Four Published Tips on Career Management

Excerpt from 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before…Landing Your Dream Job available on Amazon, iPhone and Sony.

#14: Hot Growth Industries

Industry	# of New Jobs	Growth Rate
Education and Health Services	5.5 million	18.8%
Professional and Business Services	4.1 million	23.3%
Healthcare and Social Assistance	4 million	25.4%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services	2.1 million	28.8&
Administrative and Waste Management	1.7 million	20.3%
Finance and Insurance	815,000	13.2%
Leisure and Hospitality	595,000	30.9%

Growth Rates by industry: (Bureau of Labor Occupational Report: 2006-2016)

#37: Networking Tip #1: Mix Your Personal and Business Personality

To attract other people you must learn to share you personality while networking.  Too many people try to put on a business personality, which is very fake and boring.  Practice this form of networking by sharing more about your interests and hobbies outside of work.

#48: Have an Engagement Conversation

At the 6-month mark of your new job arrange a meeting with your boss and tell him or her what you are excited about and looking forward to in the coming 6 months.  Share any ideas you have for new initiatives and ask your boss if you can take on new work.  This will excite your boss and show him or her that you are engaged and motivated.

#60: Benefits of Being in Crisis

When you face your fear of pursuing your heart’s desire you may experience a crisis.  The crisis occurs because the rules that used to govern your life no longer work or apply.  You feel rudderless.  You feel lost possibly for the first time in your life.  Thomas Moore refers to these periods as Dark Nights of the Soul.  Periods in your life where you challenge the status quo and where you come back to life a stronger, more focused and humble person.

You must walk directly into the dark forest of the unknown and confront your dark side.  That side of you that does not believe in yourself.   However, these periods of darkness are just before the dawn.  You grow immensely because for the first time in your life you are asking yourself what you want and how you want to live your life.  What you must realize is that you must go through them and not around.  The odd beauty of these periods is that they are rare moments where you are most open to the critical change you so desire deep down.

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