Should I tell prospective employers that I want to change career?
(The Guardian Money News)

I am volunteering with a view to retraining via a postgraduate programme, but I also need to workTwice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy´s own insights.After being made redundant some years ago I have freelanced, but work has all but dried up and it is time to get a job. However, I also intend to retrain and do a lot of volunteering to that end - without voluntary experience I cannot get on the necessary postgraduate training programme. I also intend to do a distance learning course. Continue reading...