Technology Engineering

Clients considering a midlife career change often call with the question, "Should I go back to school for another degree? So I wasn't surprised to find an article in a major business journal, featuring a Q&A around the question, "Should I get an Executive MBA after 50?" Frankly, I wonder why the question even comes up. The real question is, "How will I benefit from a new educational credential? And how can I steer clear of embarrassing headlines, like 'Top Executive Reveals Degree from Diploma Mill?'" (1) Instead of asking "Am I too old," ask, "What do I need now." For an under-30 student, a traditional MBA can be an express elevator to the executive suite. For a midlife career change, you're more likely to use your MBA for networking, starting a business, or jump-starting a new career. But will you get a lower return on your investment, with fewer years remaining in your career? Who cares? Five or ten years after completing your degree, you're facing a brand new career with technologies that weren't invented when you started out. Or you realize you've outgrown your career. So these days any degree, at any age, has a ten-year life span at most. Midlife career change ... [more..]

The gained experiences and skill sets from the previous organization does not fit in the new company and this has caused the difference between the career changes and changing jobs. Changing careers requires you to undergo training and it may also Assisi you in changing your personality. The apt job for a career change can be found by searching a new job that best fits one's personality. The jobs are apt because they very well suit the person's interest and personality. Psychometric test are substantial for a worker to find a best job for his career change. This test when taken reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the individual. The results are helpful in discovering the perfect job. The clients have the liberty to choose their field of work with the obtained results. In fact, the psychometric test results forma platform through which the client can examine the career guides and Job networks over the Internet. But clients can go unsatisfied at times with their initial performance and intent to tale up a second test in order to find whether their weakness was over ridden or not. This helps them in building a strong platform in searching the best jobs ... [more..]

Advising others to change career sounds very simple and a workable proposition. When it comes to us, it becomes one of the toughest decisions to implement. A career change needs lot of mental preparation. If you have a family, that may get disrupted by your career change. The income may stop for some time. The decision itself may turn out to be a wrong one. It needs mental strength to change career. Let us see what it requires. A change of career shifts us from a comfort zone to a zone full of discomfort in the beginning. For a full time production engineer, a change to a career as human resources consultant may need a total about turn, back to school and learning new skills for the new job. Some people change careers so totally that it looks incredible. Let us talk about changes that can be done more smoothly. I am talking about learning about a new career along with the old one and then shifting to the new career slowly. This process also requires mental strength, because it needs lot of extra work. The first barrier that one encounters while thinking of career change is- how did I ... [more..]

My friend, a highly-paid financial professional, often complains about her job. She doesn’t like the long hours, the difficult people, the office politics, and so forth. Usually, I just sit and listen to her, because it feels like she’s more interested in a sympathetic ear than anything else. But one day, I couldn’t help but suggest that, if she really dislikes her job so much, she consider what she really wants in a career and possibly even make a change. She looked at me incredulously. “I’m focused on surviving right now,” she said. “I don’t have time to think about what I ‘really want.’” I’m surprised at how many times I’ve heard professionals with incomes well into the six figures worry about their “survival” in the event of a career change. Generally, I suspect most of them could handle at least a few months of their current expenses even with no income at all. Some, for various reasons, are genuinely living from paycheck to paycheck—they may have student loans they need to repay, or maybe they just racked up large expenses leading the “high-powered professional” life. But even they, if they had to, could ... [more..]