Career Planning and Education: Beginning a Career

Many people are eager to start a career in Human Resources, as it is a fast-growing field with many lucrative opportunities. Career analysts expect the number of HR jobs to increase in the projected future and the median annual income is above the national average. Learn more.

Thinking about your current job search after graduation? 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 online and offline job search. These are my long term favorite job search books. Gift a favorite graduate with the opportunity to explore their desired futur…

Thinking about your career and job search as you begin your career? These books will help you plan a career, search for a job, and get started with the rest of your life. These are my long term favorite career books. Gift a favorite person with the opportunity to explore their desired future career.

Want basic information about human resources including a definition? Career planning, a career outlook and more? I've answered some of the questions I receive most frequently in email. I trust the responses will be useful to you, too.

Work is about the money. Work only becomes not about the money when you have sufficient income – however you define sufficient income – to support your chosen life style. With sufficient money, work becomes about other motivations. Maximize lifetime income potential by the choices you make for your career and how you work with your employer....

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...

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...

From the Occupational Outlook Handbook, job descriptions are provided for human resources, training, and labor relations specialists and managers. The nature of the work and working conditions are described.

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.

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.

Alison Doyle, the About Guide to Job Searching, provides a great set of resources for the individual who is looking for his or her first professional job in Human Resources. Visit here to find your first job!

  Alison Doyle, the About Guide to Job Searching, describes what an internship can do for you and makes recommendations about how to find one.

Want to know what new Human Resource professionals should do upon entering the workplace, to quickly utilize their knowledge, education, abilities and excitement? Here are five tips for newer HR employees who want to build their foundation skills.