New Job for the New Year? Start Thinking About Career Resolutions Now
Is your goal to find a new job for the New Year? The New Year can be a time of new beginnings and growth. Now may be…
Why the Holidays May Be the Best Time to Jump Start a Career Change
'Tis the season for a change During the holidays, thinking about a career change is usually the last thing on most…
Will a Vacation Relieve the Effect of Stress in the Workplace?
The past few years have been very difficult — social isolation, a pandemic, and changing work demands are just a few of…
Remember the Big Picture When Considering a Career Change
Is there a right way to feel when you're considering a career change? While people's feelings may range from scared to…
How To Tell if You’ve Outgrown Your Job (and What To Do About It)
Have you had a gut feeling lately that you’ve outgrown your job? Perhaps you are dragging your feet when Monday rolls…
Not Your Last Career Chapter: Still Time to Pursue That Passion
Is it time to start looking at turmoil as a catalyst? The past 18 months have shown us that change can be an…
Taking Time Off Work May Be the Best Career Investment You Can Make
Are you in a constant push-and-pull argument with yourself over living your life versus powering forward at work? It's…
Emotional Well-being and Work: Is it Time to Consider a Career Change?
What is your emotional well-being worth to you? It's a question every careerist may ask at some point. While we can…
Should You Pivot to Part-Time Work Before Retirement?
Traditionally, retirement came with a certain level of finality, marking the end of a professional journey. However, in…
How To Handle a Career Detour With Confidence
It's important for professionals who feel "tossed about" on the economic waves right now to know that a detour is not…
Surviving and Thriving Through a COVID-Driven Reorganization
In our careers, we often have little or no control over organizational changes. We can control how we frame them in our…
How to Overcome Career Inertia and Begin Imagining a Satisfying Future
What do you do when "good enough" is a bad fit? It's the plight of anyone with career inertia. After conducting…
The Plan for When You Don’t Love Your Job Anymore
It's possible to outgrow a dream job. This is something that professionals don't talk about enough. Many people stay…
Has the Pandemic Altered the Way You Think About Your Future?
What do you know about the future today that you didn't a year ago? For many people, the upheaval and distress created…
Why It’s Essential To Know What Motivates You
"What motivates you?" The answer to this simple question can make a huge impact on your life. Here's why. One of the…
Why a Peak Career Experience Might Be Hiding a Clue to Your Future
Let's talk about how the best moment in your preceding career could hold the key to where you're going next in your…
Finding New Opportunities in This Perfect Storm for Change
There is little doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic will go down in history as one of our time's defining events. My…
Navigating Your Career During Economic Uncertainty
Everyone is affected by the global pandemic. Organizations are experiencing disruption as forecasting revenue is…
Career Success During a Political Transition
Starting in November, thousands of people in Washington will be directly impacted by a leadership shuffle – even if the…
A Sense of Purpose Is the Key to the Good Life
Everyone wants to create the Good Life. The unsettling conditions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have not altered our…
Your Retirement: How to Start Thinking About It
Has the pandemic pushed you toward considering your retirement? The COVID required limitations on social interactions,…
Career Reassessment During the Pandemic: Finding Your Ideal Job
Several outstanding people have come to me lately because they have been furloughed, or their positions have been…
How to Achieve Personal Growth and Survive a Career Transition
I recently posted an interesting article on my Experience Matters Facebook page from the New York Times called “Feeling…
Finding Career Change in COVID-19 World of Lockdown and Social Distance
As we find our way through the COVID required limitations on social interactions, many professional workers are dealing…
How to Survive Unwelcome Career Changes
Career changes can either be at our behest or thrust upon us. In either case, they can be upsetting. Unwelcome career…
Being Smart About Your Career During the Shutdown
We are learning how the COVID-19 shutdown affects everyone, but not in the same way. Situations change quickly,…
Your Career Coach Can Help You Function at Your Best
In my work as a career coach, I have learned that any change can be challenging. In many cases, changes cause us to…
How Career Coaching Facilitates Mid-Career Job Change
Are you a professional who is yearning to make a mid-career job change? Have you been advised to seek the services of a…
Experience Matters (More Than Ever) When We Live to 100
Originally published in February of 2020 - just before we learned that a multi-year pandemic would rock all of our…
What Are You Seeking in a Career Change?
In my role as a career coach, the topic of career change usually comes up for active discussion. I meet with all of my…
Want to Have a Job You Love in 2020?
What's on your mind as you head off for work each day? How does the thought of how you will be spending the next eight…
Why Do People Stay in Jobs That Are Unsatisfying?
There are a whole host of reasons people stay in jobs that are unsatisfying. These positions don’t suit them or produce…
Why Most Women Think They Should Change Their Careers
According to a recent study by InHerSight, seventy-three percent of working women are interested in changing careers. I…
Hanging On or Being Bold: Your Midlife Reappraisal
There is something about approaching 50 that naturally brings up a fundamental midlife reappraisal of all the essential…
The Mechanics of a Successful Informational Interview
As I said in my previous blog - How to Prepare for Successful Informational Interviews - a significant challenge for…
How to Prepare for Successful Informational Interviews
Many of my clients have in common a deep dissatisfaction with their current positions and know that they need to make a…
What Kind of Career Change Do You Need to Make?
In my role as a career coach, the topic of career change usually comes up for active discussion. I meet with all of my…
When Management Changes, Is It Time for You to Go?
Clients often come to see me because recent management changes have left them much less interested in their current…
What Happens When You’ve Outgrown Your Job?
Why would a mid-level executive at the height of a successful career consider a career change? One of the frequent…
Is the Ideal Job a Solution for Mid-career Transitions?
When you find yourself in a job that no longer fits your skills and interests it's time to rethink what you really want…
Is This All There Is? Overcoming Career Discontent
What happens when a successful professional feels like they are in the wrong place at the wrong time? Their work begins…
Feeling Stuck in Your Career? It’s Time for Plan B
Mid-career change can be difficult. Plan A, on the other hand, is familiar. You have a career and are moving forward…
Is Launching Your Own Business the Best Option for You?
When most people leave jobs, either voluntarily or not, one question can be: Do I stay in the business I am in now, or…
How to Find Clarity After a Successful Career
In my practice as a career coach I recently saw a client who was considering leaving her 30-year career. She said, "I…
How Should Boomers Reinvent Their Retirement Years?
The baby boomer generation is reinventing “retirement,” but there is no roadmap. Boomers are designing their plans for…