I mentioned career coach Joanne Dustin’s site, Career Lost and Found, in a previous post and today I’d like to review her book, “Life Beyond IT”. (Also available on Amazon.com)
Two important points:
First of all, this book is aimed directly at Information Technology professionals who are considering a career change, although the coaching themes running through [...]
OK, time for an update on my “invisible target” post.
Thanks to Geoff Roberston over at total self improvement for his vote. I’d dropped the ball on this and forgotten to close comments on 23 February.
Lucky I didn’t!
So the invisible target on my desk now has something to visualize around - and to keep taking [...]
Even though it was way back in 1980, I can still recall doing 105 press ups on the evening of the 10th October - my 20th birthday.
105 remains my personal best and the closest I’ve come since then is 80 - achieved last year after a few months of daily practice, working my way up [...]
One unnerving aspect to career change is leaving safe and familiar territory to take a calculated risk in some unexplored field.
Even with years of experience and transferable skills, it can be an exciting but often nerve racking ride - as you find yourself (temporarily) “knowingly incompetent” in new skills others have already mastered.
Rather than being [...]
I love career coach Joanne Dustin’s tag line for her web site, Career Lost And Found :
“Open the door… your future is waiting.”
Joanne’s home page is a brief yet powerful example of what her coaching work is about and how she can help - and is also a great “elevator speech”, in my humble opinion.
I [...]
Career change expert, Pamela Skillings, has a few ideas for the former First Lady.
http://blog.escapefromcorporate.com/job-ideas-hillary-clinton/
Perhaps #3 would be an interesting team to pick up where Eliot Spitzer left off?
Happy April Fools
- Mark McClure
Sometimes children can be an unexpected and innocent source of great career change advice.
Case in point.
When my wife asked how went day 1 of my IT consulting gig, my daughter aka Princess Smiley (she’s crazy about Miley Cyrus) came straight out with:
“Do you actually do stuff on your computer at work?”
Wow!
Now there’s a reflective [...]
Want the secret of career or vocational enlightenment in just 1 word?
Awareness.
And in 2 words?
Awareness. Awareness.
How about a whole 3 words?
Awareness. Awareness. Awareness.
“Get the picture?”
“Feel the vibe?”
“Hear the music?”
Since we’re equipped with sensory perception it kinda makes sense to twiddle the dials now and again - you never know what you might tune into.
For instance, [...]
Corporate personal development plans (PDP) might not always be the most exciting of topics to blog about, but there are 2 important points embedded within how PDPs function that potential career changers ought to consider:
a) 50% of the ‘big’ projects you will be ‘asked’ (more like ‘tasked’!) to do during the year will never make [...]
Day 1 in a large air-conditioned office and I soon recall why my thirst has returned - the temperature’s showing north of 22C.
Now that may be optimal for most everyone else but I’ve just come from winter months in my north-facing home office where it was between 13-17C depending on time of day.
Wearing fingerless gloves, [...]
