Before you read this, I have to warn you that it will make some sensitive people upset…
It’s no wonder, though. The news is blaring about the economy and how terrible things are for business. It’s got lots of entrepreneurs running scared.

And that’s not just for us internet marketers – it goes DOUBLE for Mom-and-Pop, Brick-and-Mortar stores like the ones in YOUR hometown.

What if I told you there’s a way you can take what you ALREADY KNOW about marketing online and TEAM UP with the BEST businesses in your area to make MORE money…

More money than EITHER of you could make alone…

And you actually do it by HELPING people, not SELLING them!  It’s true!

Listen, you may have heard about similar “Offline” money-making schemes before, but this is drastically different.

No need to become an uber-expert guru to land clients…

No need to hire a designer – a programmer – a secretary – a sales staff… Because…
Well, look – you might not believe me unless you saw it yourself. I watched it twice just to make sure.

Seriously. Go check it out,

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I’m sure you’ve heard all of the saying to get you started on something new. You put one foot in front of the other. One thought leads to the next. One action causes a result. One breath brings the next. And the journey has begun.

Where are you not moving forward or taking action? I’m sure you have any number of reasons why you’ve stalled, taken a time out; don’t feel up to doing anything, etc. Some of this could be clinical, i.e. depression or anxiety and if so I encourage you to seek appropriate help and support. But it can also be environmental, fatigue, confusion, lack of clarity or you just don’t feel like it. Oh, I acknowledge that these could be legitimate reasons for you to place your career and life on hold – short term. But then, how do you rev up that engine to get going again?

Step by step, inch by inch… It’s no secret that the most successful people didn’t have fame and fortune thrust upon them. Heck, even Paris Hilton has to “work” to gain and sustain her publicity! But what they all know is that it’s one step, one foot, one thought will lead to the next. And that keeps them moving forward and taking action.

There are a number of ways that help you to get your motor runnin! But first things first…you must be or become crystal clear about what it is you want. Otherwise you’ll take a step, get distracted by life (as we all do) and lose your energy around moving forward. Next, just decide on one step, one thought, and one action, no matter how small, that will keep you moving and build momentum. It could be talking with an expert, reading a book, doing a free consult with a coach, making a journal entry, getting quiet and visualizing your success, meditating or talking with a trusted friend over a beverage. Think of the rock that begins to roll downhill, once begun it’s hard, if not impossible to stop.

You should keep track of each accomplishment so that you can look back at the evidence of your success. You can do this by keeping a journal. In it, write down your clear statements of what you want, capture all the ideas that come to you and make note of what you did and how it worked out. Once you have a record of your success, it becomes so much easier to repeat it. And your energy starts to surge with the pride of accomplishment. This is not to be taken lightly! Think back to your last successful undertaking. If you break it down and look at it in detail, you’ll recognize that it began with a first step, no matter how big or how small.

As you approach your career and life transitions, it can be overwhelming to see the big picture – grand and bright and not know how to get there. By starting with one step, one foot one thought, you can make it look and feel as if it were like magic!

Career Development has become a primary responsibility and an essential requirement for every individual in any organization. A profound career development skill can help an individual to meet the constantly changing needs of the market.

Career Development can be discussed under two perspectives- organizational and personal career development. Organizational development looks at how concerned individuals manage their careers within and between organizations. Personal career development aims at individual career development to bridge his skills with his career objectives.

Decision making is one of the toughest obstacles that an individual faces before he finally gives a kick start to his career. A right Career Development Centre can provide a great deal of help and support while launching one’s career. An individual’s career skill varies from another. So, choosing a right career needs proper counselling and lots of research works. An ideal Career Development Centre will help you sort out your professional skills, launching your career towards a right track. For a successful career path, it’s advisable to take counseling and guidelines from a renowned career development centre.

Why Career Development Centre has become a great demand in the market?

Career Development Centre has become a great demand in the market because:

Computer Training Centre as one of the wings of Career Development Centre

Computer Training Centre has also been considered as one of the wings of Career Development Centers. Whether you want to launch a career in IT or upgrade your current desktop skill set, Computer Training Centres provide you with the right training programme to allow you achieve the desired goals. There are various computer training centres in the market that provide rich and compelling computer knowledge. Most of these computer training centres provide Red Hat certificate to ensure the privacy of communications. Red Hat Certificate system abridges enterprise-wide operation and implementation of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

The science of career development may take a new shape or role. However, with a wide range of career options for everyone, the further need for Career Development Centres will keep increasing day by day.

