PEP Talk Career Change Program


When you’re stuck with your career change or don’t know where to start, this proven, structured program will help you discover meaningful options and choose a fulfilling, achievable way forward.

Format

100% online. Video, text and graphic resources, plus career change templates and walkthroughs

Two Programs in One

Know-how, guided methods and resources plus 1:1 transformational coaching

Our Career Changers

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Lee Mortenson

I felt stuck in a career that no longer held meaning or satisfaction for me.

I’ve now been offered a role in my new career, working 100% from home. This could not have worked out any better!

Andy C.

I've been able to confidently move forward with a career change that will provide me with a more fulfilling job role & a much improved work / life balance.

I'm really positive about the future!

Steph Francis

I've now got a new job in a meaningful area that I feel passionately about and which genuinely aligns with who I am as a person and what I want to do with my life. I am really excited about my career going forwards!

Follow the Program Walkthrough

Career Change Program

Step By Step

Follow a structured, logical and evidence-led approach to creating your exciting and achievable career transition.

How You'll Change Career

Explore the program in detail below.
This is all the ground we'll cover – but remember, this is just the content stream.
Alongside this, you'll have at least one transformational coaching session within each module to cover every aim and challenge to plan a successful career change.

Welcome to PEP Talk!

Welcome to your PEP Talk Career Change Program!
How Does PEP Talk Work?
Your #1 Reference Tool for Career Change
How to Work with Your Coach
Your PEP Talk Workbook
Welcome Quiz
ACTIVITY: Your Statement of Aims
ACTIVITY: Put Your Career Change in Context
ACTIVITY: Prepare LinkedIn

PREPARE – Module 1 – Your Fulfilment Factors

In the Prepare phase of the program, you'll learn:

  • What you really want

  • What truly drives you

  • What an ideal career looks like for you

  • What your core inner strengths are

  • Your specific and transferable skills

We'll then format and build on this knowledge to create 3 to 5 distinct Career Exploration Projects.

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In Module 1:

Strengths vs Skills
Why Your Skills Could Be A Problem
Gather Your Ingredients for Fulfilment
ACTIVITY: Your Values
ACTIVITY: Your Interests
ACTIVITY: Your Strengths & Skills
ACTIVITY: Flow
Prepare For Your First Coaching Session

PREPARE – Module 2 – Build Your Career Projects

In Module 2, we'll show you exactly how to convert your Fulfilment Factors into motivating Career Exploration Projects, step-by-step.

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How to Design Your Career Exploration
Option Drivers: How to Identify Your Career Signposts
ACTIVITY: Complete Your Option Drivers List
Option Drivers Case Study / Live Example
Get Set: Choose Your Exploration Style
ACTIVITY: Discover ALL the Great Careers You Could Explore
ACTIVITY: Create Your Career Exploration Projects

EXPLORE – Module 3 – Discover Your Career Options

In the Explore phase, you'll discover a wide range of career possibilities by closely analysing your work in Prepare and using our strategies and toolkit to dramatically expand your horizons.

You'll then use our rapid, effective shortlisting method to pinpoint 5 careers that are:

  • Specific

  • Exciting, and

  • Viable

Your Career Shortlist will then be ready to take forward into the Plan phase of PEP Talk.

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In Module 3:

How to Find Career Options
LinkedIn vs. Not-LinkedIn
Your Career Exploration Workflow
ACTIVITY: Make your Keyword Plans
LinkedIn for Career Discovery
Before You Begin: Principles & Pitfalls
ACTIVITY: Gather Your Career Options
Career Exploration Library

EXPLORE – Module 4 – Strategies and Shortlisting

In Module 4, alongside your ongoing exploration and shortlisting, you'll create your own Personal Job Satisfaction Model and learn how to plan career transitions effectively, ready for the Plan phase.

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Know What Makes You Happy At Work
A Strategy for Better Opportunities, More Often
Have Your Cake & Eat It – Options For Multiple Careers
How To Make a Career Transition
Role Types & When To Stop Searching
How to Shortlist Careers Using the VIP Check
ACTIVITY: Create your Personal Job Satisfaction Model
ACTIVITY: Mix & Match
ACTIVITY: Create Your Career Filters
ACTIVITY: Create Your Exciting & Viable Career Shortlist

PLAN – Module 5 – Gap-Filling and Due Diligence

Now that you have an exciting and viable Career Shortlist, we'll go into deep dive mode.

The Plan phase guides you to fill your knowledge gaps, experiment with new ideas, predict work-life balance, explore transition scenarios and more.

It is designed to build confidence and decrease risk, so that you can make an informed, confident and motivated decision about your future path.

Finally, you'll use our proprietary MAINSET model to create your detailed and achievable Career Change Action Plan.

