My guess is that you are not considering a career change at 40 merely because you want a pay rise. Whilst money is usually part of the equation, if money were your full motive, you could take the linear route. Aim for promotion and see just how high you can get in your own sector […]
Career change ideas: When you were at school and you were seeking a career, were you too encouraged to see what was out there and try and fit yourself into that box? Do you still hold the belief that career change ideas are outside of you? Do you believe hat an opportunity will drop right into your […]
Lets be honest, career change is frightening. In fact, any change is frightening. When we think about potential change we can create all sorts of stories in our minds. These stories do not usually contain too much truth compared with reality. Watching The Boy get himself into a real tiz regarding an after school club, […]
I took the following paragraph from sage journals which describes Professional Identity Construction. As i read it I began to panic at the complexity of the layers of the formation of each identity. I began to feel fearful at the shifting boundaries both internally and outside of each of us. I wanted to harness and […]
Wikipedia define Professional Development opportunities as this: “Professional development is learning to earn or maintain professional credentials such as academic degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning opportunities situated in practice. It has been described as intensive and collaborative, ideally incorporating an evaluative stage” Therefore learning opportunities equal the the hands on kind […]
Professional Development Trends: The professional landscape changes daily. Changes are driven by money and politics and global markets. Driven by eternal influences this landscape is mostly out of our control. Professional Development trends follow these changes in the work landscape and these too are outside our remit of design. The piece of the employment jigsaw […]
Career Coach Bristol: The best thing about being a career coach in Bristol is the diversity of the employment landscape here. For a city that has it’s roots in the tradition of sea-faring, the challenges of the slave trade and the establishment of banking, there has grown a rebellious undertow of ‘we can do this another […]
Engaging with an authentic career coach will take you through a rigorous and thorough process. As coach and client, we need to explore aspects your past in order to tease out the threads that you wish to replicate for your career future. A good career coach will examine the professional environments you have previously experienced. […]
Running a business is the same as organising a good party. Its terrifying to plan. It is easy and joyous to partake in once its in progress. The emotional rollercoaster of the social host, mirror that of an entrepreneurial start-up exactly. When I began to play with the notion of setting up in business I […]
I advocate taking a business strategy day every 6 months. For myself this has felt like a luxury given that I am a sole trader, and have a multitude of other roles to juggle in my life. However, in service of walking the talk that I talk, I do it anyway. What is becoming more […]