Career Planning
Guide for parents, teachers and students on career planning and career counseling. Young people need help, guidance, advice and support in deciding on and working toward a successful career. There are many factors that must be considered when planning a career. It must be determined whether there are certain goals that one wishes to obtain through the work that will constitute his career. One must consider whether there are certain special skills or interests that should be incorporated into a career. Finally, one must decide if there are any monetary requirements for a fulfilling career and if so, what those requirements will be. The articles included herein provide information on career planning, preparation, choices, career counseling and career training options.
Cosmetology Education
Cosmetology is the answer to every woman’s desire to flaunt a flawless skin and beautiful hair. A cosmetologist suggests and applies treatments that are specifically put together to enhance the skin, nails and hair.
Getting Back on the Career Track
Would you like to return to the work world but are concerned about how to find an opportunity that will allow you to fulfill your family or other non-work obligations, nervous about how to "market yourself" to potential employers, or unsure about what type of work you want to do?
The Play of Your Life
The following is an excerpt from the book The Play of Your Life: Your Program for Finding the Career of Your Dreams -- And a Step-by-Step Guide to Making It a Reality
Career Choice
In an era gone by, there were a few options of earning good name and decent money. Namely, slogging day in and day out (which necessarily entailed learning by heart, stuff, which you would forget after a month into the real world) to make a foray into the world of either medicines or engineering.
Enjoy a Successful Career through Simple Career Planning
To improve your life and career quickly and efficiently, you only need to have a genuine desire for a specific change ! Obviously, a genuine desire is always in alignment with your values. Because, if it is not, then either your desire or your values are not genuine.
5 Basic Skills for Career Success
What are the key factors that recruiters and employers are looking for in potential employees? How does the interviewer separate the applicant with five years experience from the applicant with one months experience sixty times? Here are the five bedrock career skills that you should develop for career advancement.
Career Success: Instant Results-Myth or Solution?
How about instant career success? Just press the magic button and you’re an instant leader or executive. Most careers are not built that way. But here is a technique that works every time it's tried. Want to advance your career, give it a try.
Do You Have A Mentor?
When you are struggling in your personal life or in your career, it helps to be able to turn to someone whom you admire and trust - someone whom has traveled down the road you're traveling - and done so successfully.
Is it Your Goal to Quit the Day Job?
The decision to quit the day job is not an easy one. When that decision is made based on logic it can prevent disappointment.
How To Improve Your Sales Career
Many people, including some in the sales profession, believe that sales training is a waste of time and money. A popular belief is that sales people are born to sell, and that an individual either "has it" or they don’t, and nothing can be done to change it.
Job Not Working? How To Fix It
Sometimes small changes can make a real difference in how you view going to work each day.
Discipline - Part Of The Job
Like it or not there are times when it is necessary to discipline an employee because they have done something out of line and not met agreed standards.
It's Time to Get Back to Work
Even if years separate you from the last job and the new career goal, there are tricks to turning a potential negative into an asset – it’s just a matter of knowing what to do.
Choosing the Right Career for the Perfect Job
This article points out and lists various job and career choices best suited for a persons skills and looks at earnings, training, job outlook and working conditions for different careers.
For the Young Career Seeker: How to Set Up an Informational Interview
I highly recommend taking the initiative and seeking out an informational interview as a stepping stone to a great career doing something you really love.
Make The Most Of Your Talent And Build A Career
Use your talents to kick-start a new career by setting up a home recording studio. The second part of this article explores some of the additional gadgets you would need to explore your talents to the hilt.
Workplace Unhappiness 1: Isolating the Source of Your Misery
This article discusses how changes in attitude can help you achieve your career and personal goals. A positive approach makes all the difference in an important life or career change.
Excel Your Sales Career: How to Overcome Fear, Beat Your Competition and Achieve Higher Sales
Even sales professionals with tremendous track records have fear, but excelling in sales is about going where no others will go. Here’s how to overcome fears & excel your sales career.
A career at sea; a wife in every port?
Life at sea has changed dramatically in the last ten years and many (especially the old-timers) will say that it's not for the better.
Confronting a new work outside the city or country
Although that with new technologies distances became shorter, like e-mail, chat, celular phones, etc. Changing of job, moving to another department company or profession is a reality of the modern workplace.
