This is the fifth (and final) post in our Career Pivot Series: five ideas for engaging transition. I’ve been hearing from lots of folks lately who are navigating career change and transitions, so am sharing some thoughts about a process for adopting an “orienteering” process as you move forward. Read earlier posts: Step 1 – …
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Step 4 – Locate “Travel Companions”
This is the fourth in our Career Pivot Series: five ideas for engaging transition. I’ve been hearing from lots of folks lately who are navigating career change and transitions, so am sharing some thoughts about a process for adopting an “orienteering” process as you move forward. Read earlier posts: Step 1 – Be Where You …
Step 3 – Take a leap (reach out with an “ask”)
This is the third in our Career Pivot Series – five ideas for engaging transition. I’ve been hearing from lots of folks lately who are navigating career change and transitions, so I thought I would share some thoughts about a process for adopting an “orienteering” process as you move forward. Step 1 – Be Where …
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Step 2 – Pick One
This is the second in our Career Pivot Series – five ideas for engaging transition. I’ve been hearing from lots of folks lately who are navigating career change and transitions, so I thought I would share some thoughts about a process for adopting an “orienteering” process as you move forward. I’ll post one idea each …
Kathryn Ticknor at the Campfire
A wonderful conversation about health research, from the most engaging and inspirational Kathryn Ticknor! Check out her MEDx talk here: https://medicinex.stanford.edu/medx-speakers/kathryn-ticknor/ Find Kathryn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathrynticknor/ and on Twitter @ticktalkrock Catch up on the stories that you have missed by going to the stories around the campfire page here on Career Linguist. Linguists’ skills and …
Why Tutoring is a good job for linguists – Part II
This post is written by guest blogger Patrick Goodridge a linguist, language teacher, and writer based in Philadelphia, PA. Read more about Patrick below or on the Career Linguist guest bloggers page where you can also learn about being a guest blogger for Career Linguist yourself!! To read Part I of this post featuring ideas …
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“head west!” Starting career navigation
Sometimes starting up with career navigation can feel like that moment at the very beginning of a journey using GPS. That first moment, when you’re just starting off from standstill, and you are told “head west!” and you just have got no idea which way that might be. Sometimes it is hard to know enough …
Lx Beyond Academia SIG panel: Entrepreneurship (May 2015)
Lx Beyond Academia SIG panel: Careers in Research (Sept 2015)
Using LinkedIn to “pick one”
When you are just beginning a job search, it is at times very useful to just pick something. As we have been discussing, there are many ways of conceptualizing work – many “ways in” to think about the world of work, so let’s think about how we might use this site to help pick one …
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