Midlife Career Change

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The need to make a midlife career change is quite common; in fact, many people make a midlife career change.

Your priorities and responsibilities change across your lifetime, so it shouldn't be surprising if your career needs also change across your lifetime.

If you're willing and able to commit to doing the work it will take to become marketable in your new career, there is no need to feel trapped in a job that no longer meets your needs.

The articles below provide plenty of information and tips on making a career change.

Making a Career Change
Making a career change as a result of changing priorities in your life has become quite common. Read about several smart reasons for making a midlife career change.

Work Values
Work values and attitudes can be one of the most important and most overlooked considerations when it comes to making career choices.

Parents Returning to Work - Managing Work History Gaps
Parents returning to work will likely have gaps in their work history that, at some point, can start to raise questions in the minds of employers. Learn how to minimize the gaps on your resume and during job interviews.

Moms Returning to Work
Moms returning to work have an easier time finding a satisfying job when they take steps to protect their earning power, stay involved in their industry and maintain business contacts. Learn how to protect your career while you are out of the workforce.

Retirement Jobs and Career Planning After Retirement
Finding appropriate retirement jobs has become an important aspect of career management for many people. Instead of completely leaving paid employment a significant number of people have choose some form of phased retirement in which they find "retirement jobs" that allow them to phase down but not completely leave work and career responsibilities.

Second Career Choice in Your Thirties
Pursuing a second career choice and making a career change in your thirties is quite common. Often your first career decisions happen at some point in your late teens or early twenties. Those early career decisions are be made with 20 something priorities and values in mind. So, it's not surprising that people can reach their thirties and find that their career choices are no longer a good fit with their values or personal goals.

Life Work Balance
To find your keys to life work balance ask yourself these questions.

Job Search Secrets for Older Workers
These job search secrets for older workers will help you to minimize age as an issue in your next job search.

The Key to Life is Balance
The key to life is balance, and when work values conflict with personal priorities life can become full of challenges. Of course, work norms and values vary greatly across countries and cultures, but many people, at different times in their lives, experience challenges with work values that conflict with their personal priorities.

Nonverbal Communication
Guest author Brandy Shirley points out things you may be doing to inadvertently send out negative messages at work and discusses how to avoid negative communication habits.

 
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