How to change careers in your 40s and 50s
Is it too late to change careers in your 40s or 50s?
No. Firstly, the right age to change careers is the one you’re at when you know that something’s got to give. And while your career change path will look different at 42 or 55 than it might have at 22 or 35, it’s perfectly possible to transition to something new once you hit 40.
How to change career in your 20s
Thinking about changing careers in your 20s? You're not alone — and you're not behind. Here's what I learned from doing it twice, plus the tips I wish someone had given me.
How to change career in your 30s
It’s not too late to change careers in your 30s. It’s not a reckless route that threatens your financial future and professional reputation. Nor will it undermine all the effort, education, and energy you’ve invested in a career you no longer love.
AI and career change - how to generate ideas and find contacts
Can getting up close and personal with AI help you change careers? Absolutely. Use your preferred AI tool cleverly and cautiously, and you’ll save swathes of time researching, organising and analysing useful data.
Used wisely, it can also help you create killer job applications and even refine your interview technique.
Small shift, big difference - could a career tweak work for you?
One of the early things I help career change clients figure out is what precisely needs fixing or changing. Is it the job or is it the career?
Is It Really Possible to Change Careers?
Do you believe that finding a meaningful, fulfilling career is 100% possible… for you?
How to explore your next career move
Handling anything and everything you encounter in your career change can be heaps easier and much more fun if you get your explorer’s mindset on.
Small steps to move your career change forwards
A gentle, intentional, one-step-at-time approach can help you deal with the discomfort of doing things differently to change careers.
How (and why) to make your career change more playful
Approaching career change with a light touch and a sense of play and not taking yourself too seriously can really help you move from a worn-out career to an exciting new one.
'Oh the places you'll go' – career change clues from Dr Seuss
I'm yet to meet or coach anyone whose career change ran straight from 'a' to 'b'.
The path to your new career will probably zig zag towards a great new place that you may never have imagined at the outset.
How to choose between two career paths
Changing careers involves making many tricky decisions – when to quit, which career to do next, how to make your move.
Nine brainy ways to curb career change uncertainty
If you’re navigating career change’s uncharted waters, these nine tips may help you stay afloat.
How to have confident career change conversations
If you’re keen to kickstart your career change, look for people, not jobs.
What to do when you're scared to change careers
Throw yourself, heart and soul, into any transformative activity, and you're bound to be excited, exhilarated, and sometimes really scared.
Five sticking points for career changers and how to negotiate them
When your career change hits a rough patch, here's why and what to do about it.
5 energy-efficient tips to keep your career change on track
If your reserves of energy and optimism for career change are headed into the red zone, here are five ways to replenish them.
10 lively online groups for career changers
If you’re keen to connect to like-minded career changers online, here are some places I recommend. Only two of these online recommendations are directly connected with changing careers. But any of them could connect you to sparky ideas or people or events or courses.
Waiting for a career change epiphany? Try this instead
Career change epiphanies are rare. So, what if we swapped waiting for light bulb moments for seeking out things and people to spark our shift?
Gretchen Rubin's 4 tendencies. Career change tips for your type
Gretchen Rubin’s 4 Tendencies quiz may give you an insight into how you get stuff done and how you might do things differently and better.
Four decisive ways to deal with analysis paralysis
Analysis paralysis causes us to overthink everything we know that may have a bearing on decisions little and large. It drives us to take refuge in research as a substitute for action. If analysis paralysis is undermining your career change momentum, these four tips will help you stay on track.