Shift Your Gears | Change Your Career

We’ve seen the ads.

We’ve heard the radio commercials.

We even see the flyers stapled to telephone poles.

The work at home craze is full blast - particularly as traditional jobs fallby the wayside.

This site has a lot of info forthe internet marketer wannbe and also a list of work from home businesses that are for real and not scams. It is worth a read!

You need to have an objective in mind when you attend a networking event.

You should treat any event be it a conference, trade show, luncheon or industry event as an opportunity to further your network and relationships. I typically take the following approach with events:

1) When possible take a look at who is attending in advance. Pick 2-3 key people that you want to seek out and meet.

2) Have your leading questions ready for those people. Make it unique and compelling to them (not you)

3) If you do not know who is there in advance p- circle through the room with some brief introductions. Assess who may be in the best position to help you. Once you connect with a good prospect - take a minute to really engage.

Going into networking event with objectives will be much more productive for you!

This article was written for journalist in the print business. But many of the tips apply across industries. If you can avoid getting the axe while you are working to make your change - that might be a good thing. Then again it could be bad too because you may not change.

Either way - I felt this was well done and worth a read on the ten tips to avoid being laid off.

Here’s an interesting conference on how to be happier  in your life.

Of course it is in San Francisco - where leading edge ideas or crazy weird things - or both (take your pick) usually happen. The conference is coming up soon but the site offers some resources that might be useful for you in the future. There’s no doubt that finding inner happiness is a key attribute that can really help you “shift your gears” and your career.

So check it out and I hope you find it useful!