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The Smart Job Searcher’s Checklist

January 10, 2025 By Laura Paradise

Everyone tells you that you need to have goals and a game plan, but what you really need is a checklist. You need to have a list of action items […]

Filed Under: Apply Smart, Career Transitions

Threshold Meditation

July 6, 2020 By Kate Roberts

It’s important to mark transitions. Follow this guided meditation and notice doorways that you have stepped through, what you have lost and what you are moving toward.

Filed Under: Career Transitions, Meditations Tagged With: career change, grounding

What’s pragmatic and possible NOW?

March 18, 2020 By Laura Paradise

What to write and what to do when many of us are frightened, working from home, not sure if we are working or will have work… I am writing with […]

Filed Under: Career Transitions, COVID-19 Tagged With: connection

Decisions, decisions, ACTION!

June 25, 2019 By Laura Paradise

According to Psychology Today, adults make an average of 35,000 decisions a day! Everything from what to eat and what to read to whether to look at a house or apply for a job, whether […]

Filed Under: Career Transitions Tagged With: search strategies, values

Quitters CAN be Choosers

April 3, 2019 By Laura Paradise

All too many of us have been there. Bad bosses, ridiculous expectations, inadequate compensation, harassment, toxicity, behaviors that verge on abuse. Any sensible person would quit! Some of us flee […]

Filed Under: Career Transitions Tagged With: career change, clarity, confidence, values

What’s LOVE got to do with WORK?

September 25, 2018 By Laura Paradise

Love and Work really do go together. Loving what you do that is. Because when you aren’t doing what you love, there’s a good chance people can see it. It […]

Filed Under: Career Transitions Tagged With: values

The ART of Welcoming

August 8, 2018 By Laura Paradise

From interviews to networking, how you are welcomed tells you immediately about norms, culture, and customs… and what you can expect should you move forward with a new job, or […]

Filed Under: Career Transitions, Other Tagged With: giving

The Glitter and the Glue

June 22, 2018 By Laura Paradise

Whether you’re behind the scenes or in front of the room, you make a difference. Here’s a framework, and some language, you can use to talk about yourself. The Glitter […]

Filed Under: Career Transitions, Other Tagged With: talking about yourself

Step One: Get Information

June 7, 2018 By Laura Paradise

Information is like a sunny day.  Information is the difference between being stuck-unhappy-uncertain-muddled-complaining and being in motion-on-a-path-inspired with an eye on the future. When you’re stuck, you are “in there” […]

Filed Under: Career Transitions Tagged With: research

Old Job, Stuck Place

June 5, 2018 By Laura Paradise

Yeah, yeah. You’ve been saying the same thing to yourself for too long. You don’t want to stay in your current job. Maybe you know what makes it wrong for […]

Filed Under: Career Transitions Tagged With: fear, research

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Upcoming Events!

 

April 4, 3:30-5 pm, In Person. Writing from the Heart: Find your Inner Wisdom.

Free! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heart-on-paper-journaling-as-a-path-to-inner-wisdom-tickets-1301310066439?aff=oddtdtcreator

Six week Online Job Search Group, Monday March 10 – April 14, 5:30-7 pm, $25/session. 

To attend, RSVP to lparadise.coach@gmail.com

 

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