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• 5 (Unorthodox) Tips for Changing Careers
  Are you serious about wanting to change careers? Then get ready for some actionable advice. Career coach Matt Youngquist doesn't sugar coat the truth in these five tips about what's needed from today's career changers. 
• Sign of the Times: Improved Economy Opens the Door for Career Changes
  As the economy improves, so do the chances you’re actively seeking a new job. If you’re not, should you be? Susan Templeton, a career counselor with 20 years of experience, helps people gauge when the time is right. Here are five signs she says indicate it could be time for you to make a career change.   
• How Temporary or Contract Work Works
  Whether you're looking for a full-time job or want to supplement your freelance business, staffing agencies can be a valuable resource in helping you reach your goal.   
• 10 Tips for Supercharging Your LinkedIn Profile
  You're on LinkedIn, but so are 200 million other professionals. Learn how to stand out from the competition with these 10 insightful tips for revving up your LinkedIn profile, from career coach Matt Youngquist.
• Assessing Fringe Benefits
  Organizations are using extra employee benefits to attract high-quality candidates. But what's the real value of these perks? We share insights from a PayScale consultant about ways you can assess fringe benefits. 
• 10 Tips for Going to Grad School as a Working Professional
  If you’ve been out of college for a while, heading back to school – while maintaining your work life, your home life and your sanity – might seem daunting. But it can be done.
• Tips for Starting a Business
  Three entrepreneurs.Three different backgrounds. Get behind the scenes of their success to find out what advice they have for anyone thinking about starting a business. 
• Tips for a Successful Mentoring Relationship
  Feeling a little lost on your career path? Maybe it's time to find a mentor. Learn how to establish and maintain a mentoring relationship that is beneficial to the both of you, with tips and guidelines from two career experts.
• Are You Startup Material?
  For many, startups are seductive. Fueled by adrenaline and hope, they’re about making things happen sooner rather than later. But there are plenty of factors to consider to determine whether you're startup material.
• Assessing the Culture for a Good Fit
  Vetting your next place of employment for cultural fit can mean the difference between a great job and a decision you may eventually regret.
• Food, Nutrition and Your Health
  To help folks make sense of the jumbled world of food and nutrition, the UW is launching its online Certificate in Food, Nutrition and Health.
• Branding Your Digital Self
  Changes in employment trends and technology have placed added importance on the way professionals package and present themselves, particularly in the digital world.
• Three Tips for App Developers: How to Keep Up in an Ever-Changing World
  Technology is so etched into the fabric of modern existence that nearly every aspect of our lives is affected.
• Activate a Change in Your Career: Professionals Use Certificates for Smooth Career Transitions
  Michael Hoard enrolled in a UW certificate program to make a career change from a an industry in decline – retail megabookstores. Find out how other people in a variety of fields expanded their career choices through our certificate programs.
• Chasing Your Book Dream
  Digital publishing is changing the book industry. Learn from writers who sidestepped traditional publishers to produce and market their own works.
• From Janitors and Telemarketers to Award-Winning Instructors: A Q&A With the Best of the Best
  Excellence in Teaching Award winners talk about why they teach in UW certificate programs.
• Getting Back in the Game
  In a down job market where layoffs persist and contract work has dwindled, job seekers may find themselves struggling to explain employment gaps to hiring managers.
• Seattle: A Hotbed for the Online and Mobile Games Movement
  As Pat Wylie fielded questions during an all-important medical school interview, his mind drifted elsewhere. Specifically: laying waste to more space demons on his PC.
• Breaking Into the Tech Sector
  Every so often, a new list of jobs rankings makes the rounds online. More often than not, tech careers are near the top, thanks to measures like salary, job openings, growth potential and work environment.
• Putting Your Best Resume Forward
  Are two pages better than one? Are employers scared off by an advanced degree? How do you explain employment gaps? Should you conceal your age to avoid discrimination?
• So, You Want to be a Freelancer?
  Paige Pauli's escape from the confines of 9-to-5 office work was really more of a long, plodding farewell.
• Five Time-Tested Lessons for Marketing Success
  More than 150 years ago, renowned French novelist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr coined the famous saying, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
• Ready for a Career Change?
  It’s a momentous life decision that just about all of us have pondered: trading in one career for another.
• Taking Your Career to New Heights
  Boeing systems engineer Kristen Bengtson prefaces her career story with a nerdy admission: she owes her passion for all things space and air travel to an episode of Sesame Street.
• Technology With a Human Touch
  Companies whose products or services involve human interaction – be it mobile apps, Web pages, electronics or even cell phone accessories– are becoming increasingly reliant on usability research to get ahead in the marketplace.
• Five Tips for Staying Current in the Digital Age
  Digital storyteller Hanson Hosein gives tips to working professionals on making sense of the ever-evolving digital world without getting overwhelmed.
• UW Professional & Continuing Education Celebrates 100 Years of Learning
  Since its inception a century ago, the University of Washington’s continuing education arm has helped thousands of students realize their potential and live out their dreams. To commemorate a century of learning, UWEO is proud to announce a series of public events and offerings to be unveiled later this year.
• Cover Letter Concepts: Dos and Don’ts
  While there isn’t a single winning formula for a cover letter, there are strategies you can apply that will put you in the right ballpark. Heather Krasna, director of Career Services at the UW Evans School of Public Affairs shares some tips for crafting a winning cover letter.
• Your #1 Professional Obligation
  Professional career coach Matt Youngquist writes about the importance of remaining employabe by keeping your skills current and staying on top of industry trends in your field.
