These are our explorer’s notes. Everything we’ve seen on our journey so far. From wonderful moments of discovery to not so wonderful mistakes and follies. We hope you learn as much from them as we did.
Job Search Success
This week’s Job Search discussion on our Facebook page has reminded us of one of our all-time favourite ‘search & find’ stories. It’s a simple enough story. Nothing fancy, nothing complicated. But whenever we need a memory-jog or someone new comes along and asks, ‘What really happens on a job search?’, we find ourselves coming back to this. All job searches are unique tales of knock-back and rejection. Each one can tell its own story of the Herculean effort it takes to turn disappointment around. To...
read moreThe Job Seeker's Interview #8 – Andrew
The Job Seeker’s Interview is back! This time the answers are from Andrew, who we are delighted to say has just landed a new job after 4 months of searching. Here’s what he had to say about the experience… 1. What’s your name? Andrew 2. Where do you live? London 3. How long were you looking for a job? 4 months 4. How would you sum up the story of your job search? Very stressful and disappointing 5. What went well? I managed to get a few temp assignments only through contacts/friends 6. What could have gone...
read moreNational Careers Week 2013
Careers guidance for young people has never been more important, with nearly one million young people unemployed in the UK and businesses vocal about the skills gap they face when recruiting at entry level. This, coupled with the cuts to services for this age bracket makes National Careers Week an essential vehicle of support for young people and their career journeys. National Careers Week runs from the 4th – 8th March 2013 and is now in its third year. The whole thing is the brainchild of those very clever bods over at Careersinfo. All...
read moreThe Career Explorer's Journal: Latest News
The new edition of The Career Explorer’s Journal is uploading as we speak. Within the next week or so, all your favourite online stores (iTunes, Amazon, kobo, nook, etc.) will have the new book on their virtual shelves, ready to download. As part of this launch, we wanted to share news of a first for you and for us too… everyone who owns an earlier copy of the book will receive a free upgrade to the 2013 edition. This means if you purchased any of our earlier editions, get in touch via our contact page and we’ll send you a...
read moreComing Soon: The Career Explorer's Journal 2013
I’m delighted to announce the new edition of The Career Explorer’s Journal will soon be available to download. It’s exciting to think about what’s ahead but over the last few days I’ve also been looking back. So, if you’re interested in the short version of the journal’s own history of exploration and discovery, read on… I wrote the first edition of the book in 2009 and published it in 2010. If you’d asked me back then, the idea of writing new updates each year couldn’t have been further from my...
read moreThe Perfect Careers Adviser
Last year, quite a few people contributed to our group exploration on the subject of ‘What careers advisers love about their job‘. This year we wanted to ask a question everyone can have an opinion on. Last time around we were stuck in the real world (some might say stuck in the past!) because we started at a meeting. This time around we’re kicking things off here in the wonderful online world first. You don’t even need to leave your seat in order to have your say. So this is our new group exploration, Who is the...
read moreCareer Easter Eggs
I recall when I first found out about virtual easter eggs, the cool little treats developers sometimes hide in software, apps and games. What a nice way to reward insight, determination or just plain clicking about. Recently, this got me thinking about easter eggs for our careers. If some of the good things that happen throughout our careers can be thought of as career easter eggs, is there a way to make more of them happen? Is it possible for each of us to sow seeds and help more delightful little breaks occur in our future? Not only is...
read moreHow Careersbox Works
1. Someone we know very well is studying to be a midwife 2. We said, ‘Pop over to Careersbox, they probably have a film about that’ 3. A quick search and up popped this film of a real student midwife talking about her experience and her degree course 4. Our friend listens and learns from this genuine, first-hand source 5. Outstanding! 😀 For more films & more experiences (because we don’t all want to be Midwives) visit Careersbox.co.uk * * * *...
read moreCareer 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...
read moreThe 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...
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