After “beta” testing my “career change coaching by email” service I’ve decided to replace the email part with a secure and private 1-to-1 forum.
Why?
Two reasons:
1- “Lost Emails“:
All too often, legitimate Internet email gets “lost” due to ISP sp#m filtering. Since I want to reliably communicate with my paying clients (and vice versa), that level of [...]
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 [...]
I found Bruce Judson’s book, “Go It Alone!” very useful when planning my own career change.
The entire book is online for ‘free‘ at Bruce’s site and worth spending the time to go through relevant chapters and take a few notes.
Two chapters stick out in my mind:
8 - Managing Extreme Outsourcing.
11- When To Quit Your Day [...]
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Thinking about “following your passion” but not sure how to combine your “day job” with your “hobby”?
(Note: there is some adult content on Danny’s site and it may not be safe to access from work.)
Danny Choo’s story is worth spending some time on.
I like how he continues to use skills acquired in the corporate world [...]
