Archive for the ‘career-management’ Category
Facts on Free Career Interest Tests
A career choice based on subjective factors was pretty limited in the past. A hundred years ago, artists and the journalists were probably the only people who worked for pleasure. The rest of the working classes built their careers on the necessity to earn a living. A job was never a personal achievement, or the realization of a special interest or dream. However, with increased access to education and the opening up of all sorts of opportunities in the 21st century, people now have all the freedom to do what they love and earn a huge sum doing it!
You can now determine what you want to do with your life based on your personal interests. So, how can know which Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsNurse, Turned Flight Instruction School Owner/pilot Extraordinaire
On a recent Sunday afternoon, this writer caught up with a successful woman business owner, whose flight instruction and general aviation business is physically located at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California. But, how did Evelyn A. Carlson, a Nursing Instructor at St. John College in Cleveland, Ohio ultimately emerge as a partner in a Learn to Fly business on the West Coast and become a pilot extraordinaire. Here’s the story.
As an intermediate step, Carlson began to teach both Nursing and Flight Instruction as an Assistant Professor in two different departments at Kent State University, one of which was Technology (think Flying). Lyn commented that both of these teaching endeavors were not so Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsSuccessful Career Change Stories From Real-life "second Acts"
Conventional wisdom among professional recruiters holds that a typical American changes jobs between seven and ten times during his or her lifetime. However, a growing number of professionals have started to change their careers entirely, not just their employers. In fact, with career lines blurred by technology and market demands, some working adults have even discovered happiness by pursuing two different careers at the same time.
While career transitions are still too subtle for government statisticians to measure precisely, researchers like author Marci Alboher and advocate Marc Freedman collect stories of working adults who have successfully shifted between often-contradictory career paths. In some cases, economic factors pushed these professionals to make the leap to new careers. However, as these Read the rest of this entry »
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