Career Development

Posted by on Dec 5, 2012 in careers, Uncategorized | 0 comments

Career Development

Defining Career Development with The Career Explorer’s Journal What is career development? What does it mean when the words career and development are used together like this? There are lots of definitions but my guess is you’re interested in what career development means to you. I once heard someone describe career development as, ‘the feeling I’m going somewhere I want to go’. It’s still my favourite way to think about this subject but even this definition leaves big questions hanging. Personal questions like When do I get that feeling? Where do I want to go? and How do I get...

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The D'oh Factor

Posted by on Nov 29, 2012 in careers, Uncategorized | 0 comments

The D'oh Factor

Because we learn by our mistakes, our mistakes are part of learning. Perhaps the day will come when the accidental source of every lesson learned is recognised, and every mistake is celebrated. What a wonderful day that would be! Not because we’ll all be celebrating our mistakes together (although a universal D’oh Day would be quite a thing). It would be great because we’d all have our own version of the day when our mistake (our embarrassment, error of judgement, source of shame, accident we hoped we’d never see again) became something new… An experience...

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Job Search Nonsense

Posted by on Nov 8, 2012 in job search, Uncategorized | 0 comments

Job Search Nonsense

If we put aside the super-hero act for a moment, a typical day on the job searching treadmill usually goes something like this…….. You get up early, check email, check your schedule then do a quick scan of the job boards.  This is followed by a visit to your favourite recruitment and networking sites.  Perhaps then you’ll read the employment section in the local paper, if it’s that day of the week. After this initial flurry of activity there’s usually a moment’s pause to reflect on what you’ve just achieved. Then you wonder how to spend the remaining 7 hours and 53 minutes...

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What Employers Value

Posted by on Nov 2, 2012 in careers, exploring, job search, Uncategorized, work | 0 comments

What Employers Value

We undervalue and undersell ourselves every single day. Even as jobseekers we have huge capacity and huge potential but are sometimes the last to see it. I read an article yesterday about US employers hiring ex-service personnel. Companies that do this want to do it again. Here was the reason given in one instance, “they wanted to hire him for the things they couldn’t teach him. The intangibles that would make him excel.” That’s an employer’s way of saying, we’re hiring you for you. In other words, it’s not your technical skills (we can teach those)....

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Keep Looking

Posted by on Oct 27, 2012 in careers, exploring, Uncategorized, work | 0 comments

Keep Looking

“If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.” Steve Jobs Don’t you just love it when this happens? When a few words find you at the right time and it makes your day. I’m a big fan of this too but I like it even more when I discover where these little quotes fit in. How the words around a little sentiment add even more depth and colour. When you learn a quote like this one from Steve Jobs came from a speech given to a graduating year of students. Little quotes that inspire & sound great are meat and drink to blogs and sites like Tumblr & Twitter. But I...

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Career Play on Tumblr

Posted by on Oct 19, 2012 in careers, exploring, Uncategorized | 0 comments

Career Play on Tumblr

This week (as usual) I was able to find some great content on Tumblr about careers Some people are writing about their own experiences directly Others are posting interesting stuff that makes you think more deeply about work/life Here’s one quote from the philosopher Bertrand Russell Plus another from Albert Einstein Along with some thoughts on why I think they are interesting…   * * * *...

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