How to Get There

Do Your Own Thing

Selling what you know to people who need that knowledge might just be the way for you to feel in charge of your own career for a change.

How do I get into a career in criminology?

My true passion is criminology and I'm wondering how to get started.

Cheryl Stein on Handling Unemployment

Being out of work is the perfect time to figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life. I know that it can feel really scary to stop and think about what you actually want to do for work but then again so is the idea of waking up every weekday doing a job that you hate until you retire.

Overcome Job Search Ageism

When new owners bought the magazine that editor-in-chief Joe Provey had started a decade earlier, the severance package for employees included job counseling. The advice he best remembers receiving: Shave your ear hair.

Reinvent your Life: Cheryl Stein's story of change

Monster's Personal Coach, Cheryl Stein, discusses how she reinvented herself and improved her life.

Finding Your Inner Rock Star

So many of us struggle our whole lives to fit inside a box. We think that we should be a doctor, a lawyer or an accountant because traditionally, that is what our mothers made us feel we should be. But what if your heart is screaming for you to be something else? No matter how much you try to study, and fit into that mold, your inner voice is telling you that music needs to be your life.

Coaching versus Consulting

Coaches help people make changes in their lives and help them to become their best. There are times when change is unavoidable, and that's when coaching is helpful. When you really need to change, or really want to change, a coach will help you figure out the best way to achieve your goals in manageable steps.

The Power of Personal Regeneration

Here are a number of effective strategies to use so that you can actualize you highest self and become the leader you are destined to be.

IT Career: Project Manager

Technology professionals often think about pursuing project-management opportunities, but whether they end up filling that job role depends on factors far beyond their technical expertise.

Portfolio Career: Work on Your Terms

Like what you do but want more control over you time? Want to add challenging work projects or opportunities to your repertoire of achievements? A "portfolio career" could be the answer.

Discover the Job You Were Born to Do

Many of the answers concerning the work we were born to do are already within us, but we may have forgotten them.

Could Your Hobby Be Your Job?

Consider Boomeranging

Seven Steps to a Better Job

Get Back to Work with the Best Deal

Stop Thinking and Start Doing

Turn Prior Experiences into Current Capabilities

Fuse Different Interests into an Incredible Career

Ten To-Dos Before You Move for Work

Writing a Resume for a Career Change

Adjust to Your New Job

The Enlightened Unemployed

Get Your 50-Plus Resume Right

When Changing Careers, Highlight Transferable Skills

Unrelated Experience

Second Chances

Career Change Cover Letter

Ten Ways to Keep Busy Between Jobs

The After-50 Career Change

How to Stay Relevant

The Power of Baby Steps

Exit Interviews

Awake the Entrepreneur Within

Smart Employers Are Age-Neutral

Improve Your Job Search This Year

Ageism and the Work Search

Nine Tips for Starting Out (or Starting Over)

Career Change and the Seasoned Worker

Making Every Job a Step in the Right Direction

Treat Career Exploration like a Trip to the Toy Store

Is It Time for Plan B?

Some Tips for Career Changers

Jump-Start Your Career Change

The One-Week Job Search

The 10 Worst Mistakes Career Changers Make

Questions to Get Your Career Started

A Fresh Start for Your Career

Learn Your Way Through Change