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Skills can be developed a wide variety of ways

March 13, 2017 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

Skills can be developed through on-the-job training, short term certificates or diplomas, even on-line through YouTube or Lynda.com, as well as college degrees. Our economy needs ALL kinds of skills to run. This struck me as I have been working with a number of clients recently who have done very well in the world of work without a college degree.

Bryan Alexander says “Goldman Sachs shared their analysis of higher education for investors a few weeks ago, and it’s an important document for people in higher education to consider.  Goldman is enormously influential in the finance world, and also in government, two realms with a lot of clout in academic institutions. Is the ROI of attending college worth it?”  (Read his analysis) [Read more…] about Skills can be developed a wide variety of ways

Filed Under: Career Tagged With: identifying skills, motivated skills, skills, skills for work

Creativity, Card Sorts & The Conversation

January 28, 2014 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

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Creativity is one of the reasons I enjoy using a variety of “card-sorts” in career coaching with Boomers & with Colby College students.  There are no answers printed out from a software program,  no one way of using the cards, only the conversation it generates.  I LOVE it!

If you have not used card sorts in your practice, I suggest you explore using them.  If you use them now, keep up the good work!

I recently met with a first year college student who was all confused about choosing an occupation.  She was so “hung up” on choosing a specific job that she practically stumbled all over herself, “I thought about being a lawyer because my mom is one, then going into medicine, then being an architect…I even went to a month long architect camp, and I’ve thought about sociology.”  I have a magnetic dart board in my office with various occupations on it and I asked, “Do you want to choose a career by throwing the dart?”  She actually said yes and was literally ready to choose by throwing a dart!  She hit Land Use Planning and immediately wanted to know about that job.  

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Filed Under: Career Tagged With: card sorts, career advising, career coaching, career counseling, happenstance, informal assessment, motivated skills, trust instincts

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