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Books to inspire and guide you as you shift your career

By Selina Barker

We've asked our expert career coaches to recommend their pick of inspirational books to help get your career change on track. From understanding what makes you tick, to ideas for a portfolio career, we've got a great selection to get you started.
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Finding out what you really want: how getting naked helps

By Sarah Cooper

Sarah Cooper has been through an incredible careershift journey and now coaches others as they go through theirs. Getting started is all about digging deep and here Sarah has compiled a great list of thought provokers to help you uncover what it is you'd really love to do - or perhaps fully
realise what you've actually known all along.
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How to Love the Job You Do

By Jacqui Mitchell

You may not wish to change jobs or career at the present time or your job search may be taking longer than expected (the average time period is 3-6 months) so what steps can you take to make your working life more interesting? The following ideas may be just the thing to banish those Monday blues More

How one of our workshop participants made the move to her dream job

By Richard on 19 May 2008 at 13:28 in Careershifters Blog

It's always fantastic to hear when we've helped out in someone's career change, so it was particularly great to get an email from Nikki Welham this week.

Nikki took the time to tell us how the Careershifters site and then one of our workshops gave her the inspiration, confidence and momentum to leave her stuffy office jobs and follow her dream career of becoming a teacher.

"...My friend sent me a link to the Careershifters website as she knew I wasn’t very happy in my job. As I began reading other people’s stories about changing careers and the advice about how to go about it, I started to get a bit excited - maybe changing jobs wasn’t that impossible. My friend and I decided to go along to one of the workshops to find out more. It was easy to get to and would be a nice evening out, if nothing more. I can safely say now, that those two hours on a Tuesday evening in mid-June last year were the start of what has been the most amazing year for me..."

Curious to know what happened for Nikki after the workshop? Read her full story, here.

How has Careershifters helped you? Please let us know!

Not sure where to start with your career change? Come to one of our events!

By Selina Barker

There is nothing worse than starting your day by dragging yourself back into a job you can't stand. Whether it's the work, the environment, your boss or the hours, the chances are you're here right now because enough is enough – it's time for a change. Selina Barker, Careershifters' events maestro, explains how a workshop might be just the ticket to get your career back on track. More

Working with purpose

By Sonia Lakshman

There are only so many email backlogs, ill planned projects, ceaseless targets and endless meetings that the human soul can tolerate. Sooner or later we cry out - "I've had enough, I'm off."
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There's a support group for that

By skuft on 31 May 2007 at 18:20 in ShiftLogs

I got a card in the post from my family today.

It said:

"You hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody and they meet at the bar." More

New Years Eve

By Mike Howard on 16 March 2007 at 22:17 in ShiftLogs

It was a weird New Years Eve celebration on account that I'd decided that I was not going to drink alcohol. I'd done this every New Year since I could, and I just wasn't going to be bothered with a stinking hangover the next day. This was when I discovered Red Bull. A great night was had by all. My eyes were on stalks, and I could still feel the room moving, and hear my ears buzzing the next day. So not much different from alcohol then.Any way, I digress. Is that spelt right?, as I've never used that word in the written form before. I had one of those, what I call a "ping moment" during a quite moment in the middle of the evening. "This Year, I was going to learn LeRock dancing, and do that life coaching course that I've kept on talking to myself about for the last 4 years or so". It really was a crystal clear decision. I couldn't remember a choice being made with such a sense of clarity and determination. More

Careers Un-Ltd

By Jonathan Robinson

Cracks are forming in the careers veneer. They reveal a stark choice between a career that makes us dumb down and switch of or something that deserves our talent, passion and sense of fun. We can choose to be ltd or un-ltd. More

Reignite Your Career: Careershifters' London evening workshop - 21 Mar 2007

Wednesday 21 March 2007   6:00pm – 8:30pm
Are you thinking about making a career change? Have you started to make a change, but still feel that things aren't moving as quickly or easily as they should be? This London-based evening event is designed for you.
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25 Top Tips to Kick-Start Your Career

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