Sascha talks about facing fears, leaping into the unknown, opening doors and synchronising her remarkable skills to launch a new career as an end of life doula, supporting people who are dying and their families.
3 ways to change your career change mindset
Mind how you go – fixed and flexible approaches to changing careers
How well you navigate your career change has lots to do with your mindset.
Your mindset is the collection of beliefs that shape your habitual ways of thinking and acting. If managing the ‘change’ in career change is giving you grief, taking a look at your mindset may help.
5 ways to weather the feeling storm after losing your job
Three ways to quit your career comfort zone
From its outset, changing careers involves venturing beyond familiar places, people and perspectives. As a client remarked this week, “you have to do uncomfortable things to get where you want to go.”
80% nonsense –busting the ‘hidden’ job market myth
Career changers are confronted by lots of scary ideas. One of these is the ‘sticky stat’ that 80% of jobs never get advertised. It is certainly true that people ‘in the know’ fill lots of brilliant career openings that never get advertised. However the 80% statistic is a relic of the ‘pre-Internet’ 1980s‘ and is now is seriously dodgy.
5 career change assumptions you need to test
Tackling career change alone? 7 ways support can help you
Career change insights from Grand Designs
Nine things I did to change careers
Get up from your desk and make career change happen
The first thing I tell them is that you can’t change careers sitting behind a desk.
Then we talk about ways to switch your search technique to ‘finding people not jobs’. This conversation is about how to get out of your head and into action.
If you’re stuck for ways to start talking to real people working in jobs or areas you‘re keen to explore, here’s what I suggest.