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How to Handle a Career Change Late in Life

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How to Handle a Career Change Late in Life

How to Handle a Career Change Late in Life

Changing your career is a nerve-rattling experience no matter what age you are. But it is particularly difficult for individuals who are thinking of career change late in life. For people over 50, there are many factors that may pose an obstacle including age discrimination, lack of financial resources, and opportunity to further education among others. The opportunity cost of switching career is also usually higher.

The challenges ahead may be difficult but there are countless career shifters who had made the change successfully after 50. Some important factors that allowed them to do it include the following: [Read more…] about How to Handle a Career Change Late in Life

Is Your Next Step A Career Shift?

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Is Your Next Step A Career Shift?

Is your next step a career shift?

Over the last few years many people have been affected by severe career shifts caused by redundancy or problems within the company that employed them. And now, with Covid-19 impacting everything, the problem is much worse for older workers.

Dealing with redundancy

older couple looking worriedRedundancy brings with it many profound emotions.  There is the initial shock.  Few people presume that they will be the one to go even when there have been warnings. Individuals and their families are worrying about their future. This can be compounded by the grief of leaving friends and perceived security.  There may be a sense of anger at the company or at the individual who has made this decision.  Indignation and hurt are personalized:  ‘Why me? Why not someone else who didn’t work as hard?”

In contrast, there is often a sense of relief that the deed has finally been done.  You now know where you stand.  I’ve known situations where redundancy was a cause for celebration, a granting of freedom.

Of course there is no emotional value in redundancy.  It is how you react to it that counts!

Wanting a career shift

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Career Change Strategies Have Changed

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Are you aware of the best current career change strategies?

Successful career change strategies have changed over the last twenty years. Anyone who is 40+ has seen business and employment practices revolutionized.  Of course there are advantages and disadvantages innate in every major change. People in their 50s and 60s have also witnessed the entire evolution of the information age. The integration of digital technology has infiltrated into every aspect of our lives.

Successful Career Change StrategiesThe world of work has changed

Some of the changes in the area of employment have been massive. Old jobs have disappeared and new jobs have appeared. Many trades and professions have morphed into something quite different. Of course this has been going on throughout history. [Read more…] about Career Change Strategies Have Changed

Are You Using The Best Career Change Strategies?

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Do you have a career change strategy?

Implementing the best career change strategies can be your secret weapon for success when you need to make career decisions and commence your job search.

If you are reading this article, I presume that you have reached the point when you are clear that changing your career is a very likely option for you. Good – Realization is only a few steps away from making a decision, which is only a few steps away from taking an action, so you are definitely on the right track! You don’t need to tear your hair out about it!

To help you move from the “thinking stage” to the “action stage”, let me introduce the following strategies to you. I am sure they can make you better prepared for what lies ahead on this adventure called “career change”.

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