In an article titled “Who is Managing Your Career? I introduced a new self promotion strategy for internal career development or career advancement. I looked at the benefits of keeping your employment file up to date by ensuring the Human Resource Department received and recorded a précis of any new skills, qualifications or experience.
This article looks again at the benefits of keeping your file updated, how you to go about it, a guide to the information that should be provided, and how it should be presented.
Updating your employment file is important if you don’t want to be overlooked for promotion, to be considered for higher duties or special projects, changing career direction internally, to back up any salary requests or to bullet proof yourself against retrenchment due to organisational change (see my article).
Most large companies conduct regular performance appraisals, where skills, training and professional development will be discussed as part of the appraisal, and your records will be updated. If appraisals are not conducted, it is your responsibility to advise your Human Resource Management Department or persons who manage recruitment, when you acquire new skills outside the workplace.Career management – taking the first stepConsult with your Human Resource Manager.
Set up an appointment with your Human Resource Manager (HRM) or the person who is in charge of recruitment. Explain why you want to be able to update your employment file and clearly state how this could benefit the company.
Unless they are short sighted, your Human Resource Manager (HRM) should welcome this approach. Once you commence your employment you are pigeon holed to a great extent. Your resume is sitting in the files and management is probably unaware that you have gained valuable skills they can utilise. It is a cost effective method to look at their own employees before advertising for staff with specific skills. It is also good HR practice to employ people within the company who fit into the organisational culture.Make sure there is a process in place for updating your files.
If your request to have your employment file updated is successful, ask about setting up a process as to how it is going to work. Without an official sanction by “the boss,” it won’t work. Your HRM may want to see the information you are presenting for inclusion in your file and then delegate the tasks of updating your employment file to a staff member. Consult with your up-line manager/supervisor.
Ensure your supervisor and immediate reporting manager are aware that you are providing career related information to human resources/management and why. Give them a copy of the information. Be ethical and non threatening at all timesOnly provide relevant information if you:-1) commenced a degree/certificate course.
It is important that the company knows you are starting a formal course. Don’t wait 8 years until you complete it (see original case study). Provide the course details with a “to be completed by date” and provide a course outline. If you think the units you will cover in the first year/or have already obtained, are relevant, include them with the unit outcomes separately, with a headline “units completed.”2) attended private training or professional development courses.
Be clear if this was part of the company’s Training and Development Programme or if you undertook it independently. Once again you need to provide a course outline, course outcomes, number of hours you attended, the name of the company who provided the training, and any certificates you received and possibly the facilitator’s name. 3) completed a special project.
If your company doesn’t do performance appraisals then do not assume your role and contribution is noted on your file. Once again write a short note and précis of the project, what it entailed, your role, and final outcomes. 4) received recognition for your achievements or service.
Did you receive any verbal recognition for any contributions you made? This may be at a staff meeting or in a number of indirect ways. Now be careful here. At an appropriate time ask your supervisor, or immediate reporting manager, to see that it gets added to your employment file. Explain why you want it on your record. It would be bad form to go behind anyone’s back to do this. Think through what you are going to say. A wrong word or tone could put your supervisor offside.
Why the different approach? A special project is likely to be a formalprocess and therefore you have the right to ask for it to be recorded on your employee file. 5) received a compliment via your Manager or Supervisor, from a client or customer regarding your performance or the way in
which you handled a task/complaint?
It is appropriate to ask the person who received the compliment to advise your direct manager/supervisor to have it recorded on your file. 6) have been asked by a client/customer how he/she could let your company know how efficient/empathetic/helpful you were when handling their complaint?
Be clear about what you should do if this situation arises. Have this worked out in advance. I don’t know how many times I have brushed this off and said ‘just doing my job’. DON’T ever say this. Turn it into a career strategy.
Thank them and then ask if they would mind putting it in writing. Make the process as easy as possible or they may not bother. Most people would rather do this over the phone.
Ask them if they wouldn’t mind “sending a short note” to human resources or appropriate person. Provide them with a name, title and address. In this electronic age they may want to email it, so suggest what to put in the subject line to ensure it is not deleted as spam.Think ahead Have all this information typed out and stored on your computer ready to email to send to the customer before they go cold.
Make sure you state in your correspondence or phone call – “here are the details you requested.” Things have a way of coming back to bite you.7) have made a significant contribution to the community or achieved sporting or any other awards?
If you achieved a leadership award or sporting achievement, even within a team, it demonstrates planning skills, initiative, teamwork or good citizenship, for example. It is appropriate to have it recorded in your employee file.
If you, or your team, appeared in a newspaper or newsletter, ask your “contact” in the Human Resource Department if it is worthwhile putting on your hard copy employment file because it demonstrates leadership (or whatever you think it demonstrates.) You may want to say. “I think this information is important” then say, “don’t you?” It is probably a good idea to save this type of information until you have added some other data on your file. Why is it important to record any substantial community work or involved in sport?
These are the attributes employers are looking for in an employee. They look at someone who is promotional material. Sometimes the skills are only secondary. Read any job advertisement and it become clear that attributes are given more consideration than the job. How to present information for inclusion in your employee file.Make it easy. Remember, this information may have to be electronically recorded onto a database, so make sure the information you provide is relevant to your company and is recorded in a concise way for input into the database. Type up a précis of the information if necessary. Ask if they also keep a hard copy file. If so, It is a good idea to enclose a brief cover letter outlining how this information can be utilised within the company should the need arise. Deliver it personally if you can and start building a relationship with the person in charge of employment files. Respect the person who may have been asked to update your file It is an extra task and we know how this can throw out work deadlines. Do not be demanding or indicate that you have the right to supply them with extra work. Make sure you are well groomed. Don’t make a quick trip to the HR Department in your dirty overalls, for example. If overalls is a work uniform then it is appropriate to wear it, but do make sure it is clean and your grooming is spot on. Don’t go overboard and dress for an interview. You should always dress appropriately for your position, not just on this occasion, but always. It does affect your chances of gaining a promotion.
So as you can see, there are at least seven examples of information you can add to your employment file. If you use this approach you are proactively managing your career.
Copyright – Iris Wood August 2007

