Career Blog

You’re counting down the hours until 5 p.m., calling in sick, and living for the weekends. Before you take the drastic step of quitting your job or the even more drastic step of switching careers, take a step back. What needs to change: your job, your career—or something else?

Even if you love your job, there’s always room for progression even if you don’t want to change jobs. Here’s how.

It is never too late to pursue your professional dreams, but before you make the leap to a new role mid- to late-career, you’ll want to ask yourself these hard questions.

The workplace can be a pretty unsafe space to open up the Pandora's box of figuring out how to be happier. This lack of a safe space to talk about making work more satisfying is why I have the conversations I do.

It’s important you’re prepared to explain your career shift confidently during a job interview. Here are some tips to help ensure that a positive step in your life doesn’t get misconstrued as something negative.

The time has come, and you’re ready to make a major change in your career. Now you’ll have the pleasure of hearing everyone’s thoughts about how you should go about it—or whether you should attempt it at all. Read on for five opinions you’re likely to encounter—and why you shouldn’t listen.

When the daily grind gets to be too much, you sometimes find yourself needing a nudge to change your routine. So how do you know when you can change your career path all on your own and when you need a little outside help?

You find yourself in the middle of an interview with your potential new company when you hear a question that truly gives you pause: “What is the best piece of career advice you’ve ever received?” How should you answer that question?

Finding a job focuses on short-term goals (with potential for long-term if the right choices are made), and a career is all about planning and following a specific path. Choices made now affect the direction you'll be taking tomorrow. It all depends on where you want to be.

We’ve gathered three pieces of career advice people usually learn too late in life and hope they reach you sooner than they reached us.

Everyday tasks at your job need to get done, it’s a just as important to have long-term career goals. What kind of process should you consider when thinking about the next five years or so of your career trajectory?

Workplace change comes in many forms, from a new office software program to changes in job title, management or department. How well you adapt to these shifts depends on many factors, from your personality to how the change is introduced and managed. But whatever the change and how it arrives, th...

A career is a job with time-based context, having both a sense of history and direction. Good careers have depth, meaning and purpose. “How many of you have a career?”

No industry is perfect. Even those who seem to have a particularly cool job have days when they would rather do pretty much anything else. Read on for signs that it may be time switch.

What you want from your job will change throughout the course of your career (and may have been affected by the pandemic). Follow these tips to take your internal temperature before making a big career move.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of life and planning ahead is difficult while we continue to live under so much uncertainty. We have a checklist of what to think through and what risks to consider.

As a 55+ worker, the workplace dynamic was different when you started your career. It was common for people to retire after a career with one employer in one industry. Since then the game has changed.

Deciding on a new career path is a difficult choice to make. You likely spent years learning the skills necessary to enter the career, developing your talents within it, and building your professional network. Now you’re thinking about putting all that aside and starting new. To make it worse, ou...

Learn how lateral moves can be beneficial to your career when done strategically

Sometimes job dissatisfaction is the result of a big change on the job—a new boss, a new product line, a new software system. What are the top signs you’re not in the right career?