From Off The Treadmill. Posted under Career Planning
Comments Off
From Off The Treadmill. Posted under Career Planning
Comments Off
From Barbara Safani. Posted under Career Management & Career Planning & College/Education & Job Search
Last week I attended the first of many college planning meetings at my daughter’s school. Jammed into the school auditorium with 200+ other neurotic parents of high school juniors, I listened to details about student entrance exam test dates, transcripts, and application deadlines. Parents who are going through this process for the second time offered advice to the newbies and shared anecdotal stories about oscillating between having true bonding moments and enlightening conversations with their children during the process and other moments where they just wanted to strangle their kids and be done with it.
I returned home that evening with a stack of tips sheets and even a flow chart of what was due when. It looked like the school had really done their homework and was on top of the process and the kids. They even included a list of questions to keep in mind when researching and visiting colleges…Lots and lots of questions. Continue Reading »
Comments Off
From The Career Doctor Blog. Posted under Assessment & Career Planning
Comments Off
From Joan's Career & Leadership Blog. Posted under Career Planning & career transition
Comments Off
From The Career Doctor Blog. Posted under Career Planning
Comments Off
From Barbara Safani. Posted under Career Management & Career Planning & Job Search & Networking
Everyone’s starting to talk about their New Year’s resolutions…lose weight, exercise more, quit smoking, get out of debt, and find a new job are the ones I hear most frequently. And while I think that New Year’s resolutions are a great idea in theory, I think that a lot of people fail to keep their New Year’s resolutions because often the only criteria motivating the person to make the resolution is the time of year.
This year I made several really big changes in my life. Yet none of them happened overnight. Some took months to make, others took years, and one took more than a decade to come to terms with. But none of them were motivated by the time of year. They were motivated by a feeling that I could no longer continue in a situation under the current circumstances or by the fact that I wanted something and I wanted it sooner rather than later. Basically, my desire to change a situation was greater than my desire not to change it. There really wasn’t an “aha moment” or even a calculated plan in many cases…the changes happened because in my mind, they had to at one point or another.
Continue Reading »
Comments Off
From The Career Doctor Blog. Posted under Career Management & Career Planning
Comments Off
From The Career Doctor Blog. Posted under Career Planning & Networking
Comments Off
From The Career Doctor Blog. Posted under Career Planning & Job Search & Networking
Comments Off
From The Career Doctor Blog. Posted under Career Planning & Research & Unsyndicated
Comments Off