We tend to think of “Career Planning” as moving to a better job in the future. But sometimes instead you need a career divorce. That’s today’s topic – and a good one from author and “dreamer in residence” Valerie Young. You started out loving your chosen career — at least in the beginning. But over […]
Career Planning
Guest Post: Who Me? Take a Sabbatical?
Today’s Guest Post comes from best-selling author Barbara Winter. When funnyman Steve Martin’s book Pure Drivel came out it enjoyed critical raves and enthusiastic sales. Although the author has long been recognized for his fertile comic mind, he told the Today Show’s Matt Lauer that the book would not have happened if he hadn’t taken […]
Career Planning: Accept a lower salary to get Facebook access at work? I don’t think so…
Recently Fast Company published an article that seemed related to career planning. They asked if twenty-somethings and college students would trade off financial rewards to get more freedom to use Facebook on the job. Read the article here. The respondents insisted that Facebook access and social media were more important than money. The article said: […]
5 Career Planning Tips For Mid-Career Managers
Penelope Trunk’s recent post featured 5 career planning tips for being a good manager. I think they have fairly general applicability. You can read the full post here. Some tips from the article: — Manage conflict. Don’t run from it. Whether it’s your conflict or someone else’s, it probably won’t get resolved on its own. […]
Penelope Trunk As Career Counselor: Surviving A Bad Economy and Why She Doesn’t Like Tim Ferriss
OK, Penelope Trunk thrives on being outrageous. She’s shared a hefty dose of information about her own life (did you know her original name was Adrienne?). She’s written about her own relationship issues, therapy and mental health issues. But mostly she’s been an advocate of an outrageous approach to what used to be called career […]
Age Discrimination and Career Planning
Recently I asked subscribers to my career guide, “What is the biggest challenge to your career?” Over half were related to age and age discrimination. A publisher once told me, “I’d love to see someone write a book on getting a job after 60 … easily.” Yeah, right. Here is the reality. (1) Age discrimination […]