In this Issue

• Career Consulting Continues to grow
  
• The Formula for Your Success
  
• Mid-Life Job Change
  
• Massive eBook & Software Give-Away

Career Consulting Limited
Career Consulting Limited which owns Your Career Change is continuing to grow. There are now a total of 12 websites in the stable with self-improvement, career development and competency related information now ready for you to use whenever you need good solid advice at no cost to you.

Your Stress Management This site shows how the best way to reduce your stress is to really know what it IS, that is making you stressed! So sit down for a minute and think about last year. You can look at a calendar to remind yourself of events, or appointments.

Public Speaking Public Speaking Courses includes everything to help you resolve your fears or get your public speaking career off the ground. There is also a wide range of related business topics and helpful articles to read.

Definition of Leadership Definition of Leadership site includes everything to help you understand the realities of leadership. Get you career off the ground and move from management to leadership. There is also a massive range of additional business topics and helpful articles to read.

Your Career Change Highly recommended career change web site for top career advice from leading UK Career Coach. Something for everybody's career change here.

Your Positive Attitude Take that step back from being 'done to' and take the initiative. At work, at home or wherever, this can be a great time, if you let it.

Your Weight Loss Highly recommended and comprehensive site for your Weight loss help, articles, tips, advice and diet information; you will find it all right here.

Your CV Coach Highly recommended CV and Resume writing services web site for top advice from leading UK CV Writer and Career Coach. Whatever your CV needs you will find it right here.

eBook Downloads careers ebooks, self-improvement, weight loss and health matters. Also free music and games downloads, leisure ebooks and software - many free downloads and reports.

Career Consulting Limited Career Design from Career Consulting Limited brings you free access to competence enhancing and powerful performance management and career management information in this career design programme.

The Formula for Your Success
'How To Get From Where You Are To Where You Want to Be'

The formula behind Your Success Principle was derived from the coaching work and 3 day seminars I was running in the mid 1990s with senior managers and directors. These people were all at that point in their lives where they needed to change and therefore to improve their situations. Many of them needed to get a new job; others simply wanted their dreams to come true. The initial work involved discovering where each of the people considered themselves to be at the time, before moving forward to defining where they wanted to be.

Because Your Success Principle can be understood by anyone: it can be thought of as a way of describing what needs to be done regardless of the problem being faced.

When I arrived at the formula, I found that those who applied it wholeheartedly were almost guaranteed to make a difference to their life. Read more Your Success Principle

Mid-Life Job Change
Critics have argued that anti-ageist legislation was long overdue and that employers needed to ditch any prejudice over age sooner rather than later. So will anything change now that the legislation is here in the UK?

Increased life expectancy coupled with poor fund performance or mismanagement and the recent fall in the value of equities means the UK is already facing a pensions shortfall of almost £30 billion. This shortage of funds means many of todays over 50s let alone their younger counterparts are going to have to remain in work for longer than planned in order to fund their retirement.

So what does all this mean for midlife career change? Over the next decade and beyond, not only will older workers be in growing demand, they will increasingly be in need of the work. And this is going to require a major shift in attitudes from employers and employees alike. One of the major challenges facing more mature workers is that after years of discrimination and negative conditioning their confidence and self-belief can suffer. You must take control of your own attitude and reverse this conditioning. Midlife career change , then can be an option for most people, but means you will have to work at it more than younger up-and-coming applicants. You must make more of your network of contacts, along with their contacts. People who know you directly or from a recommendation are more likely to consider your abilities and competence, than simply your age.

Although your skills and experience may be much greater than the person who interviews you, you will be perceived as more of an asset than a threat if you acknowledge their superior position; show how you will support them and help them to further their career. In other words by being the strong underpinning to their career growth, their own self-interest is served.

Just make sure your CV is of the highest quality and focuses on adding value, not just lots of experience that inevitably comes with age. Read more about CV and Resume Writing

Massive eBook & Software Give-Away

To say thank-you to my readers of Careers Update I am giving away 100 copies of my '7 Steps to Career Success'. This ebook is the most comprehensive gude to successful career change anywhere (value £9.99). With 100 pages packed with solid useable advice and information it is in easy to read or print PDF format. Read more here

You'll have to be quick the link will come down as soon as 100 copies have been downloaded. Get yours here 7 Steps

I've also decided to give away the Total Blog Kit (value £49.00) to anyone that can use it. Just send an email to Totalblog - and the autoresponder will do the rest. You are free to do whatever you want with it, even sell it yourself, so long as you read the copyright notices.

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Peter Fisher

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Favourite Quotes of the Month

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

- George Bernard Shaw

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