Career Ideas for Everyone--Get These Books and Change Your Life Now
Outliers: The Story of Success the hot new book by Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell about how genius is overrated, but persistence and opportunity matter in people's lives and careers.
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It -Can't miss book that is fun, upbeat, filled with exercises to move you forward with your career goals, even if you are starting out uncertain and confused. By Barbara Sher
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life -Proof that optimism and success (and health and popularity...) go hand in hand. Ideas on how you too can learn to be optimistic. By Martin Seligman
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LINKS--Career and Job Search Resources
CAREER INFO
US Government Summary of Careers and their Outlook -- Occupational Outlook Handbook
JOB SEARCH SITES
Twitter -- Job Search on Twitter
Facebook -- Job Search on Facebook
About.com Job Search (Allison Doyle) -- Variety of Job Search Sites/Tools
Jobfox -- Job search on Jobfox
PROFESSIONAL RESUME SITES
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Career Ideas–Understand Failure
One of the most famous stories about seeing failure in a new light is about Edison. A reporter is said to have asked how he felt about having failed in thousands of experiments trying to make a lightbulb. Edison replied, … Continue reading
Obama’s Online Portfolio–Visual Resume
Yesterday, I wrote about job search and related visual resumes or portfolios online, and today I see from Allison Doyle of about.com on Twitter that our new president, who’s team is always on the cutting edge of online things, has … Continue reading
Career Coaching–It’s All About the Questions (mostly)
This week I spoke with a few people about coaching and how problems get solved in career coaching. People asked how I work or what I would do as a coach if faced with this situation or that. One wanted … Continue reading
The Emerging Social Media–Visual Resume/Portfolio Trend
As with everything else in the career and job search front, the expectations keep rising for what you can or should do online. That’s apparently becoming true of resumes. There are many sites to post your resume, usually with a … Continue reading
Career Coaching Mantra–Dig Deeper For Your Job Search
I just read a good article in Fortune about job opportunities. It spoke of possibilities in health care and green jobs, as everyone is. But what is great about this article is that it illustrates a principle I keep repeating … Continue reading
Keep Writing those Cover Letters
So with all the brevity online with Twitter and emails, maybe the wordy one page or multi-paragraph email cover letter is as archaic as the typewriter. An online resume is more than enough, right? addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.choosingacareerblog.com%2Fcareer-ideas%2Fkeep-writing-those-cover-letters’; addthis_title = ‘Keep+Writing+those+Cover+Letters’; … Continue reading
Career Idea–Get Grateful, Get Happy, Get Effective
Eric was 16 and knew it all so had no reason to participate, apparently, in a journaling class I was teaching. We got along OK, and respected each other, but he wasn’t exactly a great contributor in attitude or ideas … Continue reading
Keeping Difficult New Year’s Career Resolutions
Here’s a common career question I get as a career coach and an answer I wrote a couple of years ago at that start of the new year that has helped my clients and ezine readers get clearer about what … Continue reading
I’m Smart, Competent–Why Would I Need a Career Life Coach?
Here’s a very fast 3 question quiz to help answer that question: addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.choosingacareerblog.com%2Fchoosing-a-career%2Fim-smart-competent-why-would-i-need-a-career-life-coach’; addthis_title = ‘I%26%238217%3Bm+Smart%2C+Competent%26%238211%3BWhy+Would+I+Need++a+Career+Life+Coach%3F’; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: career coach, choosing a career coach, why coaching, work coach