Providing people with career change advice has been the
focus of my work for over fifteen years.
I would like to help you find out your true potential in the world of work.

You Have Ability!

I can help you with career choices you are facing by finding a career that fits with your individual personality or motivational style.
Whether that be a job working for someone else or in your own business.
Everyone has abilities, something of value to offer in the world of work. I believe there are no exceptions to this.

Most people who come to me for career advice either:

• grossly underestimate their abilities or
  
• they say "I don't think I have any"

Comparing Yourself Can Be Dangerous

Any career change advice usually starts with addressing your gifts and abilities.
When I talk to people about their gifts and abilities, many people initially think of others people's gifts and abilities!

Isn't that interesting?
Why would they think of other people?

One of the reasons for this is that the words 'gifts and abilities' have a connection in many peoples minds to 'extreme' gifts and abilities.

 So we begin to compare other people who have extreme gifts and abilities, or at least better abilities than ourself.
And perhaps how these other people have managed to get to become successful with their abilities.

This comparing ourselves with others can be dangerous.
Why?

Because comparing ourselves with others is focusing on the wrong issue.
Successful people in life aren't always comparing themselves with someone else. They know who they are and what their giftings and strengths are.
They don't get sucked in to the insecurities and competitiveness of having to be better than someone else.

I've noticed that the people who are truly in touch with their own unique bents are very relaxed and very encouraging to other people.
When we know who we are, and that we are truly functioning in our own strengths, others are not a threat to us.


One valuable career change advice tool that can accurately identify your own strengths is the Dream Career Finder assessment.

This is the very best assessment exercise that I know of at uncovering a person's dream job.

Which Is the Better Job - Doctor or Garbage Collector

Can a doctor say to the garbage collector; "I have a better job than you". Can the arborist say to the IT professional, "I have a better job than you".
No. Having the best job has nothing to do with the type of job a person does but rather, are they naturally suited to that job.

In fact a rubbish collector could very well say to the doctor "I have a better job than you" and he could be right if the doctor was not gifted for that job.

God Don't Make No Flops

Before any career change advice can be effective, we need to address our beliefs about our how we came to have natural inborn abilities.
I believe these were with us from the moment we were born.
In the bible it says that God has "shaped each of us" and that he knit us together while we were in our mothers womb.

You may be familiar with the movie Chariots of Fire where Olympic athlete Eric Liddell said;

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast, and when I run, I feel God's pleasure......To give up running would be to hold God in contempt.

Just a Job or Something Significant

There is a desire in the heart of every human being to expend their life on some significant purpose.

A life where you can make a difference in the world.
A life that when it is finished, you can say "I'm glad
I dedicated my life to doing that"

 And I believe there is a direct correlation between you utilising your natural abilities and realising that significant purpose.

 Central to effective career change advice is getting to know the truth about who you really are in regards to your natural abilities.


 Because knowing the truth about your own abilities unleashes a new freedom in your world of work and in your entire life.

 Without that truth about yourself, any career change advice is based on wrong foundations. It is unlikely you will ever experience fulfilment and freedom in your work life.

Lie No. 1: You Can Be Anything You Want to Be

An important part in finding out who we are in the world of work is to first find out who we not.
The truth is, you can't be anything you want to be.  Or more precisely, you can't be anything you want to be and be happy.

When a person realizes they are in a job that is a wrong fit for them,
that' s often the stage at which a person might seek career change advice. 

Ironically, that can sometimes be 20 years or more into a career and of course for a good number of people, that event never occurs in their entire working life.

Only a very large purpose can inspire and motivate you to heights you could otherwise never reach. Thats why once your inborn job skills are identified you can look forward to your dream career.

You will feel like a new person.
Have you ever noticed that sometimes your energy levels become like a blazing fire for some projects?

That's because the whole
core of who you are as a person has been awakened as it discovers a match between who you are and what tasks you are doing.

Where Do I Start

These inborn job skills are the skills that you are naturally wired or motivated to use. (You can view a job skills list here)
It's what makes you tick.  When you are using your inborn job skills, you are doing something you absolutely love.

  You can learn how to discover your dream career and get career change advice on how to obtain those types of careers.



I want to encourage you to eagerly seek out your hearts deepest passions.  Or perhaps rediscover passions that you once had but have somehow got lost along the way.

I want to offer you career change advice that will encourage you to consider new possibilities about yourself. What might you be good at if the doors were truly opened on your natural inborn job skills. 

On This Web Site

1. Career change advice on how to discover
what your inborn job skills are and how to match them to types of careers that you are good at.
2. Find out more about the very successful, yet underutilized job search methods. Methods that will make it a lot easier in obtaining that dream job.
3. Improve your job interview success, with my top ten
   job interview tips, including how to handle those curly
   job interview questions.
4. Produce a successful resume.
5. Show you why you should be careful with
   career tests.
6. Take a look at whether or not you might be suited to self employment or a 'Work At Home Career'.

Most Workers Aren't Happy In Their Job - But That's Easy to Fix!

According to research up to 80% of the
current workforce is dissatisfied in their career?
A lot of us appear to be in the wrong job.

And a good number of us 'fell' into a job at an early age and then based our future career choices on the experience we gained from that first questionable career decision.


We began to accumulate a lifetime of work experience based on what was probably a wrong choice in the beginning.

The result is that we have become frustrated and miserable in our career and we often feel 'stuck'  and unsure how to take the first step towards our true destiny.


If this sounds like you, you are not alone.

The good news is that a fulfilling career is not only possible but your God given right and your responsibility to pursue.


Find out now what your dream career should be!

If you would like help in any area of your career or job search, you can ask a job search or career question in my career forum.

This is currently a free service and I generally respond to all questions within 24 hours.

Simon Davies Career Guidance and new career coach
371 Avonhead Rd Christchurch 8042, New Zealand. Phone +64 3 358-9920

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