Strategize For Your Ideal Career: Dream First
Certified Career Coach Hallie Crawford says to "dream first" to help you determine what you really what in your career.
Positive Work Behaviors: 8 Straightforward Tips For Moving Up The Corporate Ladder
Many of us fail to see that simple positive work behaviors practiced early can help in moving up the corporate ladder. Here are 8 new tips for making that career head start.
Why Finding The Right Job Is All In The Timing
Now most people start their job hunt when they need a new job... but if you're looking for the ideal career and job, this is not the best time to start hunting...
The Career Seeker's Guide to Setting Tangible Goals
Certified Career Coach Hallie Crawford shows those in the midst of career transition how to set realistic and tangible goals.
Career Advancement Tips for Freshies: 5 Quick Advice to Help You Grow Successfully
If you are feeling unmotivated and at a loss with your first job, here are 5 career advancement tips to help you.
Career Enhancement Tips For First Jobbers: 3 Key Tips to Grow Your Career
Practical career enhancement tips for first jobbers. 3 key tips to help you grow your career.
Career Promotion Advice: How to SHINE and Gain the Promotion You Want
5 effective career promotion advice to help you gain the promotion you want, especially if you just started out your career.
Enhance Your Career: 3 Simple Strategic Tips for Improving Your Career Plan
Are you looking to enhance your career but don't know where to start? Here are 3 simple strategies to help you improve your career plan.
Discover The Right Career By Asking a Different Question
If you don't have the faintest idea of what job or career is right for you... here's a unique process for figuring it out.
How You Can Manage Your Career Goal Setting Plans
One of the most important and hardest decisions regarding making career choices or setting business goals is to figure out what you want to achieve in life. Choosing a career path is one of the most important goals you may have in mind for your life.
Paralegals - What Exactly Do They Do?
There are a lot of duties a paralegal plays in an attorney's office. The paralegal may do legal research and writing for your attorney. A paralegal may even take over as case manager, a situation that many firms are considering if they have not already adopted to help keep legal fees lower and affordable.
Paralegal Job Outlook - Stagnant or Full Steam Ahead?
The paralegal or legal assistant profession is expected to grow because of a couple of economic factors. One, more law firms are hiring paralegals to do some of the necessary legwork - research and paper work on their behalf. This frees up the attorney for court appearances and for developing client-attorney relationships, two duties a paralegal is not allowed to do. Two...
Expecting Your Staff to Multitask? It's Not Necessarily a Good Idea.
More and more information suggests that multitasking, more often than not results in outcomes that are far from optimum.
Tips for Finding a New Job
Is it time to leave that dead end job? Find how to latch on to new opportunities.
Pharmacy Degree - A Career Choice for Today and Tomorrow
Pharmacy schools abound throughout the United States. Many offer specific courses that are directly connected to degrees that are beneficial to becoming a pharmacist. With this remarkably condensed type of higher education offered it is easy to find a school that offers courses that are directly related to your goal of pharmacy training.
10 Career Resolutions
Resolutions are nothing but setting goals for yourself, which is anyway the secret to success. But keep in mind not to set unachievable/steep goals that is not within reach. Set short-term goals and go for them. You could look into some of these resolutions or maybe go for all of them! And why not?
So you want to get promoted?
To climb to the top of the corporate ladder you need to consistently deliver great result, but that's not all. You also need to find ways to develop both your skills and your reputation.
4 Preliminary Tips to Career Path Success
Not happy in your current job? Thinking about making a career change? Dynamic lifestyles and an uncertain economy are just two of many reasons to consider a new occupation, or even an entirely different field than the one you're in now. Trust me; as a career counselor who has helped many people reinvent themselves professionally, I can assure you that you're not alone!
Speakers and Trainers Make 21 Mistakes That Sabatoge Their Careers, #1
The life of an aspiring -- or even an accomplished -- speaker, trainer, consultant or coach is all too frequently one of constant struggle to make ends meet. In this article, T. Falcon Napier, creator of the MasterStream Method, explains one of the major reasons why this happens as he compares and contrasts the four main roles that human development professionals choose to serve.
