September 2008

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No Time to Go After Your Dream? How to Turn Your Dreams Into Reality in Five Minutes a Day

You’ve already made up your mind that there has to be more to life than careers, cubicles, and commuting. Yet, the prospect of making a major life change when you’re already feeling caught between a “clock and a hard place,” feels overwhelming.
Here are five simple steps even the busiest person seeking a major career change [...]

How to Research Your Career before Deciding on a Suitable One

Whatever your reasons, thorough career research will yield positive results. Even so, effective career research needs to be conducted in an organized manner.
Here are some tips that can help you as you begin your research.
Make a Career Plan
If you don’t know where you’re going, it’s very difficult to figure out how to get there. Without [...]

Career Moves For Older People

While most young people are adventurous by nature and look forward to change in their careers, their older counterparts don’t have the same feelings when they have to change jobs.
Tendency to Stay In Their Comfort Zones
Working in the same familiar place and under the same conditions tend to get them stuck in their own comfort [...]

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Making a Lateral Career Move

The more educated ask the same question in a little more sophisticated way: is my career my calling? Is my occupation my true vocation? Honestly, unless the answer comes out in the affirmative, you should keep making career moves-either vertical or lateral.
While it is natural to quit one job to take another one that brings [...]

Dos And Don’ts For A Successful Career In Sales

Dos
Do Close Every Sale
You launch a sales career when you apply for a sales position. Right at the inception, you need to “close the sale” when you send in your resume by asking to be interviewed in your cover letter, and telling the recruiter that you will call to make an appointment.
Be sure to make [...]