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Does A Passion Always Turn Into A Career?

By Sab on 7 June 2011 at 12:53 in Careershifters Blog

Is turning your passion into a career the best path for you? Trial out turning professional to find out. If you discover that you don't enjoy your passion as much when it's a career, there are other options you can take to get the right balance between paid work and your passions. Read this blog post to help you if you are considering turning a passion into a career!

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Career Change on the Web

By Sab on 6 May 2011 at 14:50 in Careershifters Blog

I haven’t done a web round up for a while, so here is a selection of online resources to inspire you through May!

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Career Inspiration: Clearing the decks

By Sab on 10 July 2010 at 21:13 in Careershifters Blog

Sometimes letting go of objects, papers, clothes from our past can help clear the decks to invite in the new, even if we don't know what the new will be like. More often than not, we don't really know what new things, people, jobs, opportunities will come into our lives - so we have to have fun finding out! The last article in the links below is a good example of how this can work.

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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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Lindsey

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"The Careershifters workshop helped me realise that it’s never too late to change your career, that these advances take time and, I am confident that if I stick with my ‘plan’ I won’t make another wrong career move."

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"For 17 years I worked in the travel industry. In the period of unemployment and after attending the Careershifters workshop I retrained and am now employed as a trainer and coach. I'd recommend the workshop to anyone who may not know what they want to do."

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"The Careershifters workshop started me on the path to changing from the Practice Manager of a GP Practice to Community Engagement work that meets the needs I identified at the workshop."

Diane Cassidy

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