All of us have problems. Some of us face problems occasionally. Others face problems everyday. Regardless of frequency, you can be sure that you are either having a problem now, or you will have one soon. That’s life!
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Thinking about the struggles that so many are facing today, it seems that the work we do in Career and Workforce Development should begin with helping our customers know who they are. That has to be the first step before addressing the “Where am I going” (setting a career goal) and “How do I get [...]
One of the joys I have personally, in my career, is drawing cartoons and (sometimes) being funny! It gives me an opportunity to actually look other people in their eyes, get in touch with something very real about them, and even hear their hearts for a few moments in time. We are just finishing up [...]
Now is the time! The HR team at the local employer is struggling. When production is high, there is money for training, but there is not much time. When production is low, there is time for training, but not much money.
We are in the workforce and career development business. If we don’t have our hand on the solution — which is the workforce — nobody else does either! Think about it! Be encouraged! And get busy rebuilding the dream!!!
If you have ever heard the term ”TMI”, you will know what I mean when you begin a career exploration process. Boy, who thought of all these websites!! Sometimes too much information can be as bad as too little information.
The Departments of Education and Labor have joined up to create a new website: www.opportunity.gov offering “New Educational [...]
We hear more and more about “Green Collar Jobs” but do those in the field of Career Development know how broad those options can be? It really is worth the research. You’ll be amazed at what you will learn about different career fields and the impact “going green” has on education and training as well [...]
If you are like me, you like to save good webpages for future reference. I had always saved to “Favorites” or “Bookmarks” on my computer. The problem with that: when I’m not on my computer, I can’t access my bookmarks.
Thanks to one of our CDF students, I’ve been introduced to www.mybookmarks.com! It’s terrific!! My bookmarks [...]
In this time of economic problems and tight resources, case management skills can be an important value-add for career development facilitators (CDF). This edition of the blog introduces CDF’s to the concept of case management in career development, and initiates a multi-part blog that touches on non-traditional, out-of-the-box approaches to doing case management in career development environments.
We plan to do a series of blog entries discussing the new “eWorkforce”. It is by far one of the most important trends impacting workforce and career development today. And it very well could prove to be the most effective response to the many economic issues we have been hearing so much about lately. Anyway, [...]
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