If you’re thinking about a career change at 50 or beyond, you may be wondering if it’s too late.

By this point at your job, you may have reached a certain level of seniority, earned all the perks like vacation days and working from home. You’re probably making the money you want to make too.

So now, as you look at the next years of your career and you see retirement looming on the horizon, how can you possibly justify switching careers?

If you're on the hunt for six figure jobs, you know that they don't usually fall from the sky like snowflakes. They're hard to come by, and when you do get a lead on one, they can be difficult to land. The competition is stiff. But if you want to land a job like that, you have to freeze out the competition, so that you're seen as the clear choice by the employer.  If you're the clear enough choice, employers  and recruiters will come to you, knowing that you're the talent they must have to do … [Read more...]

If you're over 40, you might be feeling the effects of ageism in your job search - that sense that you're not getting hired because you're a bit older. You might see that jobs are going to younger, cheaper hires, and you keep getting left out in the cold on interview after interview. But it doesn't have to work that way! Of course, there are always going to be people and companies that have ageist practices. Those are companies you don't want to work for anyway. Trust me. But then there … [Read more...]

Workplace culture has been described as the personality of your workplace. It's the feeling you get when you're working there: the attitudes, the accepted behaviors and norms, the values. Workplace cultures can be vastly different. One might support brainstorming, asking questions, and innovation, while another might bring shame upon the person who doesn't know an answer. But culture, maybe more than any other factor, can be the make or break of whether you like your job. I've heard of … [Read more...]

Do you try to do some career decision making, and find you'd rather be plucking your eyelashes out one by one? It's excruciatingly painful. But career decision making doesn't have to be so hard. The problem is that when we sit down to make career decisions, especially the decision about what to do next in our career when we don't like what we're doing right now, we over complicate things. I'll show you what I mean.   The Way Most People Do Career Decision Making The way … [Read more...]