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It's September and you're asking, 'What can I do with what I’ve already got?' Don’t re-invent yourself. Redeploy!

Come September many people consider career and life changes. But it’s scary to feel you have to “re-invent” yourself. You don’t! You already have strengths and demonstrated interests that you can redeploy into a better or more satisfying career. Wouldn’t it be so much of a relief to identify great new career possibilities building on what [...]

September 4th, 2011|0 Comments

Telling our stories shapes our identity

Sept. 2, 2011 https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/CB-2011-08-26.mp3 Click here to listen or download -- Executive Director of Centre for Narrative Coaching I invite you to tune into a fascinating Career Buzz interview with David Drake, Executive Director of the Center for Narrative Coaching in San Francisco. You’ll hear David talk clearly and passionately about his expertise in narrative approaches [...]

August 25th, 2011|0 Comments

How is making career and life choices like a parliamentary debate?

Debate is good! Debate airs the many points of view that influence choices -- about national policies, about your own career and life choices. Imagine members of parliament debating your career choices: Government MP says: ‘Stay! Improve things, and do more of what you want and less of what you don't want.’ (This is called 'Job [...]

August 15th, 2011|0 Comments

Trey Anthony of Da Kink In My Hair. Plus, Iron Age Blacksmith; Pig Farmer to ReCycler

  https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/CB-2011-08-05.mp3 Click here to listen or download Art is a business. Award-winning playwright, executive producer, actor, creator, and stand-up comedian trey anthony, is known for the ground-breaking television and theatrical  production ‘da Kink in my Hair. Critics have referred to anthony as 'The Oprah of the Canadian theatre scene.' What's her personal call to action? Check [...]

August 4th, 2011|0 Comments

Water lilies in paradise! Or, mosquitoes and deer flies. What you focus on creates your reality

Summer is here in Canada and endless biodiversity beautifies our roadsides and wilderness. It's paradise. Then there are the annoying mosquitoes and painful deer flies. Just like your in your career and life: you have meaningful and satisfying experiences, and then there are those boring tasks, annoying people or unsatisfying projects. What do you choose to [...]

August 3rd, 2011|0 Comments

Start a business or buy a franchise? Career waves of success and anguish.

July 8th, 2011 https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/CB-2011-07-08.mp3 Click to listen or download Michael Cavanaugh’s three decades of career waves include lots of peaks and troughs -- highs of satisfying successes and lows of painful and personal anguish. From award-winning VP of Creative Services to losing everything and starting from scratch. Surf career waves together with Michael on Friday’s show. [...]

July 8th, 2011|0 Comments

The Professor Tony Watts Interview: “Organizations create careers, but also, careers create organizations”

If you’ve ever wondered how meaningful your career is to your employer, or how important your contribution is in transforming your organization, you’re in luck, because Professor Tony Watts has some powerful things to say about it. https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/CB-2011-06-10.mp3 Click to listen or download “Organizations create careers, but also, careers create organizations. It’s the way people develop [...]

June 21st, 2011|0 Comments

Will tweet for food. Volleyball star becomes Associate Dean.

June 17th https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/CB-2011-06-17.mp3 Click to listen or download When unemployed social media strategist Hagan Blount was looking for work, he walked around New York City wearing a sandwich board that said: Will tweet for food. Plus, he posted his provocative infographic resume online and launched a social media campaign. The results? Four job interviews, a [...]

June 20th, 2011|0 Comments

Organizations create Careers and Careers create Organizations.

June 10, 2011 https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/CB-2011-06-10.mp3 Click to listen or download Professor Tony Watts joins us by phone from Cambridge, England, shedding light on how to develop our careers for the future. He is Visiting Professor of Career Development at the University of Derby, England, has lectured in over 60 countries, and written books, articles and commissioned [...]

June 9th, 2011|1 Comment

Press Release Institute of Career Certification International

Mark Franklin Receives Career Management Fellow Certification by International Board June 8, 2011 – Toronto, ON Mark Franklin of Toronto, by vote of an international board of Governors, has been named Career Management Fellow in recognition of his contributions to the field of Career Management including career counselling and transition coaching.  Ed Witherell, CMF, Interim Chair [...]

June 8th, 2011|0 Comments
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