Career Tips
How To Ask For More Money The Right Way
Research shows that about half of workers have never asked an employer for higher pay. Why is it so hard to negotiate salary? It may come down to our cultural discomfort around discussing money.
From Accountant To Yogi: Making A Radical Career Change
At some point, nearly all of us will experience a period of radical professional change. Some of us will seek it out; for others it will feel like an unwelcome intrusion into an otherwise stable career. Either way, we have choices about how we respond to it when it comes.
Why You Should Have (At Least) Two Careers At The Same Time
It’s not uncommon to meet a lawyer who’d like to work in renewable energy, an app developer who’d like to write a novel, or an editor who fantasizes about becoming a landscape designer. Maybe you, too, dream about switching to a career that’s drastically different from your current one. But you don’t actually make the leap for a variety of reasons.
How To Build Expertise In A New Field
Better pay, more joy on the job, or prerequisite to promotion? Whatever your reasons for deciding to build expertise in a new field, the question is how to get there.
A Scorecard To Help You Compare Two Jobs
You have a big career decision to make. Maybe you’ve been offered an exciting new opportunity on the other side of the country. Or maybe you’ve been unhappy in your job and need a change but haven’t been able to find inspiring alternatives.
Use Your LinkedIn Profile To Power A Career Transition
We all know the power of LinkedIn for job hunting and networking. But how do we use it to help change careers—to make sure we’re found by the right recruiters, hiring managers, colleagues—not ones from our past, but from our future careers?
Turning Your Complex Career Path Into A Coherent Story
It’s hard when you’ve had a nonstandard career trajectory and you want to reenter the workforce, move to a higher position, or enter a new field.
Change Your Career Without Having to Start All Over Again
The thought of giving up hard-earned seniority and starting over at the bottom is often too demoralizing for those of us experienced professionals who’d like to make a career transition. But there are ways you can shift jobs or even careers without giving up your professional status. Instead, you can work creatively to transfer it, so that even if you’re starting in a completely different field, you’ll benefit from your years of labor.
Research Your Destination with Informational Interviews
Informational interviews with friends of friends, school and workplace alumni, and others in professions you’re considering will help you explore career options and make connections.
Test-Drive Your Path
It’s impossible to know if you’ll really like a career direction until you try it out. To avoid making costly mistakes—and wasting your energy—take a test-drive. Here, you’ll read about people who apprenticed, volunteered, or job shadowed to discover their professional identities—and you’ll learn how to find these experiences for yourself.