Career Advice & Resources
Finding the Perfect Career
Finding the Perfect Career As kids, most of us had a short, easy answer to the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Teacher, firefighter, doctor—simple answers that satisfied our simple understanding of the future. For many of us, the perfect career—or...
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Do What You Love – The Worst Career Advice Ever
Why “Do What You Love” might be the Worst Career Advice Ever By Troy Norton Do what you love! It sounds like a solid bit of career advice, doesn’t it? And what person in their right mind wouldn’t want to exchange that 8-5 daily drudgery for endless days filled with...
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Career and College Counselor’s | Free Student Career Tests
How a Great Tool for School Career and College Counselors Just Got Even Better - This one is for school counselors...you hard-working professionals who spend your time helping other people figure out what to do with their lives. Every day, you guide people through the...
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Fast-Growing, High-Paying Jobs that Do Not Require a Degree
Fast-Growing, High-Paying Jobs that Do Not Require a Degree So...you’re thinking 12 years of school is enough. And after that senior year of high school, you plan to bid sayonara to the hallowed walls of knowledge and trade your cap and gown for a 9-to-5 with a steady...
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Could a Cup of Coffee Change Your Career Path?
You’ve done all the preparation to determine the career path that seems like the best fit for you and your work personality type. Now you think you are closer to knowing which career path you want to pursue. There’s one more step you need to take and it could change...
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The 6 Fastest-Growing, Highest-Paying Jobs that Require a Bachelor’s Degree
Here’s a terrifying fact for you: there are hundreds of college majors out there to choose from. Hundreds! Even worse, within those majors, there’s a profusion of specialties. Consider engineering: there’s civil engineering, biomedical engineering, computer...
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What You Need to Know about Yourself to Work from Home
Ah, the appeal of working from home. That delicious dream of “working wherever, wearing whatever, playing whenever.” Is it something you’re considering? Maybe your commute is too long, or perhaps your company is moving their headquarters to another state and you’d...
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How to Identify Your True Workplace Strengths
At some point in your career, someone is going to ask you to talk about your workplace strengths – maybe during an interview or an evaluation. Do you know how to respond with confidence? And are you sure you really know what your workplace strengths are, anyway? It...
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Thinking About Leaving Your Job? Read This First!
Some days it’s so tempting, isn’t it? Those days when it feels like every single part of you is yearning for something else. Something different, something more. Maybe you’re unhappy in your career field, or maybe you’re just unhappy with your current job, salary, or...
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Why that Degree Won’t Make You a Great Employee (and what you can do about it)
Why that Degree Won’t Make You a Great Employee (and what you can do about it) Congratulations! You are now (or soon will be) a high-school or college graduate, with years of knowledge stockpiled in your brain. After all the toil of academia, you’re no doubt ready to...
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