• Online Learning Clicks for a Growing Number of Working Professionals
  Like Drew Shemchuk, a growing body of working professionals are turning to online learning for their educational needs, whether the objective is to sharpen their skills, advance a career or explore a new field.
• Students Earn UW Credits Without Leaving Their Own High School
  UW in the High School helps students in remote locations earn UW college credits that they can apply toward their undergraduate degrees.
• 2012 UW Lifelong Learning Award, Dec 14, 2011
  The 2012 UW Lifelong Learning Award submission deadline is February 15, 2012. Recipients will receive a $5,000 stipend and be honored at 2012 UW Awards of Excellence ceremony in June.
• Navigating Grad School as a Working Professional
  If you’ve thought about enrolling in graduate school while you work, you may be wondering what it takes to get in, how to balance school with other obligations and more.  
• Tips for Targeting the Graduate School Application Process
  Sonia Duckworth, a recruiter for UW’s School of Social Work, explains how to fine-tune your graduate school applications and make a memorable impression 
• Tips for Mastering the GRE
  Panelist Anne Curtis, a master trainer for The Princeton Review, provides a straight-forward overview of the GRE and explains how to make the most of your study time. 
• 10 Tips for Writing a Statement of Purpose
  Panelist Debby Bacharach, writer and co-owner of ATC Consulting, focuses on strategies and techniques for crafting an impeccable statement of purpose. 
• Tips From a Master’s Degree Student
  Panelist Kate Weber, a current student in UW’s Professional Master's Program in Geographic Information Systems, knew she needed a career change when she was no longer passionate about her work. She reflects on her journey back to school and offers practical tips for juggling school with careers and family obligations.
• Treating the Whole Patient
  UW faculty is driving innovative ways to improve access to mental health care for patients in primary care and other health care settings. Learn about the research and educational opportunities behind new health care models that treat the patient as a whole person, improve their quality of care and lower costs.
• The Mobile Shift: A New View on Technology
  The increased mobility of computing is having an impact on the applications being developed and creating a new focus on the role of the developer in the constantly evolving landscape of operating systems, applications and devices vying for market share. 
• Find Your Tribe, Foster Your Future
  To find a sense of belonging and purpose, our students do what humans have done for centuries: They bond with their fellow travelers and form a tribe. A career tribe.
• Six Signs That Say Go for a Green Job
  If you’re the type of person who wants to pursue an environmentally friendly career, you’re in luck. Climate change, scarce resources and new laws are leading businesses to make sustainable choices, which is translating into new opportunities in a growing number of fields and industries.
• Storytelling: An Ancient Tradition Makes a Comeback
  Storytelling is popping up in places where you might least expect it. It’s leaping out of more traditionally creative realms – pages of manuscripts and storyboards, for example – and permeating all levels of business. Many people believe that the skill with which storytelling is used is determining who is successful in their business and who is not.
• Green IT Certificate Offers IT Pros a Foundation for the Future
  If you’ve heard or read the word "green" so many times that it no longer makes an impact, you’re not alone. But, if you’re in the technology business – or you plan to be – UW Professional & Continuing Education (UWPCE) is launching a new online certificate program that warrants your attention.
• Project Management: Getting Business Done
  Tom Green has been a project manager longer than the term has existed. To describe the field and its increasing significance, he draws on a ship analogy. "If you're turning a battle ship, there are a lot of decisions about when, how quickly and in what direction, and each of those little turns is a project," he says.
• Beneath the Surface: A Holistic Approach to Sustainable Transportation
  When most people look at a street, they see how it functions on the surface. But when people like Alon Bassok look at the same street, they see the confluence of some of the most complex issues communities around the world are grappling with.
• What’s the Big Deal About the Cloud?
  From the telephone to the television set, history seems to arrange itself around innovations in technology that turn out to be true game changers. Today, according to many scientists, business leaders and the marketplace itself, the most noteworthy game changer is cloud computing.
• 10 Insights for Discovering Your Dream Job
  What’s keeping you from loving what you do? In the U.S., 84% of workers say they’re not currently in their dream jobs. So what does it take to be one of the 16%?
• Math Is Hot?
  Not that long ago, math seemed confined to dusty chalkboards, where endless equations told a seemingly obscure story with numbers and mysterious symbols. But today, thanks largely to technology, math seems to be mounting a charm offensive nearly everywhere.
• The Future Landscape for Jobs and Education in Washington
  When looking at the job climate in Washington, the forecast calls for lifelong learning. In the next decade, more than half of the jobs in Washington state will require a post-high school education.
• Positioning Yourself for Emerging Jobs in Technology: 10 Tips
  New opportunities in cloud computing, business intelligence, and mobile app development are the tip of the iceberg. How can you position yourself for emerging careers in the fast changing world of technology? A panel of experts shared their advice at a recent panel event hosted by University of Washington Professional & Continuing Education (UWPCE).
• You 2.0: Ten Tips for Building Your Personal Brand
  Wondering how to develop an appropriate brand online for marketing yourself in your field? UW Professional & Continuing Education recently hosted a recruiter, a personal branding consultant and a blogger who's a social media expert for a panel on this topic. We share with you the top 10 tips from that discussion.  
• Possible Ways to Pay for Your Education
  Learn how tax credits, deductions and other programs can help you continue your education.
• The Modern Resume: Tips for Moving to the Top of the Stack
  Refresh your job search with 10 tips on the important elements of a modern resume and how to leverage social media for effective results, from a panel of human resources experts, hosted by UW Professional & Continuing Education.