The best suits to buy

The goal is to find a conservative and professional look that is classy but not too flashy. The best choice is a charcoal gray 2-piece suit, white dress shirt, and a tie with some, but not too much color.

From: cheap-neckties.com

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Book Friday: Career Match

Career Match: Connecting Who You Are with What You’ll Love to Do. Using a workstyle assessment technique called Color Q, this is probably one of the best career self-testing books you’ll ever run across.

From: Getting Older Stinks

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Financially managing going back to school

Returning to school often involves financial sacrifices, but there are ways to lessen the bite. Personal savings, financial aid, private loans, and employer-funded tuition may be available to you, and education tax credits and deductions can help you out at tax time.

From: 360financialliteracy.org

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Work stress and blow-ups

One in five men have aggressive outbursts as a result of stress at work and 22% suffer from depression because they are unhappy with their jobs.

From bbc.co.uk

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Embrace the uncertainty

Reinventing yourself, your career, a business or an economy is never a straight-line, step-by-step process. So expect the unexpected and become comfortable being uncomfortable.

From careerhubblog.com

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What percentage of your work life to you like?

Focus on transitioning into work that excites you and interests you 70% of the time.

Don’t listen to all the life coaches and ‘experts’ who harp on about “finding your ideal job” or a “dream career that you’re totally passionate about.”

From careerhubblog.com

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Build and cultivate genuine relationships

Every contact you need to help you discover what you want and then find the next opportunity is either in your mobile phone or your diary – or in the mobile phone or diary of your contacts. So make sure you’re building genuine relationships, ask for help and let people help you.

From careerhubblog.com

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The ingredients of a new career

When looking for a new career forget job titles. Focus instead on the ‘ingredients’ or components of roles you are looking for in a new career.

Once you do this, you open yourself up to a wider range of jobs and careers that play to your strengths and interests, many of which you didn’t even know existed.

From careerhubblog.com

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Book Friday: How to Self-Destruct: Making the Least of What’s Left of Your Career

In "How to Self-Destruct: Making the Least of What’s Left of Your Career", laugh at the stupid things other people do in their careers.

The treatment of each topic also includes the strategies of those misguided fools who still choose success, so you know what not to do.

From: Getting Older Stinks

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Book Friday: The 100 Greatest Business Ideas

The 100 Greatest Business Ideas of All Time provides some of the most famous, and occasionally infamous, great business ideas.

Whether planned or unplanned, the ideas in this book have been selected not only for their ‘greatness’ but also for the opportunity to learn a quick and useful lesson from them.

From: Getting Older Stinks

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