The Southeast: Your Dislikes from Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career [Video] (1:03)

Using the Career Compass to Find Your Work and Career with Douglas E. Welch

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:

Sometimes I’ll take the computer to the wilderness park down on Kanan Dume and sit in the woods and writing on the computer. I know it sounds weird, but that’s a perfect combination for me of that high-tech and high-touch elements.

What’s something that you guys don’t like? What would you put down here in this column? This quadrant? Math? Math is a big one. I have a great book to refer you to. There is a guy named Art Benjamin who does “Mathemagic” and he has the Art of Mental Math – The Secret of Mental Math, I think is his latest book. It helped me get over my math phobia a bit. But definitely a big one. Public Speaking. How many people — these days, I don’t know how you survive if you have a fear of public speaking these days. Some people don’t like getting up and presenting in front of people. Then don’t have a job that requires you to give presentations day in and day out. You will absolutely hate it, right? But if you never thought about that maybe you didn’t put it down there.

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