Get Your Support System in Place for Your Career Change
As you are going through this unsettled time of career change, it is important to develop a good support system.
How do You Measure Your Job Change Success?
When changing careers and seeking out the right job for you, it’s easy to avoid the work necessary to achieve your goals and do something, anything, else. Rather than going to an association meeting, well, there’s this interesting game on the web. You may have gone a long time without a single job offer, so [...]
Getting and Keeping Going!
“If you want to be truly successful, invest in yourself to get the knoweldge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.” ~ Sidney Madwed The task of finding or changing work can seem like a long and dauntless task. The incentive to start [...]
Why Do You Want a New Career?
Why are you thinking about changing your career? Do you want to create and grow, step up, or just survive? We all have reasons for doing things. The most successful people have the strongest reasons why they do what they do. If one of your children needed a medical treatment that would keep them healthy [...]
I Got an Interview! What do I do? (Part I)
An Interview – Congratulations! These days just getting an interview is a piece de resistance! When competing with a hundred other qualified, hopeful applicants, it’s difficult to get your resume to stand out long enough for a cursive review, let alone a call for an interview. The interview is commonly one of the scariest steps [...]
Scary and Exciting Steps
BRAVE OR CRAZY?! I made a commitment to complete the rough draft of my book by May 3rd! Yikes! Scary and exciting at the same time. I have no doubt that I can do it, but whenever I make a big commitment like that, something inside of me seems to wake up, curl its lip [...]
Staying Positive Through Difficult Change
A wolf must be fed to be strong As you are out, on what may seem to be an endless job hunt, in a difficult economy, what things are you saying to yourself? There is an old story about a boy who was attempting to improve his archery, but was not doing well. In frustration, [...]
What do you want to do with your life?
What do you want to be when you grow up? Remember when you were young and a grown up, usually someone who seemed ancient, would ask: What do you want to be when you grow up? Did you have an answer? Was it a fireman or astronaut? A ballerina or mountain climber? Or did you [...]
Why it is Important to find Work that is Right for You
Finding work that is right for you will improve your entire life.
Learning how to make job changes
Knowledge is Power for a Career Transition To make your career transition easier, I suggest you take some serious time to look at your skills and breakdown of the various things you do in the workplace. Take a look at my previous posts. Did your discoveries surprise you? Now look at the skills you use [...]
Lesley V. Ingves
