A change of career is on the cardsÖliterally!

Toying with the notion of making a career change, but not sure where it is you want to end up? Looking for an innovative new way to guide your clients in redirecting their career path? Successful careers author and Transitional Career Coach, John Lees, has generated the essential tool for supporting this identification process ñ the JLA Skill Cards Toolkit.

Nowís the time to stop wasting time and energy pushing yourself or others uphill in the wrong direction. Whether you are the job hunter in search of a career change or the consultant responsible for making that change a reality, the JLA Skill Cards Toolkit have the potential to ensure the process is a successful and enlightening one, all round.

The JLA Skill Cards Toolkit is fundamentally designed to help career changers identify their skills, career achievements and new areas that interest them. Moreover, the cards will help all individuals recognise skills, assist in career transition coaching and facilitate personal and career development.

Initiating a career change, and always a difficult one, is one of the most consequential and daunting moves you can make, particularly when already established in a career. Consequently, it makes sense to facilitate this transition with as much informed advice and guidance as possible. By uncovering your core skills and talents the JLA Skill Cards Toolkit offers a comprehensive framework to target your quest.

In dealing with clients, the skills cards offer an effective and efficient tool, beginning with the basics by defining what clients enjoy, and what clients do best.

Each JLA Skill Card set contains 80 cards and a unique coding system of 4 letters; C ñ Skills mainly involving Concepts or Ideas, P ñ Skills mainly involving People, T ñ Skills mainly involving Things and I ñ Skills mainly involving Information.

Once key skills have been recognised the cards enable users to outline competency and enjoyment levels and identify previously underdeveloped skills in each area. In conjunction with outlined exercises the cards encourage users to investigate future learning and goal setting.

Creating, innovating, seeing alternatives
Performing in public
Making presentations
Interpreting numbers or accounts at a glance.

Do you recognise yourself or a client in one of these cards? Everyone possesses a myriad of unique skills and talents, sometimes we just need a cue card to help acknowledge our qualities.

Begin the process of maximising your job satisfaction and career potential, by minimising the guesswork and look to the cards for the answers. Whether you hope to move sideways, upwards, to an entirely new pasture or simply want to establish your options, take control of your future, unlock hidden talents and initiate the journey of self-discovery.