Making a career change after 30 can feel overwhelming, but it’s also an opportunity to redefine your future. Whether you’re seeking more meaning, better work-life balance, or a completely new direction, Career Analysts is here to guide you every step of the way.
With over 60 years of experience, we specialise in helping professionals like you identify the career path that aligns with your evolving priorities, values, and goals.
For many, the need for a career change becomes clear in their 30s. Perhaps your current role no longer excites or challenges you, or you’re feeling stuck in a profession that doesn’t offer the growth or fulfilment you envisioned.
Maybe your job lacks flexibility, or you’re simply ready for a fresh start. Whatever your reasons, recognising the need for change is the first step toward a more rewarding professional life.
As we move through life, our circumstances and priorities often shift. Starting a family, pursuing a healthier work-life balance, or re-evaluating personal values can all influence the kind of career that suits you best.
What once seemed like the ideal job in your 20s may no longer align with your current lifestyle or ambitions. A career change at this stage is a natural, positive response to these evolving priorities.
Making the decision to change careers in your 30s is an empowering move. It allows you to take stock of your skills, interests, and long-term goals, and to pursue a path that offers greater satisfaction and purpose.
With the right guidance and tools, this can be the perfect time to align your career with the life you want to lead.
No two career journeys are the same, which is why we offer personalised advice designed around your individual situation. Whether you’re returning to work after time off, seeking a complete career overhaul, or exploring options for starting your own business, our tailored approach ensures that your career change is as seamless and effective as possible.
Combining Expertise and Psychometric Testing for In-Depth Insights
At Career Analysts, we combine decades of expertise with cutting-edge psychometric assessments to help you gain a deeper understanding of yourself. By evaluating your personality, skills, and interests, we provide insights into the career paths that are best suited to you. This scientific approach ensures that your next steps are based on solid, personalised data.
Our team of fully qualified Occupational Psychologists brings a wealth of experience to the table. During your one-on-one consultation, you’ll receive expert advice tailored to your strengths and aspirations. Together, you’ll explore potential career paths, weigh up the pros and cons, and create a clear roadmap for your professional future.
The foundation of our career change programme is an in-depth psychometric assessment, designed to uncover your unique abilities, personality traits, and areas of potential. These tests take approximately five hours to complete and provide a comprehensive analysis of who you are and what motivates you.
Following your assessments, you'll meet with one of our Occupational Psychologists for a one-on-one consultation. This session is your opportunity to discuss the test results in detail, explore career options tailored to you, and receive professional advice on the best paths to consider.
After your consultation, you'll receive a bespoke career report that summarises your psychometric test results, consultation insights, and tailored career recommendations. This individually written report provides a clear and actionable plan, giving you the confidence to take the next steps toward a career that fits your aspirations.
For more than six decades, Career Analysts has been a trusted name in career guidance. Our extensive experience means we understand the challenges and opportunities involved in making a career change, and we’ve helped thousands of professionals successfully navigate this process.
Cutting-Edge Psychometric Testing with Expert Interpretation
Unlike many career services, we provide psychometric testing that goes beyond generic assessments. Our tests are scientifically validated and interpreted by qualified Occupational Psychologists, ensuring you receive personalised, meaningful insights.
Our reputation is built on trust and results. Many of our clients return to us at different stages of their lives. Many also refer their children and grandchildren. This legacy of success speaks to the transformative impact of our services.
Our programme is designed to help you understand your strengths, explore your options, and feel confident in choosing the career path that’s right for you.
Discover a Career That Aligns with Your Values and Lifestyle
We focus on helping you find a career that complements your personal values, interests, and evolving life circumstances, ensuring long-term satisfaction and fulfilment.
Move Forward with a Tailored Action Plan
With a clear, personalised career report and expert guidance, you’ll have a step-by-step plan to move forward with confidence and purpose.
Why Now is the Perfect Time to Take Control of Your Career
There’s no better time than now to invest in your future. Whether you’re feeling stuck, unfulfilled, or ready for a new challenge, our programme provides the clarity and confidence you need to move forward.
Start Your Journey with Career Analysts
With our expert guidance, you’ll discover a career path that suits you and your goals. Take the first step today and start building the fulfilling future you deserve.