The Five Proven Ways to Combine Job and Studies
So, you have got a promising job, but you are still half way through your studies? These five proven ways will help you combine your job and studies successfully!
How To Get Promoted : 9 Obvious And Often Not Practiced Tips
How to get promoted is probably one of the most often asked question in the working world. What does it take to get that promotion?
Getting Promoted: Advancing Career In A Sustainable Way
These are my real strategies for advancing career and getting promoted. Brace yourself for the long haul.
Career Path to Success for you
A simple article discussing ways to find your career.
Five Reasons You Were Rejected for the Job You Thought You Had
You thought you had the job nailed. The interview went well--the interviewer seemed to like you and your skills were a perfect fit. They even seemed to be on the verge of offering you the job on the spot. But your agency tells you the next day you didn’t get the job or contract. Take a look at five reasons why you might have been rejected for a position and what you can do about it.
Top Five Habits for Career Success at Entry Level
Discover the top 5 work habits to achieve career success at entry level.
Paralegal Career - 5 Tips To Determine If It's Right For You
Working as a paralegal can be interesting and very rewarding work, but no one should enter the field with delusions of becoming an Erin Brockovitch. Listed below are some of the qualities a good paralegal should have.
How to Keep Your Job Without Kissing The Boss's A$#!
People...........it is not a requirement to "Kiss Your Boss’s A%#" if you want to keep your job. If this is the behavior expected, set forth by someone that you work for, you need to find yourself a job where the Boss appreciates you for your hard-work and not for how well you can kiss his or her butt.
How To Leave Your Dead End Job
Don't stay stuck in a job that sucks your soul. Recognize that it's time to leave and make the leap. Here's how to be fearless.
Tittle's top ten: Ways to get fired
Dave Tittle reviews ways to lose your job.
Tittle's top ten: Signs your company is about to downsize
Dave Tittle reviews how to recognize when your company’s going under.
The Art of Career Planning
Career planning is an exercise that is well worth the time invested in it because it sets you going on the path that leads to where you would like to go. You need to understand the art of career planning even before you begin to look for job openings.
Paralegals - Top Organizations You Need To Know
There are several major national professional organizations for paralegals in the United States, in addition to their representation in the American Bar Association. Some of those organizations have helped form the career field of the paralegal, or legal assistant.
Learning Objectives: Writing Learning Outcomes So They Matter
Many training programs serve no useful purpose for the organization. A primary cause of failure is poorly defined program objectives and learning outcomes. Follow this three-step process for ensuring that your program’s stated learning outcomes enhances and not hinders the success of your program.
Managing Change: The Three Laws for Successful Transition
Today’s organizations are struggling with the fast pace of change. In spite of the massive amount of words that have been written on managing change, many organizations still seem to be going backwards. There are some simple yet powerful lessons to be learned from thought leaders of the past. See how you can apply one such lesson to kick-start your current change program.
Auto Mechanic an Excellent Career Choice
The image of an auto mechanic was once associated with menial labor and low pay. Fortunately, those days have long ago subsided. Today's auto mechanics are part of the skilled labor force, and must maintain a current understanding of the technology changes that govern success in their profession.
The Only Way To Resign
With every resignation that takes place throughout the world - from waitress to CEO - there's a percentage of employees who unknowingly, set themselves up for a fall. Only too late do they realize the damage they've done to themselves and their career.
Creating career goals
Tips for creating an achievable career goal.
Cultural differences: how do perceptions affect your career advancement?
Whether you are working in nursing, or in engineering, or in IT, foreign-born workers have the reputation of being hard workers, well-educated, and easy to get along with. Despite this positive reputation, foreign-born workers agree that it is difficult to move up the career ladder. What are the cultural factors that might affect your chances in advancing in your career?
Discover Your Personality Through On Line Testing
Discover your personality and career preferences by taking the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) along with The Strong Interest Inventory. Combine two tests to identify career preferences that also most closely match your personality strengths. Tests are taken on line and results are forwarded as an email PDF attachment. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is the most widely accepted personality preference testing assessment used today.
Career Planning: The Step Ahead
Information on Career planning. Including advice, help and links to other advice sites.
Career Discovery - Pinpoint Your Ideal Career
Determine your ideal career—one that’s in alignment with your values, passions, and talents—and discover the work you were born to do.
