The Career RelaunchBlog

Starting your own business involves an incredibly steep learning curve with inevitable mistakes and big lessons learned along the way. Here are four things I wished I’d known earlier about what it takes to successfully run your own business.

Being visible is critical to building a strong personal brand for yourself. Here are 4 simple ways to raise your professional visibility, build your credibility, and open up more career opportunities for yourself.

I was 23 and hungry for a job. Unemployment was high and the economy was only beginning to recover from the Great Recession. But the city was buzzing, not with traditional jobs from corporations per se but with digital marketing jobs from startups, specifically those around the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan (also known as Silicon […]

Let’s start with acknowledging the courage it takes to embark on a career change. To know that this is something you really want to do, and to actually act on that – rather than staying in the same mode of work – is a big deal. Since you’re clear about your direction shift, the next […]

Do you feel under-appreciated at work? Are promotions passing you by?  Are your talents and hard work being overlooked? Perhaps you are confident that you are providing great service to your company, based on your abilities and work record, but are wondering why your managers and peers never recognise you? Perhaps the perception others have […]

Self-driving cars. Artificial Intelligence. The Internet of Things. These are some of the elements that come to mind when the future is mentioned. Imagine a window where you can see yourself in the future. Can you see yourself working in this environment? Or has a robot already replaced you? How are you today? The current […]