Career assessment and transition

Career Transition: Self Employment – Getting Past the Negatives

April 24th, 2012

By Kirsten Hendrix

Many dream of being self employed. You can choose your own hours, you are your own boss, and you are not limited as such when you plan holidays around a work place calendar. Some see it as this golden lifestyle, but is it what it seems?

No Regular Income…..

In the early days of setting up and business in particular, the hours can be endless, late nights, early mornings, and weekends. To make ends meet at the beginning can be incredibly stressful, with new equipment or products to pay for, and that desperate stage where you are trying to establish yourself and find regular income. This is regular income is probably the top negativity for being self employed, you can never quite be sure if invoices will be paid on time, or whether you will have a steady trade from month to month. » Read more: Career Transition: Self Employment – Getting Past the Negatives

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Career Transition: Reinvent Yourself

April 11th, 2012
If the seventies was the age of Aquarius, the 21st Century is the age of Reinvention

Perhaps it is because people live longer; perhaps it is because today’s economics force retired people to go back to work; perhaps it is simply a matter of the pace of technology, where entire industries can go extinct in one person’s lifetime.  But the fact is, more and more people no longer follow a straight line career path, in the same industry and the same profession for their entire working life.  Welcome to the world of reinvention.

Technology forces change

Sometimes these career shifts are brought on by technological change and advancement.  What is the typewriter repairman of yesterday doing today? Most likely, he is servicing copy machines and printers. If he decided to pursue additional training, he is probably repairing computers.  As more and industries become obsolete, their workers will find new ways of applying their talents to the new reality. » Read more: Career Transition: Reinvent Yourself

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Career Transition: Great with Numbers? 5 Jobs for You

March 20th, 2012

By Madeline Marshall

Do you have an affinity for math? If you’re good with numbers, you’re in luck. There are multitudes of lucrative, engaging job opportunities out there for people who have a math-oriented brain.

Internet Business

The tech field is on the up and up, and Internet businesses have exploded over the past decade. Online stores hire mathematicians to help them more efficiently run their businesses, whether it’s analyzing employee patterns or creating models to determine purchasing habits of consumers. » Read more: Career Transition: Great with Numbers? 5 Jobs for You

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