Perspectives in Career Decision Making
I work with many career change clients who are putting off making a decision because they don’t want to make a mistake or lose anything by making a rash decision. This is compltely logical. After all,...
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Career Change Myths #1: “Staying in my crap job is the ‘real’ world”
When I became a management consultant there was part of me that felt I’d made it. I’d walk into these shiny offices with my laptop and just for a moment, I felt like I was going somewhere. That is, if...
View ArticleCareer Change Myths #4: There is a perfect job for me
A while ago I went to the Identity Project at the Wellcome Collection, which featured Francis Galton, Charles Darwin’s cousin, who founded the first genetics laboratory. Galton was famous for...
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Career Change Myths # 5: ‘I need to feel more confident before I do what’s...
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...
View ArticleCareer 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...
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The Science of Decision Making….and the Art of Possibility
Dan Gilbert argues that one of the reasons we aren’t great at making decisions is because we tend to compare against our past experience, not against what’s possible. We have a a rich understanding of...
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How Did You Get Stuck? Gradually then Suddenly.
In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises one character asks: How did you go bankrupt?” “Two ways, gradually then suddenly” comes the reply. And in a nutshell that explains how so many of us get trapped...
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