Career Advice

Here's information on career planning, exploring career options, researching jobs and careers, changing careers, career assessment tests, and where to find the best career opportunities.

The steps involved in the Career Planning Process.

How can you get a job promotion? One of the key factors in getting a promotion is to be a stellar employee who is highly respected at the company. In addition, it's important to be aware of company policy regarding job promotions and to plan accordingly. Here are tips and advice on how to get a job promotion.

What can you do when you've quit your job, started a new position, and then discover that the new job isn't what you expected? What are your options when you're regretting leaving your old job and you really want it back? Here are tips for how to get your job back.

When business and pleasure get intertwined, it can cause trouble on the job. You don't want to have to start a job search because you lost your job because of a romantic relationship - or a relationship gone wrong. Here are tips for handling an office romance.

Tips and advice for how to succeed in your first job after college, including making the best impression on your new boss, working with a team, managing your social media activities, professional networking and development, and more strategies for first job success.

A quick guide to keep your career on track.

Top 10 tips for keeping your job, even if you hate it.

When you're job searching or looking to boost your career, working a room isn't easy, especially when your personality doesn't lend itself to talking about yourself. However, it's worth the extra effort it can take to work the crowd when you're job searching. Here's how to work a crowd - the easy way.

If you’re like most young people, you don’t know the answer to the big “what do you want to be when you grow-up” question. Here are tips on deciding what you want to be, as well as advice on when and how to make career choices.

Inside Jobs provides information and advice on a variety of careers, jobs, and industries with a focus on helping individuals discover new career options online.

Job shadowing involves spending time with a mentor to explore career options and to see how the skills you have learned in school relate to work.

Explore your passion, identify a new direction, and take action to create a career that leaves you energized and excited.

A portable career is a career that you can take with you, wherever you go. It can gracefully move with you to a new city or new country - be it for several months or several years. A portable career gives you more freedom to choose where you want to live and work, and helps you maintain a professional identity rather than starting over professionally every time you move somewhere new.

Sometimes the simplest matters make all the difference in the potential joining together of an employer and a job searcher. These opportunities to fail occur before the first phone call is ever exchanged. If you’re a job seeker, these simply rectified mistakes can keep your resume out of the “no” pile. Here are ten things that job seekers must do right to avoid the slush pile.

Information on the types of services provided by career counselors and coaches, where to find a career coach, and how career coaching can help you job search and/or change careers.

Career advice on how tune up your career to position yourself for a successful career change, for growth in your current field or to change jobs.

Ten keys for taking control of your career.

What bothers you most at the office? Share your top office pet peeves and read the list of office pet peeves shared by About.com readers.

Dawn Rosenberg McKay About Guide to Career Planning provides help through the process information to help make the transition easier.

The key for interview success for college students is to provide concrete evidence to employers that you possess the skills needed succeed in that role. Here's how to present your skills to employers.

What to do when you've been downsized.

Everyone who is job searching should have an elevator speech (a quick summary of your skills and qualifications) ready to present. Read sample elevator speeches shared by About.com readers and add your own elevator speech to our list.

Emma Newcombe provides job search and career advice for students and recent college graduates, as well as advice on what to wear for job interviews and in the workplace.