Encouragement
Welcoming Guest Blogger Tess Zigo
Late 2014 I contemplated leaving my comfortable corporate job as Treasury Analyst to pursue something different! I didn’t know what that would be – only that I needed a change. Coming from a Bulgarian background, career counseling was not something I understood and accepted. Despite my skepticism, I ended up working with a career counselor over a…
Read MoreICDA’s Five Steps of Proactive Development — Step 4
This is the fifth in my series of blog posts on the Five Steps of Proactive Career Development created by the Illinois Career Development Association (ICDA)
Step4. Network in person and via social media throughout your career.
Welcoming Guest Blogger Alain Roy
Alain shares his journey from “I was stuck.” to “I now love my work!”
Read MoreWelcoming Guest Blogger Jessica Gibbons-Rauch
What do you do when your whole life you have told you are a shoe, you are a shoe, you are a shoe but you don’t want to be a shoe? Maybe you want to be a hat? These immortal words brought about by Rachel Green in Friends are as applicable to a career as…
Read MoreWelcoming our first guest blogger, Laura Kendall Zimmerman!
Choosing to embark on a new career path is a difficult decision that can be confusing and frightening. I know; I’ve done it several times now. After graduating from college, I spent years bouncing around varying fields that interested me, never landing anywhere that made me feel happy or fulfilled. Luckily, I found Career Path…
Read MoreWhat I learned from the Olympics.
Have you tripped, fallen down or lost your focus in your life’s work lately? Here’s hoping that what I learned from the Olympics might help you as it’s helped me.
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