Many of you have studied extensively environmental sustainability, but how many of you have given a thought to career sustainability? Career sustainability is the ability to maintain a long, productive, and satisfying career without sacrificing everything else important in life, however you may define the latter, and without exhausting yourself in the process. Its about work-life balance, about setting goals and priorities, and about respecting your need to reinvigorate, if not reinvent, yourself periodically. One of the most important decisions you can make in sustaining your career is your choice of the right employer for you. In “Top 25 Companies for Work-Life Balance,” you’ll learn about ways to identify the type of employer that will aid your career sustainability.

Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com are two of the largest and best known online job search engines. But bigger isn’t necessarily better in your Public Policy job search. That is why I have posted dozens of niche job search engines specifically for Public Policy careers. I even break them down by Environmental, Economic Development, Science & Technology, and other specialties to focus your job search further. To learn why certain online job search engines are more advantageous to use than others, see this article from US News & World Report, ”When Using Job Boards, It Pays to Go Niche.”  Be focused to be more effective.