Career Change & Executive Coaching

Most people spend more time planning a holiday than planning a career change. They start out by grabbing a CV (or resume) and then sending it to all the advertisements they can find. In many ways this is completely understandable because this is what the newspapers would have us believe (sell more papers) and career change is a hard emotional road from which it is tempting to distant yourself.
 
Career change individuals waste huge swathes of time masterminding this bombardment of the media and it really is like winning the pools (lottery). Only a small percentage of these ads are REAL and they have a large CAPTIVE audience.
 
It is even harder for employed career change artistes – they need to structure their job search or they'll never find time to complete it. Career changers at home with the cat feel that they have all day to do easier things than career change slavery.
 
A good career change has four elements:
 
A strategic intent, carefully thought out methodology, preparation, research and sequence of skilful actions.
 
A daily regime that keeps you focused on what you are trying to achieve.
 
Dedicated space and equipment with phone, voice mail and word processing equipment and children who are trained to answer the phone politely or not at all. 
 
It can be tempting to hide under the covers – use a good career coach or competent job-searcher to keep you motivated and on track.