Event: Career change clinic - how to switch sectors or roles
Whether it's motivated by public sector cuts, a lack of job satisfaction or the calling of an unfulfilled ambition, any career change requires planning, strategy and a great deal of self and market assessment.
Assessing your skills, goals and the job market helps hone your focus and, in turn, your impact on employers in a new sector.
So, the Guardian has partnered with Personal Career Management to design a unique event, using presentations, interactive group exercises and a personal career coaching session, to provide an excellent opportunity for you to review your career and focus on how to make your career aspirations a reality.
The day will show you the stepping stones you can put in place to achieve the changes you want. You will also develop a practical career action plan tailored to your particular situation, which will enable you to move your career forward in the right direction.
What: Career change clinic - how to switch sectors or roles
When: 18 January 2011, 9.30am to 5pm
Where: The Guardian – Scott Room – Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9GU
How much? £175 (+VAT)

Where can I book? Book online, here. Email seminars@theguardian.com or call the seminars team on 020 3353 4059
The learning outcomes of this seminar will be:
Understanding your key skills and experience, career motivators and potential
Learning how to explore your career options and uncover new opportunities
Identifying personal career constraints and generating solutions
Ability to apply successful career management strategies to your own career
Knowing how to tap into the resources that can help you
Creation of a practical, personal career action plan to progress your career
Who should attend:
This seminar is suitable for anyone at any stage in their career who is considering a change in direction or who is unsure of their next move. It is particularly suitable if:
You want to revamp your existing career – and need a plan
You want to embark upon a new career - by changing industries or roles - but need to know how to get started
You are feeling stuck career-wise or are at a career crossroads
Agenda
9.30am: Welcome, introduction and objectives of the day
9.45am: Career self-assessment: working out what you want and what you have to offer
11.05am: Morning coffee
11.30am: Research and reality-testing: is this new sector/role really for you?
12.15pm: Lunch
12.45pm: Job search strategies and impressing recruiters: uncovering opportunities and developing the sales pitch
2pm: Blocks and bridges: identifying the common challenges and barriers and how to overcome them
2.30pm: Tea
2.45pm: Resources to help: the people, networks and information you need to know
Guest speaker: Sophie Relf, Guardian Jobs; job market trends and the importance of a strong online presence
Guest speaker: Kerry Eustice, Guardian Careers: Guardian Careers and other resources
3.25pm: Career management strategies: how to fast-track your career in the right direction
4pm: Developing your personal career action plan
5pm: Close
Each participant will be allocated a 30 minute private career coaching session during the course of the day, with a Personal Career Management coach to discuss their particular career challenges and goal.
Speakers:
Corinne Mills
Corinne is managing director of Personal Career Management, the UK's leading career management and outplacement company. She is the author of the UK's best-selling CV book You're Hired! How to write a brilliant CV and her second book on career coaching is due out next year. Corinne regularly appears as an expert for Guardian Careers, the BBC, Sky and in the national press.
Sophie Relf
Sophie is head of marketing strategy for the Guardian's Business & Professional division. She has around 10 years' experience in senior sales and marketing positions for leading recruitment websites and is also a published author on career management.
Kerry Eustice
Kerry Eustice is the content manager for Guardian Careers and oversees all of the editorial content and community activity on this part of the Guardian website. Previously, Kerry was the arts and entertainment editor at News Shopper - a regional newspaper serving south east London.