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In Module 5:

How to Pick From Your Shortlist
Gaps & How To Fill Them
How to Test The Water
Visual Work-Life Balance Predictor
ACTIVITY: Define Your Commitment Factors
ACTIVITY: Gap-Filling (1)
ACTIVITY: Gap-Filling (2)
ACTIVITY: Due Diligence
ACTIVITY: Transition Mapping

PLAN – Module 6 – Career Change Action Plan

In Module 6, you'll make a decision about your way forward and create your motivating and achievable Career Change Action Plan.

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Making a Good Career Decision
Decision-Making Library
Good Goal Setting – Introducing MAINSETS
MAINSETS – a Guided Tour
MAINSETS Client Example
ACTIVITY: Create Your Career Change Action Plan

Frequently asked questions

You’ve got questions. We’ve got answers!

What makes PEP Talk different from other approaches?

You'll see other career change programs out there. Some even have 3 steps like PEP Talk.

But PEP Talk has a few essential advantages:

  1. It's thorough. This is key because everybody has a different appetite for risk, so PEP Talk give you the tools and methods to build confidence and decrease risk – to your satisfaction.

  2. We show you how to actually use the information you gather.
    Other approaches don't tell you how to apply your learnings to find concrete careers. Be reassured that we don't leave you high and dry – our approach walks you through the whole process, step by step.

  3. PEP Talk is a hybrid program.
    By combining a logical, structured approach with transformational coaching, we ensure you have both the know-how and the psychological wizardry to not only find your answers, but clear aside all of those inner blockers to change.

What is the outcome of PEP Talk?

A detailed Career Change Action Plan, plus your own specific objectives that we help you define at the beginning of the program.

You'll know what change you’re going to make and how to implement that change.

Some people make relatively small but significant changes, while others opt for dramatic transitions into something completely new.

Will you tell me which careers suit me?

Other people's answers are likely to be wrong for you.

So instead of handing you a list of jobs like a school careers adviser, PEP Talk guides you to find your own meaningful answers.

By following the program and engaging with your coach, you'll discover a broad range of motivating careers based on your own core drivers.

You'll narrow these down to a handful of exciting and viable options and make a concrete plan for a better future.

That said, we have a broad experience of roles and career types, so if we can see something you're missing, we'll gladly offer you the idea without attachment.

Time planning guide

We believe career planning should be done properly

... because you care deeply about this, so if you don't do it thoroughly, what's the point?

PEP Talk is the most thorough, structured approach out there. Which means you'll need to give it time and commitment.


How much time?

If you were to treat PEP Talk as a full-time job, we estimate you could work through the complete program (all 6+ modules) in 5 working days.

On top of this, you will need to account for whatever career exploration and research you choose to undertake. We don't estimate this because it varies so much from person to person.

So in theory, PEP Talk could be completed in, say, 2-3 weeks – but in practice, our clients choose to spread this out over a longer period – usually anything between 3 and 8 months.

How we help with time management

  1. You set the pace, to make this work alongside your other commitments

  2. Speed up and slow down whenever you want

  3. We give you a full year in which to use your sessions

Plus

  • Unlimited messaging support and check-ins between sessions

  • Monthly Q&A webinars

  • Where useful, we can add more structure by booking sessions ahead to give date to work towards

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Anthony

I was unhappy in my job and wanted to assess my options. The program helped me set a clear course for the next phase of my career. As a result, I have inner peace. I have a clear plan and know in my bones ...

Hayley

I had been in my job for 20 years and felt pigeonholed, I had no idea what I wanted to do, how my skills would transfer or how I would even get the process started. My coach has been fantastic to work with, encouraging ...

Rob

With PEP Talk I went on a journey of self discovery, investigating who I am and where that person fits in this big wide world. Career change decisions can feel daunting, but with the support from my one-to-one sessions, I found I had the confidence ...

Sarah

Having spent many years trying to find a way out of my current career, I felt I really needed an expert to help me navigate a career change. I now have a much clearer understanding of what I am looking for; what skills I have ...

Simon

I'd been through a particularly challenging few years and had no clear idea of the way forward. PEP Talk helped me understand what really made me tick, then helped me consider the types of roles ...

Steph

I really am truly thankful that I took the plunge! My coach asked the right questions to really force me to think deeply and confront some unhelpful thinking I didn’t even realise I was doing which was limiting me. And before PEP Talk, I didn’t even know my new career existed! ...

Peter

Over the course of my coaching sessions I have experienced an epiphany. Our work reignited the fire of confidence and hunger within me and has led me to a new path which I sincerely believe will be productive, satisfying and abundant...

Andrew

I was having sleepless nights, feeling unhappy and spread thin. I wanted a career change with good work-life balance, but didn’t know what I wanted to do or what was out there, or how to think about the financial transition. Coaching was...

Tiziana

The career change action plan was crucial to draw up plans for the short, medium and long term. This contributed to my final decision and I have successfully found a job in a new sector. I can say loud and clear that I feel positive. I have chosen a new career path, a field where...