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: Podcasting is interesting. I was one of the first 20 podcasters back in 2004 because I had content. I was had already been writing my career column for a long time and I had some audio equipment so I was able to start literally within 2 weeks of the term being coined. Nowadays, podcasting has sort of been infiltrated by the big boys but that doesn’t mean you can’t use it to your own advantage. When I’m talking with voice over people or actors or someone like that, one of the hardest things to do when acting is to get known. Is to have work. To show people. You know you do showcases or you do open mic nights or you this and the other and I tell them, “You know what? You have a great new tool at your advantage here. YouTube and Podcasting. Do your own shows. Do your own shows. Do your own web shows. Do your own comedy half hour. Do whatever you do. Do you own voiceover work. Find an animator who’s looking for voices for their animation and do voice over for their animation 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! *

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: Podcasting is interesting. I was one of the first 20 podcasters back in 2004 because I had content. I was had already been writing my career column for a long time and I had some audio equipment so I was able to start literally within 2 weeks of the term being coined. Nowadays, podcasting has sort of been infiltrated by the big boys but that doesn’t mean you can’t use it to your own advantage. When I’m talking with voice over people or actors or someone like that, one of the hardest things to do when acting is to get known. Is to have work. To show people. You know you do showcases or you do open mic nights or you this and the other and I tell them, “You know what? You have a great new tool at your advantage here. YouTube and Podcasting. Do your own shows. Do your own shows. Do your own web shows. Do your own comedy half hour. Do whatever you do. Do you own voiceover work. Find an animator who’s looking for voices for their animation and do voice over for their animation 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

It’s the small things that get you noticed from the Career Opportunities Podcast From the Career Opportunities Archives…   Over the course of my career I have had the blessed opportunity to receive some pretty high praise. Sure, I have made my mistakes and had my failures, but when I succeed my clients can be quite effusive in their compliments. One thing I have noticed, though, is that the highest praise often doesn’t come at the completion of some large project. Rather, people are happiest when I provide a small solution at a critical moment. Having the small answer at the right time can be much more important to people than having the answers to the big questions. received a call the other day from a friend/client. She was in the middle of a photo shoot and her camera would not stop recording, nor turn off. With several more hours of work to do, she was under a lot of pressure so she reached out to me in hopes I might have a quick solution. Sure enough, holding down the power button on the camera forced it to restart and she was back to work in minutes. You can probably imagine how happy she was with this solution. This is when it struck me that the right answer at the right time can be quite powerful.   […] Read this entire column – It’s the small things that get you noticed 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! 

Someone has to do that job…or not from the Career Opportunities Podcast From the Career Opportunities Archives… When pressed, we can come up with a hundred and one reasons why we stay in a lousy job. “The economy is bad. There aren’t any jobs available. I’m not cut out for anything else.” For me, though, the worst excuse, by far is “Well, someone has to do the job.” To this I reply, “someone may have to do the job, but it doesn’t have to be you.” Let me be very clear that I am not talking about all the unpleasant, but extremely necessary work out there like garbage collection, sewer maintenance or animal control. Even in these unpleasant activities, workers can find high levels of job satisfaction along with equally high salaries. This is exactly how it should be with all unpleasant, but high necessity jobs. The jobs I am talking about are the one’s with the abusive boss — the one’s with low salaries and no raises – the one’s that make your life worse, instead of better. These jobs suck the life out of you and, in some cases, everyone you work with. They deaden you to your own skills and capabilities. They use you up, discard the husk and replace you with yet another cog in the machine. […] Read this entire column – Someone has to do that job…or not 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: …and I learned that from an art teacher I had at Walt Disney Imagineering. We were lucky enough – even though I was in IT — we got to go to art coaching nights if we wanted and I took great advantage of that. I’m an amateur watercolor painter mainly because I got to work with my art coach, Ron and one of the first things Rosa said — we’d be working away and doing little stuff in the coaching session — and he’d say, yeah, that’s finished. Sign it. Because when you sign it you take ownership. You become proud of that and you will do better work after that point because you have taken control and pride in that work and I say, and I know it sounds a little weird in the career world “Sign the darn thing!” Make sure your name is on there somewhere and you can get away from anybody thinks you’re just being boastful or whatever by saying “If you have any questions. Contact me.” You’re doing it in a helpful way that says “Hey. I’m here to help.” It also gets your name in front of their face — also very helpful, but you can couch it a little bit in 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...

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: …and I learned that from an art teacher I had at Walt Disney Imagineering. We were lucky enough – even though I was in IT — we got to go to art coaching nights if we wanted and I took great advantage of that. I’m an amateur watercolor painter mainly because I got to work with my art coach, Ron and one of the first things Rosa said — we’d be working away and doing little stuff in the coaching session — and he’d say, yeah, that’s finished. Sign it. Because when you sign it you take ownership. You become proud of that and you will do better work after that point because you have taken control and pride in that work and I say, and I know it sounds a little weird in the career world “Sign the darn thing!” Make sure your name is on there somewhere and you can get away from anybody thinks you’re just being boastful or whatever by saying “If you have any questions. Contact me.” You’re doing it in a helpful way that says “Hey. I’m here to help.” It also gets your name in front of their face — also very helpful, but you can couch it a little bit in 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! *

