Unlock the Secrets to Effortlessly Navigating Career Changes
Happy New Year! I hope 2025 offers great opportunities for your development and career success. Career Management is an ongoing process. You will likely experience multiple career transitions and many job changes in your lifetime. Women experience more frequent career disruptions for many reasons but especially due to familial status when caregiving for younger or older relatives. You can make ...
Springtime with family in NC & Chicago and a summer trip to the mountains
After visiting Florida during the winter in the RV, we returned to springtime in Atlanta. It was fun to leave when it was cold and come back to warmth with flowers blooming all around. April brought us together with family on two different trips. Mid-month, we took the RV for a long weekend visit to Jason’s brother in Hendersonville, NC ...
Get Hired: Transform Your Resume and Interview Skills Now
Job search is a demanding endeavor! There are so many facets to it. It takes a lot of time and energy. I’ve already covered some key points to the job search process in the last book blog. This time, I’ll elaborate on the tactical pieces of the job search process, namely the resume and cover letter, along with interviews. This ...
Warming up to winter in Florida
After having a wonderful holiday in New York with my family, we returned to Georgia for the new year. Then when we couldn’t take the cold weather anymore, we headed down to Florida. Surprisingly, Marietta can get cold. We made our annual trek to Fort Desoto Park on the west coast for waterside camping. While we were in the Sunshine ...
Unlock Job Search Success: Tips That Actually Work
Now is the time to begin your job search, after you have narrowed down your short-term career goal and decided on a few job titles that are a great match. This post will cover strategies for conducting a successful job search campaign from Chapter Eleven of The Purple Parachute. Since this chapter covers a lot of content, I will break ...
The winter months of 2023/2024 – family, friends & hiking
After a great Thanksgiving with family in Marietta, I headed to New York to spend a few weeks in my hometown of Larchmont before my family’s Christmas gathering. I loved staying with my Mom. She always spoils me with love and yummy food. I also spent time with other family members and reconnected with many childhood friends. At my age, ...
4 critical pieces for executing your career plan
Execution is crucial. After all, we can daydream about a future career path, but until action is taken, it will remain a dream. If you’ve been following along with my blog, you have assessed yourself and found paths to pursue. You have conducted research and tested your assumptions. You have selected a direction for your next move. Now, you are ...
Fall adventures in the southeast
Our adventures in the RV over the past six months have been closer to Marietta and limited to short trips once a month. Below, I’ll share some of the places we visited in the fall months as the leaves were turning. Last September, we took a break at Gatewood Park in Bartow County, GA. It’s a convenient and easy trip ...
Why it’s important to test out roles and how to do it
Now that you have done your research, it’s time to test out your assumptions. Career exploration includes trying out roles to see if they are a good fit. There are many ways to do this, as I will describe shortly. This method allows you to test drive before making a full career change. It can help you avoid committing to ...
Experiencing Asheville, NC, in a new way
After coming back from the Galapagos Islands, we returned to visiting places closer to Marietta, GA. Also, our situation with eldercare changed so that our RV travels would be less frequent for the foreseeable future. In fact, in late August, we took a trip without the RV to Asheville, NC. Jason’s brother lives about 30 minutes away from Asheville, so ...
