Career Change Resources

Links to resources and websites to help with your career change

Career change resources can sometimes be hard to assess. There are just so many sites out there, how do you begin to work out what might be useful? And when you find a good resource, can you always find it again a week or so later?

My first tip is to remember that as you explore this and other web sites, be certain to add bookmarks or RSS feeds to those you like. This will help you to retrace your steps when you want to revisit the site.

As you can imagine, I have roamed widely round the internet to uncover useful resources and websites relating to career change. I am confident that the How To Change Careers website offers you lots of great tips on changing careers, but it can never be totally comprehensive.

So what I aim to grow over time with the links listed below is to give you some additional recommended career change resources to help you as you explore your career change ideas.

As you see, these are all areas that relate to finding a new career but are a step away from the core focus of this site, which is how to assess yourself and come up with a new career idea that will be right for you.

I have divided the additional career change resources I have found into a number of categories so it is easier for you to find things.

If you have a relevant web site and wish to exchange links with this site, please see my link exchange information.

Careers In Event Planning
Careers In Event Planning delivers what the tile promises. It gives you the low down on how to become an event planner! The event industry is explained and you get to learn about event jobs, the many different opportunities for careers in event planning and how to find your dream job.

Massage Career Guides
Massage Career Guides is a truly comprehensive site, providing you with everything you need to know about training and working as a massage therapist.

Virtual Assistant Advice
Look no further for friendly virtual assistant advice and tips for prospective and existing virtual assistants.

Catching Fireworks
Are you an artist or creative, frustrated because you can't find a way to get your ideas out into the world? Debs at Catching Fireworks will help you capture your ideas, bring them back to earth and ground them in reality, whilst retaining their colour, sparkle, excitement and dazzle!

White Collar Franchise
White Collar Franchise provides you with all the franchise opportunities information you require about executive franchises and management 'white-collar' franchise opportunities, including expert franchise advice and detailed franchise opportunity profiles of executive franchises that you are looking for.

Graphic Design Employment
If you are thinking of moving to graphic design for a career or just want to build your skills before considering this move, then the Graphic Design Employment website is a great place to start.

Starting a Personal Training Business
Would you like to become a Personal Trainer and run your own business? Make sure your next step is this site. It contains absolutely everything you need to get started!

A Child Care Business At Home
This site shares what one successful business owner has learned in 32 experience of profitable, rewarding home child care jobs. Just read on to get answers to all your questions and achieve fast success as a sought after child care provider.

Run a Home Jewelry Business
All you need to know to run a jewelry business from home and sell your jewelery at fairs. If you love making beautiful things, take a look at Home Jewelry Business Success Tips and see how you could make a living from selling your work.

Becoming An Independent Consultant
The Independent Consulting Bootcamp website contains a wealth of information on the consulting industry, including insights, ideas and free resources for management consultants and is a great starting point for professionals who are planning to make their first move into the consulting business.

Working with Animals
Working with animals is one of the dreams many would-be career changers hold. Is it really for you? Take a look at the Animal Careers & Jobs website for a wealth of practical information to help you decide if this is really the career for you.

Guide to Becoming A Train Driver
Your complete guide on how to become a train driver trainee in the UK, information on the train driver recruitment process, and where to find train driver trainee vacancies and jobs in the UK.

Become a Nurse Now
There are so many ways to become a nurse that the information can be overwhelming. Learn about these different avenues from a nurse and decide for yourself if this is the career for you and the best way for YOU to go about it!

Acting Career Start Up Guide
Necessary and concrete first steps and often overlooked information about how to start an acting career; down to earth and user friendly, for actors new to the business or for actors who need to kickstart their careers.

MAPP
The MAPP Career Test will help you to identify your new career. The test takes about 15 minutes to fill out, and it will give you new insights into what makes you tick. It identifies your true interests, talents and motivations, and allows you to match yourself to different careers to see what fits you best. You will get an abbreviated MAPP report with 5 sample job matches and can buy more detailed reports if you wish.

iPersonic
iPersonic is a very quick personality test – you can do it in less than 5 minutes. It is based on Jung Type theory and will help you assess your preferred personal style. On completing the test you get a free overview of your personal style and can then access a more detailed Career Profile, a Relationship Profile and a General LifeCoach Guide specific to your personality.

Groper Career Interests Profiler
The Groper Career Interests Profile assesses your interests to determine the careers you are most likely to enjoy. The assessment takes about 20 minutes and you will then get a free mini report containing your career profile, the types of activities you are most likely to enjoy, details of your values and personal attributes and examples of careers that may appeal to you. Further, more detailed reports give you a Myers Briggs Personality Profile as well as more detailed career information to help you put your career plans into action.

Online Disc Assessment
DISC assessments are accurate psychological tests built from the renowned research of respected psychologist William Moulton Marston. An online DISC assessment can help you better understand what drives your personal interactions at work, in social situations and within your family.

