The Career RelaunchBlog

The very thought of leaving your full-time job and transitioning to self-employment can make your blood run cold. Still, this idea can be so tempting that you’re struggling every day not to follow it through and immediately sever ties with your current employer. As the whole success of your future business and your dreams’ fulfillment […]

Do you have a side project, freelance work, or independent consulting gig you enjoy more than your day job? If so, how can you tell whether it’s time to finally turn that side work into your full-time job? Here are 7 questions I asked myself that I hope will help you clarify whether it’s time to make your brave leap.

Starting your own business involves an incredibly steep learning curve with inevitable mistakes and big lessons learned along the way. Here are four things I wished I’d known earlier about what it takes to successfully run your own business.

Being visible is critical to building a strong personal brand for yourself. Here are 4 simple ways to raise your professional visibility, build your credibility, and open up more career opportunities for yourself.

Self-employment involves more than just building a business a useful service or product from scratch. It involves maintaining a positive, productive mindset so you can keep growing your business when the going gets tough. Here are two ways I’ve stayed on track during my own self-employment journey.

When I used to work in the corporate world as a brand marketer, I operated in a resource-rich environment with access to big budgets and plenty of experts to get things done. When it came to creating marketing campaigns, we had the luxury of bringing on external agencies eager to work with big brands. When it came to hiring people, […]