Why is it that despite great intentions and well-laid plans, we so often swap one unsatisfying job for another one just like it?

If you’re looking forward to making a genuine career change, I suggest you begin by looking back at your motivation and your methods.

If your career change efforts are dogged by confidence crunching rants from your inner demons – you’re not alone.

Let these monologues go unchecked and your carefully rehearsed peak performance can fall completely flat.

Here is what I recommend to help calm your demons when they start giving you the job seeking jitters. 

Despite the similarities, we don’t usually approach job applications as a form of performance art. In fact, winning any kind of role – vocational or theatrical, depends in large part (pun intended) on honing a set of wow worthy auditioning skills.

Five books that span over three decade’s worth of practical, inspirational writing on how to manage career and other change with skill, self-awareness and grit.

The Wheel Of Life is a much-loved coaching tool. I use it often to check for gaps and overload in key areas in my life. My career and entrepreneur coaching clients also find it really useful for recalibrating their personal and professional balance.

I’m keen to share what I’ve learnt about what’s involved in getting a business up and running, and transitioning from office life to solo business adventure.

Milton Gan always knew he’d run his own business. In 2012, this thirty something ad man swapped a seventeen-year career in media and marketing for his flourishing full time business as a wedding photographer.

5 exploratory moves designed to reduce your stress and increase your creativity as you embark on your career change journey.

Comparisons can be brilliant motivators, highlighting or reflecting your strengths and aspirations. However, if comparisons usually leave you feeling ’worse off, worse at and worse than’ pretty much everyone, perhaps its time to change the way you make them.

The Values in Action (VIA) Survey of Character Strengths is a simple, practical self-assessment that identifies and ranks your core characteristics and strengths. It is one of my favourite tools and I’ve seen many clients use it to create positive changes in their own and others lives.