The sub-title for this post should be “Don’t Make the Same Mistake I Made!” My biggest career mistake was when I was leaving my job at Harvard. It was my second real job, and after working there for 5 years, I was tired of it, even though it truly was a great place to work. I wanted to [...]
Read More...How Transferable Skills Can Help You Change Jobs
November 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Basically transferable skills are job skills that can make the leap from one job or career to another no matter what they are called. But since job titles and terms can at times seem very different from the real underlying skills, you may have to help a prospective employer understand why your experience is right [...]
Read More...5 Important Things To Know About Career Change
November 1, 2010 By 3 Comments
If you are thinking about a major career change, there are five very important things I want you to know: There is no one-size-fits-all formula, road map or GPS Career transition can take time – sometimes years You need to give yourself permission to make wrong turns Certain friends and family will very likely think [...]
Read More...8 Ways Job Search Advice Messes With Your Head
September 27, 2010 By 8 Comments
So. Here I am with a job search and interview advice blog. Am I really going to say don’t trust everything you read on career and job search sites? Well…yes. There are some truly great career sites out there and a lot to be learned from browsing them…and I humbly hope you include this site [...]
Read More...To Discover Your Dreams, First Discover Yourself
July 26, 2010 By 4 Comments
I was watching NY1 right after a friend asked how to go about finding a career she can truly care about and hopefully even love – rather than just lots of jobs strung together. While arguably, sometimes jobs strung together can be the basis of a career, there on NY1′s New Yorker of the Week [...]
Read More...20 Things You Can Do To Open Up New Possibilities at Work and Beyond
June 21, 2010 By 10 Comments
Sometimes I like to go back and look at what I’ve written over these past 3+ years (eeek!) since I’ve been blogging about work and careers. One of my favorite posts – although admittedly not my biggest traffic-getter – is about something I call job morphing. Job morphing is a way of taking a work [...]
Read More...Resume Problems: I Keep Trying But My Resume Doesn’t Get Me Any Jobs!
June 14, 2010 By 7 Comments
Who doesn’t want a resume that will get them a job? I’d also like my resume to make me a sandwich and clean my apartment, but odds are that ain’t gonna happen. So why do I bring this up? While a good resume is important, I worry that job seekers are putting way too many [...]
Read More...Does Size REALLY Matter When It Comes to Your First Salary Offer?
May 24, 2010 By 6 Comments
I’ve watched new graduates trying to figure out how to negotiate salary requirements for their very first job after graduation. For many new grads dealing with the size of an offer (did I ask for too much? did I ask for too little? how much salary can I ask for? should I even try to [...]
Read More...7 Career Pros Give Great Advice and Tips for Job Search 2.0!
March 8, 2010 By 19 Comments
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about just how much job search techniques and job search tools have changed over the last few years. It’s a whole different game now. With that in mind, I decided you might find it useful to have an advice overview of things you need to know about Job Search [...]
Read More...My List of 20 Favorite Career and Job Interview Help Blogs
August 5, 2009 By 13 Comments
Let’s face it. There are plenty of good career blogs and interview help blogs out there. And there are also plenty of stinkers. In no way is this meant to be a comprehensive list of all the good ones – just a list of a few of the best career sites I’ve found in my [...]
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