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Career Shifting
Thinking about changing careers, or seeking your first job after graduation? In this collection, you'll find invaluable advice to help you take that next important step.
Articles & Books From Career Shifting
Cheat Sheet / Updated 05-10-2024
The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) is your gateway to getting into the graduate school of your choice, maybe even with a scholarship, which then opens the doors to your career path.This Cheat Sheet is a collection of tips and key information that can help you score well on the GRE, get into graduate school, and further your career goals.
A hands-on manual for discovering what makes you tick and going after your dreams Finding Your Passion For Dummies offers you guidance and practical advice on how to identify and pursue your passion. With exercises to help you understand your values, interests, and natural talents, you can identify what you are passionate about—at any age.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 01-18-2024
This cheat sheet offers tips on how personality tests can help you find your career path and includes a worksheet to track your plan to pursue your passion.Aligning your personality type with your passionPersonality tests, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), can be valuable tools for helping you identify suitable career paths.
Taking a career timeout could be the window of opportunity you’ve been looking for Taking A Career Break For Dummies shows you that a career break could be life-changing. Career breaks give us a chance to pause to identify opportunities and dreams, focus on the things we’ve been missing, and develop new skills.
Why work from home when you can work anywhere? Not all who wander are lost! Digital Nomads For Dummies answers all your questions about living and working away from home, short term or long term. Become a globetrotter or just trot around your home country, with the help of experienced digital nomad Kristin Wilson.
Article / Updated 03-06-2024
In finding a career, many people take career “tests,” struggle to get informational interviews, and even take career workshops. And despite all that, they end up far from sure they’ve made a wise choice of career. These steps can help you pick a career wisely:
What career type are you?
Which one or two of these are you: a word person, people person, Science-Technology-Engineering-Math (STEM) person, hands-on person, or entrepreneurial?
Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-25-2022
Choosing your career can be daunting, not to mention the training for it, landing a good job, and succeeding in your career. That’s darn hard and, okay, even overwhelming. This cheat sheet can make it easier. © Monkey Business Images / Shutterstock.comA streamlined (but good) way to choose a careerIn finding a career, many people take career “tests,” struggle to get informational interviews, and even take career workshops.
Article / Updated 06-20-2023
Professors and teachers are among the most influential people who can help you in your career. Professors are obviously knowledgeable in the subject matter they teach. They know their field and they also tend to know people working in their field. Because of this, they’re in a good position to help you with leads and introductions.
Article / Updated 09-07-2023
One of the advantages of being a first-time job seeker is that employers most likely won’t ask you for references. This is because they know you haven’t had any previous employment. Nonetheless, some employers may ask you for some references.To paraphrase a popular saying, it’s better to have the references and not need them than to need them and not have them.
Article / Updated 05-01-2018
The benefits that come with working for a large employer are many, and they vary in importance. Here are some of the pros of working for a large company.
Teams
More employees means more teams. As part of a team, you get to interact with others who will help you gain knowledge. At the same time, you get to interact with other teams.