Career Advice that will get you the job, salary and career you want.

Welcome to my Web site where you'll find practical advice on the issues you face in your career and on the job. Whether you're changing careers, want to get along better at work, move up in your field or work less and enjoy life more...or are interested in work-from-home careers, my syndicated newspaper column, books, video podcast and estore can help.

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Life’s a Bitch and Then You Change Careers
9 Steps to Get Out of Your Funk & On to Your Future

Designed for career changers of every age, this life-changing book works like a one-on-one counseling session, showing you how to discover and create a career that fits your life and who you are-not what others think you should be. You’ll discover how to have more meaning, more control and less stress in your life and [...]



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Recent syndicated newspaper columns

You'll find advice in these columns that appear weekly in USA Today.com and up to 100 Gannett newspapers across the United States and Canada on the dilemmas you face in your career.
How to stay employable not merely employed.

At some point you really need to sit down and figure out how to keep yourself employable. If you don’t, you will constantly be trying to figure out how to stay merely employed. [...]

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Speak well, write well & inspire others this year

For the sake of your career there’s one goal to shoot for this year: learn to communicate better so you don’t end up like actor Charlie Sheen, the Murdochs or former Hewlett Packard CEO, Leo Apotheker. Scorned, on the defensive or fired. [...]

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Younger boss/older worker

Some older workers with younger bosses think the latter are "fools with two-second attention spans who don't know how to hold a face-to-face conversation."(Not my words.) [...]

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Awards

  • Cincinnati Magazine cover

    Andrea Kay was named "Best Career Counselor" by Cincinnati Magazine


  • Andrea was awarded the Women In Communications Gem Award
    For adherence to the highest standards of practice in professional communications and support of women in the work force.


  • Andrea was given the 2009 Leading Woman Award for Consulting, Training and Education by Leading Women.