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moving cross country, finding a great partner... or lobbing off all your hair a la Karlie Kloss). But don't fret: It's not an impossible task. It just takes some thought—and great advice.

"A lot of times people don't like what they're doing in their current job, but they haven't defined what they want to be doing in their potential new job," Nicole Williams, career expert and author of Girl On Top, tells Cosmopolitan.com.

She says nabbing your dream job starts with doing some soul-searching: "I ask people to assess components of their current working life, and match them against the career they are looking to get into."

Try asking yourself these questions...

Time: How many hours do you want to work and in what kind of environment? Big company, small, telecommute, work-from-home flexibility (you know, the kind banned at Yahoo!)

Challenge Level: How important is growth potential and being challenged to you? Are you ambitious and ready to lean in, or just looking for a 9 to 5 to fill your time?

Work Environment: Define your best possible scenario in terms of work relationships. Who are you working with and for? What kind of boss would be ideal? Do you have dreams of becoming a boss?

Passion: How important is passion to you? For example, a woman we know races triathlons and feels like she doesn't need to be passionate about her job; her passion is attached to her sport.

6. Money: How much do you need to make? How much money do you want to make?

Steps To Making A Career Change

Stop Delaying

"The longer you are in the job you are thinking of leaving, the further away you are from new opportunity," says Williams. "It doesn't get any easier. Doing it earlier is emotionally, mentally and professionally better."

Be Willing To Sacrifice Something

You may have to start from the bottom (or the middle) and work your way to the top; Either way, be ready to drop a few rungs on the corporate ladder.

"Internships can be a good idea—or be willing to take a pay cut," says Williams. "If this internship, for example, introduces you to influential people and helps develop a skill-set, you'll be able to take these things to leverage them into a bigger position."

Start Saving

"Have a solid idea of the risk and savings in the bank," advises Williams. Even if it means cutting back on luxuries. "If you know the internship is going to last for six months at a minimum, that's the number you need to have in savings, and I normally advise 10 to 20 percent in savings as a risk buffer."

Network

"People love to talk about themselves," says Williams. "Find them on LinkedIn and through people you know, and consult with them."

Williams suggests asking those in similar fields questions like, "I wonder if you'd speak to me about your day-to-day life; What do you love most about the work that you do; What do you wish you would have known going into this career?"

"Those kind of questions are going to give you the information you need and will help you know the people you are going to need to know," she adds.

Now that you are armed with more than just your resume and a fresh manicure, it's time to start hitting the pavement. Happy hunting, gals.

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moving cross country, finding a great partner... or lobbing off all your hair a la Karlie Kloss). But don't fret: It's not an impossible task. It just takes some thought—and great advice.

"A lot of times people don't like what they're doing in their current job, but they haven't defined what they want to be doing in their potential new job," Nicole Williams, career expert and author of Girl On Top, tells Cosmopolitan.com.

She says nabbing your dream job starts with doing some soul-searching: "I ask people to assess components of their current working life, and match them against the career they are looking to get into."

Try asking yourself these questions...

Time: How many hours do you want to work and in what kind of environment? Big company, small, telecommute, work-from-home flexibility (you know, the kind banned at Yahoo!)

Challenge Level: How important is growth potential and being challenged to you? Are you ambitious and ready to lean in, or just looking for a 9 to 5 to fill your time?

Work Environment: Define your best possible scenario in terms of work relationships. Who are you working with and for? What kind of boss would be ideal? Do you have dreams of becoming a boss?

Passion: How important is passion to you? For example, a woman we know races triathlons and feels like she doesn't need to be passionate about her job; her passion is attached to her sport.

6. Money: How much do you need to make? How much money do you want to make?

Steps To Making A Career Change

Stop Delaying

"The longer you are in the job you are thinking of leaving, the further away you are from new opportunity," says Williams. "It doesn't get any easier. Doing it earlier is emotionally, mentally and professionally better."

Be Willing To Sacrifice Something

You may have to start from the bottom (or the middle) and work your way to the top; Either way, be ready to drop a few rungs on the corporate ladder.

