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Sep 19, 20223 min read
Mid-Career Transitions: Evaluation of Commitment, Advancement and Relationships
With competency and identity issues addressed in earlier stages of adult development, those in mid-life (generally around ages 40-50)...
Aug 15, 20223 min read
Purpose: Everyday Living Made Clear
Do you help your clients reflect on the purpose of their career? Do you reflect on your own sense of purpose in your daily work? The...
Jul 18, 20223 min read
Creative Tools: Interventions that Aid Goal Attainment
After acknowledging the value of tradition, the 21st century career counselor focuses attention on creativity so as to serve clients...
Jun 20, 20223 min read
Weighty Decisions: Multiple Factors and Choices
One client shares a worry over when to get a degree while family responsibilities and health care are significant time-drains. Another...
May 16, 20222 min read
Learning for Life: School's Not Out
While the real estate field focuses on location, location, location, the rest of the world professes education, education, education....
Apr 19, 20222 min read
Skills: Work in the Trades
Skills pays the bills. During the covid-19 shut-down, home improvement projects surged as people needed spaces to work and play at home....
Mar 21, 20222 min read
Worldwide Connections: Think Globally, Act Locally
Did you ever consider the fact that someone else is doing the same work as you, but in a different part of the world? When we narrow our...
Feb 21, 20223 min read
A Hybrid Work Model: Benefits and Challenges When Working Differently
Individuals and companies are benefiting from the massive transition occurring in work models. Study after study in the past two years...
Jan 17, 20223 min read
Salary, Pay, Wages – Oh, My! Earning in Today's Work World
An internet search on how to negotiate salary quickly pulls up all the usual articles and sources: “Words to Use When Negotiating...
Dec 20, 20212 min read
Don't Look Back! Letting Go of the Past
December is a good month to review the past year, assess and set goals, and... STOP! Don't look back! Just because all the television...
Nov 15, 20212 min read
Executive Challenges Today: Help is Needed at the “Hire” Levels
It is easy to generate questions surrounding the challenges faced by executives today. For example, are “teamwork” and “executives” an...
Oct 18, 20212 min read
Red Flags: Warnings of Pain and Change
In a matter of seconds, someone could be hurt because a red flag was overlooked. In those same few seconds, 74+M google results covering...
Sep 20, 20212 min read
Comparisons: Aim to Support Career Confidence
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Yet people still believe others have found more satisfaction, rewards, or...
Aug 16, 20212 min read
Dysfunctional Thoughts: Hindrances to Successful Career Problem Solving
Because life isn't always rosy, we may need to take time to look at what is interfering with the chance of a positive outcome to a career...
Jul 19, 20212 min read
Beneficial Reviews: Learning by Looking at Self
Whether a review is about personal performance or the quality of a product, its only as good as the time put into creating it. The...
Jun 21, 20212 min read
Set Up for Success: Strong Attributes for the Future
While “be prepared” may be known as a boy scout motto, it also fits some personality types (e.g. SJ's in Myers-Briggs type language)....
May 17, 20213 min read
A Day in the Life: What is the Real World?
“Welcome to the real world” is an often used phrase shared with new graduates. It is somewhat false because it implies that students were...
Apr 19, 20212 min read
Dreams: Exploring Career Aspirations
As opposed to being fulfilled in sleep, career dreams or aspirations may reveal or influence career decisions or journeys. Practitioners...
Mar 15, 20212 min read
Team Work: Factors that Lead to a Better World
The more distanced the world became in 2020, the more the desire for connectedness increased. Workers knew intuitively that they needed...
Feb 15, 20213 min read
“Her-Storical” Perspective: Gender Issues in the Work World Today
The need to broaden and deepen our understanding of visionary women, gender bias, and career development cannot be limited to one month,...
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