How to Know if You Are in the Right Career
The reality is that when we are in a career that brings us a deep sense of satisfaction, all those around us benefit from the fact that we are more fully present in life rather than constantly talking about wishing things would change.
Reinventing Yourself for Multiple Careers
America was s built on self-reinvention, and today’s economy demands it. For the first time in history, employees must learn to manage themselves and take responsibility for their own employment. Even the word "career" is taking on new meaning, as a new generation of employees is moving in and out of multiple careers during their lifetimes.
4 Strategies That Will Help You Develop An Effective Action Plan
Planning a career move is much like mapping your route for a road trip. If you don't know where you are going, you can't decide how to get there, but if you do know where you are going, you'll get there faster.
To improve your life and career quickly and efficiently, you only need to have a genuine desire for a specific change ! Obviously, a genuine desire is always in alignment with your values. Because, if it is not, then either your desire or your values are not genuine.
5 Basic Skills for Career Success
What are the key factors that recruiters and employers are looking for in potential employees? How does the interviewer separate the applicant with five years experience from the applicant with one months experience sixty times? Here are the five bedrock career skills that you should develop for career advancement.
Career Success: Instant Results-Myth or Solution?
How about instant career success? Just press the magic button and you’re an instant leader or executive. Most careers are not built that way. But here is a technique that works every time it's tried. Want to advance your career, give it a try.
Do You Have A Mentor?
When you are struggling in your personal life or in your career, it helps to be able to turn to someone whom you admire and trust - someone whom has traveled down the road you're traveling - and done so successfully.
Is it Your Goal to Quit the Day Job?
The decision to quit the day job is not an easy one. When that decision is made based on logic it can prevent disappointment.
How To Improve Your Sales Career
Many people, including some in the sales profession, believe that sales training is a waste of time and money. A popular belief is that sales people are born to sell, and that an individual either "has it" or they don’t, and nothing can be done to change it.
Job Not Working? How To Fix It
Sometimes small changes can make a real difference in how you view going to work each day.
Discipline - Part Of The Job
Like it or not there are times when it is necessary to discipline an employee because they have done something out of line and not met agreed standards.
It's Time to Get Back to Work
Even if years separate you from the last job and the new career goal, there are tricks to turning a potential negative into an asset – it’s just a matter of knowing what to do.
Choosing the Right Career for the Perfect Job
This article points out and lists various job and career choices best suited for a persons skills and looks at earnings, training, job outlook and working conditions for different careers.
For the Young Career Seeker: How to Set Up an Informational Interview
I highly recommend taking the initiative and seeking out an informational interview as a stepping stone to a great career doing something you really love.
Make The Most Of Your Talent And Build A Career
Use your talents to kick-start a new career by setting up a home recording studio. The second part of this article explores some of the additional gadgets you would need to explore your talents to the hilt.
Workplace Unhappiness 1: Isolating the Source of Your Misery
This article discusses how changes in attitude can help you achieve your career and personal goals. A positive approach makes all the difference in an important life or career change.
Excel Your Sales Career: How to Overcome Fear, Beat Your Competition and Achieve Higher Sales
Even sales professionals with tremendous track records have fear, but excelling in sales is about going where no others will go. Here’s how to overcome fears & excel your sales career.
A career at sea; a wife in every port?
Life at sea has changed dramatically in the last ten years and many (especially the old-timers) will say that it's not for the better.
Confronting a new work outside the city or country
Although that with new technologies distances became shorter, like e-mail, chat, celular phones, etc. Changing of job, moving to another department company or profession is a reality of the modern workplace.
Strategize For Your Ideal Career: Dream First
Certified Career Coach Hallie Crawford says to "dream first" to help you determine what you really what in your career.
Positive Work Behaviors: 8 Straightforward Tips For Moving Up The Corporate Ladder
Many of us fail to see that simple positive work behaviors practiced early can help in moving up the corporate ladder. Here are 8 new tips for making that career head start.
Why Finding The Right Job Is All In The Timing
Now most people start their job hunt when they need a new job... but if you're looking for the ideal career and job, this is not the best time to start hunting...
The Career Seeker's Guide to Setting Tangible Goals
Certified Career Coach Hallie Crawford shows those in the midst of career transition how to set realistic and tangible goals.
