Looking for a change of direction - want to do something new with your career?

Just because you're moving into a new sector or new area of work, don't think you have to start from the beginning again. You have a career behind you a lot of which potential employers will be really interested in!
What do you have to offer?

Remember, lots of employers are more interested in general attitude to work, ability to learn, and transferable generic skills, than specific training and in-depth technical knowledge of their area. It varies of course, but if you can demonstrate the right attributes many employers will be happy to provide training to fill the gaps.

You have what employers are looking for - work experience and transferable work skills. You know what is expected of you in the work place, how to interact with your colleagues and can probably show you have used effective communication, self-management, learning, motivation and a whole range of other skills that employers want.
Fuse Top Tips

* Think hard about what you have done in your previous roles and make it relevant to the jobs you're looking for now. For example, if you have worked in Retail, with a little bit of looking at job ads, you soon realise you have pretty much all the skills needed for many careers in Hospitality - just tweak your CV to make it as obvious to potential employers.
* Ask your current or previous employers if they can refer you to anyone in your new target sector - maybe a supplier, a customer or even just a friend?
* If you're still working, look at your internal job board or speak to your HR department. There might be an opportunity under your nose you've just never noticed before.
* Think about related professions- some roles that sound very different are actually more simlar than you realise when you look at the skills needed
* There may be a halfway house you can use as a stepping stone. For example if you want to get into the Legal world but have been in IT, consider building up your contacts with an IT job for a law firm. Once you're on the inside you will learn much more about how to transfer the rest of the way.
* Consider an intensive training course to build up some of the specific skills that the people you're competing against might have - combined with your all-round transferable experience could make you a pretty compelling applicant!