In today’s professional world, networking plays a major role in career growth. While skills and experience are important, the connections you build can often open doors to opportunities that you ...

Want to know what a career is really like? Ask someone with first-hand experience. Talking to people about their jobs and asking them for advice and information is called an informational interview.

Having career conversations, or informational interviews, is a good way to get to know a job field and make more connections in an industry. All you have to do is ask if you can have a career ...

First we learned what Informational Interviews are. Then we learned what to ask during them? Now we reflect on what we learned. You’ve done the work, completed the informational interview and sent ...

Most people love to talk about themselves and the work they do — and it is this basic human truth that makes the informational interview possible. In such an interview, an active job seeker, or even a ...

“I think I’d like to go into teaching,” states the corporate accountant who has just been downsized. But it has been 25 years since he sat in a high school math classroom, so his dream job bears no ...