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: If you have to explain a concept to somebody else it makes it easier for you to remember and understand it, because if you start asking yourself questions — you’re trying to explain it to someone who knows nothing about it or is struggling with it — and you have to go, “Why is it that way? What– oh–hold on” and you have to figure it out and then you can explain it to them, but it very quickly exposes the limits of your knowledge and things and so you can’t help but learn things more deeply, apply them in a better and help those around you. So, I highly encourage you to take your thinking. Take your thoughts. Take your — the neat things that you do. Whether company-based or personal-based — it does not matter — and start talking about them online. Please because the big thing that’s going to do and everything else I’m going to talk about is going to do — it’s going to start attracting opportunities to you. 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: If you have to explain a concept to somebody else it makes it easier for you to remember and understand it, because if you start asking yourself questions — you’re trying to explain it to someone who knows nothing about it or is struggling with it — and you have to go, “Why is it that way? What– oh–hold on” and you have to figure it out and then you can explain it to them, but it very quickly exposes the limits of your knowledge and things and so you can’t help but learn things more deeply, apply them in a better and help those around you. So, I highly encourage you to take your thinking. Take your thoughts. Take your — the neat things that you do. Whether company-based or personal-based — it does not matter — and start talking about them online. Please because the big thing that’s going to do and everything else I’m going to talk about is going to do — it’s going to start attracting opportunities to you. 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 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 often comes in the form of an opportunity and again opportunities presented can be very scary and our first issue is to say, “Oh I couldn’t possibly change and do that.” You’re not even going to talk to them? You’re not even going to investigate what this new job is? I’m not saying you’re going to take the job. You’re not saying you’re going to move to Wisconsin. You’re not saying you’re going to do this. You’re just investigating. You’re just checking it out. At least, challenge yourself to step over that little bit of fear to at least investigate, because so often I see people who simply — when given — opportunity, as I say, knocks on the door and they slam the door in its face. That’s like, “Oh gosh, don’t do that.” Yes, that opportunity may not be for you, but how do you know if you don’t find out more about the opportunity. 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: …and I know learning by doing these days is coming and going. We’ve got this whole “Maker Ethic” that’s coming out now about getting kids hands-on, STEM and STEAM programs and stuff like that. I personally think that the best way to learn is having some component of doing. Yes, there are certain things you just need to learn, but there’s also — if you can learn something and apply that learning immediately in some physical or useful or productive method. For me, I know that would lock in facts that I retain to this day from my high school botany class that I should, by no rights, need or want to remember, but they are burned into a groove in my brain because we talked about it in the classroom and we went down to the greenhouse and we did it and that has always been so effective for me. This is one form of your doing. 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 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 often comes in the form of an opportunity and again opportunities presented can be very scary and our first issue is to say, “Oh I couldn’t possibly change and do that.” You’re not even going to talk to them? You’re not even going to investigate what this new job is? I’m not saying you’re going to take the job. You’re not saying you’re going to move to Wisconsin. You’re not saying you’re going to do this. You’re just investigating. You’re just checking it out. At least, challenge yourself to step over that little bit of fear to at least investigate, because so often I see people who simply — when given — opportunity, as I say, knocks on the door and they slam the door in its face. That’s like, “Oh gosh, don’t do that.” Yes, that opportunity may not be for you, but how do you know if you don’t find out more about the opportunity. 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: …and I know learning by doing these days is coming and going. We’ve got this whole “Maker Ethic” that’s coming out now about getting kids hands-on, STEM and STEAM programs and stuff like that. I personally think that the best way to learn is having some component of doing. Yes, there are certain things you just need to learn, but there’s also — if you can learn something and apply that learning immediately in some physical or useful or productive method. For me, I know that would lock in facts that I retain to this day from my high school botany class that I should, by no rights, need or want to remember, but they are burned into a groove in my brain because we talked about it in the classroom and we went down to the greenhouse and we did it and that has always been so effective for me. This is one form of your doing. 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 

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: To finish up today…kind of reiterate some of the things we talked about. Transition is normal down to using your opposite hand to write with. It’s normal and the feelings it generates are normal. That uncomfortableness. That fear. That clumsiness. That — the fact that sometimes you feel a little stupid with this hand, but it is normal. It’s with us in everything we do. It’s with us when we miss the turn on the freeway and go up an exit. It’s just there. You deal.   We need to keep — we need to engage in transition at every opportunity that we see it. We need — wee need to stop — if you’re doing this — avoiding it and pushing it away. We need to reach out and shake its hand and engage with it. Frankly, because transition is where so many opportunities will come in your life. 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: To finish up today…kind of reiterate some of the things we talked about. Transition is normal down to using your opposite hand to write with. It’s normal and the feelings it generates are normal. That uncomfortableness. That fear. That clumsiness. That — the fact that sometimes you feel a little stupid with this hand, but it is normal. It’s with us in everything we do. It’s with us when we miss the turn on the freeway and go up an exit. It’s just there. You deal.   We need to keep — we need to engage in transition at every opportunity that we see it. We need — wee need to stop — if you’re doing this — avoiding it and pushing it away. We need to reach out and shake its hand and engage with it. Frankly, because transition is where so many opportunities will come in your life. 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: It’s your job to put that stuff out there. There’s a famous study from a creativity book many years ago — many decades ago — where they took 2 art classes and they said “Art Class A. Your job is to produce the perfect pot. You have all semester. Produce the perfect pot.” Ok? They went to the second class and said “Class. Your job is to produce as many pots as you can possibly do in the semester. Ok? Quality doesn’t matter just produce as many pots as you possibly can.” Then they had a little show at the end of the semester and they brought the pots together from the “quantity” class and the “quality” class. Guess which class was judged to have the highest quality of pot?These guys. Quantity is important if you’re learning from each one you do. Thet fact is, while this class was trying to perfect a pot, this class was throwing out tons and tons of pots and hopefully learning with every single pot they made. What did work, What didn’t work, so that by the end of the semester they were able to produce a high-quality pot because they simply learned by doing. 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 P...

