You’re changing jobs. You know you’ll need references for your next career move. You’ve done a great job so you shouldn’t worry about getting a reference – right?

Wrong.

References can sabotage even the most sophisticated, well-executed job search. Sometimes you can lose an opportunity when your reference thinks he’s helping you out 100%.

Here are 5 ways to make your references work for you, not against you.

(1)Skip the ‘To Whom It May Concern’ letters.

Clients often tell me their well-meaning…

If you’re at all interested in advancing yourself, you’ve probably wondered how to find your dream career.

The good news is that it’s out there waiting for you. The problem is how you find it. Probably the best way is not to go after it head-on, but rather to back into it. By that I mean “learn how to manage your career search risks.”

You see, your career adventure success depends not so much on where YOU want to go, but on a balance of your needs with those…

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We spend at least one-third of our lives working. But what makes work meaningful and rewarding? Career expert Donna Dunning writes that work is satisfying if it interests you and allows you to do the things you enjoy. But she also notes that work that is interesting and enjoyable for one person may be totally unsuitable for another.…

Before beginning even legitimate work from home jobs career, you should think about some of the factors that will help to make your venture succeed or fail. Define your work likes and dislikes and think about how they can be incorporated into your career choices.  Look at potential jobs that can be done from home to see if there is enough volume to make getting such work fairly easy.  Some jurisdictions are fairly strict about the type of work that can be done in your homes, so you…

Planning a career can be defined as choosing life’s important paths. A careful planning is certainly required when it comes to how you would earn a living. If planning is not implemented it will culminate in not only a financial problem but it might even turn into a physical, psychological and emotional problem. The consequence of ruining our life can be dreadful. There are many experiences of people who have earned a living with nothing in hand. This can happen only with a keen career plan. Hence planning must…

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With the bleak outlook that the media are giving to the job market in 2009, as a job search coach and resume writer, I am hoping that out of it we can finally put to rest some misconceptions that I believe have really been plaguing professionals for a while and that have a lot to do with the improper outlook many of us have in regard to our careers.

For one, I am hoping that we can finally put to rest the idea that some company will protect you…

Although they do not realize it many people are held captive by their career. Even when their job is in jeopardy and it becomes clear that the company they work for is in trouble, the typical approach is to look for a similar job with a similar firm. Particularly for older people, the feeling seems to be that your future is predicated on what you have done in the past. This is a shortsighted approach to one’s professional endeavors and can be quite accurately described as career captivity.

As…