Tag Archives: career
Is Your Career Going Backwards? Reexamine Your Career Options
You work hard to advance your career, either sticking with one company and climbing the corporate ladder or moving from one company to another. With each move you aim for more challenge, responsibility and more money in your pocket. What happens however when you find your career advancement has stalled – or gone backwards? Sometimes [...]
- Sunday, July 4th, 2010,
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Career Advice for New Grads
It’s that time of year when a new class of college graduates emerges, ready to take on the world, or at least to start paying off their student loans. That was me 21 years ago. I relocated across the country to Seattle with a liberal arts degree and no clue what kind of job I [...]
- Thursday, June 10th, 2010,
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What Do You Do With an English Degree?
When I went to college, I knew exactly what I wanted to be: aerospace engineer. I had three scholarships with the engineering school and was looking forward to designing jet fighters and space shuttles, and possibly also flying my creations and becoming a Jedi. Unfortunately, I quickly found I didn’t enjoy the company of the [...]
- Wednesday, March 24th, 2010,
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What is a 21st Century Career?
In the very olden days, a career was a job you were born into. You became a farmer, a fisher, a blacksmith, or whatever your parents had been, and your children would be the same (unless they wandered off to war or to start a new religion). In the more recent olden days, a career [...]
- Friday, February 19th, 2010,
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Variety vs. Security – How Much of Each Do You Want in Your Career?
5 years is the maximum amount of time I want to spend doing the same thing at the same place. This insight comes to me as I look back on my life, and it’s an idea that, looking ahead, gives me a feeling of curiosity and relief. Outside of my career life I am remarkably [...]
- Tuesday, September 29th, 2009,
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How to Manage Your Fear and Stress During a Career Transition
None of my career coaching clients tell me they hired me to help them manage their fear and stress. It doesn’t occur to some of them that I can help in this area, and others don’t realize that their fear and stress have become major obstacles. For many people either considering or forced into making [...]
- Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009,
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What to Do When You’re Overwhelmed by Too Many Career Ideas
Many of the people who hire me as their coach aren’t struggling with a lack of career options. Rather they are stuck because they have too many ideas and don’t know where to start to narrow them down. This reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me who moved from the U.S. [...]
- Saturday, February 7th, 2009,
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Tips for Handling Career Fairs
Many people who haven’t attended a career fair since they were 22 years old are stopping by now. Seasoned professionals who have been laid off are flocking in droves to these events that have traditionally targeted entry level people. How to cope with the crowds? Career Journal offers some good tips. Here are the highlights: * [...]
- Friday, November 28th, 2008,
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When Your Career Objective is Vague
by Darlene Zambruski, ResumeEdge.com Managing Editor, CPRW, SME For those individuals who have just graduated from high school or those who have faced lengthy unemployment because of downsizing in their field, there may be a sense of what do I do now? Where can I best use my strengths? As with every other endeavor in [...]
- Wednesday, March 12th, 2008,
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Money Mindfulness and Your Career
I coach people who are making big decisions about their career, so therefore I coach people about money. Financial rewards and security are for most of us inextricably linked to our career choices. Planning our careers means we’re thinking about how we are funding our lifestyles. And all of that thinking about money brings up [...]
- Tuesday, February 26th, 2008,
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