Want a career in food? Food safety is a growing field and one where you can make a real difference. Take Barbara Kowalcyk. The tragedy that thrust Barbara into the food safety arena was chronicled in the 2009 Academy Award-nominated documentary, Food, Inc. In 2001, her two-year-old son, Kevin died after eating tainted hamburger [...]
With so many people out of work, and many competing against each other for the jobs that are opening in a corporate country, it seems many may need to find a new career plan. For those looking for out-of-the-ordinary career ideas, I recently interviewed Steve Gillman, author of 101 Weird Ways to Make Money: Cricket [...]
There’s a lot of talk about the lowering of employment opportunities in this country and around the world. The automation of countless tasks that at one time demanded the human touch is shrinking the demanded workforce at a shocking rate. While it can safely be said that there will probably be less jobs than people [...]
For those of us who are thinking about making a career change, it can feel rather daunting and challenging. Change can be exciting. Change can also be worrying as it is a leap into the unknown and a shift from what we know into something that are not so familiar with. To do this [...]
In a lateral move, a strong employee takes on a new position at the same level as his former position. Most companies encourage these because they are mechanisms for keeping good people happy and sufficiently challenged without promoting them and/or paying them more. Reasons for Lateral Moves Lateral moves also save businesses the cost and [...]
Dear Lindsey, How important is getting your MBA from a top graduate school verses a middle of the road or maybe online school make? What difference does it make regarding future pay and opportunities? Thanks, Marie Dear Marie, Educational decisions are personal and the right answers are different for everyone. What I can do is provide [...]
It is normal to have trepidation about going down the entrepreneurial path from the perch of a corporate job. That’s why I was not surprised when my new client expressed concern about learning all the things required to go into business for herself. “I know how to work. I do great work,” she said. “But [...]
With the changing economy, changing marketplace, and the changing planet, it is no surprise that so many folks are facing career changes and searching for their next path to financial security. Many of the currently unemployed have found their jobs outsourced to other areas of the world, or have lost jobs because their company has [...]
