How do you find that “sweet spot” when working with midlife career changes? Well, my advice is no different than what I often discuss with college students: “What do you bring to the company or organization that you want to work for?” The biggest difference for midlife career changers is that they have an opportunity […]
Cracking The Hidden Job Market by Don Asher
I like Don Asher’s style and practical approach to career coaching & advising. This book is filled with great advice on helping people realize that you “have to turn over a lot of rocks to find work” (that’s what I say all the time, see my blog on this). He says that all industries are […]
My favorite career bloggers
LinkedIn, Twitter, Google +, Facebook, conferences, journals, and more continue to come across our desks as ways to do professional development. (See previous blog on this topic). So how do we manage all this information? I found that there are key people out there writing about topics meaningful to me and that if I follow […]
Graduate to a Great Job. Make your College Degree Pay Off in TODAY’s Market. By David DeLong
Graduate to a Great Job. Make your College Degree Pay Off in TODAY’s Market. By David DeLong One of my jobs is working part time at Colby College in the Career Center and the Director loaned me this book because David is a Colby alumni and she had recently met him. Curious, I began reading it […]
The Encore Career Handbook. By Marci Alboher
The Encore Career Handbook. How To Make A Living And A Difference In The Second Half Of Life. Marci Alboher I stumbled onto this book one day at Barnes & Nobles when I was trying to burn up my Christmas gift certificate and it was a wonderful discovery. Not only am I a “boomer” but […]
The Third Chapter by Sara Lawrence -Lightfoot
The Third Chapter by Sara Lawrence -Lightfoot is a great book on understanding this Third Chapter of life and how we as career practitioners can help people successfully navigate aging. She states this navigation requires curiosity, adaptability, engagement in new perspectives, skills, experiences, and vulnerability & uncertainty. Yes, it complicated but millions of Boomers are […]