Top Tips: Tip #4 – Prioritize Job Search Strategies Beyond Online Applications!

Looking Beyond Online Applications Most people dive into their job search primarily surfing online job postings and applying to applicable roles. If you’re a Full-Stack Software Developer, or an Accountant out of a “Big 4” Public Accounting Firm, that strategy will likely produce fast results for you. For most everyone else… it is very likely to be a long, frustrating, …

Top Tips: Tip #2 – Upskilling

Please take a survey at the end of this blog so that we can better understand your experience with job transition. The Time is Now to Close the Gaps in Your Professional “Skills” Profile Maintaining a competitive career skills profile can be challenging. It’s very easy to become complacent with your self-development plan while sitting comfortably employed in a stable …

The Gifts of Crossroads Career: Family

Celebrating Family As we are in the time of year where we celebrate the birth of Jesus we often do so with family. Family is everything to us. Whether we are close to them in proximity or they are in a different part of the world they are still family. Friends and acquaintances become family. So, as we get to …

Gifts from Crossroads Career:  Replace what’s been lost

What is the number one thing I’ve seen people lose during a job transition?   This question, along with many others, are just part of what Crossroads Career is here to answer.  Keep reading, and I’ll get to the answer!  🙂 In the YouVersion Bible app, for the year 2022, they reported that the Bible verse most highlighted and shared through …

We are Grateful for our Crossroads Volunteers 

Volunteers are the heartbeat of non-profit organizations and ministries. Volunteers are critical to project completion, event planning and execution, and constituent service. This has been the reality of Crossroads Career ministry since its inception. Crossroads has benefitted from hundreds of volunteers and thousands of volunteer hours since Brian Ray founded it in 1987. I have personally observed exceptional volunteer dedication …

Grateful for what God has put together!

As we enter November, culminating with the zenith of our American Thanksgiving holiday, we would like to highlight for our Crossroads Career community a few of the many gifts and resources available through the Crossroads Career ministry.  I’m hopeful that by sharing these, we’ll trigger you to see some available resources that may be useful to you and help you …

A Career Roadmap

Growing up, some of my favorite memories were long family road trips where we piled into the station wagon, loaded up with snacks and headed out. It was always an adventure, and the journey was just as fun as arriving at our final destination. My Dad would map out our route. We’d have a plan, but I also recall the …

Believing More

I was working as the head of IT Infrastructure at a medium size medical device company. Everything was going great. I had an awesome team and great coworkers. This all changed when the company was acquired. About six months after the acquisition, I started looking for new opportunities and found a great one. I wanted to take some time off …

Hear God Calling 

The group, ‘Hear God Calling’, came at a pivotal time for both my professional and personal life. During my career, I have worked in Corporate America, and it was easy for me to get caught up in the daily work demands; while losing sight of my life’s true calling and purpose. I discovered this group in one of the hundreds …

Hope in Transition

Work shapes so much of life, and yet it can be difficult to think about, confusing to develop a good perspective on, and scary to search for a great fit throughout different seasons. Why is this thing we were made for so hard to understand, find joy in, and accomplish faithfully? After graduating from college, I found myself in circumstances …