Online Resources

The Center provides the following links which we feel offer outstanding opportunities for information, insights and resources on life transitions.

Family and Mental Health

The Mental Help Net website exists to promote online mental health education and provides scientifically accurate and up-to-date coverage of mental health and illness topics.

Psychology Today, the website is full of helpful, practical resources and information on positive mental health and happiness.

Career

Quint Careers is one of the most comprehensive sources of career and employment information on the web.

The UWMilwaukee Career Development Center website is a virtual career center with resources on a full range of career topics. Although targeted to college students, most content and tools are useful for anyone in career transition.
(The website is presently under design renovation so there may be some sections that are not “live.”)

The Job Search Bible is Richard Bolles’, author of the long time best selling What Color is Your Parachute, website. He provides superior content on his approach to job hunting—the best way to get a job is to be a serious information seeker, not a job seeker. We access the “hidden job market” through creative, researched informational meetings. Richard also declares…..“If you’re in transition and you happen to have an old faith hanging in the closet of your heart, it’s probably a good time to bring it out and dust it off.”

O-NET is a comprehensive, online source of career/occupational information on all fields. It’s particularly useful for career exploration and understanding how your skills connect to requirements and characteristics of jobs/filed in which you’re interested.

Robin Kessler is author of Competency-based Resumes and Competency-based Interviewing, two outstanding books on job hunting.

Herminia Ibarra, Ph.D. is a Professor in Leadership and Learning and director of the INSEAD Leadership Initiative at INSEAD Graduate Management School in Barcelona. Prior to joining INSEAD in 2002 she served on the Harvard Business School faculty for thirteen years.
Her writing on career transition is outstanding. Links:
Faculty profile
Networking is vital for successful managers

Workshift is a video interview series of professionals who’ve made successful transitions into new careers. Produced by the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.

Aging / Growing

Eons is a site developed by Monster, the world’s largest job board, especially for the Boomer Generation? It’s a broad source for information and has a very intriguing Lifeline exercise for reviewing significant life events as a base for future planning.

Ageless in America is a site devoted to a pre-retirement and retirement audience who are looking for new meaning in their life/work. Carleen McKay—subject matter expert for the “mature workforce” and author of Boom or Bust– is well worth learning from.

American Association for Retired People (AARP) is an organization anyone over 50 will find value in joining, They offer a robust website of financial, health and life/career planning resources.

Spirit

BeliefNet‘s mission is to help people like you find, and walk, a spiritual path that will bring comfort, hope, clarity, strength, and happiness.

Thomas Merton was a prolific Trappist monk who was also a social activist in the 1950s and 60s. He wrote books while maintaining correspondence with political, religious and scientific leaders throughout the world like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Boris Pasternak, the Dali Lama.

Henri Nouwen was a Dutch Catholic contemplative and writer who focused on the spiritual journey.

Richard Foster is a Quaker and spiritual writer.

Parker Palmer is a self declared “reformed sociologist”, Quaker writer and speaker who started the human development training organization Courage to Lead. Initially Courage was developed for educators to go on regular retreats to discuss the relationship between “their role—and soul.” His book Let Your Life Speak is a best seller.

Sacred space is a website run by the Irish Jesuits which offers a unique online prayer experience.

Graduate / Professional School Planning

Peterson’s is the recognized source for graduate/professional school planning.

US News and World Report is the most comprehensive and credible source of college/university and graduate/professional school rankings and ratings.

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