Great Occupations

Most of the time clients have a hard time deciding what factors they want in a job, and an easy time figuring out what they don't want. This exercise is simple sounding, but can be challenging. The task is to list out all the factors that you don't want in a job. Read the rest of this entry »

"Find the work you love" isn’t just some empty slogan we thought was catchy and so stuck it up there at the top of our website. This is Great Occupations' driving purpose, and I personally walk the talk. I personally live this credo. I used to be a recruiter in the staffing industry. It was something I sorta fell into and then stayed with for almost 15 years. After about a decade into my career, I began to feel a pull and tug to change directions, but I didn’t know... Read the rest of this entry »

The Job Trap is the state we fall into when we made a decision to enter a career, invested time, money, and effort into that career to later find out that we aren't happy with their career - or feel they are trapped in a mistaken career decision. The good news is that career decision doesn't have to be the final Destination! Read the rest of this entry »

Changing careers can seem overwhelming when you don’t have a logical plan to follow. Sometimes I wonder... if someone had handed me something with step-by-step instructions like The CareerFinder™ Method back when I started exploring, would it have taken so long for me to shift gears? I wonder if it would have been a shorter and easier transition. Maybe so, but going through what I went through certainly helped me to understand that this is a better way! Okay, so yesterday, we looked at the external researching process. Today, we want to look at how you get what you need in order to where you want to go. Once you’ve done some research on what the market wants, you need to compare that to what you’re missing. You need to... Read the rest of this entry »

There are 8,760 hours in a year. Of those hours, the average person spends almost 3,000 hours sleeping, and 2,080 hours at work (most spend more than average!). Are those working hours typically the WORST part of your day? Read the rest of this entry »