Richard Alderson: Want to Shift Careers? Talk to An Expert

Welcome to Season 5 of 4-Quarter Lives, a podcast exploring the profound impact of longer lives and careers … on everything: countries, companies, couples and careers. Thanks for all your support and listening over the past year, we love all the feedback and reactions. Please keep it coming!

In this season Avivah Wittenberg-Cox will start by investigating the scary, exciting and urgent topic of career change. Why is it so terrifying, how can we do it better, and why (and how) can companies help their talent to transition more smoothly across our 60-year career spans?

Introducing Richard Alderson, CEO Careershifters

This week, Avivah talks with Richard Alderson, CEO of Careershifters. After his own feeling of serious stuckness in his late 20s, and his subsequent successful and life-changing shift, Richard Alderson has devoted his career to convincing people that they can successfully change careers. He’s spent the last decade working with thousands of individuals and companies. In this podcast, he shares his learning and data. For example:

* what are the 2 big issues that block career-shifters,

* the 6 phases of transition that people go through when moving, and

* the single most important success factor of a career shift.

Created in 2006, the aim of Careershifters is to help motivated people who feel stuck in the wrong career to find and move into fulfilling work. The starting point is helping more effective career changes, with personal fulfillment at the core. Using a combination of coaching, community and technology, and drawing from entrepreneurship, psychology and design thinking, Careershifters  now has an online community of over 180,000, helping people make both individual career moves, and to develop the mindset for confidence in making future shifts. Careershifters is a B-Corporation, a business that consciously balances purpose and profit and considers the impact of its decisions on workers, customers, suppliers, community, and the environment.

After a number of years in the corporate world, Richard Alderson became disillusioned with what he was doing and quit his job in search of something more meaningful. Seeing a gap in the career guidance and support market, and following a programme at INSEAD Business School in Social Entrepreneurship, he founded Careershifters.

Some Useful Links:

* https://www.careershifters.org/

* https://www.careershifters.org/career-change-test (free assessment to discover your career change stage)

* https://careerscanchange.co.uk/

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