There are no certainties in employment, nor should you expect them from the Career Opportunities Podcast From the Career Opportunities Archives… News arrived recently that a friend had been laid off, downsized, right-sized, fired from the company where he had worked for 22 years. Another friend was laid off after 18 years with the same company. These weren’t static drones doing the same job in the same cubicle year after year. They both held many roles in their companies. They both climbed the career ladder. They both had excellent reviews. They both were gone when business climates, business needs and the world changed. How many times do we need to hear this story before we begin to understand that there are no certainties in employment or in our career. There are many things outside our control. Businesses go bankrupt. Markets disappear. The entire economy is disrupted. No matter how well we do our work, if the business crashes beneath us, we will fall, too. This is why it is so important to control whatever we can in our own life and careers. It also means divorcing our careers and our self-worth from our companies. […] Read this entire column – There are no certainties in employment, nor should you expect them 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: You want to be in someone’s mind — companies sit around saying, “Oh geez, our accountant’s leaving — our CFO is leaving — who do we know that — who do we know? Does anyone know any CFOs and CPAs that want — Oh, how about Bob?” That’s where those jobs are coming from. Long before it ever gets listed. Long before it ever gets bantered around even the internal circles the people inside that company go, “Who do we know?” and that doesn’t necessarily need to be a hard contact like “I know Bob. We have lunch every week or play golf or whatever reason like that. It can be a casual contact. “You know I’ve been reading this guys blog about this and he’s here locally. We should talk to him about this.” You never know. 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: You want to be in someone’s mind — companies sit around saying, “Oh geez, our accountant’s leaving — our CFO is leaving — who do we know that — who do we know? Does anyone know any CFOs and CPAs that want — Oh, how about Bob?” That’s where those jobs are coming from. Long before it ever gets listed. Long before it ever gets bantered around even the internal circles the people inside that company go, “Who do we know?” and that doesn’t necessarily need to be a hard contact like “I know Bob. We have lunch every week or play golf or whatever reason like that. It can be a casual contact. “You know I’ve been reading this guys blog about this and he’s here locally. We should talk to him about this.” You never know. 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.

A clip from the presentation, “Transition is the New Normal” to OPEN (Outstanding Professionals Employment Network) Ventura County in Simi Valley, CA on March 4, 2016 Watch this entire presentation Listen to this clip   Transcript: Transition is a force for good in our lives, not evil and I think so many of us see it the opposite way. We see change as scary and frightening and bad and we seek to avoid it at all costs. Please don’t do that. It is these changes that arise that — like the Troy-Bilt opportunity I mentioned before — bring amazing opportunities into your life and much like the Compass, if you start to draw — how many people remember Venn Diagrams from their math class, right?– Union, Intersection, and all that stuff – if you start drawing the interests in your life and where they connect — soi say this is gardening. This is technology. This is writing. It’s where these interests bang up against each other that all the great stuff happens. 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 Learn more about your career with these books from Amazon.com

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: Someone is going to stumble across it. Someone is going to send you a question about it. Someone’s going to email you about it. Someone else is going to think “Hey, that’s pretty cool.” “I Built this robot that does that.” I guarantee you that if you do something like that people will come out of the woodwork. ‘”Oh that’s so cool. Have you thought about doing this and this to it or …?” Is has always amazed me the type of response you get from people. 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! 

A clip from the presentation, “Transition is the New Normal” to OPEN (Outstanding Professionals Employment Network) Ventura County in Simi Valley, CA on March 4, 2016 Watch this entire presentation   Transcript: Transition is a force for good in our lives, not evil and I think so many of us see it the opposite way. We see change as scary and frightening and bad and we seek to avoid it at all costs. Please don’t do that. It is these changes that arise that — like the Troy-Bilt opportunity I mentioned before — bring amazing opportunities into your life and much like the Compass, if you start to draw — how many people remember Venn Diagrams from their math class, right?– Union, Intersection, and all that stuff – if you start drawing the interests in your life and where they connect — soi say this is gardening. This is technology. This is writing. It’s where these interests bang up against each other that all the great stuff happens. 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 Learn more about your career with these books from Amazon.com

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: Someone is going to stumble across it. Someone is going to send you a question about it. Someone’s going to email you about it. Someone else is going to think “Hey, that’s pretty cool.” “I Built this robot that does that.” I guarantee you that if you do something like that people will come out of the woodwork. ‘”Oh that’s so cool. Have you thought about doing this and this to it or …?” Is has always amazed me the type of response you get from people. 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! 

A clip from the presentation, “Transition is the New Normal” to OPEN (Outstanding Professionals Employment Network) Ventura County in Simi Valley, CA on March 4, 2016 Watch this entire presentation Listen to this clip   Transcript: We want to — to go back to our being on course metaphor — you want to roll with the waves of transition, ok. If you’re constantly fighting, you’re going to get swamped. The wave is going come over you and you’re going to be wiped out. Don’t be capsized. Don’t be drowned by the waves of change. Ride on top. Be that cork. Be that bobber, if you’re a fisherman. Be that bobber and ride on top of it by engaging in it. If you simply stand there at the shoreline and let the waves smack into you that’s self-defeating. If you ride with the waves — you dive into the waves — it’s simply going to be easier on you and you’re going to benefit much more from 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 Learn more about your career with these books from Amazon.com

A clip from the presentation, “Transition is the New Normal” to OPEN (Outstanding Professionals Employment Network) Ventura County in Simi Valley, CA on March 4, 2016 Watch this entire presentation   Transcript: We want to — to go back to our being on course metaphor — you want to roll with the waves of transition, ok. If you’re constantly fighting, you’re going to get swamped. The wave is going come over you and you’re going to be wiped out. Don’t be capsized. Don’t be drowned by the waves of change. Ride on top. Be that cork. Be that bobber, if you’re a fisherman. Be that bobber and ride on top of it by engaging in it. If you simply stand there at the shoreline and let the waves smack into you that’s self-defeating. If you ride with the waves — you dive into the waves — it’s simply going to be easier on you and you’re going to benefit much more from 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 Learn more about your career with these books from Amazon.com