Career Change/Career Transition

Category: Career Change/Career Transition

coronavirus
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Improve Your Work Life With Coronavirus Prevention

If you’ve wondered what it’s like to work from home (because you don’t already), you’re probably about to find out. In response to the coronavirus, many businesses are taking preventative measures and requiring some employees to work remotely from home. This includes businesses that hadn’t previously embraced the idea of

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free career coaching
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Free Career Coaching Resources for Tornado Victims Left Jobless

Early Tuesday morning March 3rd, thousands of people in the Nashville and Middle Tennessee areas found themselves without a home when an EF3 tornado ripped through their neighborhoods. Others suddenly found themselves unemployed due to the destruction of several businesses, schools, and industrial areas. And some found themselves both homeless

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focus
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Why Focus Is So Important in the Job Search

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have to find a job, any job, and fast? My clients usually find themselves in one of two situations: 1. They’re at a place in their career where they can take the time to be more intentional in discovering the

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school
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Know If You Should Go Back to School

One question I often get from my mid-career clients wanting to make a career change is, “Should I go back to school?” You might expect someone who previously worked in higher education and who’s a huge fan of lifelong learning to enthusiastically respond with, “Yes!” However, this is not my

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top 10
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Here Are the Top 10 Most Popular paNASH Blog Posts of 2019

Can you believe we’ve reached not only the end of another year but also the end of another decade? I’ve been writing much of the past decade, and for the past four years I’ve been writing blog posts on topics related to pursuing your passions and finding new work and

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rejection
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Deal With Job Loss and Interview Rejection

Rejection can be difficult, especially career rejection. I applied for A LOT of jobs when I was looking for my first “real job” right out of grad school in the late ’90s. About 75 to be exact. And I got about 70 rejections. Multiple rejections makes it nearly impossible to

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wake up
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Create the Life You Want to Wake Up To Every Day

Life would be grand if you didn’t have work getting in the way of it, right? You’d wake up every morning (even Monday mornings) loving life instead of dreading your soul-sucking job. But we all have to work to make a living and to make a contribution to our world.

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civilian
Career Change/Career Transition
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Go From Military Hero to Civilian Employee

When I first started out in career coaching, I worked as the director of a career center at a college located next to the largest military installation in the world. Many of our students were U.S. service men and women earning their degrees on the G.I. Bill and looking to

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smart investments
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Make Smart Investments in Your Life and Career

With the end of another year AND another decade nearing, it’s time to get serious about your life and your career. You don’t have to have a lot of money or even a lot of time to invest in your future. But, you do need to start somewhere. There are

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