Can Your Hobby Be a Career?

→  March 12th, 2012  →  interests skills

Everyone dreams about turning a favorite hobby into a career. What’s not to love about working for yourself and earning money while having fun? Unfortunately, not all hobbies can produce full-time incomes. How do you know when it’s time to turn your favorite past-time into a career? Three signs that your hobby might make a [...]

Work Makes Me Nervous: New Book Tackles Job Anxiety

→  September 21st, 2010  →  Blog career work environment

Work-related anxiety can lead to a host of problems, including decreased productivity, lowered, job satisfaction, job loss, and health problems.  Work Makes Me Nervous: Overcome Anxiety and Build the Confidence to Succeed, a new book released today, aims to eliminate anxiety in the workplace.  I interviewed authors Jonathan Berent and Amy Lemley about the causes [...]

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College Career Transition: Learning from the University Admissions Process

→  May 31st, 2010  →  advice Blog career guest post job search

As most of you remember, the college application and admissions process was one of the more stressful times during high school. It certainly was for me. After I endured the agony of picking schools, writing personal statements, filling out applications, taking standardized tests, and participating in admissions interviews, I felt like I had literally gone [...]