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:

…and I have people find talks years later. They’ll write me very, very heartfelt notes and say “Oh my gosh! I just stumbled across this now. This is great and exactly what I needed to hear.” I say, “Ok.” That reinforces the reason I do these things and also enforces the reason I tell people things because I have seen it work in people’s favor. Because, again, you want to be first in people’s minds when they have a need. Regardless of what that need may be. It can be any specialty, as I said. You can be a plumber, a cook, a chef, whatever. It does not matter. If someone wants to learn how to cook coq au vin. Ok. You go to Google or YouTube and type coq au vin — coq au vin recipe and you’ll find just as many videos that people making coq au vin as you will find recipes listing it out in text. It can be very very useful to you.

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:

…and I have people find talks years later. They’ll write me very, very heartfelt notes and say “Oh my gosh! I just stumbled across this now. This is great and exactly what I needed to hear.” I say, “Ok.” That reinforces the reason I do these things and also enforces the reason I tell people things because I have seen it work in people’s favor. Because, again, you want to be first in people’s minds when they have a need. Regardless of what that need may be. It can be any specialty, as I said. You can be a plumber, a cook, a chef, whatever. It does not matter. If someone wants to learn how to cook coq au vin. Ok. You go to Google or YouTube and type coq au vin — coq au vin recipe and you’ll find just as many videos that people making coq au vin as you will find recipes listing it out in text. It can be very very useful to you.

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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The trouble of being self-sustaining in your career from the Career Opportunities Podcast 

From the Career Opportunities Archives…

There is an old cliche quote that says, “Behind every great man is a woman” with a host of addendum on the end to fit the specific situation. While I don’t dispute this, except to say that it also works the other way, there are times in our lives and career when we must be self-sustaining. There are times when the support of a spouse simply isn’t available for a host of reasons. It is in these times that we can all “fall down” and find our careers mired in the mud only because we simply don’t have enough individual energy to move us forward. Sometimes, we all need a cheerleader on the sidelines. Without them, something can seem dramatically absent from our lives and our work.

I am mainly talking about spouses, of all sorts, in this column, as this is my own experience. Close friends and family can also be “sustainers” in your career and their absence can be just as damaging. “Sustainers” help us through the rough spots in our careers by providing advice, support, wisdom and, most importantly, their energy. We all have an ebb and flow to our personal and work energy and sustainers help us get through the low spots without foundering on the rocks of sleep and self-doubt.

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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:

Another really big one right now — I won’t say it’s very good for income anymore, but as ways of telling people what you do and how well you do it — YouTube. When I talk about new media I talk about the levels of intimacy of various media. A written book can be very intimate. We can cry at the end of Harry Potter ok, and it can really hit us with the feelings, but audio is another level of intimacy. I often describe it as an audio podcast is literally whispering in the people’s ears. If you think about how the people walk around their ear buds in you’re, literally whispering in people’s ears. A much higher level of intimacy and of course, when you get to video, you’re now at the level of intimacy falling just short of being there in person. Because they get much more physical cues from you in a video. They see your face. They see your gestures. It is the reason that you see I set up my camera and my mic tonight. I record everything I do because it all goes on YouTube. That’s where I can send people to.

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 really big one right now — I won’t say it’s very good for income anymore, but as ways of telling people what you do and how well you do it — YouTube. When I talk about new media I talk about the levels of intimacy of various media. A written book can be very intimate. We can cry at the end of Harry Potter ok, and it can really hit us with the feelings, but audio is another level of intimacy. I often describe it as an audio podcast is literally whispering in the people’s ears. If you think about how the people walk around their ear buds in you’re, literally whispering in people’s ears. A much higher level of intimacy and of course, when you get to video, you’re now at the level of intimacy falling just short of being there in person. Because they get much more physical cues from you in a video. They see your face. They see your gestures. It is the reason that you see I set up my camera and my mic tonight. I record everything I do because it all goes on YouTube. That’s where I can send people to.

