Midlife Career Strategy

Career Change

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Blogging your way out of a job

Some great tips to blog your way out of a job and into your own business, from a master blogger. Click here to learn more. The author explains a few strategies, including — write in batches. — always keep looking for ideas. — create products to sell (or find products that you have the rights […]

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Career Change in a Pay-Per-Click Environment

Today’s Wall Street Journal (March 9, 2009, page B4: Recruiters Use Search Engines to Lure Job Hunters” by Sarah Needleman) reports that recruiters increasingly turn to Google adwords and other forms of pay per click advertising (ppc). That is, they buy ads that you see next to your search results. Developing and writing these ads […]

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Career Change Calls For Creativity

Frans Johansson, author of The Medici Effect, suggests some exercises to foster innovation. Three of his suggestions also work for readers who may be considering a career change or starting a business. The thesis of the Medici Effect is that innovations arise when unrelated concepts and cultures come together – the intersection of previously unrelated […]

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Career Change: From Detour to Express Road

Career counselors, career coaches and career guidebooks often give the impression that career change happens in a straight line. But in fact career change typically happens in a zig zag: you move in one direction and then another and eventually realize you’ve landed in the right place. Career change can also take a lesson from […]

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When Career Change Seems Hopeless

Recently I came across this question in my e-mail: How do I change my perception of my ability to make a positive career change in the face of continued disappointments? Here are a few questions to create a context for exploration. (1) What are some common elements among all your diverse jobs and careers? If […]