Career Advancement Tips for Freshies: 5 Quick Advice to Help You Grow Successfully
If you are feeling unmotivated and at a loss with your first job, here are 5 career advancement tips to help you.
Career Enhancement Tips For First Jobbers: 3 Key Tips to Grow Your Career
Practical career enhancement tips for first jobbers. 3 key tips to help you grow your career.
Career Promotion Advice: How to SHINE and Gain the Promotion You Want
5 effective career promotion advice to help you gain the promotion you want, especially if you just started out your career.
Enhance Your Career: 3 Simple Strategic Tips for Improving Your Career Plan
Are you looking to enhance your career but don't know where to start? Here are 3 simple strategies to help you improve your career plan.
Discover The Right Career By Asking a Different Question
If you don't have the faintest idea of what job or career is right for you... here's a unique process for figuring it out.
How You Can Manage Your Career Goal Setting Plans
One of the most important and hardest decisions regarding making career choices or setting business goals is to figure out what you want to achieve in life. Choosing a career path is one of the most important goals you may have in mind for your life.
Paralegals - What Exactly Do They Do?
There are a lot of duties a paralegal plays in an attorney's office. The paralegal may do legal research and writing for your attorney. A paralegal may even take over as case manager, a situation that many firms are considering if they have not already adopted to help keep legal fees lower and affordable.
Paralegal Job Outlook - Stagnant or Full Steam Ahead?
The paralegal or legal assistant profession is expected to grow because of a couple of economic factors. One, more law firms are hiring paralegals to do some of the necessary legwork - research and paper work on their behalf. This frees up the attorney for court appearances and for developing client-attorney relationships, two duties a paralegal is not allowed to do. Two...
Expecting Your Staff to Multitask? It's Not Necessarily a Good Idea.
More and more information suggests that multitasking, more often than not results in outcomes that are far from optimum.
Tips for Finding a New Job
Is it time to leave that dead end job? Find how to latch on to new opportunities.
Pharmacy Degree - A Career Choice for Today and Tomorrow
Pharmacy schools abound throughout the United States. Many offer specific courses that are directly connected to degrees that are beneficial to becoming a pharmacist. With this remarkably condensed type of higher education offered it is easy to find a school that offers courses that are directly related to your goal of pharmacy training.
10 Career Resolutions
Resolutions are nothing but setting goals for yourself, which is anyway the secret to success. But keep in mind not to set unachievable/steep goals that is not within reach. Set short-term goals and go for them. You could look into some of these resolutions or maybe go for all of them! And why not?
So you want to get promoted?
To climb to the top of the corporate ladder you need to consistently deliver great result, but that's not all. You also need to find ways to develop both your skills and your reputation.
4 Preliminary Tips to Career Path Success
Not happy in your current job? Thinking about making a career change? Dynamic lifestyles and an uncertain economy are just two of many reasons to consider a new occupation, or even an entirely different field than the one you're in now. Trust me; as a career counselor who has helped many people reinvent themselves professionally, I can assure you that you're not alone!
Speakers and Trainers Make 21 Mistakes That Sabatoge Their Careers, #1
The life of an aspiring -- or even an accomplished -- speaker, trainer, consultant or coach is all too frequently one of constant struggle to make ends meet. In this article, T. Falcon Napier, creator of the MasterStream Method, explains one of the major reasons why this happens as he compares and contrasts the four main roles that human development professionals choose to serve.
The Five Proven Ways to Combine Job and Studies
So, you have got a promising job, but you are still half way through your studies? These five proven ways will help you combine your job and studies successfully!
How To Get Promoted : 9 Obvious And Often Not Practiced Tips
How to get promoted is probably one of the most often asked question in the working world. What does it take to get that promotion?
Getting Promoted: Advancing Career In A Sustainable Way
These are my real strategies for advancing career and getting promoted. Brace yourself for the long haul.
Career Path to Success for you
A simple article discussing ways to find your career.
Five Reasons You Were Rejected for the Job You Thought You Had
You thought you had the job nailed. The interview went well--the interviewer seemed to like you and your skills were a perfect fit. They even seemed to be on the verge of offering you the job on the spot. But your agency tells you the next day you didn’t get the job or contract. Take a look at five reasons why you might have been rejected for a position and what you can do about it.
