We hear constantly that research suggests women will not apply for a job if they don’t think they meet 100% of the criteria, whereas men will apply for a job even if they only meet 60%. These figures allegedly come from an internal study by Hewlett Packard. Although I have never actually seen the study …
We women are often our own worse enemies. Many of us talk ourselves out of pursuing the careers or businesses that we really want, coming up with untold reasons why we can’t instead of focusing on how can we. A lot of this boils down to our insecurities and self limiting beliefs. We tell ourselves …
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When I was a child my Dad would often say to me ‘there’s no such word as can’t’ when I said I could not do something. At the time I did not really understand what he meant and thought that he was simply correcting my grammar, in that I should be saying ‘cannot’. It was only when I got older that I fully understood what he meant…
I regularly get approached by women in their forties and fifties who think that it is too late for them to change their career and pursue something that they are passionate about. My response to them is always the same, you are not too old to make a career change and to find something more fulfilling. For many women making a mid-life career change is something that they would love to do but don’t have the courage to do it.
An 88 year old employee of the supermarket chain Asda is quoted this week as saying that she returned to work after retiring “so that she had something with purpose to do”. I think that this is incredible and it just goes to show that no matter what your age, it is never too late to find purpose in your life.
Making a career change in their forties can be daunting, frightening, and even stressful for some women. Some women lack the confidence to make such a move because of their fears. With the current level of job cuts, many women are being forced to make career changes where they probably previously would not have.
Below are 5 common fears that women in their forties face when making a career change and ways in which these fears can be overcome.
Have you ever found yourself pondering over what to do about a situation, taken advice from others around you, only to find that you are then even more fearful of making that change?
Quite often, other people may think they have your best interest at heart but they are actually projecting their fears on to you. This can then make you doubt whether you should make that change.
Miranda Priestly, the role played by Meryl Streep in the Devil Wears Prada is unfortunately the type of behaviour that is sometimes seen in the workplace in real life. When you are new in an organisation you want to impress but you do not want to be walked all over or taken advantage of. Competing …
