Career Change

July 1, 2008

Reinventing Careers

Pamela Mitchell is an expert in the world of career change. She's founder and CEO of the Reinvention Institute, an organization that provides coaching, products, and a...

May 20, 2008

The Two-Step Career Change

Dear Liz, I am at the point where I deeply regret not having done more career planning earlier in my life, because I am 47 and in a career I hate. I don't see how to ...

January 10, 2008

Switching To Green-Collar Jobs

On Dec. 6, Berkeley (Calif.) nonprofit Avoided Deforestation Partners hosted a panel at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali on the topic of REDD ...

January 10, 2008

Switching from For-Profit to Nonprofit

Imagine quitting your job to move to an organization that has fewer resources, affords you less control over the product, and offers a lower salary. Sound enticing? ...

November 1, 2007

Should You Stay or Should You Go?

What criteria should be used to determine if you have been with the same company too long? — Jason Morrow, Salt Lake City Your question reminds us of a friend of...

September 20, 2007

Leaving The Nonprofit Nest

I have a master's in public administration and have worked in government for 13 years, but I am thinking about making the leap to the private sector. Any advice? ...

September 18, 2007

Get the Job Offer Before You Reject It

In our journeys through life, we all face times of change. These transitions may be planned and predictable, such as graduation from college or your pre-set ...

July 6, 2007

Real-Life Career Changers

To Eric Green, co-managing a $50 million hedge fund in San Francisco isn't all that different from renovating a hospital in Estonia, which he did 10 years ago while in...

June 23, 2007

Your Brilliant Second Career

I have always wondered how a kid in his second year of college is supposed to pick a major and then, a couple of years later, dive into a career. At that stage in ...

January 30, 2007

Leaping Into New Waters

Will 2007 be the year you finally make good on your resolution to give up the daily grind and find work you love? Perhaps you're a lawyer who's painfully aware that ...

January 31, 2006

Simon Cowell: From Idol to Inventor

British-born high-school dropout Simon Cowell is perhaps one of the most recognized figures on American TV. Best known as the acerbic judge on the Fox (NWS) show ...