When you work in the same environment for years (decades even!), it’s so easy to settle back and wait out for retirement.
Yet if there is a niggle of doubt, take note – it’s time to overcome that gnawing sensation of looking at your job and seeing where the fault lines are – and doing something about it!
You know that the only thing to do is get ahead, but it seems like you’ve gotten as far as you’ll ever get. You’ve given the job everything and you are good at your work, but nothing about your job satisfies you.
So why aren’t you chasing down your dream job? Why are you still working in a job you loathe?
Life isn’t about a routine of day in, day out in some career you didn’t really want. Feeling stuck is an awful one to deal with when you realize you’ve still got plenty of years ahead of you.
Life is about living and feeling alive, so it’s time to make some changes and realize your full potential! No one is forcing you to stay in a job you hate and no one is holding you back from your dreams – except yourself, that is.
Start by figuring out what it is you really enjoy in life. Do you have a hobby or a passion? Most likely, you’re pretty good at whatever it is you love doing. Have you ever thought of turning that hobby into a dream job that you’ll look forward to every day?
You could turn your hobby into a paying career with a little determination and some good focus.
That’s right; focus. Decide what it is you’d rather be doing, and then find out all you can about how you need to get there. Do your homework on whether you need credentials or qualifications to turn your hobby into employment.
Find out the steps you need to make that will bring you to where you want to be and lay down a plan.
Keep in mind that you’re not going to get anywhere over night. Miracles don’t happen but hard work, effort, and the right choices to move you forward will have solid results.
If you need training, part time courses or night school can let you keep your day job and work towards a new career in your spare time.
Volunteer. Network. Apprentice under someone who excels at what you want to do. Offering free services in exchange for the learning experience can be a great way to break into a new industry or career.
Talk to everyone you know about your plans; the more contacts and support you have, the more it will help you stay focused on your goals and provide opportunities.
Don’t give up. Making life changes takes time and isn’t always easy. You may face some stumbling blocks along the way to a dream job. If you remember your goals and you’ve taken the time to lay down your steps and plans, you’ll be better prepared to find a way around the obstacle.
Obstacles are valuable opportunities for lessons in achieving what you want. Be prepared to face them and accept the challenge of resolving them. You’ll also gain plenty of wisdom and experience while you work towards securing your dream job and a life of happiness and satisfaction.
If you believe you can, you will. If you believe you can’t – well, sadly, that will prove to be true as well. How you set about getting the acreer you want is up to you, like it mor not.
Your own fate is in your own hands. Know you can and you will!

