Posts Tagged ‘Career Change’

New Job-Hunt Articles + Career Spotlight

July 11th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

Career Spotlight: Like to study and manipulate numbers?  Interested in what motivates people and companies? You might enjoy being a Salary & Benefits Specialist.  The average salary is $54,000/year, 56% have college degrees, and the expected 10-year job growth is 18%. More information on this and other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

Three new articles were published:

Good luck with your job search!

Charting a New Career Course

February 2nd, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

You’re not that crazy about your job and where it’s leading (or NOT leading).  Other jobs or careers interest you, but you prefer to avoid making the proverbial out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the fire mistake.

So what do you do now?

Speaking as a person who has made the frying-pan-fire transition at least twice and had 5 majors in 5 years of undergraduate study (I’m interested in everything!), this is not a simple question to answer, particularly when you are working full time.  Or, when you are looking for a job full time.

My advice:  Try, before you “buy!”

Having also been unfortunate enough to discover in the last semester of my 2nd senior year in college when my student teaching experience convinced me teaching high school American History or English was probably the last thing I wanted to do, trying a job before you are committed to it is smart.

So, how? (more…)