Practice SHL Aptitude Tests
SHL Tests are a brand of aptitude or assessment test. The Practice SHL Tests website is the newest and greatest resource on the internet for practising aptitude tests for job assessments, such as those produced by SHL. Practice Numerical, Verbal and Logical Reasoning Tests and give yourself the best chance of success! SHL are widely considered to be the world leaders in their field and are used by many major recruiters.

Resume Examples
Writing a great resume doesn't always mean you should follow the rules. It doesn't have to be one page or follow a specific format. Every resume is a one-of-a-kind marketing communication. Resume Examples offers examples to download, writing tips and an interview guide.

Powerful Sample Resume Formats
This is a content rich site with tips and advice about writing resumes and cover letters; includes many sample resumes and downloadable resume and cover letter templates.

My Resume Online
This site will help you to learn how to write your resume with examples and templates. You can also register with the site and publish your free resume online.

CV Made Better
The UK's Leading Professional CV Writing Service. A friendly professional service at affordable prices. Since 2007 we have helped 100's of people with New CVs, CV Rewriting, Introduction Letters, Personal Statements, and Application Forms.

Online Resume Builder
This site enables you to create your resume in just few minutes by using a step by step guided wizard. You can directly print and download your resume in Microsoft Word and Acrobat's PDF format. There are over 118 well formatted professionally designed resume templates to choose from.

Best Job Interviews
How to succeed in job interviews. Interview tips and strategies. Common interview questions and excellent interview answers, good interview questions to ask. Your complete free job interview guide.

Job Application and Interview Advice
This compelling site is written by bright professionals who help people land their dream job every day. It covers all aspects of how to land a job including job application forms, resumes, cover letters and interview questions and answers.

Best Interview Strategies
Best Interview Strategies offers you a wide range of powerful yet simple techniques that you can use to get the job you want. On this web site you'll learn what to do, and what not to do, during every phase of your quest for the ideal job.

Job Interview Questions and Answers
On this site you can find all you need to make a success of your job interviews. You will find tips on types of questions, sample questions, how to negotiate your salary, phone interview advice and much more.

Self-Expression Center
The Self Expression Center offers group and individual training in presentation skills, public speaking and effective communication skills. Sandra Zimmer guides you through experiential learning programs that help you feel confident to share your ideas, expertise and talents with your audience.

Step Up and Speak!
Step Up and Speak is an 11 session step-by-step audio/video e-course teaching how to speak and present with confidence. Includes workbook and bonus Camtasia videos.

Toastmasters
If you want to build your confidence with public speaking, you can't do better than to join a local Toastmasters group. You will get plenty of opportunity to practise and grow your skills in a supportive environment.

Career Networking 101
The Career Networking 101 website provides great networking tips for novices and experts alike. The tips and tools on offer will help you will learn how to manage your network for career success.

Hispanic Networking and Employment Program
iHispano's Networking and Employment program helps Hispanic and Latino professionals find jobs in top companies.

Confidence World
A one stop shop for increasing your confidence and self esteem with over 2000 pages of confidence building exercises, tools and resources. Free membership site and 21 day ecourse plus 4 teleseminar recordings to boost your confidence.

Life With Confidence
Life with Confidence gives you practical information on building confidence in yourself, your work and your personal relationships with free articles, activities, ideas, quotes. Confidence tips, tricks and strategies that actually work and don't just try to sell you high priced products.

The Time Management Guide
This is the definitive guide to personal time management and goal setting skills and techniques. Includes articles, tips, software and other related personal development resources.

Time Management Advisor
This website offers a wide range of free articles teaching time management and personal productivity to professionals and college students.

Time Management Use
Time management systems often end up wasting you time. The secret of clever time use is time management tailored to your own particular needs at a given time. This website offers you a wealth of practical time management tips and tools.

Money Made Fun
Internationally reknowned coach, Michael Neill does it again with his Money Made Fun ebook. Subtitled Creating Financial Peace On Any Income, it really does just that, helping you tackle the problems you face with money. But above all, he makes it fun and so it's a lot easier to put into action.

DebtSteps
Debs at DebtSteps can help if you are struggling with money problems. Debt relief steps are important, and lots of options are out there, get free help with comprehensive reviews of debt solutions so you can choose the right one for you.

The Money Gym
The Money Gym enables bright energetic people to make more money & become independently wealthy. They have been making millionaires since 1999, and Nicola Cairncross, who runs the Money Gym, certainly knows her stuff.

Transform Your Money
Learn Money Management and transform your money from Debt to Wealth! Personal finances, budgeting, money management, debt free living – Are you confused by it all? Visit the right place to learn how easy and fun it is to transform your money (or your debt) into wealth!

Abacus Finance
Abacus Finance can help you with a range of financial matters including small personal loans and debt consolidation. They are based in New Zealand, providing a friendly and individual service to all their clients.

