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.
Youth Unemployment hits 1m
What does a headline like this make you think? Did you think about the one million young people looking for work? The poor state of the country and the economy? The fact that everything was better in your day? Such thoughts are automatic responses to headlines like this. It’s not our fault, us human beings are just made that way. Newspapers should give away hot, sweet tea and a comfy sit-down with a headline like this. It would settle their readers’ jangling nerves but might would also create little moments of calm for us to see...
read moreUpdate on who's reading what…
Thanks to the magic of Amazon’s Kindle, here’s an update on what readers of The Career Explorer’s Journal are highlighting right now as they ask and answer career questions for themselves… These are real points in live career explorations taken from Amazon.com today! ✪ What’s the biggest career issue you’re facing right now? What’s the most important thing in your work and life at this moment? What would an explorer see if he or she was where you are right now? What evidence could they find? What do...
read moreThe Career Explorer's Journal 2012
It’s here!* Following a best-ever year in the Amazon.com best-seller charts, The Career Explorer’s Journal 2012 is ready to support your career on a new journey from wherever you are right now, to wherever you most want to be. Now in its third year of publication, this new edition is full of fresh insight, crisp questions and updated, real-world experience – much of this coming from first-time career explorers like you. As a reader of The Career Explorer’s Journal, all you have to do is pay attention to your career details...
read moreUpdate on The Career Explorer's Journal 2012
It would be very easy for me to tell you why The Career Explorer’s Journal 2012 is the best edition yet but it fits better with exploring if I show you some evidence and you make up your own mind. A few months ago, a reader in Australia gave the book a two-star rating, so I wrote her a short note to say thanks for her rating and to ask how we could have earned more stars. The emails below tell the rest of the story… You’ll find Kerry’s results and a whole lot more in the 2012 edition of the book, which will be...
read moreThe Unique Value of Careers
Sometimes writing an article, jotting down some notes, or just getting thoughts and ideas down on a page, helps to get things in order. You don’t have to write for anyone else, or share what you write if you don’t want to. It doesn’t have to be right either, But it does have to be written. # # # # # At no other time has the need for career support, encouragement and education been greater than it is today. Every person, regardless of their working-age, faces more choices, has access to more information and is challenged like...
read moreA Little Friday Bee Story
The moral to a story usually comes at the end but because we’re all very busy and the internet is a wonderfully distracting thing (always calling on us to make that next click and visit a new page) I’ll save time and give you the moral to this little story up front… “It can be done and sometimes you’re the best person to do it” I’ve often been the first person to doubt whether something can be done. ‘No’ is kind of my default, internal setting. But then I get a doubt, an idea, a feeling...
read moreThe Career Explorer's Journal – Who's reading what right now?
Here’s what readers of The Career Explorer’s Journal are highlighting right now… These are actual points in live career explorations taken from Amazon.com today ✪ “What’s the biggest career issue you’re facing right now? What’s the most important thing in your work and life at this moment? What would an explorer see if he or she was where you are right now? What evidence could they find? What do you want to explore more than anything else right now?” [Currently being explored by 20 Kindle...
read moreJob-Seeker’s Interview #7 – Annelise
If you’d like to find out what the job-seeker’s interview is all about, click here to learn more. In the meantime, here are the answers from our latest interviewee Annelise… 1. What’s your name? Annelise 2. Where do you live? Germany 3. How long have you been looking for a job? a couple of months 4. What’s the story of your job search so far? I tried to hunt for jobs on Twitter. More precisely I wanted to connect with people on Twitter, who are based in the ad / social media industry. With a couple of...
read morePeople, groups and careers
To get any group of people talking about work and careers, you need to put every single one of them first Which might not be as impossible as it sounds… All groups are just people joining or working together. Every member of a group has their own reason(s) for being there and their own set of priorities, When a group can help its members appreciate their own reasons for being there and make progress in-keeping with their priorities, That group is putting every one of its members first. A group that puts individuals first and helps...
read moreThe hidden factors behind hiring choices
Hiring decisions say as much about the company making them as they say about you. Another writer on another website might add the word ‘Discuss‘ to the end of that statement, All I want to add is your experience… Companies make decisions and they have their own reasons for doing so, But then again, so do we. The factors that lead up to a ‘Yes’ or a ‘No’ in a hiring decision go way beyond our influence, Even when we’ve done the best we can. As individuals all we can do is our very best when...
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