Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch

Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch 

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Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen

The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide.

I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it”

Transcript:

Podcasting is interesting. I was one of the first 20 podcasters back in 2004 because I had content. I was had already been writing my career column for a long time and I had some audio equipment so I was able to start literally within 2 weeks of the term being coined. Nowadays, podcasting has sort of been infiltrated by the big boys but that doesn’t mean you can’t use it to your own advantage. When I’m talking with voice over people or actors or someone like that, one of the hardest things to do when acting is to get known. Is to have work. To show people. You know you do showcases or you do open mic nights or you this and the other and I tell them, “You know what? You have a great new tool at your advantage here. YouTube and Podcasting. Do your own shows. Do your own shows. Do your own web shows. Do your own comedy half hour. Do whatever you do. Do you own voiceover work. Find an animator who’s looking for voices for their animation and do voice over for their animation

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

* Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012

* Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012

* Career Compass Kindle Book

* Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners

* Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

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Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch 

 

Read the book

Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen

The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide.

I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it”

Transcript:

Podcasting is interesting. I was one of the first 20 podcasters back in 2004 because I had content. I was had already been writing my career column for a long time and I had some audio equipment so I was able to start literally within 2 weeks of the term being coined. Nowadays, podcasting has sort of been infiltrated by the big boys but that doesn’t mean you can’t use it to your own advantage. When I’m talking with voice over people or actors or someone like that, one of the hardest things to do when acting is to get known. Is to have work. To show people. You know you do showcases or you do open mic nights or you this and the other and I tell them, “You know what? You have a great new tool at your advantage here. YouTube and Podcasting. Do your own shows. Do your own shows. Do your own web shows. Do your own comedy half hour. Do whatever you do. Do you own voiceover work. Find an animator who’s looking for voices for their animation and do voice over for their animation

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

* Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012

* Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012

* Career Compass Kindle Book

* Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners

* Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

Help Support Career Opportunities!

* Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy

* Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore

* Consider a donation via PayPal to support more career posts, podcasts and videos!

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It’s the small things that get you noticed from the Career Opportunities Podcast

From the Career Opportunities Archives…

 

Over the course of my career I have had the blessed opportunity to receive some pretty high praise. Sure, I have made my mistakes and had my failures, but when I succeed my clients can be quite effusive in their compliments. One thing I have noticed, though, is that the highest praise often doesn’t come at the completion of some large project. Rather, people are happiest when I provide a small solution at a critical moment. Having the small answer at the right time can be much more important to people than having the answers to the big questions.

received a call the other day from a friend/client. She was in the middle of a photo shoot and her camera would not stop recording, nor turn off. With several more hours of work to do, she was under a lot of pressure so she reached out to me in hopes I might have a quick solution. Sure enough, holding down the power button on the camera forced it to restart and she was back to work in minutes. You can probably imagine how happy she was with this solution. This is when it struck me that the right answer at the right time can be quite powerful.

 

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Someone has to do that job…or not from the Career Opportunities Podcast

From the Career Opportunities Archives…

When pressed, we can come up with a hundred and one reasons why we stay in a lousy job. “The economy is bad. There aren’t any jobs available. I’m not cut out for anything else.” For me, though, the worst excuse, by far is “Well, someone has to do the job.” To this I reply, “someone may have to do the job, but it doesn’t have to be you.”

Let me be very clear that I am not talking about all the unpleasant, but extremely necessary work out there like garbage collection, sewer maintenance or animal control. Even in these unpleasant activities, workers can find high levels of job satisfaction along with equally high salaries. This is exactly how it should be with all unpleasant, but high necessity jobs.

The jobs I am talking about are the one’s with the abusive boss — the one’s with low salaries and no raises – the one’s that make your life worse, instead of better. These jobs suck the life out of you and, in some cases, everyone you work with. They deaden you to your own skills and capabilities. They use you up, discard the husk and replace you with yet another cog in the machine.

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Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch 

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Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen

The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide.

I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it”

Transcript:

…and I learned that from an art teacher I had at Walt Disney Imagineering. We were lucky enough – even though I was in IT — we got to go to art coaching nights if we wanted and I took great advantage of that. I’m an amateur watercolor painter mainly because I got to work with my art coach, Ron and one of the first things Rosa said — we’d be working away and doing little stuff in the coaching session — and he’d say, yeah, that’s finished. Sign it. Because when you sign it you take ownership. You become proud of that and you will do better work after that point because you have taken control and pride in that work and I say, and I know it sounds a little weird in the career world “Sign the darn thing!” Make sure your name is on there somewhere and you can get away from anybody thinks you’re just being boastful or whatever by saying “If you have any questions. Contact me.” You’re doing it in a helpful way that says “Hey. I’m here to help.” It also gets your name in front of their face — also very helpful, but you can couch it a little bit in that.

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

* Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012

* Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012

* Career Compass Kindle Book

* Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners

* Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

Help Support Career Opportunities!

* Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy

* Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore

* Consider a donation via PayPal...

Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch 

 

 

Read the book

Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen

The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide.

