My website, Your Career Change, which is packed with expert careers advice and job finding information, will show you how to go about successfully changing careers, with skills analysis to help you identify your key strengths and key personal attributes that employers are demanding.

In addition I will provide you with professional CV writing and resume writing information as well as writing services locally and worldwide, with cover letter writing information and all the top interview answers. If you are looking for job search links, or how to deal with over 50 job-loss anxiety, then this is the place to be for your career changing information.

Here are just some of the career change essential topics I provide:

Links to each of these are down the page...

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Everything you might need for your career change and to help you get and keep the job you want is included on the pages of this site but please contact me if there is something else that isn't covered; I will try answer your questions about career change or finding a new job.

There are many reasons why you might want a new career, from falling foul of technology changes to being in a dead-end job; perhaps you feel that you chose the wrong career in the beginning.

I will make sure you receive practical careers advice and strategies, and my expert knowledge will ensure you can maximize every career or job opportunity that comes along. I have also written a collection of careers information in a set of e-books called The 'Career Changer's Guide' which is an instant download with everything you need to change your career or to find a new job.

So, if you are feeling stuck and starting to dread going to work every day, a change of job with your career change would seem to be the answer.

You can do everything you need for yourself or you can also get help with career change through employment agencies.

You can dream of doing something better or more important and probably making more money too.

But are things really that much better on the other side of the hill?

You need to ask yourself some crucial questions, answer them truthfully, and only then do a self evaluation of where you are now and what you can improve with a career change.

These are the 6 key questions you should be asking yourself:

1. Do You Want To Change Your Career?

Try to be very clear about why you want to leave your present job so that you are able to avoid whatever is the root of your discomfort in a future job. In my experience as a career coach, the most common reasons people quote are that they:

• Feel bored and frustrated, from being in the same job too long;
• Have lost interest in the work and its importance;
• Feel undervalued or not important to the organization;
• Believe they are being underpaid for the work they do;
• Dislike changes made after reorganisation and restructuring;
• Are making no progress, lack any future prospects;
• Feel as if they are in 'dead men's shoes';
• Don't get on with their colleagues or managers;
• Simply need a new challenge or fresh start.

Job-hunting is so time-consuming – endless hunting through adverts, form filling, letters, applications, interviews – all for jobs you may not even want! It all takes so much time and effort, so here are some top tips on how to write your CV for a career change

To find that perfect position for your career change, would you like to read about the careers that are being predicted as the Best Careers for the year?

2. Is It Your Job You Want To Change?

Is it really your career that you want to change or is it something else associated with your job? Your boss for instance? What would improve your day to day satisfaction with your work? If it isn't your career as such, but just something to do with your job then a career change may not be the answer, when what you need is to continue your career, but with some changed conditions.

Perhaps you could satisfy your desire for your career change by:

• Changing to another job in the same sector but with a different employer;
• Moving from the private to the public sector where the career remains but the principles / values may be different;
• Negotiating with your employer for a fairer salary package;
• Applying career management principles to seek some agreed changes with your present employer.

The notion of changing careers throws up all sorts of ideas about doing something completely different so what does your ideal role look like?

3. What Transferable Skills Do You Have?

You should spend some time to analyse your skills gained through every job, course or leisure activity you have been involved with. These are the transferable skills that are potentially of interest to most employers.

I recommend that you read this section carefully because you will need to be able to write a persuasive career change cover letter to accompany your CV or Resume when you are ready to start applying for new jobs in your chosen career.

For improving all areas of your life, not just your career change, you may need to think about your own Personal Development needs as well.

4. How Can You Use Your Existing Skills?

You may not need to go for a complete career change where you do something different. Because most other roles or jobs overlap in their skills requirements, you can almost certainly use the knowledge, skills and capabilities that you already have.

If you decide to go ahead with your career change, please make sure you go for something that you really are interested in, otherwise the same scenario will set in again and you will be back where you started from. Learn how to adapt your CV for a career change.

5. Is Change Career Possible At Your Age?

Your career change is possible at any time of life if you have the desire and motivation to do it. A midlife career change may be just the right thing for you.

Now, if you are over 50 and looking for a new job, you may well mistakenly think that everybody is against you or that there are no suitable jobs for older workers like you. I have thrown some light on what older workers, people like you who are over 50, can actually do to help themselves get back to work - even if you took early retirement.

As you get older, new passions are often ignited and could be the basis for your career change. Read about Active Retirement.

6. What Do You Need To Change Careers?

There are no secrets to winning a new job, but if you don't follow an ACTION PLAN that WORKS, you may find it much harder to get the job you want. As a Career Coach and Job Search Expert I have developed a career counselling plan that thousands of men and women just like you have used and it has been proven to work! Try it for your career change.

• You need to know what job you actually want;
• You need to know how to find jobs,
  including the hidden and unadvertised jobs;
• You need to know what skills are most in demand;
• You need a first class CV or Resume;
• You need customized cover letters;
• You need to practise your job winning interview answers;
• You need to be determined.

For your career change to be successful, you need to have a really effective CV and outstanding covering letter. If your current CV looks anything like some of the examples sent in to me, you probably need my professional CV writing help! Get me as your professional CV writer working for you and get a CV to be proud of!

Making your career change is an important decision, this site will help you to get it right and teach you how to use social networking for jobs. If you have any questions use the button on the top left.

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