Changing careers can vary in difficulty depending on your specific situation. If you are in your early twenties in an entry-level position and without major personal financial responsibilities it can be very easy. The 'risk question' for you and a potential employer is minimal. However, if you have progressed to a more senior level along a single career path and have acquired significant financial personal responsibilities it can be hard. The 'risk question' for you and a potential employer is much greater.

At Appleby Associates professional career consultants advise and support individuals at manager or director level to help them make the right career change.

As a first step, you would meet a professional career consultant to determine your specific needs and aspirations. At that meeting which is confidential, free and without obligation on either side, the career consultant (who would subsequently become your career consultant if the two of you decided to move ahead) would show you in some detail how the two of you would work together to identify the right career objective and then how to develop the necessary marketing tools to achieve it.

Common sense will tell you that it is essential for you to spend time (not just a quick five minute hello) with the individual that you would be working with and not just a salesperson before you make your decision. After all you are buying a personal service and not a commodity. Selecting the right individual career consultant is a decision that is too important to be left to others. It is a decision that you alone can make, do not be persuaded otherwise. NB At Appleby Associates as we only employ career consultants we can guarantee that you will always meet a career consultant.

Appleby Associates has effective methodologies and an excellent track record, however, you and your precise situation are unique so we ensure that your career consultant has sufficient time and flexibility to provide a solution that is right for you.