In today’s modern era, it is common to change careers at least once .This change can also be entirely different from the previous one. If the change in career is frequent then it is important and better to know about career development.
The steps taken towards choosing a career can also be defined as career development. It is a career path that trains you to choose the best for your life. Career development includes testing a person’s stress manageability, preparation and training to enter a career and inherent skills. It is also important to advance in the present career and to know how good you are at changing directions that leads to a betterment in the career. A well updated and rich knowledge will prove to be very helpful in career development.
While considering an individual’s current situation it is very significant to know about career development. Some people work for the money they are paid. This might lead to an unhappy employee, an I don’t mind attitude towards work and overwhelming stress levels. Such should not be the attitude of an employee. Hence it is always better that you love your job, this is possible only if you notice a development in what you work at. Ultimately career development is what matters.
To learn more on the field we pursue, shows the interest we have on our work. This involves online or traditional classes, self study taking help from a mentor, knowing about career requirements and proceeding to study further even after the job is fixed. Hence a continual working and learning process will be indeed helpful.
It is good to try to have a hundred percent knowledge on your career which will make you feel the job easy however strenuous they would seem. This would decrease the stress levels. The product of such commitment would be a happy employee and an excellent work.
Education and learning are alone not all about career development. They help in deciding people whether the job they are in, suits them. You have to prove yourself a trustable employee and produce what you are expected to.
Many colleges, universities, institutes and schools take classes that teach about career development and train us for nearly any occupation. Subjects like career education and creating resumes are taken for senior and junior students of eighth grade and higher grades. Teachers and student councilors help students in deciding what they would want to become.
Ultimately learning about career development and about how they would help us is profitable, whether you change your career or else advance in the career you are already in.

Today, it is fairly common to have people changing careers more than once. In fact, there are people who choose careers that are entirely different from those that they have previously held before. There will come a point when you will have to consider a career change, so it is a good idea to know about career development beforehand. Of course, you don’t have to change jobs just to have career advancement. You can make it your goal to climb the ranks in the same company.

Working on Your Career Development

Career development is actually a path that helps you choose the career that you would like to pursue. It includes all the various steps that you would have to undertake in order to advance in your chosen career.

The concept of career development basically includes testing your stress management capabilities and your inherent skills. If you want to have a better shot at some career that you would particularly like to pursue, you need to make sure that you do well at the present position you hold. You should take the opportunity to enrich your knowledge and develop your capabilities. These things will influence the success of your career development. You can’t afford to resent your present job because this will not help you advance in your career. Learn to love your job and embrace the responsibilities attached to it. You would have better chances of succeeding.

Educate Yourself and Strengthen Your Chances

Once you have determined the career development path that you would like to pursue, you can then direct your attention to preparing for it. You need to educate yourself. You will strengthen your chances of succeeding if you take up classes, join seminars or undergo training sessions.

There are many colleges, institutes, schools and universities that are offering career development courses. In fact, there are courses for practically every career that is out there. You will even find these courses online. This is perfect if you can’t afford to go to regular classes.

To advance in your chosen career, you need to show to people that you are dependable. You need to show that you are a trustworthy employee who is capable of producing quality work. To do this, you need to strengthen your knowledge, skills and capabilities. Career development is a continual process of learning and working. Therefore, it is very important that you know what you are getting yourself into. You need to be committed to it. It will help if you choose a job that you would enjoy. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have a shot at succeeding.

Creating a Career Development Plan

You need to plan your career growth if you want to keep track of your progress. This will also help you analyze your aspirations and motivations. Successful individuals do not just develop a plan for promotions or salary raises. They look beyond these things and create an entire plan for career development or advancement.

A career development plan is something that should be done continuously. You cannot just focus on specific goals. You need to be continually reviewing and revising your plan if needed. This way, you can easily keep track of changes or improvements. You won’t be confined to anything. You will keep your options open and you will have more shot at succeeding.

To start off, you need to make sure that you have practicalities covered. You need to have an updated resume at all times. This is just the practical aspect of your plan. What is important is your vision for yourself. Regardless of whether you are pursuing a career goal in the same company or you are looking for change of career, you need to make sure that you know what you want.

There are a lot of things that you need to take into consideration, so make sure that you have considered everything before you start making your “things to do” list. You should have considered the things that could hinder your progress. You should have determined the driving force behind your career choice. You should also know what can motivate you to succeed.

