Career Planning & Transitions
Whether you're starting your career, seeking a promotion, or considering a career change, our knowledgeable contributors provide practical tips for navigating career transitions. Here you will find valuable insights and strategies, like learning how to assess your skills and interests, explore career options, and create a roadmap for achieving your goals. Plan for success - use these tips and frameworks to take your career to the next level!
How To Make Career Decisions That Align With Your Core Values
At some point in your professional life, often right around the time you’ve earned some stability, raised a few kids, and learned the ropes of juggling way too much, you pause. You glance around at...
The Redundancy Reset – How to Thrive After Job Loss
Losing your job can feel like the rug has been pulled out from under you. Redundancy often brings a wave of emotions, including shock, anger, fear, even relief, and it’s easy to get stuck in the spiral...
Just Starting Your Career Life? Your Experiences Provide Valuable Insights
If you are starting your career, you know you are entering a rapidly changing world. This includes a constantly shifting job market, adjustments in education, training, and skill development needed to keep up...
A "How To" Guide for the Prospective Writer – Step Eight on the Writing Journey
You did it! You worked hard through steps one through seven of the writing process and sent your book! Right? If not, then you’ve got some steps to complete, which you can find here. We left off at the end...
How to Thrive in a Tough Job Market – Smart Strategies for Career Success
The job market right now can feel like climbing a mountain in flip flops, unsteady, frustrating, and sometimes impossible. But here is the truth: you are not powerless. With the right mindset and...
From Hospitality to Healing – How the Pandemic Pushed Me Into My Purpose
There are moments in life that divide your story into two parts, before and after. One of those defining moments came for me during the pandemic, a global event that brought the hospitality industry...
The Great Disinvestment – What Parents Need to Know About the College Career Services Crisis
The American higher education system, which was supposed to equip students for productive careers, now leaves an alarming share of college graduates without meaningful employment, and the ripple effects...
Are Your Career Assumptions Holding You Back?
We all make and hold assumptions. Take a moment to reflect on your career assumptions. Identify a key one and write it down. Consider how this assumption may have influenced your choices, decisions...
Practise Productivity for Career Excellence
In today’s fast-paced professional world, productivity is not merely about working harder, it is about working smarter. The ability to optimize time, focus energy, and execute tasks efficiently is what...
Navigating the Real World – An In-Depth Guide to Thriving as a Young Professional
The leap from campus life to the “real world” is one of life’s most exhilarating and daunting transitions. Recently, I sat down with Jessica, a bright recent graduate from Berkeley University who is...
It's Okay to Feel Stuck
We can feel stuck at any point in our career lives. Feeling stuck is okay, it’s an invitation to bring more focus and awareness to what we are experiencing. By embracing this moment of pause, we can...
The Truth Within and How Owning Your Completeness Rewrites Your Career Story
In an era defined by external benchmarks, curated résumés, algorithmic approval, polished public personas, the pressure to prove one’s worth is both constant and exhausting. It’s easy to believe we must build...
7 Invisible Forms of Career Grief, And How to Honor Them Without Burning It All Down
Career transitions are often framed as bold leaps or empowered pivots, but beneath the surface, many carry a quiet grief that goes unnamed. In this piece, writer and coach Yolan Bedasse explores the...
Transforming Anger Into Opportunity and Illuminating the Path to Career Clarity
In the maze of modern ambition, few emotions feel as disruptive or as revealing as anger. Often vilified or suppressed, anger quietly shapes our decisions, relationships, and professional reputations...
Mentorship in Business Development – A Path to Success and Practical Recommendations
In today's business world, mentorship plays a crucial role in developing personal and professional skills. As someone who has transitioned from international business to mentorship and worked with Hollywood...