Income in Later Life
Income in Later Life is a site full of great internet and "real world" ideas to help people supplement their income in later life. But you can use most of the ideas at any age!

The Save Money Guide
The Save Money Guide is the place to go to learn about money saving and money making. You'll find new ideas on every page - about making use of the money you already have, living well, and keeping out of debt. Use this site to get to grips with your money issues and make your career change a real possibility.

Financial Planning Info Guide
The Financial Planning Info Guide is a practical and free guide that includes information, resources and tools that will help you create a solution based on your resources, dreams and goals. allowing you to control the risks you take, achieve the independence and balance you want and even a higher standard of living for you and your family.

The Decide Guide
Need decision making information? The Decide Guide can help. Good decisions are made using a process, models, tools & techniques. We offer step-by-step time-saving guides for common decision making.

Workplace Bullying, School Bullying and Mobbing Help
Learn how to deal with bullying or mobbing and get your life back. Workplace bullying, school bullying and workplace mobbing are rampant. Anton Hout, the founder of this website has written a great ebook, What Every Target of Workplace Bullying Needs to Know which is full of tips and strategies to support anyone struggling to deal with this issue.

You Can Learn Basic Employee Rights
Knowing your basic employee rights could save your job - so you may not need to change career! Learn your employee rights in the workplace. Employment rights like workplace privacy issues, employee background check and workplace discrimination are all explained in plain English on this site and you can also subscribe to The Basic Employee Rights eNewsletter.

Stress Management Strategies for Women
Practical stress management strategies for women coping with the stress of balancing personal and professional responsibilities. Time management, goal setting, healthy living, and organizing tips are offered for moms, teens, midlifers, seniors, and young professionals.

New Managers
The New Managers site is designed to help you through the first four months (and probably longer) of your new management role, learning as you go. We have answers to your questions and help on the topics you need to consider.

Coaching For New Women Managers
If you are just starting out as a new manager, this website offers free management training designed to help today's career women build a comprehensive and dynamic skills portfolio.

Build an Online Business with SBI
If you are thinking you'd like to earn some income from an online business, then start with one of the best deals around. SBI (Site Build It) helps you create a website that will draw traffic and earn you money from writing about something you are passionate about. I used it to build this site - so I know it works!

Home Business Ideas for Newbies
If you are a newbie looking for proven Home Business Ideas, then this website is for you. It reviews a range of work from home opportunities and gives you tips and advice on how to get started.

Mums' Business Directory
If you are a Mum at home running a small scale business and you want to get it in front of a wider audience, look no further than the Mums' Business Directory. A great place to showcase your business as well as the place to find all the information you need to keep things running smoothly.

The Freelance Work Guide
Downsized or unemployed? Don't despair... Use your business knowledge and experience to get freelance work, build your own home-based business and be your own boss. This site provides a wealth of tips and advice to get you started.

Job Hunt
Job-Hunt.com is a fantastically comprehensive resource of information and links to help you with your job search. This FREE award-winning employment portal, created by by online job search expert Susan P. Joyce, links with 16,500 employers, job search and career resources.

Job Central
Job Central helps you to find local jobs across the US and apply online via company employment career sites. There is no middle man. Job Central is a free service of Direct Employers Association.

UK Jobs Network
This is a great resource which is updated daily. It will help you access a wide range of full-time and part-time job vacancies all over the UK. You can search by location and by job category.

Church Musician Jobs
Church Musician Jobs offers you a range of job postings that will allow you to marry your music and your faith and improve your heart and your art. Find help to grow your career as a church musician.

Employee Outplacement Services
Garfinkle Outplacement Services provides personalized services to displaced workers. Learn about the proven nine-step executive outplacement service. Outplacement assistance and coaching services by outplacement consultant Joel Garfinkle.

The 11 Forgotten Laws
Bob Proctor, one of the key figures behind The Secret, brings you The 11 Forgotten Laws to help you maximise the benefits of the Law of Attraction and get the most out of your life and work. This training program will help you quickly find answers to your most pressing life challenges and get into rapid action to achieve your goals.

Self Improvement from SelfGrowth.com
This site provides the most complete guide to information about self improvement, personal growth and self help on the internet. It provides loads of expert information about a wide range of self improvement topics and also links you to thousands of other related websites.

Simply Hormones
Whether you are 40 or 60+ you will find this website empowering, re-assuring and sympathetic. Simply Hormones offers facts and advice on menopause and HRT. Information about alternative and traditional medicines and therapies, diet and exercise programmes.

Man-O-Pause
Providing Midlife Men a Place to Breathe. A woman's insightful commentary on issues facing men midlife including midlife crisis, midlife career change, male menopause and finding one's purpose in life.

About Personal Growth
Provides information, tips, articles and advice to help people become aware that any future success starts with their personal growth. Includes content on self esteem, motivation and success.

UK Link Exchange
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