Changing careers or even jobs within the same career can be expensive. The costs of hiring a coach, making a decision, then lining up resources like interview suits, résumé services and travel expenses to interviews may make you want to give up before you begin. Hiring a career coach especially may seem out of [...]
Timothy Eberly | Unsplash.com Today I'd like to offer my take on using personality in career exploration, specifically, introversion versus extroversion. In recent years introverts have made a comeback. Introvert-positive articles and web sites are everywhere. I take it all with a grain of salt, however. I once was asked to take a [...]
Emily Reider | Unsplash.com Midlife career exploration is different than in college. You've got years of work experience and hard-earned skills, but you also might be tired of using those skills. Many feel trapped by the money and time they've invested in getting good at something. It can be difficult to decide whether to [...]
Roman Averin | Unsplash.com When you're feeling lost or stuck mid-career, it can be so difficult to take time to explore options. When you finally find the time, it can be hard to know where to start. There are four areas I ask my clients to explore in their work lives: values, skills, [...]
Jeremy Bishop | Unsplash When you're thinking about making a career change, how do you know when the time is right? We don't want to wait forever for the perfect moment that never comes, but on the other hand, we don't want to be too rash and risk our financial security, harming our [...]
Rima Sidhu Over the next few months, I hope to share profiles of people with interesting and unique career paths. Today I'd like to feature Rima Sidhu, who works as an exercise physiologist at Maze Sexual and Reproductive Health in New York City. Rima has a master's degree in exercise physiology and nutrition [...]
Martin Barak | Unsplash Our problems aren't so special. We think they are. We think no one has faced anything so complex. No one has a boss this crazy, a job this hectic, an email inbox filled with so many requests. If our problems are special, it's a great excuse to avoid solving [...]
Matt Lewis | Unsplash When we hate our work, why don't we change careers? Why do so many of us stay stuck, resigned to a life that doesn't fit us? Many of us fear the time in between one career and another, that shaky time when we don't know exactly who we are [...]
Jerry Kiesewetter | unsplash.com We consider a lot of factors when making big career decisions, but should we consider the temperature outside? Katherine Milkman, a University of Pennsylvania behavioral scientist, recently wrote in The Washington Post that hot weather can lead to bad decision-making. Crime goes up, and road rage incidents increase, she reports. Baseball players even [...]
Take a break to reflect, even if you have to use sticky notes Reflection is the foundation of career change, but so few of us practice it regularly, myself included. It's tough when you're stressed out, overworked, burned out people. The last thing you want to do is sit and "reflect" at the end of [...]
