Here's the top five stories in career advice from this year, along with the top Water Cooler story. I'll be taking a look back! -- Janet Kahler Connor, editor of Your Career
The midpoint in a career is the perfect time to do some "editing" to your career priorities. You've probably got different responsibilities and obligations than you had when your career began, so factoring those into the editing process is crucial. This article highlights 6 questions people at the midpoint of their careers should ask themselves.
Recruiters and hiring managers can get turned off easily so keep the personal chitchat to a minimum and use superlatives sparingly. Show that you are tech savvy with a seamless virtual interview (including professional or blurred background) and keep questions at the end of the interview to one or two, says Cierra Gross of Caged Bird HR.
Pivoting a career in the later stages of life is doable when confidently approaching the situation and focusing on your strengths and not your work history. "Less is more," says Niro Sivanathan of London Business School. "If you have just one key argument, be confident and put that on the table, rather than feeling the need to list many others."
The golden handcuffs can create a vicious cycle, but with financial planning and a re-evaluation of priorities, it is possible to break free. "I got sucked into the prestige, and that it made me sound impressive to others," says Lucy Maeve Puttergill, who worked in banking for nine years before leaving. "And I'd become so used to the types of numbers people made in banking being 'normal', I assumed that was how much you needed to be financially OK."
A new term for workplace dissatisfaction is "resenteeism" where an employee feels trapped in a job they don't want, whether they don't feel they can find a more satisfying job or are trying to and come up empty-handed. To remedy the situation, employers should create a company culture of engagement and offer advancement opportunities, says Jennifer Libby with Insperity.
In recent days, Apple has been counting down its list of the Top 100 Albums of all time. Interestingly, the list does not factor in downloads volumes of a given album, but instead was created as more of an editorial statement by a panel of music experts. The Top 10 Albums on the list were revealed today.
My vote from this list: "Songs in the Key of Life," a record that blew my 7th-grade mind. I had never listened to a record that was so consciousness-raising and full of real people. The full-size booklet that came with the album allowed me to read the lyrics and sent me on a quest to find out who was Sir Duke and Matthew Henson. A history and music lesson rolled into one. -- Janet Kahler, editor of Your Career
Happy birthday (1946), Patti Smith! She helped form New York punk in the 1970s, but her work spans genres, like the pop-rock"Because the Night." Who co-wrote it with her?
