How to change careers and make it work

“People will be suspicious that it is someone having a mid-life crisis ... who in two years' time will want to do something else,” Nick Parfitt, of Cubiks, an HR consultancy, says. Being able to show that you are changing career in a considered way - for example, by getting experience part-time before a permanent move - will help. So will a genuine, realistic and well-researched certainty that the move is right for you.
“Positive enthusiasm and passion will attract many buyers in interview,” Matthew Chester, a director at Digby Morgan, an HR consultancy, says.