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...]
The Future of Work is Now and Why it Matters to Career Practitioners
Work has changed...and continues to change. Career practitioners need to pay attention. There is much talk out there how millennials are forcing the change of work and I think they have been given too much credit. Many boomers like and want the changes too. (As do all the other generations). I believe our economy is changing and all generations are changing with it. This also means that companies need to be nimble in order to succeed and deal with these changes in our workforce. It appears to … [Read more...]
Rich Feller interview on the HEROIC article and future of work. (9/22/16)
*Note this is not an exact transcript of our conversation, more of a summary of the essence of what we talked about. Rich and I agreed on so many things, I felt I could have talked with him for hours on this topic. Here are the key highlights of our conversation. Our conversation begins with his article on the HEROIC Career Model. The HEROIC model starts with ‘H’ for Hope which is really where our work needs to start. It starts with having hope about the future. It builds upon the concept … [Read more...]
The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization. By Jacob Morgan
This is a book about the future of work written by a millennial. After listening to our keynote speaker, Gio Twigge at the Maine Career Development Association conference (June 2016) talk about how IDEXX is embracing the future employee and workspace, I picked up this book. (Gio referred to it in his talk). I wanted to read this book in one setting as I was captivated from the start. I get tired of hearing how businesses have to adapt to millennial's. That's crap. Businesses need to adapt to … [Read more...]
A World Gone Social by Ted Coine & Mark S. Babbitt
Owning my own business, I struggle with "selling" my online seminars too hard and "not selling them hard enough". Do I send direct emails to potential clients? Do I post in Linkedin groups and add content? When do people buy? How hard do I push in my monthly newsletters to career practitioners? In A World Gone Social, Ted and Mark do a convincing job of explaining their mantra, "Social First - Sell Second". They make the argument that we live in a different world these days where one … [Read more...]