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.
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.
Six ways to deal with fear of career change failure
For lots of us, fear of making a wrong career choice is the thing that holds us back. If your career change is stalled by fear of failure, here are four ways to get unstuck.
How to handle feeling like a career change fake
Are you waiting for the world to wake up to just how clueless and ill equipped you really are? If so, impostor syndrome probably has you in its grip.
Mind how you go – do you need to change your mindset?
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.