If you want to succeed in your choice of career, you should prepare for it. You should equip yourself with the knowledge and skills required for it. You should also create a career development plan to guide you to succeed.

Around 40 is often an age when people take stock of their lives and a niggling fear starts to creep in…….”If I haven’t achieved my dreams now maybe I just have to give up on them.”

However this attitude fails to recognise just how many wonderfully transferable skills you have built up through your life, through work, through life experiences and through formal and informal learning. These skills can be used in your new career, and if you have made a good career choice for yourself your skills will undoubtedly be highly valued in your new role.

Career change for people in the midst of their career is a specialty of this practice. You deserve to have work that fulfills you and provides you with more than a salary. There is a Chinese proverb that says “If you love your work you will never work another day in your life.” That should be your goal – to find the work you love and then do everything you can to make that your work.

To help you achieve this goal, career counselling is required. If you have a deep knowledge of yourself and have some ideas about what you want to do, then we will move straight into career counselling. However if you are feeling very confused, sometimes we use CareerWorks, an amazing holistic computer based career development program which analyses your responses to many questions and provides a comprehensive report that considers all aspects of you in relation to work. This provides the basis for our ongoing deep career counselling.

Once your future direction has been decided upon, career coaching can support you as you journey towards your new career. Career Coaching often makes the biggest difference to clients who make their career decision, but then feel alone as they try to implement their action plan. By continuing the coaching relationship a little you

Copyright (c) 2009 Dorothy Tannahill Moran

I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard people talk about “updating their resume” when thinking about making a career change. If you are one of those people out there putting the polish on your resume’ as you are about to launch a job search for a new career- STOP. Your resume’ is not the place where you start your work on a career change. If you are simply looking for the same or similar position in another company, go ahead. There is a big difference between looking for a job and making a career change. Sure, at some point the process is the same and you will need to have a spiffy resume’ but it’s not the place to get started in making a career shift.

When contemplating a career shift, you are in need of something that looks like a research project. You need to do the work to help point you in a different direction. Picking a career is as hard to do at 40 as it is at 18. The world is your oyster which is a great thing but how do you find the one with the pearl? The good news is: if you are older than 18 you have more work and life experience that will give you important insight into the process and decision making.

So, where do you start? There are multiple actions you can take initially and they primarily involve self examination. Among the first steps:

- Tests or assessments – These are good to give you more information about yourself. These assessments will give you insight on things like interests, strengths and work orientation. If you pursue these, you have to know up front that they alone will not give you the “One Big Answer” about your future career. In fact, they may in many ways tell you things you already know about yourself. So why take them? Because it will give you a starting place, it will help distill down information about you that you need to have as you embark on making a decision about a career. With any research project, you collect data from numerous sources to help create the conclusion. Among but not limited on assessments: Meyers-Briggs, Strength Finder, VISTA cards, Color Q and Holland. Many of these are in books and online.

- Self assessment – This is where you really self examine. What kinds of things do you like to do? Where do you currently excel? What do you gravitate to outside of your current job? What did you dream of doing when you were younger? Are there people you know who have fun sounding jobs? Are there causes you believe in?

- More self assessment – Start looking for feedback. When your performance has been assessed, what strengths and weakness to you exhibit? If you were to ask a circle of friends and relatives, what kind of work do they think you would be good at? You’d be surprised at how insightful this exercise can be. They aren’t encumbered with your history yet they know you and often have some great suggestions based on what they know about you.

- Job search – many libraries and websites have all kinds of job titles. Some titles will make almost no sense but most of them will. Start looking these over to see what might jump out at you as something interesting. You can also go to job search websites and get a vast quantity of job titles and job content to help in this step. What is it about the ones you selected that sound worthwhile?

- Compile and research – with your mounting list of insights you can now start synthesizing into some logical groupings. These groupings are becoming what will ultimately be your new career because the baseline is from things in your research that have attracted you in some way. Don’t worry about “real” titles, but put logical elements together. You want to avoid putting basketball and surgery together, it makes no sense. You could put problem solving, math skills and detail orientation together. An important action in this step is to eliminate things. If you naturally are interested in specific job titles or elements, then focus on those. Your goal in this step is to create groupings or jobs that will become your future career.

