Archive for 'Career development'
Musings on living in the moment and career change
What are you doing in 10 minutes? I’d ask what you’re doing right this minute, but I know that you’re reading my blog posting. What will you do with the rest of your day? Tomorrow? Why do I ask? Because most of us sail along from moment to moment, day to day, […]
Posted: January 13th, 2008 under Future story, Career development.
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Introducing … “Career Kick Start for Recent or Soon-to-be Graduates Program
I’m delighted to announce my new program, Career Kick Start for Recent or Soon-to-be Grads. Brief info below is from the press release. You can also read a more detailed program description. I have another program and a workshop under development as well. More info is available here.
Career Kick Start for Recent or Soon-to-be […]
Posted: December 18th, 2007 under Story in job search, Self-marketing, Use of story, Researching potential employers, Accessing your personal story, Presenting your personal story, Job interviews.
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Story: the ethereal glue of person-to-person marketing
Whether you are the interviewee or the interviewer, your success will depend on how you communicate the ethereal glue … the emotion, passion, excitement, integrity, pride, and enthusiasm that flows between and around the words you use to express the facts. I’m talking about the atmospheric fog that can swirl through the discussion between two […]
Posted: September 10th, 2007 under Self-marketing, Use of story, Job interviews.
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Be prepared! How to use stories about your strengths
Roger Carl Schank’s work originally focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and how computers could be programmed based on what we know about how human beings learn. Since then, he has shifted his focus from AI to human intelligence.
In the following quote from pages 84-85 of his book Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence […]
Posted: September 1st, 2007 under Self-marketing, Self-marketing for introverts, Story in business, Use of story, Accessing your personal story, Presenting your personal story, Job interviews.
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Does your story show through your resume?
In an article in BusinessWeek (February 22, 2005), Liz Ryan said: “We are emerging from a dull age in which the dominant paradigm was that your resume had served its purpose if it listed your jobs and employers in a reasonably accurate fashion. Yuck! There’s no story in that. The fact is, you did what […]
Posted: August 21st, 2007 under Story in job search, Writing resumes.
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Why use story during a job interview?
Read a succinct and fascinating discussion of the value of story for career development by Katherine Hansen. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, Tell Me about Yourself: Storytelling that Propels Careers, Hansen offers 10 reasons for using story in your job search. Some of my favourites include:
story establishes your identify and reveals your […]
Posted: August 20th, 2007 under Use of story, Job interviews.
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