Position Ignition is the first UK company to call their career consultants career guides.

He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and works as a career consultant.

He has worked as a teacher, superintendent, career consultant and psychologist.

She is now working as a career consultant - a job change she is pleased with, even though she makes less.

Here are five of the most popular fields for people making a change, according to career consultants and those who track employment trends.

"Do anything you can," said Marjorie Brody, a career consultant, "to keep from crying at work."

"The scene was out of a 60's biker movie," said Ms. Hyatt, a career consultant.

Returning workers and career consultants say that perhaps even more dangerous than letting résumés get dusty is to let contacts grow stale.

Martin still aids him as a career consultant since their initial meeting in 2004.

After a local career consultant read prayers and a list of job leads, participants took turns talking about their frustrations.