New Career Change story: @bizauthor Stephanie Chandler’s big LEAP!

Here to share her career change story is guest blogger Stephanie Chandler. Stephanie’s latest book, LEAP! 101 Ways to Grow Your Business, is a must-read for those planning to start a business and anyone who wants to take their company to the next level.  Also be sure to check out her website www.BusinessInfoGuide.com, a directory of resources [...]

Your life insurance – Can you take it with you? “Post-Pink Slip” Lesson #2

In my last post, I mentioned that I took several important points away from my session with Manchester, NH-based Dynamic Networking Group.  Lesson #2 in this series is a short and sweet one: If the life insurance provided by your employer is crucial to your family’s financial well-being, check now — before your job is at risk [...]

Laid off or employed-but-worried in soNH? Presentation: Pink Slip Financial Planning, Mon 11/30 6PM!

Next Monday, November 30, at 6 PM Eastern, I’ll be doing an encore presentation of “Making the Most of Your Money: Post-Pink Slip and Beyond”, this time for the Dynamic Networking Group, a Manchester, NH-based group of business professionals dedicated to helping members navigate career transitions. As most of you have probably heard a thousand [...]

Just what does a career change cost?? Part 2 – Examples

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes… Every year, trees do it beautifully. For them, change comes at little or no cost. The same is true for some lucky career changers, who happen to want a change that doesn’t require a major investment in additional education or business start-up costs, a big pay cut, a period of under- or unemployment, or [...]

Just what does a career change cost??

Following up on the topic mentioned in my last blog post, here’s an answer to a question I get asked again and again:  Just what does a career change cost?? An excellent question, and probably one of the most important things to consider before making any “go/no go” career change decision (and preferably well before [...]

Looking for work or career change in NH/Boston? Run – don’t walk – to @NetworkForWork #NW4W

I’m fresh off yet another incredibly valuable event hosted by Network for Work professional networking group. Leaders Tammy Hildreth, Jim Starrett, and Paul Philbrick assembled a panel of 6 professionals who specialize in various aspects of career transition — the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes daunting experience most members are working their way through as we speak. [...]

Listen now! Network for Work (TM) Radio interview: Financial planning for a pink-slip-crazy world

(Play MP3 now!) It’s no secret to the many who lost their jobs in this recession: getting laid off can wreak serious havoc on your personal finances.  So what can you do to minimize the impact?  Then, once you’re back to work, what might you do to be better prepared in case it happens again?  [...]

Student Prophecy – If you think education is expensive, try… well, education: Controlling back-to-school costs

“Sherrill is now working toward her fifth Ph.D. and appears to have her goals set as a career grad student.”  Or at least that’s what the Student Prophecy section of the Crimson Log, my high school yearbook, had predicted for me for 2002.  Well, it’s now 2009, and I’ve only gone back to school twice, [...]

New programs make federal student loan debt more manageable

Having trouble making the payments on your federal student loan? If your income is low relative to your debt (e.g. due to a layoff or difficulty securing full employment), it may be worth your while to look into Income-Based Repayment (IBR), a new way to make student loan payments more manageable. Our college planning expert [...]

New Career Change Story: For college planning expert Todd Weaver (@CollegeGamePlan), it’s all academic

This career change story comes from guest blogger and college planning expert Todd Weaver, Senior Associate with Strategies for College, Inc., our “go to” guy for August’s “Higher Ed” month. Have you ever heard the phrase, “you can plan all you want, then life happens?” That’s exactly what happened to my family in the past year as [...]