The Impact of Redundancy and How to Move Forward
If you’ve been made redundant, you’ll know that it’s not only the loss of your salary, colleagues and routine that affects you – it can also feel as though you’ve …
Useful Stuff
How to Handle the Uncertainty of AI Taking Over Your Future Career
If you’re here you might well be considering a career change and feeling uncertain about the right direction – something which AI has now made even more uncertain. It clearly …
Why “Sunk Cost Fallacy” Might Be Keeping You Stuck in the Wrong Career
If you’ve ever thought, “I’ve put too much into this career to change now,” you’re not alone. It’s one of the most common things I hear from clients who feel …
Making Networking for Career Change Less Cringeworthy
Networking tends to make even the most extrovert people feel a bit queasy. It brings up images of going to an event to schmooze people to try to get something …
Why “career transition” is better than “career change”
If you’re thinking about making a career change, the chances are you’re also feeling pretty overwhelmed by the idea of it. Before I made a shift myself, I spent a …
Using the STAR framework for competency-based interviews
As someone leading communication teams in Government, like other managers in the Civil Service, local government, the NHS, universities and large private sector employers, I recruited people based on how …
Career change may be difficult but it’s not impossible
Changing career can feel beyond frustrating, particualry because many of us start by doing an awful lot of googling and overthinking about it, convincing ourselves that we’ll have a lightbulb …
Five steps to managing your Inner Saboteur
We all have an Inner Saboteur AKA Gremlin or Inner Critic. It sees change as a threat, so when you start thinking about change, particularly to your career, which could impact your financial security, it’s on high alert. A key part of career change therefore, is learning how to manage it.
Taking action to find a better balance
People come to coaching for many reasons and unsurprisingly, with burnout rates on the increase, a popular one is to create more balance in their lives. These five steps help to put you back in control of how and where you spend your time.
Resources & recommended books
These resources and books help you to change your mindset about any area of your life and include some specifically about career change. They help you to get clear about yourself and what you want from your work, then explore your options to find the career that’s the best match for you. This is the same approach as my career coaching programme.
