Your Career - Signs it May Have Stalled and How to Get it Back on Track

Signs Your Career Has Stalled

Your career can lose power for many reasons: a lack of opportunities, industry changes and plain old boredom are just a few of them.

Are you wondering whether your career has stalled? Here are some of the top warning signs, according to experts:

1. Your role and responsibilities haven’t changed in a few

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Create an Interview Portfolio Showing Your Knowledge, Skills, Achievements and Abilities

When you are on a job search you want to give an employer reasons to hire you. You want to showcase your education and work experience by providing persuasive evidence of your work, skills and accomplishments.

So create a portfolio, an historical scrapbook that address common interview question categories such as team-building, problem-solving, leadership, management, culture

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Money Can Give You the Happy, Financial Freedom to Pursue Your Passion

Ideally, you want to spend each day engaged in activities that you find absorbing and satisfying, that you feel you’re good at – and where you feel you’re doing good.

Indeed, happy retirees are typically those who have a sense of purpose, whether it’s volunteering for their favorite causes, coaching a children’s sports team, helping their church

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Working: Having a Job in the Suburbs Can be a Lifestyle Challenge

Having a job in the suburbs can alter your lifestyle. It can change your social life, your travel time to work and your ability to network in your industry, so it’s important to consider the benefits and challenges before you accept.

Working in the suburbs can rule out the use of public transportation to get around,

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A Framework for Your Job Search

These themes can provide you with a good framework for your job search.

Be the Solution to an Employer’s Problem

Package yourself as a solution. Think of yourself as a consultant to the company. Be careful not to give out the “been there, done that” attitude. You need to appear excited about everything. And don’t assume that because

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Creating Your Retirement Income Stream - Withdrawal from Savings and a Lifetime Income Plan

Retirement is a new phase in your financial life that involves changes in lifestyle and spending. It can be an adjustment to generate your own retirement income, often from a fixed amount of assets. A good way to make it work is to plan for multiple income streams.

More income sources = greater financial security

With the

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Create your Personal Skills Inventory

We can create our personal inventory of skills and abilities that we’ve acquired from our experiences.

Why inventory our skills?

Perhaps we’re looking for a job or a new opportunity. We can look for a job that uses skills for which we are a close match.

We can also use our skill inventory to find our interests. Our abilities tend to

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Use Debt Wisely to Build Wealth for Enjoyment and Sharing

For most of us, debt and borrowing money is a fact of life. However, debt can also be a financial tool to provide us with leverage that we can use to build net worth and wealth that we can, in turn, leverage to enjoy life and give back to others.

While cash can be used for

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