"Internships can be a good idea—or be willing to take a pay cut," says Williams. "If this internship, for example, introduces you to influential people and helps develop a skill-set, you'll be able to take these things to leverage them into a bigger position."

Start Saving

"Have a solid idea of the risk and savings in the bank," advises Williams. Even if it means cutting back on luxuries. "If you know the internship is going to last for six months at a minimum, that's the number you need to have in savings, and I normally advise 10 to 20 percent in savings as a risk buffer."

Network

"People love to talk about themselves," says Williams. "Find them on LinkedIn and through people you know, and consult with them."

Williams suggests asking those in similar fields questions like, "I wonder if you'd speak to me about your day-to-day life; What do you love most about the work that you do; What do you wish you would have known going into this career?"

"Those kind of questions are going to give you the information you need and will help you know the people you are going to need to know," she adds.

Now that you are armed with more than just your resume and a fresh manicure, it's time to start hitting the pavement. Happy hunting, gals.

Want more stories from Carson? Follow her on Twitter.

Photo Credit: Getty Images">Whether you're a doctor who dreams of doing hair, or a hairdresser dreaming of climbing the corporate ladder, career expert Nicole Williams has pro tips on how to get started.

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DIY: Julianne Hough's People's Choice Awards 2013 Makeup

We're suckers for pretty makeup, obviously. So when we saw our February cover girl Julianne Hough's on the red carpet for the 2013 People's Choice Awards, we knew we had to recreate it. And thanks to Julianne's makeup artist Molly Stern, you can too.

To copy Julianne's modern fairy tale look with a rock n' roll edge, follow Stern's steps:

Face: "First, I prepped her skin with By Terry Or de Rose Baum Prècieux and moisturized it with Natura Bisse C+C Vitamin Cream SPF 10," says Stern. "Next, I applied foundation very sparingly, only where she needed it, using Chantecaille Future Skin Foundation."

Cheeks: "I applied Lancôme Star Bronzer in the hollows of her cheekbones, and then dusted Lancôme Blush in Love in Peache Joue over the top of the apples (aka the rounded part) of her cheeks," says Stern.

Eyes: "I covered her lids with Lancôme Color Design Infinite in Forever Noir and then dusted Perpetual Pink at the center of her lid to catch the light. Next, I lined the top lash line heavily and very closely to the lower lash with Lancôme Liner Design in Black Fishnets," says Stern. Then, to define her eyebrows she used Hourglass Arch Brow Sculpting Pencil. "I also curled her lashes using the Shu Uemura lash curler and then applied two coats of Lancôme Hypnose Doll Lashes in Black," she added.

Lips: To define her mouth, Stern lined her lips with Lancôme Le Lipstique Lip Colouring Stick in Sheer Natural, and then topped them with Lancôme Rouge in Love in Pink Berries, a pale pink pearl shade.

Will you be stealing this Safe Haven star's sexy makeup look this Saturday night?

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Elisa Benson is the senior editor of social media for @Cosmopolitan?so, yes, she tweets about sex for a living. Elisa grew up in Ohio, attended Colgate University, and wrote love and relationship advice for Seventeen before graduating to Cosmo. She lives for girly things (weddings and eyelash extensions and Pretty Little Liars?) and frequently tweets about all of the above: @elisabenson.
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Julianne Hough Is Our February Cover Girl!

As Superstorm Sandy descended on New York City, rain and storm winds rattled the windows of downtown's Crosby Street Hotel. Inside, actress Julianne Hough and her boyfriend, Ryan Seacrest—Hollywood's fast-rising, workaholic power couple—were stranded and alone. Their cell phones were, for once, strangely quiet.

So they curled up in a king-size bed and hibernated with fellow bears: the potty-mouthed comedy Ted on the hotel TV and an enormous canister of gummy bears open on the duvet. "We couldn't work," Hough says, the next day. "We just got to stay in our bed and in our pajamas—until the power cut out."

