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Think about your ideal working environment. What sort of environment would enable you to work at your best? This includes the company, culture, salary, location and anything else you can think of.

Consider the size of organisation. For example, you could be a catering supervisor in a large company and move to be a catering manager in a smaller company. Or be a general manager in a smaller company and change to an operations manager in a medium-size company, etc.

If your travel-to-work distance is 30 minutes, it may seriously constrain your search, so could you extend it to a 90-minute journey? If you have constraints then narrow your search; there’s no point getting excited if you see an ideal job and then realise it’s 100 miles from your home.

Example: Samira

Samira was made redundant from her job as a financial analyst. She was also a fully qualified accountant. She was concerned over being made redundant from a high paid job but had been working on a product she didn’t believe in, with a not very supportive manager, and working for a large city firm with a long daily commute which didn’t give her time for any other interests. By the time she got home from work each day she was ready to just slump in front of the TV. Her ideal working day would be working within a 30-minute journey from home and with the freedom to work from home at least one day a week. She was willing to earn less if it meant she could work with a company she believed in. Employment as an accountant in the charity sector would match many of her needs.