The Career You'll Love

The Career You’ll Love

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The “where” questions

I thought I’d continue on from the previous newsletter which discussed the “who” questions in managing your career.  You just might see a theme emerging here.

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The Career You’ll Love

Sponsored by Carl Dierschow’s career blog at www.Dierschow.com

The “who” questions

As you try to figure out what you want to do when you grow up, there’s thousands of things that you could be investigating.  Not only going out and looking at the world around you, but also digging down to your internal needs and motivations.

There’s some important questions that can help to guide your investigation and decisions, but today let’s focus on what I call the “who” questions. (more…)

The Career You’ll Love

Sponsored by Carl Dierschow’s career blog at www.Dierschow.com

Relationships in a virtual world

It’s tough to develop solid working relationships with people that you’ve never met.  When knowledge-based work is done with co-workers around the world, you can start to become isolated and disconnected.

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The Career You’ll Love

Sponsored by Carl Dierschow’s career blog at www.Dierschow.com

Non-traditional jobs

This morning I led a short discussion about non-traditional jobs.  What is this?

Well, a traditional job is where

• An employer creates a job description
• They open up the job and select the best candidate
• In return for doing the work, the employee receives a predictable (if variable) income

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The Career You’ll Love

Sponsored by Carl Dierschow’s career blog at www.Dierschow.com

You’re 80% of the way there

When people look at the challenges ahead when making a job or career change, it often seems as if the barriers are insurmountable.  Let me offer a different perspective, based on how far you’ve come in your life.

You have been thinking about this change for some time, haven’t you?  You’ve started to imagine yourself in your new situation, “trying on your new self.”

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The Career You’ll Love

Sponsored by Carl Dierschow’s career blog at www.Dierschow.com

Telling your goals to others

At TEDGlobal in July, Derek Sivers talked about whether it’s a good idea to tell others your goals.  It’s a short video, worth a few minutes of your time.

But I think he came to the wrong conclusion.

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