Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch

Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch  Listen to this clip   Read the book // Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide. I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it” Transcript: In my own career…the struggles I’ve had in my career and the struggles I have heard because I write about careers, it has really driven home to me how important it is to talk about these things, to think about these things to utilize tools like we have today that have never existed before in our history. To get out the word about what we know — what we do and how well we do it. To me, I’ll even say it this way — and it sounds a little rough, but — you’re foolish if you are not using these free tools that you are given. It is like not using the telephone back in the day. Ok? These are tools that are free — cheap or free — for you that you can use to make your life and your career better. If you’re not using them, you’re foolish. Don’t do that. Links for items mentioned in this talk: * Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Career Compass Kindle Book * Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners * Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch Help Support Career Opportunities! * Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy * Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore * Consider a donation via PayPal to support more career posts, podcasts and videos! * Circle Career-Op on Google+ * Like Career-Op on Facebook Build the Career You Deserve with these books

Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch    Read the book // Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide. I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it” Transcript: In my own career…the struggles I’ve had in my career and the struggles I have heard because I write about careers, it has really driven home to me how important it is to talk about these things, to think about these things to utilize tools like we have today that have never existed before in our history. To get out the word about what we know — what we do and how well we do it. To me, I’ll even say it this way — and it sounds a little rough, but — you’re foolish if you are not using these free tools that you are given. It is like not using the telephone back in the day. Ok? These are tools that are free — cheap or free — for you that you can use to make your life and your career better. If you’re not using them, you’re foolish. Don’t do that. Links for items mentioned in this talk: * Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Career Compass Kindle Book * Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners * Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch Help Support Career Opportunities! * Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy * Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore * Consider a donation via PayPal to support more career posts, podcasts and videos! * Circle Career-Op on Google+ * Like Career-Op on Facebook Build the Career You Deserve with these books

Laboring for yourself from the Career Opportunities Podcast From the Career Opportunities Archives… This long weekend brings the Labor Day holiday here in the US. This holiday marks the end of summer for most people and brings everyone back into the office, and back to school. Each year, I end up writing something about Labor Day because it seems an excellent time to contemplate our work and our career. Many of us have had the benefit of a recent vacation from our work and with the kids back in school, a little time to quietly think. […] Read this entire column – Laboring for yourself from the Career Opportunities Podcast Listen to this podcast // * A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs  ** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! 

Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch  Listen to this clip   Read the book // Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide. I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it” Transcript: I’ve seen too many people over the years be trapped in jobs that were — from their description to me — definitely mentally abusing jobs and, in some cases, even physically abusing jobs and they still wouldn’t leave. No matter what I said. “I can’t leave. I can’t leave.” and that, to me, is one of the saddest things I have ever heard from someone. It led to me, thinking of my own mind, “If you say you are trapped, you are. ” If you feel that you are trapped, that is the first major, biggest sign that you need to get out and change. Ok? Links for items mentioned in this talk: * Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Career Compass Kindle Book * Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners * Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch Help Support Career Opportunities! * Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy * Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore * Consider a donation via PayPal to support more career posts, podcasts and videos! * Circle Career-Op on Google+ * Like Career-Op on Facebook Build the Career You Deserve with these books

Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch    Read the book // Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide. I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it” Transcript: I’ve seen too many people over the years be trapped in jobs that were — from their description to me — definitely mentally abusing jobs and, in some cases, even physically abusing jobs and they still wouldn’t leave. No matter what I said. “I can’t leave. I can’t leave.” and that, to me, is one of the saddest things I have ever heard from someone. It led to me, thinking of my own mind, “If you say you are trapped, you are. ” If you feel that you are trapped, that is the first major, biggest sign that you need to get out and change. Ok? Links for items mentioned in this talk: * Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Career Compass Kindle Book * Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners * Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch Help Support Career Opportunities! * Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy * Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore * Consider a donation via PayPal to support more career posts, podcasts and videos! * Circle Career-Op on Google+ * Like Career-Op on Facebook Build the Career You Deserve with these books

Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch    Listen to this clip   Read the book // Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide. I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it” Transcript: In this day and age, we are all freelancers. I don’t care where your paycheck comes from today, this week, as we all know that can change like that, right? We’ve all been there. You need to think of yourself as a freelancer and say “This is my client right now and I’m doing the best work I can do for that client, but I also need to be looking out down the road. Looking out for new opportunities, Building new clients. Building new aspects of my freelance career. Whatever.” You need to be thinking that way. Links for items mentioned in this talk: * Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Career Compass Kindle Book * Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners * Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch Help Support Career Opportunities! * Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy * Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore * Consider a donation via PayPal to support more career posts, podcasts and videos! * Circle Career-Op on Google+ * Like Career-Op on Facebook Build the Career You Deserve with these books

You can, and should, do more than have an on-the-job meltdown from the Career Opportunities Podcast From the Career Opportunities Archives… The last few weeks provided yet another instance of an on-the-job meltdown as a JetBlue flight attendant finally reached the breaking point of their customer service career. The only amazing thing about this, though, is that is doesn’t happen with more frequency. Job stress, economic pressures and career stagnation all contribute to worker meltdowns and yet very little is ever done to remedy the underlying problems. While on-the-job meltdowns aren’t the most productive way of dealing with the issues, it is inevitable when management offers so few productive ways of addressing problems. […] Read this entire column – You can, and should, do more than have an on-the-job meltdown from the Career Opportunities Podcast Listen to this podcast // * A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs  ** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! 

Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch    Read the book Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide. I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it” Transcript: In this day and age, we are all freelancers. I don’t care where your paycheck comes from today, this week, as we all know that can change like that, right? We’ve all been there. You need to think of yourself as a freelancer and say “This is my client right now and I’m doing the best work I can do for that client, but I also need to be looking out down the road. Looking out for new opportunities, Building new clients. Building new aspects of my freelance career. Whatever.” You need to be thinking that way. Links for items mentioned in this talk: * Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Career Compass Kindle Book * Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners * Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch Help Support Career Opportunities! * Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy * Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore * Consider a donation via PayPal to support more career posts, podcasts and videos! * Circle Career-Op on Google+ * Like Career-Op on Facebook Build the Career You Deserve with these books

The Kitten, The Boy and Taking a Break from the Career Opportunities Podcast From the Career Opportunities Archives… As we all know, it’s a crazy world out there. On most days, we run from home to school to work to home to bed in what seems like an endless cycle. We might read lots about needing to balance our work and ‘real’ life, but never seem to get anywhere near it. In some cases, we burn ourselves up searching for the next big score, the next big promotion, the next big stack of money. While I am not saying that work, money and fulfillment aren’t important, it is just as important to remember to decompress — to slow down and engage in our present lives. There are times, in the madness of our lives, when we get clear signs it is time to stop and settle, but too often we choose to ignore them. […] Read this entire column – The Kitten, The Boy and Taking a Break from the Career Opportunities Podcast Listen to this podcast // * A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs  ** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! 

Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch  Listen to this clip   Read the book Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide. I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it” Transcript: Share what you know. Whether you are sharing it online.You’re sharing it in person. Teach everyone around who wants to learn. If you have someone asking you a question, take that question seriously and answer that question. They came to you asking, looking for an answer and your answer may be imperfect or at least you may think it’s a bit imperfect in some ways, but you guess what? Together you’re going to arrive at a good answer, but never ever slough off a question when it is asked of you, because if that person took the time — took the energy — took the personal fear to ask you a question, they want to know the answer. ANd the fact is, if they want to know that answer, I can guarantee you — times it by 10, times it by 100, times it by 1000 in the era of the Internet — other people out there want to know that same answer. Links for items mentioned in this talk: * Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Career Compass Kindle Book * Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners * Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch Help Support Career Opportunities! * Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy * Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore * Consider a donation via PayPal to support more career posts, podcasts and videos! * Circle Career-Op on Google+ * Like Career-Op on Facebook

Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch    Read the book Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide. I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it” Transcript: Share what you know. Whether you are sharing it online.You’re sharing it in person. Teach everyone around who wants to learn. If you have someone asking you a question, take that question seriously and answer that question. They came to you asking, looking for an answer and your answer may be imperfect or at least you may think it’s a bit imperfect in some ways, but you guess what? Together you’re going to arrive at a good answer, but never ever slough off a question when it is asked of you, because if that person took the time — took the energy — took the personal fear to ask you a question, they want to know the answer. ANd the fact is, if they want to know that answer, I can guarantee you — times it by 10, times it by 100, times it by 1000 in the era of the Internet — other people out there want to know that same answer. Links for items mentioned in this talk: * Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Career Compass Kindle Book * Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners * Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch Help Support Career Opportunities! * Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy * Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore * Consider a donation via PayPal to support more career posts, podcasts and videos! * Circle Career-Op on Google+ * Like Career-Op on Facebook Build the Career You Deserve with these books

Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch    Listen to this clip   Read the book Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide. I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it” Transcript: There is no longer a reason these days not to have your own “reel” as they call it and that “reel” doesn’t just apply to the entertainment industry, ok, it applies to everything that we do. You need that reel. You need those things, those interesting things to show people. Go out there and start doing it. Take something that really interests you and start doing it. then you’re going to generate interesting stuff that you can share out there and start to share them with people and hopefully start to attach and start to bring that opportunity to you. Again, you just want to have people say “Hey, have you heard about “ummmph”? “I know someone who does “blah.” You never know where that’s going to lead. You really don’t. Links for items mentioned in this talk: * Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Career Compass Kindle Book * Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners * Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch Help Support Career Opportunities! * Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy * Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore * Consider a donation via PayPal to support more career posts, podcasts and videos! * Circle Career-Op on Google+ * Like Career-Op on Facebook //

Look to the fringe for the next step in your career from the Career Opportunities Podcast From the Career Opportunities Archives…  As many of you know already, when looking for your first job, your next job or the next step in your career, a direct, frontal attack is only one approach. Sure answering job postings, submitting resumes and taking interviews will always be with us, but I believe they can only take us so far. In a good hiring environment, these methods are fairly productive, but in harsh job hunting environment, such as the one we have now, they can leave us frustrated and morose. Silence is often the only response to resumes and applications these days. If your job search is stalled, it is time to take things to a new level — and in a new direction. It is time to look to the fringes, away from everyone else, and see what they might have to offer. You shouldn’t stop your traditional job search, but you need to start trying some more innovative approaches to finding a job. […] Read this entire column – Look to the fringe for the next step in your career from the Career Opportunities Podcast Listen to this podcast // * A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs  ** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! 

Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch    Read the book Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide. I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it” Transcript: There is no longer a reason these days not to have your own “reel” as they call it and that “reel” doesn’t just apply to the entertainment industry, ok, it applies to everything that we do. You need that reel. You need those things, those interesting things to show people. Go out there and start doing it. Take something that really interests you and start doing it. then you’re going to generate interesting stuff that you can share out there and start to share them with people and hopefully start to attach and start to bring that opportunity to you. Again, you just want to have people say “Hey, have you heard about “ummmph”? “I know someone who does “blah.” You never know where that’s going to lead. You really don’t. Links for items mentioned in this talk: * Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012 * Career Compass Kindle Book * Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners * Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch Help Support Career Opportunities! * Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy * Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore * Consider a donation via PayPal to support more career posts, podcasts and videos! * Circle Career-Op on Google+ * Like Career-Op on Facebook // * A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs  ** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! 

Don’t just try the same old things in your job search from the Career Opportunities Podcast From the Career Opportunities Archives…   Last Saturday marked our second CareerCamp event here in the Southern California area. By many accounts, it was extremely successful, both in terms of attendance and the amount of information that was shared. That said, there were a couple of people who arrived that day looking for a more traditional “career fair” where they could submit their resumes directly to companies that might have openings. One person even stated the typical, and extremely important phrase, “I need to get a job NOW!” While our CareerCamp events are dedicated more to “Building the Career You Deserve” rather than hard job leads, I wish I would have had the opportunity to talk to this person. Career fairs are indeed important, in their own way, but we can all become too dependent on any one method for finding our next job. […] Read this entire column – Don’t just try the same old things in your job search from the Career Opportunities Podcast Listen to this podcast // * A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs  ** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out!