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
Category Archives: career coach
Number 1 Leadership Skill
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Forget Time Management
If you’re stressed out and overwhelmed with too much work and getting home late all the time, if you’re worrying about work life balance, or if you’re always running around scattered because of so much to do–stop! Don’t run out and start implementing time management systems. Forget about time management….for a moment. Continue reading
Swing Dancing and Careers
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But Is It Realistic? How People Kill Career Dreams
Whether helping people as a career coach or a creativity trainer, one of the most common self-limiting ideas I hear—actually it may be the most common—is that a goal, a career, a job, a solution is unrealistic. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.choosingacareerblog.com%2Fcareer-coach%2Fbut-is-it-realistic-how-people-kill-career-dreams’; … Continue reading
What’s at the Top of Your Resume?
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Start Seeing Career Opportunities
Out of work? Looking for a new career? Then start seeing opportunities. I just read about a fascinating experiment by psychology professor and bestselling British author Richard Wiseman, author of The Luck Factor: The Four Essential Principles addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.choosingacareerblog.com%2Fcareer-ideas%2Fstart-seeing-career-opportunities’; … Continue reading
Get Answers to Questions about Specific Careers, Jobs
What’s the most direct way to get the inside scoop about the details of a specific career, an industry, a job, a company? addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.choosingacareerblog.com%2Fcareer-ideas%2Fget-answers-to-questions-about-specific-careers-jobs’; addthis_title = ‘Get+Answers+to+Questions+about+Specific+Careers%2C+Jobs’; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: career information, informational interviews, Interviews
More than a Network: Your Career Coaching Team
In most cases, when I hear people talk about networking they mean connecting with people who can get them to the right people, companies or information they need. That’s useful. (You might also want to check out this career ideas … Continue reading
5 Basics Tips to Prepare for Layoffs
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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