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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Everything you do MUST have value to others from the Career Opportunities Podcast 

From the Career Opportunities Archives…

There comes a time, maybe many times, when you can’t understand what other people are thinking. You are putting out energy, attention, physical labor, — as Churchill once said, “blood, sweat, toil and tears” — and yet no one seems to care. You think your story, your cause, your writing, your work, your business is the most important thing in the world and all you get in return is silence.

It’s easy to come up with a hundred reasons why no one cares. “They’re stupid.”, “They’re evil.”, “They’re Republican.”, “They’re Democrat.”, “They’re rich, poor, black, white purple, speak another language. It’s the economy, the government, the world, the flux, the weather, the tides.” We can come up with thousands of reason why our work and our lives aren’t fully appreciated. We do this out of self-preservation. If we allow ourselves to think of the “real” reason no one is paying attention, it might break our hearts.

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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:

One of the things I learned when I started podcasting was — I figured when I started podcasting — I did an audio podcast of my weekly career column that I had been writing for several years — and I figured, “Oh this is just another way for those readers to consume the column, right?” No. This audience let’s say was probably — I’m going to say — a fourth crossed over with that audience and I would say that is a good number for all these. Yes, there’ll be people who follow you in both places, but the majority of the people who follow you on Twitter will not be the people who follow you on Facebook and they won’t be the people following you on LinkedIn and they won’t be the people who follow you on Tumblr. It’s a separate audience, So each one of these that you use to expose your work and “What you do and how well you do it” actually gets you another audience.

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+

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:

One of the things I learned when I started podcasting was — I figured when I started podcasting — I did an audio podcast of my weekly career column that I had been writing for several years — and I figured, “Oh this is just another way for those readers to consume the column, right?” No. This audience let’s say was probably — I’m going to say — a fourth crossed over with that audience and I would say that is a good number for all these. Yes, there’ll be people who follow you in both places, but the majority of the people who follow you on Twitter will not be the people who follow you on Facebook and they won’t be the people following you on LinkedIn and they won’t be the people who follow you on Tumblr. It’s a separate audience, So each one of these that you use to expose your work and “What you do and how well you do it” actually gets you another audience.

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+

* Like Career-Op on Facebook

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 Take a look at your earnings…in cash from the Career Opportunities Podcast

From the Career Opportunities Archives…

Here is an exercise for you all. It may sound odd, but I think it will open your mind to some aspects of your career that have been long ignored. This week, if you are working and receiving a paycheck, don’t just deposit it in the bank. I want you to see it in cold, hard cash. I want you to hold the fruits of your labors in your hands. I want you to look at it, touch it, smell it. You can put it all back in the bank when you are done, but for one week out of the year I want you to take a look at your earnings and what they mean to you, your family and your life.

Despite the convenience of modern forms of payment, there is something to be said for the days when you lined up at the paymasters desk and received cash payment directly into your hand. As we have found with other forms of our digital lifestyles there is still the need for interaction with the physical world. We can talk with friends online for hours, but still want to go down to the pub for pint now and then. We can read endless articles online, but still find joy in curling up with good book. We can look at albums of pictures from around the world, but still need to travel to see it for ourselves, touch the sand and see the sights.

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Read this entire column – Take a look at your earnings…in cash from the Career Opportunities Podcast

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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:

The next step…once you’ve got your blog up and running…is sharing, beyond your blog, what you do. Now, how many people use Facebook? How many people use Facebook effectively? I struggle with this every day. Facebook right now — and these items from here on in could change — they could change by the time I get home tonight, but these are the things that are kind of attracting attention right now. Facebook has not been that useful to me over the years, but recently — through a connection of friends and the way they’re doing stuff on the site — it has actually become on of my foremost interaction points beyond my blog itself. It was Twitter for the longest time, but Twitter’s not quite sure what it is anymore, but it’s still useful. I still use Twitter. If you follow me you’ll see what I post there.

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+

* Like Career-Op on Facebook