- Network and research – With your newly minted jobs (mind you that you may still not have official job titles), you now need to talk to people and do more research to finalize what you are looking for. In this last and final step before working on your resume’, you need to understand where this work is, titles it might be called, and any further qualifications you might need to land a job. You will know when this step is completed when you have a clear picture on what career you want to pursue. The other great thing about this step is it has just given you great input on where to start your job search, once you are ready to get started.

Hopefully, you’ll see that when making a career change, you need to do some heavy lifting to move you toward something meaningful. It is way more than simply updating your resume’. Many people don’t know what steps to take and muddle their way through life not happy with their career/job. The actions aren’t hard or difficult and the outcome is well worth the effort.

A career change can be an exciting and fun step to take. Most people have more than 2 or 3 careers in their lifetime. Since you spend so much time in your life working, it’s worth the time and effort to find something you will love.

Copyright (c) 2009 Dorothy Tannahill Moran

I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard people talk about “updating their resume” when thinking about making a career change. If you are one of those people out there putting the polish on your resume’ as you are about to launch a job search for a new career- STOP. Your resume’ is not the place where you start your work on a career change. If you are simply looking for the same or similar position in another company, go ahead. There is a big difference between looking for a job and making a career change. Sure, at some point the process is the same and you will need to have a spiffy resume’ but it’s not the place to get started in making a career shift.

When contemplating a career shift, you are in need of something that looks like a research project. You need to do the work to help point you in a different direction. Picking a career is as hard to do at 40 as it is at 18. The world is your oyster which is a great thing but how do you find the one with the pearl? The good news is: if you are older than 18 you have more work and life experience that will give you important insight into the process and decision making.

So, where do you start? There are multiple actions you can take initially and they primarily involve self examination. Among the first steps:

- Tests or assessments – These are good to give you more information about yourself. These assessments will give you insight on things like interests, strengths and work orientation. If you pursue these, you have to know up front that they alone will not give you the “One Big Answer” about your future career. In fact, they may in many ways tell you things you already know about yourself. So why take them? Because it will give you a starting place, it will help distill down information about you that you need to have as you embark on making a decision about a career. With any research project, you collect data from numerous sources to help create the conclusion. Among but not limited on assessments: Meyers-Briggs, Strength Finder, VISTA cards, Color Q and Holland. Many of these are in books and online.

- Self assessment – This is where you really self examine. What kinds of things do you like to do? Where do you currently excel? What do you gravitate to outside of your current job? What did you dream of doing when you were younger? Are there people you know who have fun sounding jobs? Are there causes you believe in?

- More self assessment – Start looking for feedback. When your performance has been assessed, what strengths and weakness to you exhibit? If you were to ask a circle of friends and relatives, what kind of work do they think you would be good at? You’d be surprised at how insightful this exercise can be. They aren’t encumbered with your history yet they know you and often have some great suggestions based on what they know about you.

- Job search – many libraries and websites have all kinds of job titles. Some titles will make almost no sense but most of them will. Start looking these over to see what might jump out at you as something interesting. You can also go to job search websites and get a vast quantity of job titles and job content to help in this step. What is it about the ones you selected that sound worthwhile?

- Compile and research – with your mounting list of insights you can now start synthesizing into some logical groupings. These groupings are becoming what will ultimately be your new career because the baseline is from things in your research that have attracted you in some way. Don’t worry about “real” titles, but put logical elements together. You want to avoid putting basketball and surgery together, it makes no sense. You could put problem solving, math skills and detail orientation together. An important action in this step is to eliminate things. If you naturally are interested in specific job titles or elements, then focus on those. Your goal in this step is to create groupings or jobs that will become your future career.

- Network and research – With your newly minted jobs (mind you that you may still not have official job titles), you now need to talk to people and do more research to finalize what you are looking for. In this last and final step before working on your resume’, you need to understand where this work is, titles it might be called, and any further qualifications you might need to land a job. You will know when this step is completed when you have a clear picture on what career you want to pursue. The other great thing about this step is it has just given you great input on where to start your job search, once you are ready to get started.

Hopefully, you’ll see that when making a career change, you need to do some heavy lifting to move you toward something meaningful. It is way more than simply updating your resume’. Many people don’t know what steps to take and muddle their way through life not happy with their career/job. The actions aren’t hard or difficult and the outcome is well worth the effort.

A career change can be an exciting and fun step to take. Most people have more than 2 or 3 careers in their lifetime. Since you spend so much time in your life working, it’s worth the time and effort to find something you will love.