Let's just say they probably never saw the end of that talking-teddy-bear flick. "It was great," says Hough, smiling conspiratorially. "We put on some candles, had some sexy time....Ha!"

Hough flashes her 500-watt smile and swoops into a chair at a long table in a new hotel, this one with hot water and electricity. She's in a great mood, despite one worry: "I haven't showered in two days. I hope I'm not smelling from this side of the table."

She looks perfect, of course, in a black cashmere sweater, slim black pants, and glossy leather flats from her new Sole Society collection. All expressive laughs, aw-shucks charm, and that broad showgirl smile, she appears exactly as her fans might expect: the poised young competitor who hustled her way to two Dancing With the Stars championships in 2007, sold a number-one country album shortly after, and went on to star in Rock of Ages and Footloose. Hough is the kind of triple threat you don't find much in Hollywood anymore.

That pretty-girl demeanor is one reason director Lasse Hallström nearly didn't cast her in the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' bestseller Safe Haven, opening February 14. He watched her audition with Josh Duhamel via Skype—Hough in Los Angeles, Hallström in New York. "I had a perception that she was just a very light and charming girl that might not have the emotional range," he says.

Safe Haven is the story of Katie, a girl who survives horrific abuse at the hands of an ex-boyfriend. She escapes to North Carolina, where she eventually learns to open up and accept the love of a handsome widower. Duhamel, who plays the widower, thought she could do it. "I told Lasse, 'There is a sadness in that room, something more complicated that the character needed to have. And that's what she has.'"

Hough fought for a second audition and got the part. Hallström says he was surprised to find something different when he saw her up close: a woman who was "honest and direct and wonderfully fearless." He was even more surprised to find that his star, who seemed so perfectly composed on the surface, had her own painful, hidden story of abuse.

A Secret Past

When Hough was just 10 years old, she thought up a very detailed set of goals to work on—and then set about meeting them. "By the time I was 18, I wanted to be a professional dancer: I happened to be on Dancing With the Stars. When I was 19, I wanted to be a singer: At that age, I had my first record out. I said by the time I'm 22, I wanted to be a movie star...."

Hough is 24 now, and she's been working on those goals since she was a girl in South Jordan, Utah. All four grandparents and both parents were dancers, so Hough, the youngest of five kids, grew up performing with her Mormon family. Her parents divorced when she was 10. At the time, her brother Derek was studying dance at London's prestigious Italia Conti Academy of the Arts, and when a slot opened up, she joined him. She ended up winning a five-year scholarship, training relentlessly, and rarely seeing or talking to her family. She became a world-class dancer...but at a great cost.

"I was 10 years old looking like I was 28, being a very sensual dancer," she says. A precociously seductive smile became her public mask—and she rarely took it off. "I was a tormented little kid who had to put on this sexy facade because that was my job and my life. But my heart was the same, and I was this innocent little girl. I wanted so much love."

With her parents an ocean away, Hough says the adults around her took advantage. "While I was in London, I was abused, mentally, physically, everything," she says. In what way or by whom exactly, she declines to say: "I'm a very forgiving person, and I don't want to hurt anybody. What's past is past." A ripple of tension tightens a face that is always so relaxed and bright, like a sheet being pulled tight. It got worse, she says, "when I started hitting puberty, when I started becoming a woman and stopped being a little girl."

"You can kind of hear the quiver in my voice...." She pauses but only a beat. She's going to nail this move, even if her ankle is broken and her feet blistered. "This is the farthest I've ever gotten into my London situation," she says. "I was told if I ever went back to the United States, three things were going to happen. One: I was going to amount to nothing. Two: I was going to work at Whataburger. And three: I was going to end up a slut. So, it was like, I can't go back. I have to be this person."

For more of Julianne's exclusive interview with Cosmopolitan pick up the new issue on newsstands Jan. 8.

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Julianne Hough's Red Carpet Style

Julianne rocked the red carpet at the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End premiere at Disneyland in 2007, wearing a gray and gold chiffon, knee-length dress with gold strappy peep-toe heels.

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