Alternative Careers
Welcome to the Alternative Careers section. This part of the website is still under construction and we will be adding articles shortly. Please make use of the information and links below.
Visit the Resource Section or Recommended Books below.
Resources
You may find the following websites useful in your alternative careers journey. While we have provided a comprehensive list, we recognise it is not always complete. If you have any recommendations please let us know by getting in touch.
Medic Footprints is a UK based organisation that seeks to support the career and lifestyle needs of medics by connecting them with career new and interesting career opportunities.
80,000 Hours provides research and support to help students and recent graduates switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.
Prospects are the experts in graduate careers. They help to guide students and graduates to a bright future with unrivalled information, advice and opportunities
Permission to Thrive equips doctors with the tools and resources they need to thrive, and fall in love with their career again. View their transformational webinars and training sessions.
Medical Success brings invaluable knowledge and wealth of information together into an easy to use resource, giving clear advice and opening doors that had previously been closed.
An american based conference created as a way to help physicians explore the numerous non-clinical opportunities that are available to them. View their useful resources section.
Adventure Medic is an award-winning, free, online magazine for students and healthcare professionals interested in wilderness, expedition and humanitarian medicine.
Created by a GP as a single repository of resources for doctors approaching burnout. There is a useful section on alternative careers.
For some physicians, patient care is the only professional goal. But many doctors have career goals beyond clinical work. This site explores options besides clinical practice.
Beyond the Ward is designed to be a community of healthcare professionals who provide mutual support as they explore career options outside clinical practice.
A webpage for medics who are considering a move to an alternative career. You will find ideas of jobs where a medical degree and clinical training or experience are valued.
Training to be a doctor has many different potential career avenues. This page outlines the different career opportunities and support options that are available to doctors.
Recommended Books
You may find the following books useful in your alternative careers journey. We recommend using Bookshop.org as it supports independent bookshops and increases author royalties.
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Designing Your Life: Build the Perfect Career
Designing Your Life puts forward the idea that the same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products and spaces can be used to build towards a better life and career by a design of your own making.
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Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what determines success and importantly, how anyone can achieve it.
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Take the Leap
Take the Leap features inspiration and advice from game changers, rule breakers, and side hustlers who once stood where you are now, wondering if they should take a risk. Go after whatever it is that you truly want.
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Do What You Are
Using workbook exercises and real-life examples to highlight the strengths and pitfalls of all 16 personality types, DO WHAT YOU ARE shows you step-by-step how to utilize your unique strengths to customise your job search.
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Switchers
As a career switcher, you have to go beyond the basics, using tactics tailor-made to ensure your candidacy stands out.
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The Squiggly Career
Packed with insights about the changing shape of work and inspiration from highly successful people, this book will fuel your growth and help you be happier, and ultimately more successful in your career.
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Pivot
Jenny Blake shows you how to build upon your strengths, interests and networks to launch a new career with meaning and adventure. You'll learn how to redirect your energy, scan for opportunities and identify new skills.
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When to Jump
Mike Lewis has curated a community of people to share their stories about taking the leap into the unknown - people who left the safe inertia of their own circumstances to try and do what they really wanted to be doing.
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Reinventing You
Reinventing You provides a step-by-step guide to help you assess your unique strengths, develop a compelling personal brand, and ensure that others recognize the powerful contribution you can make.
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So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport's clearly-written manifesto flies in the face of conventional wisdom by suggesting that it should be a person's talent and skill - and not necessarily their passion - that determines their career path.
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