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: It’s your job to put that stuff out there. There’s a famous study from a creativity book many years ago — many decades ago — where they took 2 art classes and they said “Art Class A. Your job is to produce the perfect pot. You have all semester. Produce the perfect pot.” Ok? They went to the second class and said “Class. Your job is to produce as many pots as you can possibly do in the semester. Ok? Quality doesn’t matter just produce as many pots as you possibly can.” Then they had a little show at the end of the semester and they brought the pots together from the “quantity” class and the “quality” class. Guess which class was judged to have the highest quality of pot?These guys. Quantity is important if you’re learning from each one you do. Thet fact is, while this class was trying to perfect a pot, this class was throwing out tons and tons of pots and hopefully learning with every single pot they made. What did work, What didn’t work, so that by the end of the semester they were able to produce a high-quality pot because they simply learned by doing. 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! *

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: Another thing — back to what you were saying too — those stable parts of our life are important to us because it’s that stability that allows us the freedom to be a bit more adventurous. Having X number of dollars in the bank. You’re not going to go crazy, but you have the freedom to read that new book or do this or visit this museum or — it provides you a base platform to stand on and say, “Ok. at this point in my life, I’m stable. I understand that. Things are a little crazy up here, but I have this place to stand and now I can start to reach out — without fear — and say “What else is out there? What else can I investigate?” 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 Listen to this clip   Transcript: Those little things. I learned something new. I burnt a little groove. One more little groove in my brain. I Learned something new and we should all be seeking that out every day. Because it’s that that keeps us — I’m going to say something really great huge philosophical statement here — it’s our learning that keeps us alive. It’s our learning that makes us better people. It’s learning that allows us to do more and better work and do more good in the world. When we talk about big concepts and big ideas and big charities and big things. It all starts here. We’ve got to be doing those little things for yourself. Those little changes for yourself Those little learning for your yourself that bring some joy to your life. Bring some further skills to your life and just keep us feeling alive. 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: Those little things. I learned something new. I burnt a little groove. One more little groove in my brain. I Learned something new and we should all be seeking that out every day. Because it’s that that keeps us — I’m going to say something really great huge philosophical statement here — it’s our learning that keeps us alive. It’s our learning that makes us better people. It’s learning that allows us to do more and better work and do more good in the world. When we talk about big concepts and big ideas and big charities and big things. It all starts here. We’ve got to be doing those little things for yourself. Those little changes for yourself Those little learning for your yourself that bring some joy to your life. Bring some further skills to your life and just keep us feeling alive. 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 Listen to this clip   Transcript: Taking that different drive to work. That’s another creativity exercise. They’ll tell people sometimes, “You’re thinking is kind of stuck?Go to work a different way that you’ve never gone before.” Turn off Waze and pick which way you want to go and just randomly go somewhere. Sometimes, if I’m not in a time crunch. I’m coming back from a client or something like that, I’ll just drive down the streets that I’ve never driven down before. There are streets in the San Fernando Valley — I’ve lived here 30 years — I’ve never driven down before and sometimes it’s just like “ahh, let’s take a right here.” It keeps your thinking fresh. It keeps that transition “muscle” — the flexibility muscle — toned. We know if we don’t use a physical muscle it atrophies and it makes it all the more harder to use it down the road. Same thing, to me, happens with transition and change. The less we change — the less we engage with change — the less comfortable we are with it. 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 Amaz...

More of the same from the Career Opportunities Podcast From the Career Opportunities Archives… Even in this world of constant new ideas, too many people fall back on the same old, same old. It’s no surprise, really. The same is always easier, more popular, more profitable, more salable to partners. Of course, that is all fine and dandy, but it can also be colossally boring. It can be the digital equivalent of churning out widgets or typing up memos, day after day. It can be stagnating to both you and and the people you work for. Even worse, while a company can cash out when “the same old same old” is no longer profitable, you will have been stagnating in one place and actually reducing your career options along the way. […] Read this entire column –  More of the same from the Career Opportunities Podcast Listen to this 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!