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 [...]
Friday, February 22, 2008
“I gave my life to be the person I am today. Was it worth it?”
Richard Bach, from his book, “One”.
An intriguing aspect of career change coaching is that while my primary role is one of service, I find that I am often challenged personally by the very same questions that my clients are dealing with.
Take, [...]
Friday, February 15, 2008
The right hand side of my mouth is still numb as I write this post.
Yes, that’s right. I’ve been at the dentist.
After adopting an “out of sight, out of mind” approach for nearly 3 years, I finally plucked up the courage to go for a checkup.
Six visits later, 3 cavities have been drilled and filled!
At [...]
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
People sometimes ask me, when they learn that one role I play is as a career change coach, what gives with all this goal setting?
Now, these are ’smart’ (pun intended) folks who’ve learned to successfully use goal setting as a necessary “getting on” tool within the corporate world.
So why do I often get the [...]
Saturday, February 9, 2008
If you’re considering a career change you probably already know how useful it can be to create a basic plan and start following it!
Here’s a careers adviser whose blog I came upon by chance.
Thanks to the incredible shrinking digital world, turns out she’s from the same wee land as myself!
While the article below seems brief [...]
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
This is a classic job interview question.
Do you have an answer ready?
Perhaps the question’s too easy - especially if you’re already following a supposedly vocational profession such as teaching or medicine or law?
Don’t be so sure!
Before I start my series of posts on success and goal setting I’d encourage you to visit the fascinating [...]
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Here’s the followup to yesterday’s post on Al Secunda and his 15-Second Principle.
I created an 8 minute YouTube Video to highlight the relevance of Al’s approach to slipping past the procrastination giant. (The answers to yesterday’s quiz are also shown underneath the video here.)
1- For many people their biggest DREAMS remain FROZEN FANTASIES.
2- Al’s purpose [...]
