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10 Tips for Updating Your Resume When Making a Career Change

December 19, 2011

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If your career makeover strategy is to change jobs then updating your resume may just require a simple tweak to include your most recent tasks or projects at work. But if your strategy is to move into a new career, there are a few additional things you’ll want to focus on to give your resume [...]

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Be Brilliant: Find the Courage to Change Your Career

January 4, 2011

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A career choice is more than just paying the bills and putting food on the table. You owe it to yourself, your children and those you are meant to serve, to find the courage to change your career direction!

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Before You Quit: The Pros and Cons of Launching Your Business While Working Full-time

September 15, 2010

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Before You Quit: The Pros and Cons of Launching Your Business While Working Full-time

Whether you’ve always dreamed of being your own boss or your current employment is on the line and you want to create your own job security – before you quit, investigate the pros of cons of launching your business while working full-time. While it may not be ideal, the pool of full-time employees who are [...]

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Must-Have Traits of Successful Career Changers

May 24, 2010

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All the strategy and planning towards making a career change will amount to nothing without the right traits to drive progress. Each one of us has dreams and goals, but only a small percentage of people actualize their dreams and make things happen. We all know someone who has always wanted to _____ (fill in [...]

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9 Tips to Transition into the Technical Sales Arena

February 9, 2010

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Guest Post by Christopher Bell, III A few months ago I attended the GrowSmallBiz conference hosted by Network Solutions in Washington, DC  and during one of the breaks I was speaking to a polished, intelligent, articulate, and enthusiastic professional who had years of experience selling copier products, but wanted to know how to break into the [...]

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Don’t Confuse Competence with Desire and Other Browseworthy Links

February 8, 2010

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1. A post I came across on the Serial Reinvention blog mirrors something I tell my clients: “Don’t make the mistake of thinking that something you’ve gotten good at because you have to do it for work is something that you really like.” Author Rebecca MacDonald describes exactly what I mean in her post – [...]

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Why Women Settle, and Give Up On Their Dreams And What Can Be Done to Reverse It

February 3, 2010

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Guest Post by Allison Maslan – HHP, CCH When women come to see me for life and career coaching or homeopathy, I often find myself saying, “You really do deserve to be happy.” With this statement I often receive a perplexed expression as their reply. Such a simple and somewhat obvious statement, but surprisingly for [...]

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I Knew High-School Teaching Wasn’t for Me After I Was Hit by a Flying Meatball

November 4, 2009

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I Knew High-School Teaching Wasn’t for Me After I Was Hit by a Flying Meatball

Join me this Monday night as Career Makeover Strategies presents: Turn Your Dissatisfaction into Your Engine for Success…an interview with Kate Nasser, The People-Skills Coach. Kate will recount her journey from computer techie to people-skills guru and the key steps she still uses to make transitions a whole lot easier! She’s smart, funny, inspirational, and [...]

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How to Escape a Good Job That’s Turned into a Bad Trap

November 3, 2009

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When you have what most people consider a “good” job, it is easy to feel obligated to stay where you are. After all, you have what most people want, right? Well most people want that. But there are some of us who aren’t satisfied with the good job. We require work that feeds our passion. [...]

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