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Career Change in 2011: Looking Back
If you’re reading this blog, you are (presumably) someone thinking of changing their career or in the process of changing their career. Welcome. So, how did you get on in 2011? Do you look back on 2011 with satsifaction and pride? Do you feel you have achieved what you wanted to? Sometimes my career clients [...]
CV Writing: Finding Your Authentic Voice
For most of my life I have spoken in ways that I thought other people wanted to hear. For example, when I wanted to become a management consultant, I would speak like consultants spoke. I was all about processes, change maps and risk registers. Dinner party hosts across the land would fight not to invite [...]
The Voice That Says ‘I Am Brilliant’
It started to happen when I did well in exams at school. It gained serious momentum when I got a first at University. Then it became a pattern when I got onto various prestigious graduate programmes. It’s the thought in my head that says ‘I am brilliant’. I mean, I have lots of other voices [...]
How to Find Meaning in Work
Finding meaning in work becomes a whole lot simpler if you start from a clear definition. So if you are reading this without reading my previous posts it might be worth doing. By using a definition of meaning as comprehension in context, it is possible to identify a model of meaning in work which can [...]
How does Meaning Differ from Purpose?
In a previous post I argued that meaning is about comprehension: “At its simplest level, meaning (or comprehension) indicates that the individual knows how to respond in terms of both emotion and goal-directed action… (it) is a process of sense-making which connects an individual’s existence to a wider understanding of the world. The adaptability of [...]
What is Meaning in Work?
When I retrained to become a psychologist, my research centred on meaning in work. That’s because my work to date (as a management consultant) had been pretty meaningless, but I did not reallyknow what to do about it. So my research questions were: What is meaning in work? How can I find it? I wanted [...]
Finding True North: How to Clarify Values (part 2)
In my previous post I talked about the need to explore values in career change and to look for patterns across a number of different tests. That’s because I am sceptical that there is a single list of values which covers every context. The best we can do is think from different perspectives about what’s [...]
Finding True North: How to Clarify Values (part 1)
Rachel Collis writes about how to get clear about values and her post helps explain how values can be tangibly defined. But once you have a clear definition, what then? I’ve had huge problems defining my own values in the past and I’ve tried many, many different ways of doing so. I can bore for [...]
Career Search – Some Great Links
I specialise in the psychology of career change, and that often means I don’t cover the practicalities of a new career search. Most of my clients need to get unstuck and identify a direction – they don’t need that much help in terms of achieving goals. However, I came across this article about career change [...]
Career Change Myths # 5: ‘I need to feel more confident before I do what’s important’
We often think that we need to feel confident to succeed. So we make a deal; once we feel more confident then we’ll change…. Mistake. Confidence is derived only from knowing you can do something. The only way you know you can do something is to try it out – practice. Confidence therefore only ever [...]