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Graduate to a Great Job. Make your College Degree Pay Off in TODAY’s Market. By David DeLong

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Graduate to a Great Job. Make your College Degree Pay Off in TODAY’s Market. By David DeLong

One of my jobs is working part time at Colby College in the Career Center and the Director loaned me this book because David is a Colby alumni and she had recently met him.  Curious, I began reading it when I was covering “drop-in” hours and was hooked immediately.  I finished it over the weekend, great stuff!

This is a book written to college students and their parents and is filled with practical advice on a range of job seeking topics from networking (which is obviously the key piece), the importance of internships, tips on writing a strong resume, interviewing, attitude, and the parents role (one chapter devoted to what parents should and should not do). He also recommends getting into the College Career Center and getting as much as you can out of it while the student is there.

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The Third Chapter by Sara Lawrence -Lightfoot

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The Third Chapter by Sara Lawrence -Lightfoot is a great book on understanding this Third Chapter of life and how we as career practitioners can help people successfully navigate aging.  She states this navigation requires curiosity, adaptability, engagement in new perspectives, skills, experiences, and vulnerability & uncertainty.  Yes, it complicated but millions of Boomers are facing this time in their life that will require assistance.

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She speaks to the developmental stage perspective using Bridges Transition work, Eriksons’ view of life span, and gerontologists Neugarten & Hagestad who say “people no longer move from adulthood to old age, but instead go through a relatively long interval when physical vigor remains high, family responsibilities are low, and commitment to work continues but changes.”

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Have you thanked your network recently?

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A network is only as good as you make it.  Have you thanked anyone in your network recently?
Thanksgiving seems like a great time to show my gratefulness to a few people in my network.  I have so many people to thank that I have decided to start today with five somewhat random people in my network and simply thank them for being a part of my network.

A couple of years ago, I read a blog titled “Four Easy Network Tips fro 2011” by Shoya (see link below) that encouraged people to do four things each month to keep your network current.  These pop up on my calendar each month as a reminder I am not alone in my profession.

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