Absolutely not. Your 30s and 40s are an ideal time to re-evaluate your career and align it with your priorities. Many people successfully transition to fulfilling careers even later in life, and with the right guidance, you can too.
Our programme is designed to be efficient while providing depth and detail. The psychometric tests take around five hours to complete, followed by a one-on-one consultation and a personalised career report in the days that follow.
Our programme is not limited to specific industries or roles. Whether you’re exploring creative fields, technical professions, management, or entrepreneurship, we tailor our advice to your unique skills and aspirations.
Psychometric tests are scientifically designed assessments that measure your personality, aptitudes, skills, and values. At Career Analysts, these tests are interpreted by qualified Occupational Psychologists to provide detailed insights into your ideal career path.
You will work directly with fully qualified Occupational Psychologists who have extensive experience in career guidance. They will provide personalised advice based on your psychometric test results and career aspirations.
Your career report includes a detailed analysis of your psychometric test results, a summary of your consultation with the Occupational Psychologist, and tailored career recommendations. It provides actionable steps to help you move forward confidently.
Yes, our programme is designed to help you explore career options outside your current industry. By understanding your transferable skills, strengths, and interests, we can guide you toward a successful transition into a new field.
Absolutely. Whether you’ve taken time off for personal reasons or other commitments, we can help you identify opportunities that fit your skills and goals, and provide guidance to make your return to work as smooth as possible.
Our step-by-step approach ensures you leave the programme with clarity and confidence. From understanding your strengths through psychometric testing to discussing career options with an expert, we equip you with the knowledge and tools to make informed decisions.
We combine 60 years of experience, cutting-edge psychometric testing, and the expertise of fully qualified Occupational Psychologists to deliver unmatched personalised career advice. Unlike many services, we focus on in-depth analysis and tailored solutions, ensuring you receive advice that is relevant and actionable.
Just wanted to say what a lovely chat I had with Mary today. I felt like she took the time to really understand me and see how to tailor careers to suit me personally rather than trying to force anything on me, and I appreciated how at ease she made me and felt the overall experience was very rewarding so I look forward to reading her report further to the session.
I appreciate your work in helping me at this difficult time. I need to digest the results and act soon. Could you thank the careers adviser on my behalf for her work, recommendations and websites? She might be pleased to know that I have been short-listed for the Lay Chaplain post at New Hall School.
I found the Career Analysts experience very pertinent. It has highlighted my frustration at work doing secretarial work. I also found the personality profile interesting. I know that I am determined and driven, but I did not realize to what extent i.e. I did not think I was more driven than other people and I see now how this aspect of my personality conflicts with routine work. I realize that I need to find a job that provides outlet for this. Hitherto, I have done this through studying.
A belated thank you so much for your advice and support last week – and for the comments/tips below. It was an extremely useful session, well-tailored to my needs and has helped to structure and focus my thinking; It has also enabled me to feel more confident about preparing for/addressing interviews.
I just wanted to say thank you to you and your team for a really worthwhile, informative and thought provoking day. I felt as though some light started to appear at the end of a tunnel.
The Career Analysts experience provided me with valuable information. The Occupational Psychologist gave me a lot to think about and the report was a good summary.
Generally this was an excellent day! The Occupational Psychologist was a very intelligent, confident, interesting person. I really enjoyed our conversation.
Several comments really rang true. I had thought counselling might suit me, but she advised against it and when I mentioned this to close family they agreed with the Career Analyst.
I am pleased to say I now have a job working for the Liberal Democrats which I am really enjoying. Thank you for your advice.
I haven’t had a chance to go through the official feedback process yet. I will though, but meanwhile must say how pleased I am with Mary’s report. It’s been such a helpful process and I’m delighted with the advice she has offered. I shall follow through with the proper feedback process ASAP.
The Career Analysts’ experience was useful in confirming what should be my first step in making a positive career adjustment. The Occupational Psychologist was very easy to talk to; a very relaxed session. Honest and realistic about the current job market/climate.
“I had a useful broad ranging discussion with the consultant with helpful insights.
