A “Gold Watch” Career No More from Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career [Audio] (1:00)

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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:

But that was about the last — our parent’s generation was about the last generation where the whole “gold watch and a handshake” at the end of your 30 years at a company retirement was even a possibility. Ever since then that’s become more and more of a joke that that’s just not the way life works, but many of us — many of the people you will deal with — still have that in their head. Especially people who — my age — who are transitioning between jobs. I just spoke to and OPEN group out in Simi Valley — I speak out there, it’s like this is my yearly thing — I speak here and I speak there in March every year. And, in those people, still in the back of their mind they can keep that idea of how a career is supposed to work in a world that no longer understands that idea of a career. And that’s very dangerous for someone, anyone, to have a conceit like that stuck in their head because it’s not going to allow them to make the best decisions about their career and about their lives even.

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