maleficent

Since you're not really sure what you want to do next... check out either the alumni office of your college or graduate school and see if you can set up informational interviews with people in a field that perhaps you want to get into. These are generally not job interviews, but will often be more valuable.. they will give you a first hand idea of what the positions you might be looking at are really like.

Corporate training, either technical (which i do a lot of) or business type training, is rarely handled in house any more.. .it's generally outsourced to companies that specialize in that. While I enjoy doing training, as a part of my job, teaching adults is worse than teaching children. you might not be wiping noses or giving hall passes to use the rest room, but adults in a training environment are just as immature as third graders and they aren't third graders so it can be tiresome.

If you are interested in doing it - check out companies that do corporate training, and set up an informational interview.

Publishing - most of my customers are in the publishing area... if you think the pay is bad in teaching... it doesn't get a lot better in publishing.. especially just starting out... and depending on what you want to do...

For people interested in changing jobs, my standard advice is to pick up a copy of What Color is your Parachute... they put out a new edition every year, and it's invaluable in giving you some direction and ideas as to where to go next.

I'm not overly fond of using headhunter agencies, but sometimes it's the only way to get your foot in the door unless you know someone (ie - you've had an informational interview and gotten the names of people in HR or the hiring manager) Though, if you haven't interviewed in a while, a headhunter can get you out there and interviewing -- even if you aren't completely interested in the position -- it gives you practice with interviews.

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