Tags: Job Change

Ready for a career shift?

The Times have featured Careershifters and our MD Cath Roan today in their step-by-step guide to making a career change.

Also mentioned in the article is our soon-to-be-launched Shift Club.

We're launching the Club on 19 May and there will only be 50 places available. If you'd like to register your interest to be first in line and receive a FREE seven-part taster of our new Careershifters Guide, click here now!

Is now the time to make a career change or life change?

Cath Roan, Careershifters MD, joined author & philosopher Alain de Botton and entrepreneur Sahar Hashemi on BBC Woman's Hour today to discuss the realities of find meaning in our work in the midsts of the current recession.

You can listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jwxz4/Womans_Hour_27_04_2009/

We've got something exciting to tell you.

As we announced a few weeks back, we've been beavering away on a no-nonsense Guide to Changing Career.

The idea has been to bring together everything we've learnt, warts and all, from working with hundreds of career changers (including ourselves!), over the last five years and to create a step-by-step, no-nonsense guide to what it takes to go from feeling miserable at work to creating a career that you truly enjoy. In short, the kind of guide the founding team wished we'd had when we made our own career changes.

We've toiled late into the night, we've tested early versions with our audience, we've scapped huge amounts of stuff, rewritten sections, added new bits and put the final polish on... and are now at the stage where the guide is just about finished (hooray!).

In fact, we're so excited about it that we want to give you some of it for FREE so you can get a real flavour of what it's all about.

So, the Careershifters Guide taster series, consisting of 7 FREE email tutorials, will show you exactly how the Guide and The Shift Club can help you find out what you want and how to get there.

You get seven emails, over two weeks, starting on Monday 20th April, showing you:

1. Before you set off - the 3 stages to making a shift
   A career change is a journey. We'll show you the map.
2. How to get started
   To begin with you need to figure out what you really want. We'll show you how.
3. How to imagine having a job you love...
   How to start building up a picture of the kind of career that will suit you best.
4. How to work out the career that is right for you
   So you've got a shortlist of options? Next we'll show you how to pick the right one.
5. How to change career AND pay the bills
   We're in a recession. We'll show you how to change career AND balance the books.
6. How to get the skills you need
   Retraining is one of the most popular ways to shift -- we''ll show how you can do it.
7. How to work out what's stopping you
   We'll show you how to silence that voice telling you "it can't be done".

Interested? Hurry - registration ends soon.

Click here to sign up now!

If you're currently in the process of looking for a job, you might be interested in "Spring to Life", a new, free downloadable guide that has been launched by The Stopgap Group. The guide includes handy advice on creating a winning CV, preparing for a tough interview and keeping motivated through the process.

And we're super happy that Careershifters got a mention as one of the resources to go to for further help.

You can read more about the guide and download a copy here: http://www.thesggroup.co.uk/springintolife

Raymond Blanc is once again on the hunt for a couple to join him in opening and running a restaurant.

If you are a talented cook or host and believe you have the skills to succeed in this challenging and exciting profession, then this is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

You could be a married couple, in a relationship, members of a family, good friends or work colleagues.

If any of the above rings true, the BBC want to hear from you!

Go to www.bbc.co.uk/restaurant for more information. The closing date for applications is 13 April 2009.

Are you stuck with your career change?

Perhaps you know you want to make a change but haven't got a clue what you really want to do. Perhaps the recession is putting you off making any moves right now. Perhaps you instinctively know that there's something much better out there for you, but feel tied down by your responsibilities. Or, perhaps the whole thought of a huge change in your life just fills you with dread.

Perhaps too, you've started to do a few small things to try to kickstart your change. Talked to friends. Read a book. Done some research on the web.

But you haven't yet got any further.

Maybe you've looked into professional support for your career change: consultancy, coaching, workshops or courses. But either they've been too expensive, haven't felt right or you've not been in the right place at the right time.

Any of the above apply?

Read on...

Careershifters is putting the finishing touches on a unique, new programme designed specifically for people like YOU.

The aim? To enable you to move from a place of being stuck with your career change into ACTION - and specifically to help you determine what you want to do, how you're going to make the shift and how you can secure your ideal job.

Our first-of-its-kind 12-step career change programme will literally hand-hold you through the key steps of making a successful career change. You'll be able to follow the programme at your own pace at home, you'll be supported personally by two of the UK's top career coaches and the Careershifters team, and you'll be part of a group of fellow career changers who will be travelling the journey with you.

And all of this in a package that will be surprisingly affordable.

Curious to know more?

Well, we'll be revealing more about the programme over the coming weeks.

In the meantime, if you have any thoughts, questions or suggestions, just let us know.

Facing redundancy? Fearful of what the future will bring? Or simply looking for new inspiration about your own career change?

This BBC online magazine feature, just out yesterday, shows how losing your job may ultimately make you happier.

Read the stories of Neil Miller, who shifted from an insurance broker to castle gardner; Tom Burrough, who transitioned from advertising exec to baby food entrepreneur; Adrienne King, who moved from communications officer to countryside ranger; and Adam Hayes, who changed from city trader to graphic designer.

Needless to say, given our MD Cath is also a PR maestro, Careershifters also got a mention :-)

Read the full article here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7826979.stm - and let us know what you think!