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 [...]

Tags: Career change math, Career Change To Do List, Cash Flow, Compensation, Escape Fund, Expenses, Pre-transition To Do List by Sherrill St. Germain
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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 [...]

Tags: Career change math, Career Change To Do List, Cash Flow, Compensation, Escape Fund, Expenses, Involuntary career change, Job loss, Pre-transition To Do List by Sherrill St. Germain
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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), [...]

Tags: Cash Flow, Compensation, Sherrill's career change by Sherrill St. Germain
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