Planning

Changing Career and Relocating

Sometimes changing careers means more than new responsibilities and a new commute. In some cases, a career shift might mean shifting to a new location as wel...

Choose the Right Company to Work For

Working for the right company can make a big difference to your happiness, job satisfaction and career development. What is the right company will be a perso...

Different Ways to Work Outside

Being stuck in an office in front of a computer all day is definitely not a healthy way to spend your working life – yet so many people do. Eyestrain from...

Finding a Good Recruitment Agency

Finding a recruitment agency that suits your character and your career requirements is no mean feat. Yes, there are literally hundreds of agencies to choose...

Finding an Ethical Job

The phrase 'ethical job' might seem slightly strange at first glance, and not an expression that you may have come across before. The concept of an ethical j...

How to Make a Speculative Application

When you’re thinking about making a career change it is important to think outside the box. Rather than simply updating your CV and sending it out to recru...

Mothers and Returning to Work

Once upon a time, the vast majority of mothers did not work at all. Once you had children, it seemed as though your career prospects were over, and your job...

New Training Schemes for Changing Careers

Training schemes to help you change career are available through the Government, universities, your workplace or directly with large employers. While these s...

Relocating for Your Career

With many large companies setting up outside of London or even outside of the UK, tempting job opportunities can arise in all sorts of places. Whether it is...

The Risks of a Career Change

It's estimated that 48% of us are bored with our current jobs (according to Kelly Services). So it's no wonder that so many people dream of a career change....

Top Mistakes When Changing Careers

Long gone is the era in which we’d start a job in a company in our mid to late teens or early 20s and retire from the company 40 to 50 years later. Today,...

Using New Media to Find a New Career

New media has opened up so many options for making a career change that it would be a real waste not to utilise them. You no longer need to rely on unreliabl...

What is Portfolio Working?

Portfolio working is a new phrase that’s recently become popular with people looking to address their work-life balance. So what exactly is portfolio worki...

Where to Find a Mentor for Your Career Change

Finding a mentor who can guide you through the trials and tribulations of a career change is certainly an important factor in your potential success. Of cour...

Which Career Direction is Right for You?

It’s all well and good thinking about changing career, but what happens if you start a new job and find that it’s just as bad as the last one? There’s...