Articles in Career guidance & discovery
A client recently asked me – “I see so many unhappy people at work, including myself, and I wonder how/why this happens.”
That is a very interesting question, which I can answer most effectively with the …
Guest contributor: Vaughan Evans is a renowned economist, business strategist, sought-after speaker, and the author of Backing U! - a Business-Oriented Guide to Backing Your Passion and Achieving Career Success (Business and Careers Press, 2009, www.backingu.com).
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Similar to a regular physical or dental check-up, it is good to do a Career check-up as well. Essentially this involves taking stock of various aspects of your career, identifying areas which are not ideal …
Change, ambiguity and shifting relationships are recurrent themes in contemporary career development. In turn, personal success in the knowledge economy calls for self awareness, adaptability and the ability to work with others. A challenge for …
Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm Computing, advises everyone to find their passion and to use the fastest and surest ways to pursue that passion. He also believes it is very important to make the right …
If you’re looking for a job, you’ve probably realized that typical tactics—like cold calling and bombarding companies with resumes—don’t work well in today’s intensely selective and competitive job market. With real-life war stories from successful job hunters and expert tips and tactics from prominent headhunters, Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters gives you plenty of insurgent ideas for finding and landing the right job.
Bill Magill is a venture investor and advisor to entrepreneurs, living between Aix-en-Provence and San Francisco. A self-described career nomad, Bill has held senior roles in venture capital, investment banking, and consulting, and started his …
The process of career change is filled with confusion, fear and excitement. It is not easy to leave behind years of experience and education. Also, there is a great deal of uncertainty about how appropriate the new career direction is.
To …
Steve Jobs offers some interesting career/life lessons, conveyed through a few personal stories. This speech was at a graduation ceremony at Stanford University.
When used in the career guidance context, psychometric assessments are questionnaires that are designed to assess attributes such as personality, ability, values and occupational interests/preferences.
You might come across such assessments either on the internet, or …
