Online Networking: Use Alumni Pages on LinkedIn
Are you using this feature on LinkedIn? www.linkedin.com/alumni I have found it quite valuable for tapping into my alumni directory. This feature allows you to see a visual representation of where your fellow university alumni live (i.e. their location), work (companies), as well as what they do for a living (career). Here are other great […]
Top 10 Reasons to Hire a Career Coach
If you were a major league baseball player, you would have a pitching coach, a hitting coach, and a fielding coach in addition to a head coach. All of these coaches have one primary objective: to bring out your full athletic potential. In the same way, a career coach can help you bring out your full career […]
Career Development Happens With Professional Organizations
Joining a professional organization can seem a bit daunting, especially with a busy schedule, and not knowing where to begin or which organization to join. Let us help you get started! First of all there are many great resources and perks that come with membership in a professional organization. Here are a few: They are […]
First 3 Steps in the Career Planning Process
Sometimes to get where you are going, you must travel through the “in-between times”. Career planning and career management are about taking the next small step forward. Sometimes you don’t change jobs right away, sometimes the job leads don’t pan out, and sometimes the perfect job doesn’t actually fit with your work style. However, every position […]
What is the best career for me?
What’s the best career for you? The best careers are the ones that allow you to develop your natural strengths and talents. I know many organizations and people trying to ‘fix’ their team, rather than looking for what they are good at and allowing them an opportunity to get better in areas that come naturally. For example, […]
How to Identify a Strength
What are you good at? What do you bring to the table for your employer? Don’t think of how you would answer this question in an interview but, rather, how you would tell a friend who genuinely wants to help you. Imagine that there is no right or wrong answer to this question. Think through […]
Baby Steps to find the Courage to Change Careers
Changing careers can be overwhelming, exciting, scary, and very rewarding. Change isn’t easy because most people like what they are familiar with. People lean towards a certain sense of safety and predictability when the situation is new. When we are given the choice between bad, but familiar, and uncertainty, our natural human tendency is bad, […]
Fight the Fear of Finding a New Career
Searching for a new career can seem overwhelming. For some individuals, the job-hunting process itself can appear to be a mountain to climb, especially when you are out of shape! See if any of these statements sound familiar: I don’t know where to start. I don’t know what I want to do anymore or what […]
A Necessity for Career Change: Discomfort
Change feels uncomfortable…for everyone! That is why change can be so difficult. If you want to see a change in your career, it isn’t likely going to be easy and may not feel comfortable. Of course, those feeling are normal for a worthwhile change and even many small changes. It’s analogous to trying to lose […]
Career Opportunities are Everywhere but Hard to See
Creating opportunity is a mindset. Opportunities are actually everywhere – we don’t see them all because we’re stuck in the same patterns of thinking. Our thoughts affect the way we see opportunity. Here are some examples of patterns of thinking that block us from seeing an opportunity: He’s next in line for the promotion. I’m […]