We are having more career makeover conversations than usual. And there really is hope in uncertain times:
“Thanks for the conversation. It was incredibly helpful – and I’m still processing the discussion. The thing I need to hang on to more than anything else, though, is that I got out of bed on Tuesday morning with a smile on my face and a sense of liberation and possibility”
Lynn writes: “I was recently working with a nursing team whose services were being decommissioned. It was a hard time for them; not only were they worried about how to find a new job but they were also grieving for the loss of a service they had a right to be proud of.
As we looked at their CVs and scanned for new opportunities they continuously looked for nursing roles and were stuck as what they wanted to do was what they had to leave behind. The breakthrough came for one participant when asked “If you could do anything – what would you do?” Her instant reply: “I’d open a cake shop”. Immediately she was able to see possibilities of using her skills and passion and began exploring who to talk to, where she would have opportunities to sell and how she could make this financially viable by doing some part time agency work whilst she built the other business.
I told this story at the last career makeover day, and one of the delegates got really clear on what she had to do: “I need to find what is my cake shop?”
What’s yours? Think about it…”
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