Career Buzz

Dr. Hoda Kilani is raising Career Literacy one interview at a time. On a recent episode of Hoda’s Career Info, she interviewed Mike Bird and Cathy Ginsberg.

Our interviewer, Hoda Kilani, is a Certified Professional Career Coach and Founder of Right Career Fit. Find Hoda’s career info on Youtube and Soundcloud and Linkedin.

Interested in career counselling for you or someone you care about? Here’s how to get started.

What do you do if you in a job transition and finding yourself isolated and unsure what to do next? Well if you’re lucky enough to find a job search group like the one led by Janet Glover-Kerkvliet you’re in good shape. Under her leadership, the Baltimore Job Hunters Support Group has helped over 1000 people find jobs and a sense of community.

Her connection to offering career support runs deep, with a unique childhood connection to her father’s career story. But before Janet found the work she loves – now as a clinical counselor & career coach – she had a circuitous career arc starting with her fascination with biological parasites and leading to writing for the National Institutes of Health.

Mark Franklin has personally known Janet for a few years when she trained at OneLifeTools, as they share a common interest in alternative and narrative tools to support career changers. 

You browse through countless options on Netflix, unable to commit to watching any given show—and losing so much time skimming reviews and considering trailers that it’s too late to watch anything. In a book borne of an idea first articulated in a viral commencement address, Pete Davis argues that this is the defining characteristic of the moment: keeping our options open. Pete talks about being stuck in “Infinite Browsing Mode”—  jumping from place to place searching for the next big thing, and refusing to make any decision that might close us off from an even better choice we imagine is just around the corner. This culture of restlessness and indecision, Pete Davis argues, is causing tension in the lives of young people today: who want to keep options open, and yet yearn for the purpose, community, and depth that can only come from making deep commitments.

Host of Career Buzz, Mark Franklin, read Pete Davis’s book - Dedicated, The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing – and felt like he had to interview Pete for Career Buzz. It’s a book for life, but also, a career book. In it he talks about the counterculture of committers who have made it to the other side of infinite browsing. He shares what we can learn from “long-haul heroes” who courageously commit themselves to particular places, professions, and causes.  His book and hopefully this interview is an inspiring and transformative argument that purposeful commitment can be a powerful force in our age of restlessness and indecision.

As work and workplaces continue to change, these Career Buzz guests look to what career education can do to help students navigate careers well beyond their first job. In this episode, we hear from editors and authors of a new book called Mapping the Future of Undergraduate Career Education: Equitable Career Learning, Development, and Preparation in the New World of Work. Mike Stebleton and I co-authored Chapter 12: Applying Narrative Approaches to Support Undergraduate Career Decision-Making.

They discuss the future of work, paradigm shifts needed in career education, focusing on equity, and the potential of experiential learning. Listen in to hear from editors and authors, Melanie Buford, Michael J. Stebleton, Michael Sharp, Heather Nester.  They were guests on the Student Affairs Now podcast hosted by Keith Edwards on episode 107: The Future of Undergraduate Career Education.

Dr Hoda Kilani is raising Career Literacy one interview at a time. On a recent episode of her Hoda’s Career Info she interviewed Daisy Wright, founder and Chief Encouragement Officer at The Wright Career Solution. Executives, managers and professionals hire Daisy to help them stand out from their competitors and attract the right job or career opportunity. Bottomline: Daisy helps clients find satisfying careers and get hired FASTER!

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Our interviewer, Hoda Kilani, is a Certified Professional Career Coach and Founder of Right Career Fit. Find Hoda’s career info on Youtube and Soundcloud and Linkedin.

Interested in career counselling for you or someone you care about? Here's how to get started.

How can you be productive, especially while Working From Home? What are good routines, scheduling, and planning, space management? Today’s guest, Lucas Root, is a speaker and consultant, author and entrepreneur, and a podcaster. He’s led teams on Wall Street and has consulted with clients from Wells Fargo to Pokeman. Lucas authored the WORKING FROM HOME MASTERY COURSE. 

On this episode we listen to Hoda’s career info.

David is the creator and host of the Lead. Learn. Change. podcast, and author of a book by the same title.

He currently runs point for the Impact Project at the Professional Association of Georgia Educators. He is a former public-school teacher and administrator.

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Winner of provincial and national awards in career development, Dr Dave Redekopp is the president of Life-Role Development Group Limited. He has devoted over thirty years to the development of better career development and workplace concepts and practices. His work has addressed a wide arrange of issues in both career development and leadership, from helping at-risk teens manage their career paths to developing leaders in the corporate world. Dave has been privileged to be invited to work in almost all Canadian provinces and territories and in a number of countries. His passion for career and leadership development pervades his work, which includes teaching, facilitation, public speaking, product development and research.

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Lots of people wonder if starting a business is a good fit for them; should you get a job – or should you do you own thing, be your own boss, and succeed - or fail - on your own terms. Successful entrepreneurs seem to have that special mix of 3 things: 1) viable business ideas, 2) skills to sell and negotiate anything, and 3) healthy doses of resilience - and optimism. Today’s guest possesses all three. Today on your show, an insightful entrepreneurial career story – featuring a very special person in my life, my father, Al Franklin.

You can contact Dr. Jim Bright on Bright and Associates Career Solutions' website

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