Advice Archive

August 2002  Registered Users

Topic 1: Career change from automotive industry to customer relations training
Topic 2: Getting started in training/human resource management
Topic 3: Career change from law to performance development, facilitation, and conflict resolution
Topic 4: Leveraging presentation and business development skills
Topic 5: Graduate school choices for entering the training field
Topic 6: Applying MIS degree to proprietary software training opportunities
Topic 7: Building on military and e-commerce background for leadership opportunities

June/July 2002  Registered Users

Topic 1: HRM in the healthcare industry
Topic 2: T&D headhunters
Topic 3: Merits of second masters degree in HRD
Topic 4: Recent graduate: work experience & advanced education options
Topic 5: HR/OD certifications or graduate programs
Topic 6: Career change: social services/retail to HR
Topic 7: Career change: education to training
Topic 8: Job search strategies in training/OD

May 2002  Registered Users

Topic 1: Healthcare & OD/management development
Topic 2: Career change: education to corporate training
Topic 3: Breaking into distance learning/ISD & teaching
Topic 4: Getting started in training/OD
Topic 5: Career change: sales engineer to training/education
Topic 6: Moving from internal consulting to director/sr. manager
Topic 7: Training certifications
Topic 8: Career change: higher education to training
Topic 9: Obtaining an entry-level consultant position
Topic 10: Developing a resume with military experience for corporate HRD
Topic 11: Professional shift: benefits & policies to T&D
Topic 12: From stay-at-home mom to learning specialist

April 2002  Registered Users

Topic 1: Career change from education to training/ISD
Topic 2: Info about the training field and ISD for jewelry marketing
Topic 3: Entering HRD with an MA interdisciplinary degree
Topic 4: Entering T&D with little experience
Topic 5: Planning to move into freelance design
Topic 6: Career change from management to T&D
Topic 7: Career change to T&D/OD
Topic 8: Shift from Platform training to T&D and job search resources
Topic 9: Career change from Navy to HR/T&D
Topic 10: Relocation & parttime T&D work

March 2002  Registered Users

Topic 1: Online MA adult education programs
Topic 2: Transitioning into new industry & field
Topic 3: Software training
Topic 4: Training: Transitioning from nonprofit to private sector
Topic 5: Preparing for facilitation
Topic 6: Career change from accounting/finance to training

February 2002  Registered Users

Topic 1: Working for a training consulting organization
Topic 2: Teaching HRM/leadership/communications
Topic 3: Professional shift: From internal consultant to outside contractor
Topic 4: Entering training without experience
Topic 5: English as a second language trainer
Topic 6: Government retiree seeking career change to training/HRD
Topic 7: Marketing yourself as a trainer
Topic 8: Transition from banking to corporate training
Topic 9: Listing of training/HRD job recruiters
Topic 10: Entering training/HRD after graduation
Topic 11: Shift from HR assistant to employee T&D department
Topic 12: Changing careers to T&D later in life

January 2002  Registered Users

Topic 1: Transition: From banking to corporate training
Topic 2: Teaching HRM/leadership/communications
Topic 3: Building trainer's credentials without a college degree
Topic 4: Transitioning from educational programming to corporate training