Baby Boomer Women – Is Your Career Where You Want it to Be?

You go to school, you get your education, you get your experience and your working world should be in pretty good shape right? While that may be true for many of you I’ll bet my bottom dollar it’s not true for each of you. Would you like this to be true for you?

How To Find Your Dream Job

Conversations: Find your Niche walks you through thirteen steps designed to help you narrow your field of interests, and then has you rank them based upon compatibility comprised of your personal circumstances and considerations. Within those thirteen steps, I was delighted to find that the initial criteria used are values (standards of integrity), interests, priorities, fun and talents. It is excellent that the book notes you should also be aware of those things you absolutely don’t like to do.

Personal Branding – Why Is It Important – Part 1

Whether we like it or not, we are in charge of our careers. Gone are the days where you could begin and end your career with the same company, working yourself up from the mail room to Sr. Vice President. Starting with the Baby Boomer generation and followed closely, with more intensity, by GenX, we have seen an intensification of the nomadic lifestyle and increased job-hopping. And, when this is compounded with a recession, we see job tenure shrinking even more due to downsizing. Never has this been more prevalent than in my generational grouping, with a 54% increase in unemployment for those over the age of 55, as reported at the end of 2009. This has been a blow to many of us, never expecting we might have to be thinking about looking for another job after a 30 year career with the same company. We expected to stay until we were ready to retire, instead of being asked to retire.

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