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November 9, 2015 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

How do you find that “sweet spot” when working with midlife career changes?

How do you find that “sweet spot” when working with midlife career changes? Well, my advice is no different than what I often discuss with college students: “What do you bring to the company or organization that you want to work for?” The biggest difference for midlife career changers is that they have an opportunity to look back on their lives and years of experience with deeper knowledge and perspective. Whether they want to leave jobs that they've held for many years or find meaningful … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career Tagged With: advising boomers, Boomers, career advising, career changers, Life Coaching, skills for work, using card sorts, working with boomers

August 21, 2014 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

Cracking The Hidden Job Market by Don Asher

I like Don Asher's style and practical approach to career coaching & advising. This book is filled with great advice on helping people realize that you "have to turn over a lot of rocks to find work" (that's what I say all the time, see my blog on this). He says that all industries are hiring all the time due to death, firings, people moving, retirement, expansion, or whatever. I agree. When people say there are no jobs in our area, I say, "There are people getting hired in Waterville … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: career advising, career coaching, college career advice, Don Asher, Hidden Job Market

April 29, 2014 by Jim Peacock 2 Comments

My favorite career bloggers

LinkedIn, Twitter, Google +, Facebook, conferences, journals, and more continue to come across our desks as ways to do professional development.  (See previous blog on this topic). So how do we manage all this information?  I found that there are key people out there writing about topics meaningful to me and that if I follow these key people, they will either sift through the volumes of topics and synthesize for me or they write topics I am interested in.    I also use feedly.com to organize … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career Tagged With: bloggers, blogs, career advising, career coaching, college career advice

April 15, 2014 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

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

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: academic advising, career advising, career coaching, college career advice, college student advice, David DeLong, Life Coaching

April 6, 2014 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

The Encore Career Handbook. By Marci Alboher

The Encore Career Handbook.  How To Make A Living And A Difference In The Second Half Of Life. Marci Alboher I stumbled onto this book one day at Barnes & Nobles when I was trying to burn up my Christmas gift certificate and it was a wonderful discovery.  Not only am I a “boomer” but I provide career counseling / coaching for Boomers and found this book to be “chock-a-block” full of information, resources, activities, and great ideas for anyone who is over 50 and thinking about leaving … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: advising boomers, Boomers, career advising, career coaching, Encore Career, Life Coaching, working with boomers

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