working on Careershifters in addition to full-time jobs. But by taking a week off to work full-time on writing the Careershifters Guide I got experience what life would really be like if this was my day job...and I loved it. More

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Exploring my career ideas

By Selina Barker on 11 August 2009 at 18:10 in ShiftLogs

Having got a clear picture, in essence, of what I wanted from my career, the next step was to explore what that might look like in reality. Here's how I did it... More

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I think I know what I want to do - what are the next steps?

Careershifter question

By Anonymous

I want to totally change career and am looking at more creative careers. I have the money to re-train but want to know how and where I do this and where I start once trained.

ShiftDoctor answer

By Sonia Lakshman in ShiftSurgeries

It is a matter of doing your homework and research. This is such an important stage in any career change as the more thoroughly you investigate the profession, its training and potential employment opportunities, the less likely you are to spend your valuable training funds unwisely. So where to begin?...

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