Life After The Classroom
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Take Stock
An in-depth personal assessment is one place to begin; who you have become since college graduation may surprise you. The Internet is full of contemplative articles and self-tests, like Monster's Assessment Centre and the article "The Two Minute Crash Course on Picking a Field" from Richard Bolles's Job Hunters Bible Web site. Bolles wrote self-assessment classic What Color is Your Parachute?
Ask "Why?"
Be forewarned that after all this review, you may discover it is not just the schoolroom that has evolved since you made your first career decision. Richard Leider, author of The Power of Purpose offers a quiz and other resources to help address some of those deeper, what-is-my-life-all-about questions so common to midlife career changers.
