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David Beckham has confirmed what many Manchester United fans always suspected, that he would have loved to have spent his entire career at the club.  He is quoted as saying “I’ve been to three great clubs since I left United, but it would’ve been great to stay there like Ryan Giggs has. Being at one club for so long is a real achievement.” Of course, for many people David Beckham has a dream job anyway. Nevertheless, the fact that he sees staying at one club for the duration of his career as a great achievement tells us a lot about what it must be like to work in the highly mobile world of football. (more…)

Over the past year economists and politicians have been divided as to the eventual timing and pace at which we will recover from recession. Some have feted 2010 as a year of rapid growth leading to a return to normality in 2011, others have been far more cautious. However, as we near the end of the second months in 2010 it appears that caution ought to be the watchword; there is little chance of a speedy economic recovery. And this has profound implications for those of us who would like to change jobs, or career. (more…)

We have just published the Career Energy Guide to the top 10 choices for Career Changers in  2010. I hope you will find it valuable. (more…)

Redundancy is an opportunity to take a step back, review your career and put in place any changes that you feel necessary or important. But for most people there is an urgency to finding a new job. Spending time in a period of reflection is a luxury that cannot be considered. (more…)

Career professionals often use the phrase ‘thinking outside the box’ when encouraging clients to explore different career options. I have always thought of this as little more than a useful metaphor. Until this week, when colleagues asked me for advice on two clients who were hoping for a career change but were having particular trouble in working out what their realistic options were. (more…)

Planning a career change is a very methodical and structured process, based on a thorough, objective understanding of one’s personal qualities, skills and need which are then matched against a range of potential career paths. (more…)

Later this week the UK may formally come out of recession. Gross Domestic Product is expected to stop contracting, meaning that the economy is starting to grow again, which is the technical end of a recession. (more…)

Sometimes amazing things happen to us, for reasons we don’t understand. We put them down to luck, or chance. Whilst things can, and do, happen by luck or chance, more frequently outstanding things happen to us because we make them happen, even though we don’t realise it. (more…)

The news this weekend that Gordon Brown’s eyesight may have been further damaged raises some important questions. Both about our attitude as a society to disability, and about the effectiveness of disability legislation in general. (more…)

“Now is the Winter of Our Discontent”. The opening words of Shakespeare’s Richard III were used to describe the profound industrial unrest that took place in 1978-9 Schools and airports closed for lack of workers, and ambulance drivers struck,. For several months the country was riven by strikes. Rubbish piled high in the street. Thousands of petrol stations were closed. Schools and airports closed for lack of workers, and ambulance drivers struck, grave diggers in Liverpool downed tools. (more…)