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Changing Jobs Can be Both Exhilarating and Challenging

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changing jobsHigher Ed Jobs asked Certified Career Coach, Hallie Crawford, for her advice on job transitions.

Changing jobs can be both exhilarating and challenging. One of the bridges that most job hoppers cross sooner or later is the one in which your perspective changes from “we,” meaning this is how we did it at my old job, to “we,” meaning this is how we do it here.

There is no secret formula or timetable for the moment that any given individual’s perspective shifts.

Hallie Crawford, a certified career coach in Atlanta, adds that using the collective “we” in referring to your new environment will help you assimilate. “It will make you and them feel like you’re a team,” she says. Read More