There are many career pathways to success. Our job as career coaches and practitioners is to help our students and clients discover a career by exploring career pathways that match their strengths and interests. Then to explore all the career pathways on how to get there, whether it is an apprenticeship, bachelors degree, trade school, or […]
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 […]
Honoring All Jobs
Far too often, the message delivered to young people is that “everyone needs to go to college” to be successful. Evidence of this assumption surfaces everywhere. High schools put up signs with seniors who have been accepted into colleges. NPR publishes articles that say the only downside to getting a college degree is not finishing […]
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 […]
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 […]
How To Get Any Job With Any Major
How To Get Any Job With Any Major (or how to avoid living in your parent’s basement) by Don Asher As I write this, we looking to bring Don Asher to Colby College this spring and I wanted to read this book in preparation for his visit. I have seen Don present at the Middle […]