Maybe you’ve found your true passion, maybe you want a bigger paycheck or maybe you just dislike your current industry. Whatever the reason, if you’re looking to make a career change, you’re not alone. Last year, more than one-third of job seekers (34%) switched careers entirely, according to a study by LinkedIn.

It is time for corporate and institutional leaders to be honest with themselves and one another about the real problems that keep companies from achieving their goals. They don’t miss  their goals  because Sally in Accounting is a poor performer or because the company inexplicably developed a voluntary turnover problem when seven or eight of their key employees coincidentally decided that each of them had a pressing personal reason to change jobs.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, They say that everything happens when it’s supposed to, and I guess that means that we can turn a blind eye to bad working conditions until we have the confidence to start a job search. I can tell that I’ve been in denial about how bad my job is, because the job pays decently and it’s close to my house. Those are the only two good things about it. The actual work is boring and my boss is a tyrant.

Shutterstock When we need services performed in our homes, from plumbing to gutter-cleaning or even piano tuning, who do we call? We call the person we believe can help us. We reach out to a plumber, a contractor or a piano tuner who seems to know what they’re doing. We don’t want to hire the most desperate plumber, contractor or piano tuner.

I used to think that Millennials got a bad rap. To me, people who complained about young workers were just relics from another time, painfully stuck in their old-fashioned ways. As a Millennial myself, I found accusations of our sensitivity, narcissism, and sense of entitlement in the workplace to be personally offensive and dismissed them as wholly unfounded.  However, after managing a Millennial workforce at BodeTree, I’ve come to realize just how hard it can be.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I’m sure I would never have had the confidence to get up and leave a job interview — something I did last week for the first time — without your inspiration! This is the first time I’ve job-hunted in my 30s. I had the same job (at a huge consulting firm that is a household name) from the time I graduated from college at age 22 until last fall when I took maternity leave. They didn’t make it easy for me to take three months off.

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan Welcome to The Salary Chronicles, where we’re bringing transparency to negotiation and salaries, one story at a time. We ask women to share their experiences negotiating their salary and what their advice is for others doing the same. We share these stories anonymously so they feel comfortable speaking as openly and as freely as possible.

You are responsible for your career, and the slow pace of summer is a great time to take control of your career and steer it towards achieving your goals. Take the time and effort to nurture your career, or run the risk of someone else using you to advance theirs. Don’t trap yourself and hinder your career this summer. (Image courtesy of Shutterstock) Here are five career traps to avoid this summer: 1. Managing interns from afar Some do not want to be bothered by managing interns.

Shutterstock It’s summertime so it’s internship season, and the rise of the contingent worker marches on year-round. Ideally, your temporary gig converts into a full-time opportunity. (My client turned her return-to-work adult internship into a six-figure full-time job.) But sometimes it doesn’t work out that way (as documented in Why Re-Entrance Programs Aren’t Working), and your temporary job is just that – temporary.

College graduates on the hunt for jobs may be weighing the pros and cons of staying near home or school versus beginning their professional lives in a new and unfamiliar city. To aid that process, Niche, which tracks Millennial behaviors and decision-making, created this ranking of the best cities for millennials in America, evaluating 227 cities for which a sufficient amount of data, taken largely from the U.S. Census, was available.