Top Five Habits for Career Success at Entry Level
Discover the top 5 work habits to achieve career success at entry level.
Paralegal Career - 5 Tips To Determine If It's Right For You
Working as a paralegal can be interesting and very rewarding work, but no one should enter the field with delusions of becoming an Erin Brockovitch. Listed below are some of the qualities a good paralegal should have.
How to Keep Your Job Without Kissing The Boss's A$#!
People...........it is not a requirement to "Kiss Your Boss’s A%#" if you want to keep your job. If this is the behavior expected, set forth by someone that you work for, you need to find yourself a job where the Boss appreciates you for your hard-work and not for how well you can kiss his or her butt.
How To Leave Your Dead End Job
Don't stay stuck in a job that sucks your soul. Recognize that it's time to leave and make the leap. Here's how to be fearless.
Tittle's top ten: Ways to get fired
Dave Tittle reviews ways to lose your job.
Tittle's top ten: Signs your company is about to downsize
Dave Tittle reviews how to recognize when your company’s going under.
The Art of Career Planning
Career planning is an exercise that is well worth the time invested in it because it sets you going on the path that leads to where you would like to go. You need to understand the art of career planning even before you begin to look for job openings.
Paralegals - Top Organizations You Need To Know
There are several major national professional organizations for paralegals in the United States, in addition to their representation in the American Bar Association. Some of those organizations have helped form the career field of the paralegal, or legal assistant.
Learning Objectives: Writing Learning Outcomes So They Matter
Many training programs serve no useful purpose for the organization. A primary cause of failure is poorly defined program objectives and learning outcomes. Follow this three-step process for ensuring that your program’s stated learning outcomes enhances and not hinders the success of your program.
Managing Change: The Three Laws for Successful Transition
Today’s organizations are struggling with the fast pace of change. In spite of the massive amount of words that have been written on managing change, many organizations still seem to be going backwards. There are some simple yet powerful lessons to be learned from thought leaders of the past. See how you can apply one such lesson to kick-start your current change program.
Auto Mechanic an Excellent Career Choice
The image of an auto mechanic was once associated with menial labor and low pay. Fortunately, those days have long ago subsided. Today's auto mechanics are part of the skilled labor force, and must maintain a current understanding of the technology changes that govern success in their profession.
The Only Way To Resign
With every resignation that takes place throughout the world - from waitress to CEO - there's a percentage of employees who unknowingly, set themselves up for a fall. Only too late do they realize the damage they've done to themselves and their career.
Creating career goals
Tips for creating an achievable career goal.
Cultural differences: how do perceptions affect your career advancement?
Whether you are working in nursing, or in engineering, or in IT, foreign-born workers have the reputation of being hard workers, well-educated, and easy to get along with. Despite this positive reputation, foreign-born workers agree that it is difficult to move up the career ladder. What are the cultural factors that might affect your chances in advancing in your career?
Discover Your Personality Through On Line Testing
Discover your personality and career preferences by taking the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) along with The Strong Interest Inventory. Combine two tests to identify career preferences that also most closely match your personality strengths. Tests are taken on line and results are forwarded as an email PDF attachment. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is the most widely accepted personality preference testing assessment used today.
Career Planning: The Step Ahead
Information on Career planning. Including advice, help and links to other advice sites.
Career Discovery - Pinpoint Your Ideal Career
Determine your ideal career—one that’s in alignment with your values, passions, and talents—and discover the work you were born to do.
How to Know if You Are in the Right Career
The reality is that when we are in a career that brings us a deep sense of satisfaction, all those around us benefit from the fact that we are more fully present in life rather than constantly talking about wishing things would change.
Reinventing Yourself for Multiple Careers
America was s built on self-reinvention, and today’s economy demands it. For the first time in history, employees must learn to manage themselves and take responsibility for their own employment. Even the word "career" is taking on new meaning, as a new generation of employees is moving in and out of multiple careers during their lifetimes.
4 Strategies That Will Help You Develop An Effective Action Plan
Planning a career move is much like mapping your route for a road trip. If you don't know where you are going, you can't decide how to get there, but if you do know where you are going, you'll get there faster.