Career resources
Keep Your Career on Track

This Web site offer resources and advice for advancing your career and balancing work with family.

REVIEWED BY KELLY QUIGLEY

www.CareerJournal.com

As a real estate professional it’s important to keep track not only of the latest property listings and client obligations, but also how your career is progressing. Whether you work for yourself or for a big company, it helps to read up on career trends, view salary surveys, and strive for balance between work life and family life.

CareerJournal.com, a free Web site run by The Wall Street Journal, has daily updates and thousands of archived articles about news and trends relating to career advancement. Here are some of the site’s features that could help you continue your growth curve:

• Manage Your Career.This section of the Web site has feature stories and instructional articles on a variety of career topics that relate to management. For example, you can read about How to Fine-Tune Your Managerial Skills or, on a lighter note, find out What Business Managers Can Learn From Baseball. You may find some reassurance in articles like Why Taking a Vacation Won’t Kill Your Career and you can learn about managing your finances for a comfortable life after your career as you Plan for Retirement.
  
• Focus on Real Estate. The real estate portion of CareerJournal.com has articles from the past two years on trends that affect both the residential and commercial sectors. To see how your compensation stacks up against others in the real estate profession, check out the salary tables that show national compensation data for a variety of jobs in the real estate sector, including Residential Real Estate Executives, Office/Industrial Real Estate Professionals, and Real Estate Finance Executives.
  
  If commercial real estate is your specialty, don’t miss the Top 10 Trends for commercial real estate. However, if you’re in residential real estate or you know someone who’s considering that career path, you may want to read or pass along an article in this section that poses the question: Is Residential Real Estate a Viable Career For You?
  
• Work & Family. It’s hard for any career to be truly fulfilling if it’s not well-balanced with family life. Whether you’re taking care of aging parents or trying to coordinate your kids’ carpools in between property showings, you’ll find a column here that relates to your situation. You can learn how to Keep Your Home Office from Taking Over Your Home, and read about how others blend their professional, family, and community roles in articles like Working Parents Share Mental-Gymnastic Tips.
  
• E-mail Center. If you’d rather have the news come straight to you instead of surfing the Web for career-related information, sign up for free news updates from CareerJournal.com. Here, you can also sign up for other free e-mail alerts from The Wall Street Journal, including daily and weekly updates from RealEstateJournal and Startup Journal, which covers entrepreneurial and small-business issues.

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