February 2005 CareerFables.com Newsletter

IT'S A NEW YEAR: RE-LAUNCH YOUR CAREER IN 2005 WITH CAREERFABLES

You're experienced, highly skilled and ready for change. You're a member of a unique mid-career community. Four years ago CareerFables launched its site to support your mid-career change, and the loyalty of your fellow community members tells us that the service and support you have demanded is more important now than ever before.

For 2005, CareerFables has added more tools and services to support your career transition:

·  Search TheSkillsMatch Job Center

· Test Your Skills

· Take Caliper's Career Screener

· Join Dr. Bamster's Blog, a discussion around issues concerning career transition

· Use a Guide To Match Occupations to Your Skills

· Learn What Skills Are Needed to Achieve Your Dream Job

· Consider the Top Five Fastest Growing Occupations

· Complete Your "Personal Profile" - A Portable Personnel Record

· Get Career Transition Coaching from Ricki Frankel, Professional Transition Coach

            The core of CareerFables is still about individuals and how we deal with career change. We welcome your stories and feedback.  If you have your own "fable" to tell, add it to our CareerFables.com web site - you could be helping another member of the community.  Or you can send your story to info@careerfables.com.  And don't forget to tell your friends and family about us.  Click here to sign them up for this quarterly newsletter.


 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
                                                                                                                                                ~ Mark Twain

Important Note to Original Subscribers: The improvements and changes to TheSkillsMatch - the job board section of CareerFables - make it necessary for us to ask you to create a new account.  While we appreciate that this may cause some inconvenience, it's also an opportunity for you to update your skills profile, upload a new resume, and explore our new services.  Thanks for your patience, The CareerFables Team

Click here to create a new account in TheSkillsMatch and begin searching jobs. 

What you'll find inside:

�  Career Transition Myth #1: "This Should be Easier"

                First in a series by Career Transition Coach Ricki Frankel on Career Transition Myths.  Click here .


 

�   In 1972 I was 21 years old and working with my father in his auto parts business. It was summer, and I was on break from my studies. That August, my father had a sudden fatal heart attack, leaving me in charge of the business and the head of a family of five.

                Read Jim Longacre's inspiring story about his journey to career fulfillment:  My Career Fable.


 

�   So many people aren't happy, fulfilled or even moderately satisfied with their work. The constant changes taking place in companies, including the temporary nature of jobs that were once relatively permanent, create a stressful work environment in which it's difficult to feel satisfied, let alone happy.

                For insight into what's holding you back, read What's Keeping You From Changing Careers.


 

�   If you care for an older parent, it is very likely that you are constantly faced with conflicting demands.  At times you're distracted on the job, emotionally drained, and physically exhausted. Work is a financial necessity, but caring for parents or others often conflicts with doing your job well.

            Support and practical information in this article from AARP, Balancing Work and Caregiving.