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Career Planning / Education: Mid Career Change and Career Development

You're in the middle years of your career. Are you looking for more, a career change? Or just thinking about career options. Looking to change your career or add more excitement to your current career? These career education and career planning articles and links will help you plan and execute your best mid-career moves.
Becoming a Sage: The Keys to Life-long Self-development
Successful people practice life-long self-development. Studies show that successful people have similar characteristics. They are self-confident without being arrogant. This comes from being self-aware: knowing one’s strengths and weaknesses, knowing one’s goals and remaining true to one’s values and capabilities. They are willing to grow by challenging their limits of knowledge and experience. Find out how else to continue your life-long self-development.
Create the Life You Want With a Mid-career Crisis
Are you experiencing a mid-career crisis? And, if not, should you be? Are inner voices asking, "Is this all there is?" Do you have a growing sense that you would be happier doing something else? Do you hate going to work each morning? If so, it's time to create a mid-career crisis. I'll share with you some career resources, career assessments and tests and career planning tools to help.
The Mid-life Challenge: Make a Plan to Re-ignite Career Passion
Nobody will stop you in the hallway at work to ask if your career provides meaning and personal fulfillment. Recognizing that something’s missing in your career and vocational life and taking the initiative to make a career change must come from within. These tips will help you take charge of re-igniting your career search and making your ultimate career change.
How Real Women Get Ahead: The Woman’s Advantage at Work
Forget what you’ve heard about “being one of the boys,” “having it all,” and “going for the jugular.” Here is how real working women get ahead. Working women favor smarts and skills over sexy, communicate superbly, and earn and learn from line management positions. Learn more about how real working women get ahead: the woman’s advantage at work.
Why Human Resources Leaders Need Degrees
If you are considering a career in Human Resources, or trying to advance your current HR career, a Bachelors degree, and even a Masters degree, will assist you to achieve your goals and dreams. As organizational expectations of the contributions of an HR pro have increased, the need for the HR leader to possess both experience and a degree has increased, too. Find out why a degree is essential.
Top 10 Books for Job Seekers and Career Changers
Thinking about your current job search or a career change? For dads, grads and others, these books will help you find your way. Learn about the job market. Translate your most important needs, interests, and goals into a rewarding career. Find techniques for a successful job search. These are my long term favorites. Gift a favorite person with the opportunity to explore their desired future.
How to Get a Seat at the Executive Table: Ten Tips
Do you influence your company's direction? Contribute to the corporate discussion about customers, products and strategy? Do managers seek your opinion? If you can answer "yes" to these questions and you also initiate people programs and processes, welcome to the executive board room. Congratulations on your career success. Still earning that seat? These tips will fast forward your career.
Ten Tips to Help You Overcome Your Employment Gap
Concerned about getting back in the workforce after a gap in your employment? You should be. The job market appears to have qualified candidates for most positions. Employers hate to be risky. How will your resume as a stay at home parent, with a ten year employment gap, stack up against those of people who have been racking up career achievements and accomplishments for the same ten years?
Promote Your Personal Growth and Motivation
Are you feeling blah about your work and life? Does the experience of boredom make you unmotivated and unexcited? Are you having a mid-life crisis? You can promote your own personal growth, motivation and career development to overcome this inertia. Here are ideas and tools that will help you explore personal growth, set new goals, choose motivation and get your life and work back on a course that excites, motivates and fills your life with joy.
Create Your Own Path: Career Promotion Tips
Tired of watching others advance their career as you continue to exceed all expectations, without promotion, in your current job? Successful workers create their own path to promotion; they don't rely on luck. Self-promotion is key to career success.
The Awesome Power of Goal Setting
Heed the advice offered by Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, and Stephen Covey. When you begin your new year with solid direction and desired outcomes in mind, you set yourself up for awesome success. These tips will help you achieve your goals and live your resolutions.
Achieve Your Dreams: Six Steps: Accomplish Your Goals and Resolutions
Don't let your goals and resolutions fall by the wayside. Chances are that to achieve your dreams and live a life you love, those goals and resolutions are crucial. Goal setting and goal achievement are easier if you follow these six steps for effective and successful goal setting and resolution accomplishment.
Summary: Effective Networking for Professional Success
What propels your career success whether you are self-employed or work for others? Networking with as many people as possible. Your business success is a result of the power, reach and depth of the relationships you cultivate. Want to know more?
Predictors and Promises for Your HR Future
If you wish to jump start your progress in the HR profession, these books will tell you where to invest your time and attention. They are recent, on-target, study-based and key for professional growth. They identify key trends for you to adopt now.

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