Career Paths

Quiz: What do you want to be when you grow up?

What was your childhood dream job? Did you want to be a world-famous movie star? Travel to space? Save lives? Pound a gavel? It can be hard to figure out what you want to do for the rest of your life. Take our short quiz to help you figure out what career path is right for you.

Should you quit your job or ask for a promotion?

There comes a point in a job’s lifecycle where you say, “Have I been here too long?” That point becomes even more pronounced when you haven’t been promoted. But how do you know if it’s time to leave—or time to ask for a promotion? If you’re early in your career, getting promoted is the best way to increase your earning potential for the rest of your career. And if you’re mid-career and haven’t had a pay or title bump in a while, you could risk sliding into a career slump—which is never a good thing. We asked career experts to share how to know if you should aim for a promotion at your current company—or start looking for a job elsewhere.

Top 50 companies for women

Women’s Equality Day is Aug. 27, 2018, making now a great time for women to explore their best career options. Forbes, in partnership with Statista, recently ranked the best companies for women, based on working conditions, diversity, likelihood they’d recommend their company to others, parental leave, discrimination, and pay equity. You’ll find great job opportunities at female-friendly employers in health care, retail, education, tech, and finance.

10 jobs for natural-born teachers

If your friends turn to you for advice, or if you have a knack for breaking down complicated concepts and making them easy to understand, teaching jobs might take your career to the head of the class. But you don’t necessarily have to seek out traditional education jobs in a school system—your options are much broader than that.

A career-change strategy for any level

Changing careers can be difficult and even scary, but Dr. Dawn Marie Graham, author of ‘Switchers: How Smart Professionals Change Careers and Seize Success,’ says it doesn’t have to be that way. Going from corporate recruiter to Sirius XM radio host, Graham, a Wharton School career director and psychologist, shares networking and interview strategies career changers can make, without necessarily having to take a pay cut, go back to school, or relocate.