For job seekers who are considering a switch to a new career field, following top career change experts can be a great way to stay abreast of job trends, training opportunities, and inspiring words to keep you motivated. Even though you may not be an avid Twitter fan, following career change experts on Twitter can help you plot a new career path. Below we’ll show you which career change experts are worth following on Twitter.
Check out these 12 career change experts to follow on Twitter:
Rob Archer
A London-based psychologist whose focus is career change, coaching, and workplace performance, Archer is part of the team at TheCareerPsychologist.com, which is devoted to helping career changers overcome paralysis, get unstuck, and manage their careers in forward-thinking ways.
Randi Bussin
Focused on helping mid-career professionals re-imagine their careers and re-boot their personal brands, Bussin is founder and president of Aspire!, which offers personalized job search services and career re-invention guidance. Many of her tweets focus on helping baby boomers break out of career ruts.
Careershifters
Careershifters works to provide a “no-nonsense, practical” approach designed to help job seekers move away from dead-end or frustrating jobs and into careers they can love. Like theCareershifters website, tweets focus on ways to jump-start your career change and your life.
Dorie Clark
A highly regarded marketing strategist and public speaker, Clark is also an author whose books include Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future. Her tweets focus on inspiring tips to help career changers break through to the next level.
Nancy Collamer
Collamer, the author of Second-Act Careers, writes and tweets about meaningful second acts to “profit from your passions during semi-retirement.” A career coach, Collamer also writes a regular column for NextAvenue.org and Forbes.com.
FlexJobs
It must be said: FlexJobs offers great advice on Twitter for career changers and job seekers looking for flexible work! Our latest initiative for people looking to shift careers is “100 Days on Jobs for Career Changers,” a 100-day event exploring myriad aspects of career change.
Kerry Hannon
Hannon is an author whose tweets focus on career transition and retirement, particularly for women over the age of 50. Her writing and columns appear regularly in Money magazine, theNew York Times, AARP.org, and other publications.
Andrea Kay
The title of Kay’s signature book speaks volumes: Life’s a Bitch and Then You Change Careers. A career consultant and syndicated columnist, Kay tweets about career change-related subjects like survival tips for the recently fired and the importance of enjoying work.
Marc Miller
Helping Baby Boomers re-purpose their careers is a central focus of Miller’s tweets. He established CareerPivot as a way to help people who feel trapped in their careers or who may worry about whether it’s too late to switch careers.
Maggie Mistal
A radio host and career consultant, Mistal is on a mission to help job changers “look forward to Mondays working in your ideal career.” Mistal has offered tweets that include affirmations about changing your outlook as a way to change your job prospects, and taking steps to discover your ideal career.
Next Avenue
Next Avenue is a PBS website that offers insight and tips for job seekers over the age of 50 about career change and other work-life issues. Next Avenue’s Twitter feed includes career-focused financial advice and looking at “who wants to change careers and why.”
What’s Next Media
Midlife reinvention is at the core of the information that What’s Next Media offers both on itswebsite and in its tweets about whether a career coach is worth the investment, and career and business startup guides.
Adrianne BibbyFlexJobs Staff Writer
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