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April 9, 2018 by Jim Peacock 6 Comments

Respecting all Career Pathways

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 certificate. All too often, I hear people say they will go to college and figure it out there. That is a very expensive and time-consuming way to do career … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career Tagged With: apprenticeships, career and technical education, career pathways, certifications, college career advice, community college, crafts people, future of work, honor all jobs, pre-apprenticeship, professional development, trade school, trades people

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

June 26, 2014 by Jim Peacock 7 Comments

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 the degree, picking the wrong college, or choosing the wrong major. As a career practitioner this strikes me as odd. Not only is this detrimental to our economy, but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career Tagged With: college career advice, crafts people, craftsmen, honor all jobs, Life Coaching, trades people

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

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