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Career change advice, suggestions, tips and resources for job seekers and those interested in a career change.
10 Steps to a Successful Career Change
Interested in a new job or career? Follow our Ten Steps to a Successful Career Change to explore career options and choose a new career within or outside your current industry or career field.
Are You Really Committed To Your Career Goals?
Are you working on your career goals or just going through the motions? Are you "in" one day and "out" the next? Are you waiting for your goals to inspire and motivate you, and then you will jump in completely?
Be Prepared to Change Jobs
Sometimes, it happens by choice. Sometimes, you don't have an option. In either case, it's important to be prepared to change jobs - because you never know when it might happen to you.
Career Change: Changing Careers in Midstream
The Coho, also known as the silver salmon, can change direction so quickly that fisherman often think that the fish is off the hook and continuing on it's migration to spawn in the river where it was born. People don't usually have the same capacity to change careers, or life, in midstream. It sometimes take more of an effort or even a push to get us moving in a new direction.
How to Move Down the Career Ladder
Sometimes, moving down the career ladder, instead of up, can make sense. It could be by choice. I know more than a few people who have decided to opt out of fast-tracks to do a job that's less stressful or a job that's more fun.
Switching Gears: Tuning Up Your Career
Career advice on how tune up your career to position yourself for a successful career change, for growth in your current field or to change jobs.
Is Time to Change Jobs?
You're tired all the time; you don't want to get out of bed in the morning; you can't concentrate at work anymore. Guess what, you could be one of millions of Americans that need to consider a job or career change.
Career Change: Music to Sales Coach
Sales coach and writer Robert Kennedy is the About.com Guide to Private Schools. Rob shares his perspective on sales careers, coaching, and how he landed his dream job.
Career Change Tools for the Midlife Woman
Work is an expression of who we are  - a meaningful and satisfying career meshes with our values, our talents and what is truly important to us.
Five Steps For Taking Your Career From Denial To Victory
Do you have a feeling that something is wrong in your career, yet you have not done anything about it? Do you feel like something is missing in your career, but you'd prefer not to think about it?
How to Answer Your Call in Mid-Life
Guest author Craig Nathanson, The Vocational Coach™ and the author of the book, P Is For Perfect: Your Perfect Vocational Day by Bookcoach Press, shares his advice on how to manage a midlife career change and change vocations.
I Don't Know What I Want, But This Ain't Doing It
Are you getting what you want out of life? Do you really know what you want? Are you caught up in the "busy"-ness of mere day to day living that you sometimes feel you are achieving empty victories? Guest Author Thomas J. Denham, MEd shares information on how to transition your career.
Make Better Choices In Your Career
Your career is made up of choices. You choose what you want to do, where you will do it, and what type of education will get you there. Some of your choices empower you and others hold you back. Either way, you have power over what you choose in your career.
Passion Pursuit: Baby Steps or Big Plunge?
Explore your passion, identify a new direction, and take action to create a career that leaves you energized and excited.
Rising Above the Fray: When Options for Dealing with Difficult People Don't Work
You have tried everything. You've attempted to talk to the person who has made your life difficult at work. You have spoken to your supervisor. Nothing has changed and the decision to leave has been made. What to do next? Here's how to plan a job change on your terms.
Summer Vacation Career Tips
Advice for using your summer vacation to assist with your career plans.
Career Options for Teachers
Career Options for Teachers
Ten Tips for the Stay-at-Home Parent: Overcoming Your Employment Gap
Concerned about getting back in the workforce after a gap in your employment? How will your resume as a stay at home Mom or Dad, with a ten year employment gap, stack up against those of people who have been racking up career achievements and accomplishments for the same ten years?
Work Life Balance: Tips and Techniques
Do you know the typical signs of work life balance gone amuck and how to restore balance in your life? Guest Author Thomas J. Denham, MEd shares information on how choose options and create balance between work and life.
Video Career Advice
Live and archived career advice on streaming video.
What Can I Do?
Are you getting ready to graduate from college or considering a career change? Do you need a little help in getting started?

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