Setting up SMART goals can help you form habits, guide your focus, and sustains your drive to achieve your desired career.

Negotiation is often an integral part of every job. Knowing how to negotiate is an important skill to have and can help you at every stage of your career.

A personal career perspective is important in many situations, including setting goals and job searching

Decision making can be easier if you follow steps and create a plan. Career decision making is the same, a plan can make the challenging decision less stressful.

Move through the early weeks and months of a new job with a feeling of confidence, be in charge of your own onboarding.

Skills can expand your professional competency, allow you to perform your job well, and advance your career.

Is there a best time of the year to look for a new job or advance your career?

Coaching can help you through the career development process. A career coach can provide advise, support, encouragement, accountability, resources and help you practice to get ready for interviews or salary negotiations.

Take a true break from work. Vacations are to recharge, regain your energy and creativity, replenish yourself to come back stronger.

“When choosing between two otherwise equally qualified candidates, employers deem having an internship with its organization or within its industry to be the most influential factors” (NACE, 2022)

Once a client secures employment, career practitioners can still play an active and important role in their professional development.

You are not alone, many people have taken a career break for childcare, eldercare, sickness, relocation, travel, or to pursue other interests. You can always come back if you prepare and a return to work program can help you.

The Comfort zone is safe but not much learning happens there. Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in your career that seem worth taking.

Words have power, they influence our lives and behaviors.

Prepare for your job interview. When you are being hired, you will be assessed for experience, achievements, potential, collaboration, culture fit, areas of concern, and communication skills. Prepare and practice.

Wellness comprises of eight co-dependent dimensions: emotional, physical, occupational, social, spiritual, intellectual, environmental, and financial. Occupational wellness encompasses all aspects of personal satisfaction in your job/career.

Why did you leave this job? You will have to answer to this question in a job application, stated as “reason for leaving” and during an interview, stated “why are you leaving your current job?” or “why did you leave X job?”

Creatives are able to observe, select, analyze, evaluate and synthesize but they are also able to come up with many possible solutions. In their creative pursuit, they value freedom, autonomy.

In order to preserve your sanity, energy, and confidence in a job search, start from the beginning, be clear about your target role.

If you are thinking about quitting your job, you should take some time to think about the reasons and come up with a plan to move on.