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What Do You Want Out Of Your Career?

This week JibberJobber and CollegeRecruiter co-sponsored the first of 6 teleseminar calls, and it was a success! Dozens of people have already registered for the rest of the calls, and there's still more space left.

Susan Strayer is the featured guest in this series of teleseminars. Susan's book recently came out – The Right Job, Right Now. It is a book that every career professional (or career center) needs in their library.

The first call (and the next one coming up) is based around the core of this book - which is a model to help you figure out what the right job is for you and how to go after it. This is a great model to help you boil down where you should be, where you would be most happy, and where you would be most likely to succeed.

Sound cliché? It isn't. I am amazed at the registrant's questions, and the questions that I typically get, where people ask "what am I supposed to do in life?" Or, "I'm not happy and need to change - how do I do that?"

Here's a real question from one of Monday's participants:

I am currently working in my first "real" job. I am struggling to balance my time and not overwork. I am also struggling to understand the political climate in the office. How do you know when it is time to leave a job and career? What are some of the mistakes new (young) people make that unconsciously sabotages their career? I know everyone is different, but are there certain things that people often look to get out of a career that really should be left to personal pursuits?
Wow - what a complex question. Other questions where along these same lines, but from all ages and levels. These are timeless questions about personal career management - this one was addressed on the call.

I admit that I was in heaven right out of school - my first job was a dream job (it was also $10,000 less than another soft offer I had) - but it didn't last forever. And what I found is that most people have questions similar to the one above.

My mantra has become "no one cares about your career more than you."

Make sure you sign up for the next teleseminar... its the same topic as last Monday (each topic is repeated once) - if you have ANY questions about your own career it will be worth the 45 minutes.

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