I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it”

Transcript:

…and I learned that from an art teacher I had at Walt Disney Imagineering. We were lucky enough – even though I was in IT — we got to go to art coaching nights if we wanted and I took great advantage of that. I’m an amateur watercolor painter mainly because I got to work with my art coach, Ron and one of the first things Rosa said — we’d be working away and doing little stuff in the coaching session — and he’d say, yeah, that’s finished. Sign it. Because when you sign it you take ownership. You become proud of that and you will do better work after that point because you have taken control and pride in that work and I say, and I know it sounds a little weird in the career world “Sign the darn thing!” Make sure your name is on there somewhere and you can get away from anybody thinks you’re just being boastful or whatever by saying “If you have any questions. Contact me.” You’re doing it in a helpful way that says “Hey. I’m here to help.” It also gets your name in front of their face — also very helpful, but you can couch it a little bit in that.

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

* Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012

* Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012

* Career Compass Kindle Book

* Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners

* Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

Help Support Career Opportunities!

* Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy

* Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore

* Consider a donation via PayPal to support more career posts, podcasts and videos!

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There are no certainties in employment, nor should you expect them from the Career Opportunities Podcast

From the Career Opportunities Archives…

News arrived recently that a friend had been laid off, downsized, right-sized, fired from the company where he had worked for 22 years. Another friend was laid off after 18 years with the same company. These weren’t static drones doing the same job in the same cubicle year after year. They both held many roles in their companies. They both climbed the career ladder. They both had excellent reviews. They both were gone when business climates, business needs and the world changed.

How many times do we need to hear this story before we begin to understand that there are no certainties in employment or in our career. There are many things outside our control. Businesses go bankrupt. Markets disappear. The entire economy is disrupted. No matter how well we do our work, if the business crashes beneath us, we will fall, too. This is why it is so important to control whatever we can in our own life and careers. It also means divorcing our careers and our self-worth from our companies.

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Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch 

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Read the book

Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen

The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide.

I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it”

Transcript:

Another important concept of all these things is to be proud of your work. I sort of took this to heart in the corporate world where reports would get made. Reports would get sent up the chain and questions would get asked. Your boss would come back to you with the questions and your answers would get filtered back up through the chain of command. I made a point — after about my second year at Disney — that if I did anything — if I did a report if I did a spreadsheet — if I did help with a project. You know what I did? I signed them. There’d be somewhere in that program, that spreadsheet, that document that said — “By the way, if you have any questions, talk to Dog. He’s the one that did it.” Because otherwise, you are an anonymous cog in a corporation. You don’t exist. Some cobbler’s elves down in the basement put together that report. You’re not doing it to be boastful. You’re not doing it to show off. You’re simply — like any artist — signing your work.

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

* Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012

* Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012

* Career Compass Kindle Book

* Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners

* Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

Help Support Career Opportunities!

* Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy

* Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore

* Consider a donation via PayPal to support more career posts, podcasts and videos!

Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch 

 

Read the book

Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen

The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide.

I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it”

Transcript:

Another important concept of all these things is to be proud of your work. I sort of took this to heart in the corporate world where reports would get made. Reports would get sent up the chain and questions would get asked. Your boss would come back to you with the questions and your answers would get filtered back up through the chain of command. I made a point — after about my second year at Disney — that if I did anything — if I did a report if I did a spreadsheet — if I did help with a project. You know what I did? I signed them. There’d be somewhere in that program, that spreadsheet, that document that said — “By the way, if you have any questions, talk to Dog. He’s the one that did it.” Because otherwise, you are an anonymous cog in a corporation. You don’t exist. Some cobbler’s elves down in the basement put together that report. You’re not doing it to be boastful. You’re not doing it to show off. You’re simply — like any artist — signing your work.

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

* Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012

* Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012

* Career Compass Kindle Book

* Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners

* Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

Help Support Career Opportunities!

* Buy Douglas’photography products available from http://DouglasEWelch.com/buy

* Use our Amazon Affiliate Code by starting your shopping at http://welchwrite.com/bookstore

* Consider a donation via PayPal to support more career posts, podcasts and videos!

* Circle Career-Op on Google+

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The Well-Lived Life from the Career Opportunities Podcast 

From the Career Opportunities Archives…

Do you have what it takes to truly be the person you can, and want, to be? Everyday I am faced with people who have decided to be less than everything they could be. They have decided that short cuts, scams and outright crimes are the easiest ways to accomplish what few goals they have. In some cases, they lack any goals at all beyond servicing greed or a bad habit that must be fed. They have given up any chance at a better life and settled for one filled only with empty rewards. Rewards that will leave them feeling empty, no matter how attractive they might seem. You can’t achieve your own, best, life by constantly chasing the easy answers down one dead end after another. It will always remain beyond your reach, even if it is still within your sight. It will taunt you with its closeness but always be beyond your grasp.

What does this poorly led life look like? You probably see examples of it every day — People and businesses who would rather scam people into signing up for a service they neither want, nor need, instead of building a product that people actually want to purchase – people who write articles and create videos that only seek to tear people down instead of building them up – people taking advantage of loopholes, shortcuts and unknowledgeable people to line their pocketbooks.

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