Career Direction – Who Decides What’s Next?

You’ve decided you’d like a new career direction, be it because you’re currently unemployed; finding your current role unfulfilling; failing to make any career progression; lacking motivation; or thinking about setting up your own business. The array of career directions you could choose to pursue are numberless; even if you know you’d like to be an entrepreneur, there are still decisions to be made about what type of business you’d like to run.

So who decides ‘what next’? Who decides which direction you’re going to go in? Your old university careers advisor? A recruitment consultant? A fortune teller? Here at Position Ignition, we believe that only you can make the decision if you truly want to take control of your life. Whether it’s a slight shift in career direction or a total about-face, it’s up to you to decide ‘what next’? It is you who must ultimately decide the one career direction you’re going to try next. Read more

Changing Careers – How You Sabotage Your Efforts

Do you have plenty of good intentions about changing your job and yet find they never come to fruition? Do you sit and daydream about what you could be doing and yet nothing changes?

So what is it that is stopping you?

The secret lies in tuning in to the little voice in your head that guides and directs your actions. That little voice will set the tone for how you approach your career change plans. You may be familiar with some of the messages: Read more

Advice on Buying Online Project Management Software

Are you a business owner who is looking for affordable and effective ways to manage your construction project? If you have yet to examine web based project management applications, it is something that you may want to take the time to examine. The type of software you purchase will have a definite bearing on your productivity and cash flow.

Before focusing on making a decision to use a project management solution to your advantage, it is first important to familiarize yourself with what it is. Project software, like most software solutions, comes with a number of different features. With that in mind, all software is designed to simplify the process of managing a project and the associated tasks. This can be done with software programs that combine easy to use email programs with, customizable and printable company documents, such as faxes or invoices, payment tracking programs, as well as daily, weekly, or monthly task lists. Many project management systems have networking capabilities or are web based; therefore, all employees can use one program and even collaborate online to work on a task in real time. Read more