Managing your work search well—discovering the right work, landing a new job, making a career change or re-entering the workplace—tests your mettle. It challenges your creativity and perseverance. The path to achieving your goals is uneven at best. Its ups and downs can take a real toll on your self-confidence. How can you successfully manage through it?

As you pursue your goals—finding a new job, discovering the right work, changing careers or re-entering the workplace—is it hard for you to stay constantly energized? Does your concentration and motivation for the project often wane? The transition process naturally has its highs and lows. The key challenge:

Have you felt disappointed as you look for a new job, career change or seek out the right livelihood? Have your best efforts failed to result in the positive outcome you expected? Perhaps your work search has taken longer than you’d hoped, been more demanding. A promising opportunity may have fallen through. Disappointment is a part of growth and change. Good coping strategies

What is the key quality you must have for a successful work search, career change, job search or entrepreneurial project? It’s the ability to adapt. Knowing how to adapt to the new landscape of a work transition is a basic survival skill. Your resilience, resourcefulness and positive perspective are vital to

With spring’s welcome arrival, gardeners eagerly take to their gardens—planning, cultivating soil and sowing the seeds that will yield a bountiful crop. As you explore a new career or search for a new job, you may have noticed its similarity to planting flowers, vegetables, fruits and herbs. Both are all about context. The secret to great gardening is