Tweet It is not unusual for many professionals to leave their careers and become consultants and freelancers in their field. Experience professionals bring a wealth of expertise which business and industry would love to collect and contract. While you are searching for a second career thinking about using your expertise as a transition in your [...]
Transferring Skills and Learning New
Tweet It’s important to be able to transfer what you know now to your new career if you’re truly looking to find success in your career change. Many people change careers, especially in mid life, because they just say ‘now or never – time to follow my passion. It’s difficult but not impossible. However, passion [...]
Identify Skills Before Changing Careers
Tweet It will help your career change if you know the answers to these three questions. Do you know what are your strongest skills? Have you figured out for what careers, what industries, or what fields they match? Do you know what new skills you need to learn to complete your career change? What are [...]
Changing Careers is Challenging
Tweet It takes a lot of chutzpah to move to some unknown direction after investing decades to what you do now to earn a living. If you’re going to make a career change make sure you have the determination and perseverance that’s required together with a well thought out plan about what you are going [...]
Planning Your Career Change In Retirement
Tweet Whether you recently left your former job or profession or you haven’t stepped into an office for 3 years, if you’re thinking about beginning a new career you need to plan. It doesn’t matter why the change or why now – you still need to plan. You may want to think about getting help [...]
Financilly Self Reliant in Retirement
Tweet When I was a kid and a young adult I thought retirement was a time when you did what you wanted – if you physically could – and didn’t have to work. However, I also learned there were exceptions. My mother, a partner in a small business, couldn’t be convinced to leave the business [...]
Steps to Put Your Business Online
Tweet You need a strategy to put your business on line. You can put it online without a strategy but your time, money and effort will be wasted. Below are a few of the more important steps you should put into your strategy. Search is the first step. You need to search the internet and [...]
Building a Consulting Business
Tweet A friend of mine is planning to retire from the business of private fundraising for profits and nonprofits. She loved being the director of development for an independent K – 12 elementary school in the suburbs and she would like to go into the same business. Barb knows this business every which way but [...]
Second Career Answers at a Wedding
Tweet She approached me like we were best friends telling me about her latest project and recent economic perspectives. She was about to retire from her job as the head of a human relations department for a national accounting firm. “I think I could start an online business giving readers or listeners the benefit of [...]
Self Concept Important to Successful Career Change
Tweet How we think about ourselves has a major impact on our personality and how successful we are throughout life. We’re all familiar with the kid who thought he was dumb or the girl who thought she wasn’t very pretty and both behaved the way they thought. The girl didn’t pay attention to the way [...]
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