Money tips for the newly re-employed – Quoted in @CNBC article!

Photo by Sharon Harvell Could it be that the long-awaited bluer skies are finally returning?  The stock market, holiday spending, and other economic indicators are up. Most welcome of all perhaps, according to the latest report, unemployment is down.  If you are one of the lucky beneficiaries of this nascent uptick in hiring, congratulations!  Before you get too [...]

Find the $ to change careers, Part 2: 7 more tips from career expert @myreinventure & me

Founder of Aspire!, Randi Bussin In Part 1 of the series, career expert Randi Bussin and I teamed up to give you 8 tips for managing your cash flow before and after your career transition.  Part 2 covers managing debt, benefits and taxes during your career change. Randi Bussin, CCMC, CPBS, MBA, is a Career Reinvention [...]

Relo plans? Salary.com Cost-of-Living calculator a big help @MySalary

If you’re Beta testing a career change that involves relocation, use the Cost-of-Living Wizard on Salary.com to help you estimate the impact on your financial plan. Just plug in your current salary, current work and home locations, and the new locations, to see usable stats on how much you’ll have to earn to maintain your standard of living [...]

Find the $ to change careers: 8 tips from career expert Randi Bussin & me

Dreaming of reinventing your professional self?  Does that dream include a cut in pay?  Yeah, right!  But, for many, it may be the reality, at least temporarily.   So how do you make your dream career happen anyway?? Career expert Randi Bussin and I teamed up on this article to provide some answers to just that question.  The [...]

Resume makeover pays dividends: Help employers visualize you — and pay you! — as a full contributor in your new role

In her “pink slip lemonade” story, guest blogger Pamme Boutselis mentioned how her experience as a volunteer worked in conjunction with paid work experience to enable her to make the shift to her new career. Pamme’s experience echoes my own. At age 30, as part of my first career transition (from engineering to marketing, post-MBA), [...]