Tags: personal branding

Personal Branding: why making like an ipod can get you a great job!

By Marianne Cantwell

Knowing your 'brand' is the new buzz word in career development. So we decided to go and find out more about what is meant by 'your brand' and how it can help you when making a career change. Marianne Cantwell, a career coach specialising in helping people identify their own personal brand, talked us through it... More

Brand X: How to land the perfect job

By Helen Slingsby

Selling yourself to the max is beneficial at any stage of the economic cycle but is essential in times of financial uncertainty. Career Coach Helen Slingsby outlines key ways to beat the competition and land the perfect job. More

Personal Branding

By Henrietta Bond

Do you dread the question 'so what do you do?'. Do you do a variety of jobs and struggle to find a way to describe your career in a nutshell? Knowing how to identify ourselves is key to career success. Henrietta Bond, a communications consultant and career coach, introduces the notion of 'personal branding' and how it can help you identify what it is you 'do'. More


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Liz

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“After attending a Careershifters workshop I had the energy and drive to start researching how to get into teaching. I applied for a course, had an interview, got a place and left my old job in less than a week. It was so easy when I finally decided to go for it.”

Nikki

"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."

Paul Kensett

"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."

Claire Coveney

"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

“Thanks to Careershifters I'm shifting my career! Have been thinking for a while about the direction I'm going in and after looking at your website and reading some of the advice I realised that I've got to go for it.”

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Lindsey

"I had a career in sales and now I run my own sales training company.  The Careershifters workshop gave me the motivation to get on and do things, as well as some good direction with regards to the sort of activities I needed to put in place."

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