Over the next few weeks, we’ll be looking at the steps towards a successful transition in your career. You’ll find this helpful especially if you're moving from one industry to another or if you're making the move from employment to self-employment and vice-versa. We’ll consider the obvious and not-so-obvious things to put in place to ensure that you transit into a new career as smoothly and successfully as possible. A career change shouldn’t be an impulsive or rash process; it should be well … [Read more...] about The First Step Towards a Successful Career Transition
Career Advancement
Seeking Career Direction: Interests and Passions
Today, we’re concluding the short series on Seeking Career Direction which we began a few weeks ago. So far, we have shared simple and effective career direction tips that would be very useful for making career decisions whether you are a starter or a pro. We started with the role of prayer, followed it with the importance of understanding your skills and in the last post, we looked at taking advantage of opportunities. In today's post, we’ll be looking at the place of … [Read more...] about Seeking Career Direction: Interests and Passions
Seeking Career Direction: Opportunities
A few weeks ago, we started a short series on Seeking Career direction and we began to share simple and effective tips that will be very helpful for you if you’re in need of direction in your career. In the last couple of posts, we discussed the role of prayer and the advantages of knowing your skills. In this post, we’ll be looking at Opportunities. Taking advantage of opportunities is especially important for those who need to get started on their careers or those who desire a career … [Read more...] about Seeking Career Direction: Opportunities
Seeking Career Direction: Skills
Some weeks ago, we began a short series on Career Direction. The tips in this series will help you to gain good clarity for career decisions, especially if it involves a major career change or advancement. In the last post, we looked at the role of Prayer. Today, we’ll be addressing the topic of ‘Skills’. Taking stock of the skills that you have is a big deal when it comes to making career decisions. A skill is a special ability or expertise that you acquire by formal or informal training and … [Read more...] about Seeking Career Direction: Skills
Seeking Career Direction: Prayer
Today, I’ll begin a short series of posts to share simple and effective tips that will be very helpful for you if you’re in need of direction in your career. These tips and truths will be useful for any career decision you need to make whether you are a starter or a pro. In this post, we’ll start by looking at the role and effectiveness of prayer in career direction. While we are to take responsibility for our careers, we also have to keep the big picture in mind. Prayer helps you to … [Read more...] about Seeking Career Direction: Prayer
5 Ways to Gain Clarity for Career Decisions
It’s all well and good to encourage people to take action when it comes to building a purposeful and successful career. Unfortunately, people can only take action when they know just what to do- and many people actually have no idea of what they need to do and the steps they need to take. If they knew the right thing to do, perhaps they might do it. That’s what we’ll address today- how to gain clarity to make the right decisions and take the right actions for your career: 1. Pray for wisdom. … [Read more...] about 5 Ways to Gain Clarity for Career Decisions
5 Tips for the Day of Your Interview
A little while ago, we discussed certain important steps to take before the day of an interview. Today, we’re discussing what to do on the day of the interview itself, and I’ll be sharing important tips that can help you to make the best of the interview. These tips will apply mostly to physical in-person interviews; we’ll talk about other types of interviews (telephone, Skype, etc.) some other time. Here we go: 1. Dress the part. Since you know the role you’ll be coming to play in the … [Read more...] about 5 Tips for the Day of Your Interview