By Feather
I feel greatly liberated by escaping the inflexible schedule of the school day / year. More
By Sab on 15 August 2011 at 10:57 in Careershifters Blog
"I want to leave my current office job but feel stuck. I have a few ideas for potential new career areas I could move into, but when I look further into them, I find the costs involved off-putting. I feel I'm destined to stay trapped in a mind-numbing job. What can I do to safely move forward and get unstuck?"
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By Sab on 9 November 2010 at 18:11 in Careershifters Blog
Use the remaining weeks of 2010 to set the wheels in motion for your career change! What could you do between now and the first day of 2011 to explore new career areas, get your motivation up, and/or get some work experiences and new skills?
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By Andrea Perry
If you’re out of formal education and wanting to career shift instead, how can you use the impetus that early autumn brings to acquire new skills? Here’s a mélange of ideas to get you started. More
By Selina Barker
James Miller 32, married and with one child, was doing well in the corporate world of retail and property for some ten years, reaching a senior level and a salary to match. But as he reached 30 he felt increasingly uncomfortable at the direction his career was taking with a primary focus on profit and money and far removed from his childhood dreams of working with the natural world and making a difference.
Here he tells his career change story, how he figured out his new career path and how he's now moving with a wife and baby to Edinburgh so that he can go back to University to study for an MSc in Ecological Economics... More
By Sarah Cooper
One of the main reasons we stay stuck in a job we don't like is that it pays us well, or at least adequately. However, whilst a career change (particularly if you're setting up a business) will almost inevitably require a financial sacrifice in the short term, in the long term, fulfilling work does NOT have to mean less pay. In fact if you find something you love to do, you'll get really good at it - and the chances are you'll make more money than you did previously.
Here Sarah Cooper goes through 7 ways that you can fund your career change. More
By Selina Barker on 12 June 2009 at 16:00 in Careershifters Blog
Find out how you can get your hands on prizes to pay for retraining at the Open University or the opportunity to win yourself a home-based business from Remote Employment (and a holiday thrown in there too!)
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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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By M on 14 May 2008 at 16:40 in ShiftLogs
Going back into a job which doesn’t help me find my new career feels like a bit of a failure. However, it is definitely the most practical option – every day I work means one day that I can do unpaid voluntary work or an internship once I’m done. More
By M on 1 May 2008 at 16:20 in ShiftLogs
A year and a half ago, after a year of being utterly miserable as an IT consultant, I finally bit the bullet and resigned. With no job to go to, and no real idea of what I wanted to do, I fluctuated on a daily basis between believing I was really brave, or really foolish. More
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