BOOK REVIEW: The Panic Free Job Search
By Julia Blackstock
Author: Paul Hill
Publisher: Career Press 2012
ISBN: 978-1-60163-203-6
I have a lot of respect for anyone who writes a book, especially on job search. Because I work with university students, many of whom are willing to read a book to develop a strategic approach to looking for work, I am always looking for a book that I can recommend. I would prefer to recommend Canadian books but a comprehensive approach is the priority. So it was with great interest that I read Paul Hill’s book, Panic Free Job Search.
Back to Work Through Self-Employment
By Polly Smith
Advising clients in self-employment goals can be intimidating to even the most seasoned employment counsellor. This is likely because most of us have little or no experience in business. We think of huge financial start-up costs and giant risks to our clients, but self-employment can simply be about putting the skills you used in previous employment to work for you in a new way. It does take planning, research and time to get started, but so does the traditional job hunt which can be challenging and daunting as well.
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In every issue, Careering will present an interview with a practitioner in the field of career development that we feel you may want to know more about.
[Online Exclusive] The Challenge of Getting References
By Donald Smith
Career coaches have repeatedly seen clients fail to follow up on references from their former employer. This happens even though the client has invested years in making a sincere and useful contribution to their employer’s success, and this reference problem can frequently be prevented. The main reasons for a reference problem are lack of a plan, lack of guidance and lack of courage under understandably stressful circumstances.
[Online Exclusive] Coaching Trailing Spouses – Helping Hannah reach for the stars!
By Nicole Miller
When Hannah Leroy found out last November that her spouse, a retail manager, was going to be promoted to vice-president, her enthusiasm was stifled by the news that this move up the corporate ladder would entail relocating across the country. As a paramedic, she had spent the last 12 years moving up the seniority list of the local county services, only to have to face the prospect of starting at the bottom once again!
[Online Exclusive] Moving Beyond Borders
By Tami Anderson
The experience of being human entails being connected and interconnected to a whole. The workplace is exactly the same. We are in touch directly and indirectly to the entire world. What we do in our daily lives affects the people we can see and those we do not. The products and services provided by a company links to companies around the world, through consumers, suppliers, raw material producers and as far as global economic relationships. This has always been the case yet we are now more aware of these connections through instantaneous access to information, email, online shopping, social media and by local effects of foreign financial circumstance. Our world is becoming accessibly smaller.
[Online Exclusive] BOOK REVIEW: Emotional Fitness Coaching
By Julia Lebedeva
In this era of massive information, the latest technologies are transforming the way people work and live. Emotional fitness coaching, as set down in Warren Redman’s book, is a piece of new technology that enables leaders to do exactly what the title says. This book is a good, easy to use, interactive guide to emotional fitness coaching. It is very timely in answering the needs of modern professional life.
[Online Exclusive] Career Development in America: Two Perspectives
Buried by Career Anachronisms?
By Sheryl Spanier, MS/CMF
Have you ever, in the process of doing a mundane task, gotten a sudden blast of insight?
The other day I decided to clean out the drawer in my night table. It had become a catch all for anything I thought I might need in the middle of the night, anything I didn’t know what to do with, and a repository for anything I needed to tidy up in the face of company.
[Online Exclusive] A New Map for Great Careers in Canada’s Green Economy
By Angie Knowles
Turn on the news or open the papers, and one is bound to come across a reference to the greening economy in Canada. This transition is about more than just economic growth or environmental protection. With more businesses incorporating environmental practices into their day-to-day activities, the shift to a greener economy means that the actual quality of many available jobs has improved.