Posts Tagged ‘Career Coaching’

The “where” questions

Monday, November 29th, 2010

The Career You’ll Love

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

Welcome to my career tips newsletter! I encourage you to pass this to anyone who might have an interest in revitalizing their career – instructions for subscribing are at the bottom.

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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Why you want a mentor

Saturday, November 27th, 2010

Life is about learning. When you stop learning, you’re on the downward path.

But we have this outdated notion of learning: That you spend the first 18-25 years of your life getting educated, and then the rest of your life you merely USE what you learned. Fortunately, most people now recognize that this is entirely unrealistic. And may lead you to some bad decisions.

Read more on my Workbloom blog»

The “who” questions

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

The Career You’ll Love

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

Welcome to my career tips newsletter! I encourage you to pass this to anyone who might have an interest in revitalizing their career – instructions for subscribing are at the bottom.

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…)

Relationships in a virtual world

Monday, November 1st, 2010

The Career You’ll Love

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

Welcome to my career tips newsletter! I encourage you to pass this to anyone who might have an interest in revitalizing their career – instructions for subscribing are at the bottom.

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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Non-traditional jobs

Monday, October 18th, 2010

The Career You’ll Love

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

Welcome to my career tips newsletter! I encourage you to pass this to anyone who might have an interest in revitalizing their career – instructions for subscribing are at the bottom.

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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Starting your own company

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

You might have been dreaming about starting your own company. Since I now have some experience with this, and worked with others who have launched out in this direction, I thought it might be good to let you know what I’ve learned.

The logistics of starting a company are fairly straightforward, and there’s lots of help you can get. Do your homework, hook up with seasoned advisors, and you’re set.

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You’re 80% of the way there!

Monday, October 4th, 2010

The Career You’ll Love

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

Welcome to my career tips newsletter! I encourage you to pass this to anyone who might have an interest in revitalizing their career – instructions for subscribing are at the bottom.

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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Laying the groundwork for your next job

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

You’re doing your best to hang on to your job, constantly worried that it might disappear tomorrow. That’s consuming so much mental energy that it’s hard to think much about next month, much less a year or two in the future.

But that’s dangerous.

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Telling your goals to others

Monday, September 20th, 2010

The Career You’ll Love

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

Welcome to my career tips newsletter! I encourage you to pass this to anyone who might have an interest in revitalizing their career – instructions for subscribing are at the bottom.

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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Cut yourself some slack

Friday, September 17th, 2010

For whatever reason, it seems that expectations and commitments grow without limit. There’s an infinite number of things to work on, to worry about. Not only that, but the things you DO work on sometimes don’t go as planned.

At some point you have to admit that you’re not superhuman.

Here’s the key question to ask yourself: Five years from now, will it matter?

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