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Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Your Career Plan -- Think Like A CEO You’ve been going 6-to-late; exhausted by running the supersonic treadmill of life and wish you had a different job. But you can’t because you have no time and you’re left spent at the end of every day. Conversely, you’re gut tells you that everything would be different if you could only find the right career match. You could stop hitting the snooze button every morning and get back into enjoying the game of life. Aug 8, 2005, 00:15 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Changing Careers? How to Get Around the Three Major Mental Roadblocks to Success A part of you can't wait to dive into your new career -- but you're also smart enough to know that you can expect a few bumps along the road to success. By far, the biggest roadblocks exist between your own two ears! Let's take a look at three common mental roadblocks and learn how to overcome them. Jul 24, 2005, 05:01 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Seven Steps to Making a Successful Career Change My first job was secretary to Moses. Having to transcribe and make 2,430 copies of the Ten Commandments convinced me I was on the wrong career path! OK, maybe I'm not quite THAT old. But I did start out as a secretary. While I didn't mind the work, eventually I decided it wasn't very satisfying. I often felt like a "tool" that helped others contribute to the organization's success. I wanted to make my own contributions, to find creative ways to make a difference. It took me about 12 year to come to that conclusion, decide to do something about it, and change my life. Jul 24, 2005, 04:59 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Career Development - When It's Time for a Change There's a certain courage required to hear your gut. To really be true to how you are feeling. And that is never more important than in your career. Sometimes people feel that they are not completely happy. At other times they might have a sense of distance from the business or organisation they are in. Jul 24, 2005, 04:32 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning What Everybody Ought To Know About How To Change Their Career or Profession and Still Survive... Dr. Denis Waitley, trainer of leaders, including Super Bowl and Olympic athletes, Apollo astronauts, and Fortune 500 executives, is the most listened to voice on personal and career achievement and the author of the all-time best-seller, The Psychology of Winning claims that the 21st century is unlike anything we could have imaged. Jul 24, 2005, 04:29 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Planning Your Successful Career: 15 Ideas Planning Your Successful Career: Doing a good job is one of the most important ways to move up the ladder", says Dr. Don Bagin, Professor of Communications at Glassbro State College. Jul 24, 2005, 04:26 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Prepare for YOUR Future now -- All Presidential candidates (before and after) make all kinds of promises about YOUR 'social security' when running for the top job. Regardless of the promises, YOU are the one who has to live or die by the future plans made on your behalf. Jul 24, 2005, 04:20 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Careers-Changing Jobs: The Fantasy of the Ideal Job Most people would agree that the concept of a job today is vastly different from that of 20 years ago. Organisations are changing at speed, technology has changed the face and pace of work, and globalisation is pushing every business to examine it's operations in a totally different context. Jul 24, 2005, 04:17 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Career Change: From Suits & Sales to Boots & Rails Peter Humleker had it made. As the general manager of a successful car dealership, he was earning an impressive income. The only problem? He hated what he was doing. Jul 24, 2005, 04:07 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning How to Change Career Horses in Mid-Stream You’ll get wet but the reward just might be a more fulfilling ride! In Survival is Not Enough, author Seth Godin says change is the "new normal.” Rather than thinking of work as a series of stable times interrupted by moments of change, Godin says we “must now recognize work as constant change, with only occasional moments of stability. Jul 24, 2005, 04:05 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Business & Career: Know Your Ruling Star! Know your Ruling Star. One man is better received by one nation than another, or is one welcome by one city than another. He finds more luck in one office or position than in another, and all though his qualifications are equal or even identical. Let each man know his luck as well as his talents. Follow your guiding star and help it without mistaking any other for it. Know how to transplant yourself. There are nations with whom one must cross their borders to make one's value felt.” Jul 24, 2005, 03:58 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Career Change Is Not For Wimps! 3 Powerful Steps to Do Work You Love Tough words... but I truly believe that folks who make career changes should be applauded for their courage. The courage to live closer to their authentic selves. The courage to put aside all the negativity we hear about the economy. The courage to face their own fears. Jul 24, 2005, 03:46 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Goal Setting - Road Map To Achieving Your Career Goals You can only set informed career goals if you acquire plenty of information about the career choices open to you. This will require research which can be conducted online or through a local library. You can also visit professional career planning offices to find out about the services they offer. Jul 24, 2005, 03:41 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Drive Your Career Change – A Direct Approach If your career has gone off the road, take control and drive back to job satisfaction with a direct approach. When you’re looking for that new job or a career move it’s easy to think that ‘they’ hold all the cards. But if you can change the way you think about it, you can get back in the driving seat, and after all, this is your career we’re talking about. Remember ‘they’ don’t hire you for the sake of it; they hire you to help them make a profit! So two things first – how you are (attitude) and how you react (the way you see things).. Jul 24, 2005, 03:21 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Is a Career Change on Your Horizon? Making a career change is nothing new in today's job market. Jul 24, 2005, 03:18 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Career Change - Creating Wealth & Happiness Whether you have a business idea or not, here’s what I want you to do… Jul 24, 2005, 03:16 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Career Change - Emotional Intelligence for Knowledge Workers? Nowadays we can expect to survive the second half of our lives and as our work is knowledge-based - we knowledge workers are not finished after 30 years on the job - Are we merely bored? Jul 24, 2005, 03:14 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning Closing the Gap on Your Career Goals If you still picture a steady progression up the ladder when you think of your career goals, it is time to shift your thinking. For most people, climbing the career ladder is no longer an option. The working world has changed so dramatically that linear career paths rarely exist, except as historical symbols. Jul 24, 2005, 02:54 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning 10 Warning Signs That You’re Ready for a Career Transition You dread getting out of bed and going to work. But suppose you were in a job or profession that feeds your spirit. Just imagine how exciting it would be to jump out of bed and step right into it every single day! Jul 24, 2005, 02:51 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Career Planning How to Choose Your Ideal Career They say that most people do complete and total career changes at least once often twice in their lifetimes. Very few people chose the ideal perfect career for themselves when they're in high school and blissfully happily work those same jobs for the rest of their lives. With the way that technology and everything else changes so fast, I think it's ridiculous to expect to stay in one job from the time you leave school until you retire. Even staying in the same company can be a huge challenge. So how will you pick your first career? 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