The career analysts experience was very valuable. Some of the information I already knew but it was good to see how that fitted into my career choice. Some info was surprising too!
The Occupational Psychologist was very perceptive about my personality.
I came to Career Analysts following a divorce and being made redundant from a dead-end job. I saw an advert and decided to make the investment. It was the best money I have ever spent. Your psychologist told me – who had been a failure at school – that I was in the top 2% in the country for my problem-solving and spatial skills and that I had the capability to study for a degree! She brushed aside my protestations about not having O or A levels or First Degree and told me that I would ‘find a way’.
She was so right – albeit that it was some nine years later that I was accepted onto a MSc in strategic HRM at Anglia Ruskin University as a result of conducting a three-and-a-half-year major change consultancy assignment. To cap it all, I was accepted into MENSA a year later. I will be singing your praises and recommending you to anyone who needs you.
Thank you.
Dear Leo I thought I would drop you a quick note to give you some feedback on my experience with Career Analysts. I was particularly impressed with the Occupational Psychologist. She clearly understood my objectives and did a lot of research to make sure the advice she gave me was specific to my needs. This allowed my time with her to be productive and highly focused on what I wanted to achieve. The Occupational Psychologist’s insight into the specific job role I was looking for, combined with an uncanny ability to access my personality, was truly remarkable.
She helped me build confidence and understand what was driving me in my previous jobs. I constantly try to analyse my job skills and look at how I can improve myself. The Occupational Psychologist took that to a completely different level and within an hour with her it was clear I couldn’t see the wood from the trees. The net result was that within a matter of weeks I was able to secure a job in a completely different industry. I am extremely grateful to the Occupational Psychologist and Career Analysts for helping me understand my vocation and future path. I would not hesitate to recommend your services.
Regards Richard
Please could you tell your occupational psychologist that I took the job with the charity and I’m loving it! Thanks!
Would just like to inform you that I have just found employment as a Senior Intelligence Analyst working for a fraud investigation company in Gloucester. Thank you for all your help and guidance.
I must say it makes a great deal of difference – thank you very much for an enjoyable experience.
The Occupational Psychologist had obviously got me down to a tee!
My self-awareness was fairly good already. However, Career Analysts affirmed that having my own company is right for me and to continue with this. I have come away feeling more positive about the way I work and more in control.
You won’t remember me, but I came to visit you at Career Analysts back in 2001. I thought you might be interested in what I have achieved since. You advised me to return to university (I was then 36). Eventually I took your advice following redundancy, and completed a BSc in Geology at Durham, graduating with first class honours. I have just completed my PhD from Bristol University working on volcanoes in the Afar region of Ethiopia – the most extraordinary experience! I am now off to Hawaii for a two-year post-doc looking into the origin of Earth’s water. All of this a far cry from the admin role I had when I came to visit you! I was very skeptical of returning to study was very disbelieving when you told me I was more than capable – you were right I was wrong! Thanks for your help back then.
Some of the suggestions were things I had already thought of, but Mary had new ideas too + tried to wrestle with my myriad of issues! It’s been great for me to try and see why some ideas are no longer appealing (albeit work areas in which I have long-standing experience), and to have a really sound baseline of ideas for me to consider what I do next. Particularly useful was the discussion with Mary and the efforts she took to try and understand my circumstances. Her moral support for my current career / employment difficulties.
That was great, thanks. Looking forward to the report – really enjoyed my two hours!
I found the Career Analysts experience extremely valuable. The testing and discussion with Pamela indicated to me that actually I was following the wrong career path when taking my natural strengths in to account. The report and recommendations that were presented to me have helped me to make the decision to set off in a different direction in my career.
I found that while the testing and the report itself are very valuable, Pamela worked with me in order to find specific niches and area’s that I had either not thought about in the past, or at least from the incorrect perspective. It is obvious that Pamela is very interested in and excited by her current role.
Having a visual representation of my abilities and having an expert explain the results and take my input in to account in the consultation made me realise that I had been pursuing my goals in ways that were detrimental to my happiness and success.
We use in-depth psychometric testing to help teenagers make important education & career choices, 20 year olds choose a new career path and 30+ year olds who need a career change.
