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admin — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:59:54 +0000

Finding the right career can definitely be tricky. People head down career paths all the time and then still end up changing their mind, and deciding to pursue something different. Sometimes, people just go for it and decide to pursue a certain career. Other people wait around waiting to feel 100% sure about their job decision. In these situations, people are sometimes afraid of committing to one profession because they know there is a good chance they would have to go back and start all over if they eventually changed their mind . The trick is to decide whether to just go after something or to wait until you are completely sure a given career path is right for you.

Regardless of your situation, many people aren’t aware of the many career and job resources available to people trying to make career decisions. Exploring job options, utilizing career tools, and other career resources can help you make a better career decision. Instead of wondering what a job is like, you can even take advantage of internships and networking to get a better idea of what career you would most enjoy.

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Here are a few ideas to help you get started in finding the right career for you:

Take a career personality test. These tests can actually be kind of fun to take. When you are done, you actually get a list of careers and jobs that would best work for your learning style, personality, interest and communication style.

Do an internship. An internship can help you gain hands-on experience in one of your career field options. You’ll have a much better idea if it is something you would like if have the chance to actually experience it.

Interview someone. Interviewing someone who is currently working at a job you are considering can offer you some good insight into what that particular job is like. You can ask about the positives as well as the negatives and get honest feedback about the nature of a specific job.

Overall, any effort you make to learn more will help you throughout your career search!

Lost in the Job Search Vortex

marcus — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:42:11 +0000

You get online, search jobs, apply, submit your resume, hit 'send', and then… and then, well, nobody knows what happens. Unless you're the creme de la creme, hiring managers don't call or write. You don't even know if they got the dang thing. For all you know it goes to some cyber-shredder in the back alleys of cyberspace to become mulch for… something. For all you know, it gets printed up in Albuquerque to become the cheeseburger wrapper for some trucker named Bubba. For all you know, it gets read aloud in some club somewhere for comic relief. There must be a better way.

American Idol and the Fear of Feedback

marcus — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:09:13 +0000

Why can’t we just send them home? You know who I’m talking about- that handful of contestants who are a tier below the rest. They don’t sing as well. They don’t have the stage presence. We know they shouldn’t still be there several weeks into the competition, but, gosh, they just look so cute and fragile there on the stage, we just can’t stand to see them get sent packing.

While better contestants are dropping around them like flies, they just stand with that same guilty look on their faces that says, “It shoulda been me.” Their names are infamous: Sanjaya, Kristy Lee, Kevin Covais (a.k.a. Chicken Little), Anthony Fedorov, and the queen of all welcome-overstayers, Diana DeGarmo, who actually made it to the final show versus Fantasia because everyone in her hometown voted a bizillion times. That was just wrong.

Where does this inability to send these sad souls home come from, especially at the expense of abundantly more talented contestants? After turning this question over in my brain for seven seasons, I’ve narrowed it down to one solitary problem: Americans hate feedback. We hate to give it. We hate to receive it. We hate to tell the people we manage that they need to take shorter bathroom breaks. We hate it when the teacher marks up our term papers in bloody red ink. America’s a free country, dang it, and we want to be free from the awkwardness of telling others they need to change.

This, of course, presents us with a problem: people need feedback to improve. If you never tell them what they’re doing wrong, they’ll never get better- kind of like how Paula tells the sucky contestants that she loves them because they just come out and they’re them. It’s no big surprise when they come out the next week and everyone but Paula says, “Oh, wait… no, it wasn’t just bad reception. They really are crappy.”

Don’t be a Paula. Have the guts to give feedback. Check out the five tips below to help you become a better feedbacker:

1. Keep it private.

Remember: feedback = awkward. The awkwardness and defensiveness go way up when other people are around, and your chances of getting positive results drop through the floor. When you have to give feedback, find a private room, corner, closet, etc., to keep them off the defensive.

2. Start with praise.

Find something they do well and mean it. This may seem like pumping them up for a big punch in the stomach, but it’s not. It lets them know you’re their friend and you value the good they have done. Like the first step, this keeps them from becoming defensive and gets positive vibes flowing.

3. Keep criticism concise.

Nothing makes people feel like when they were sixteen and they wrecked their dad’s station wagon like a lecture. Don’t lecture. Bring up specific behaviors and make it short. Don’t attack fuzzy personality flaws. This gives them something tangible to improve on, instead of something they really can’t measure or see. Good example: “The paperwork on your desk is kind of disorganized.” Bad example: “You're sloppy and void of any sense of personal responsibility.”

4. Add more praise and encouragement.

Remind them you’re their friend. You didn’t give them feedback because you hate them. You gave it because you want to see them succeed. Tell you appreciate them and think they’re the bomb. Stop short of kissing them and doing cheerleading routine for them.

5. Arrange to help them improve.

Follow up. If training is needed, set up a time to get together for training. Help them set goals for improvement. Warning: don’t be overbearing here. Some things don’t require more follow up than a simple ‘How’s it going.’ If they need to work on wearing ties to work, please do not give them a training session on putting on ties.

And, by Hera, if Kristy Lee survives another week, I'll be forced to rant and rave here in my corner of cyberspace. Don't make me do that. Come to your senses, America…