Many of us are influenced by the sports ethic: Never give up! When a basketball team is down by 20 with 30 seconds on the clock, the players never stop working. The spectators might be filing out, and the winning team might be playing the reserves, but the game goes on. If your game is […]
Career Change
When Career Change Call For New Skills
Q. After several years, I finally left middle school teaching, a career I had come to hate. Now I feel like a failure. My skills mean nothing to the business world. I have considered becoming a librarian, journalist or social worker, but I can’t afford to return to school. And I need a job immediately. […]
Career planning: You say you want growth but …
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Most Common Career Change Strategy: Serendipity
Serendipity is not “woo-woo.” It’s a recognized element of career change. We all know people who were going about their own business not seeking new direction. Guidance came, unasked, from sources outside themselves. It’s not enough to receive a message: you have to know how to listen and interpret what comes. Coaching rarely provides serendipitous […]
Career Change: Geography DOES matter
Recently I received a review copy of a really important book: The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico Moretti. You can get it on Amazon through my link here: The New Geography of Jobs Moretti argues that the innovation sector of the economy (such as software and scientific R&D) employ just 10% of the working […]