Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch

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Today, you’ll notice the addition of a “Send to Kindle” button above each post here on Career Opportunities. Amazon recently released this plugin for WordPress and I wanted to add it the minute I saw it.

The truth is, despite my computer geek leanings, sometimes I like to kick back with a nice book (or ebook) and read unencumbered by my laptop. I have been using a similar browser plugin in for Google Chrome that allows me to send longer content to my Kindle for a while and I have really enjoyed it. It is a more comfortable experience for reading and, as a result, I seem to retain a bit more of what I have read, instead of just skimming the content.

Clicking the Send to Kindle button (or using the browser add-ons) will format the blog post for easier reading on the Kindle and then send it to any of your registered devices. In my case, I can send it to my iPhone, my Kindle Touch, my Kindle Fire or the Kindle app on my Android phone.

So, now you have the option of leaning back and putting your feet up when reading Career Opportunities. GIve it a try and let me know what you think.

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Looking for a job? There are a host of job listings available on Jobs.WelchWrite.com every day.

Enter the keywords you are searching for and your location to get fresh and focused listings.

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Job Openings from Tuesdays with Transitioners

Jennifer Oliver O’Connell, organizer of Tuesdays with Transitioners posted these job listings recently. Join Tuesdays with Transitioners Meetup group to receive these job listings directly via Meetup.com and email.

Job Listings from Tuesdays with Transitioners – March 17, 2013

• Sr. Accountant (Orange County)
• Sr. Cost Accountant (South Bay)
• Marketing Position at Bedrosian Tile (Orange County)
• Financial Industry
• Experienced AVID Editor
• Account Manager–CLD Public Relations

Link to Tuesdays with Transitioners for details on all these positions

** Find more jobs on the Career Opportunities Job Board from SimplyHired.com

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Job Openings from Tuesdays with Transitioners

Jennifer Oliver O’Connell, organizer of Tuesdays with Transitioners posted these job listings recently. Join Tuesdays with Transitioners Meetup group to receive these job listings directly via Meetup.com and email.

Job Listings from Tuesdays with Transitioners – March 10, 2013

• Entertainment Company seeks Office Manager
• Assistant to Production Company
• Director of Warehouse Operations (Santa Clarita, CA)
• Associate Manager, Materials/Supply Chain (Los Angeles area)
• Channel Manager for Digital Media Company
• Executive Personal Assistant to Entertainment CEO
• Evening Legal Secretary in Pasadena
• Fulfillment Assistant, Joni and Friends
• Statistical Programmer, Clinical Trials
• Biostatistician Clinical Trials
• Recruit LA Alumni Only Career Expo
• Marketing Communications/Sales for growing business (Scottsdale, AZ)
• Looking for Field Marketing Reps across CA for Wine Distribution
• Manufacturing Engineer, Caltek Staffing
• Micro Electronics Assembly Manager, Caltek Staffing
• UTA Listings for 03-06-2013
• Production Office PA
• Part-Time Talent Agency Internship (Potential to go to Full-Time Paid)
• Apprentice/Admin Assistant, and International Medical Outsource Opportunity
• Administrative Assistant (La Crescenta)
• Benefits Specialist (La Crescenta)
• HR Generalist (Jackson, MS–relocation paid)

Link to Tuesdays with Transitioners for details on all these positions

** Find more jobs on the Career Opportunities Job Board from SimplyHired.com

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I was invited to join this site, Happify, which seeks to help you build more happiness into your life in a variety of ways. Since it is beta right now, you can only join via invite. It just so happens, though, that I have 5 invites to give away.

Here is some more info on Happify…

At Happify, we’re on top of all the latest cutting-edge research. And it’s that research that informs the interactive, science-based online experience we’ve developed for you — to teach you the skills of happiness. Optimism, self-confidence, gratitude, hope, compassion, purpose, empathy – these are all qualities that anyone can own.

You just have to learn how. And doing so will change your life.

Visit Happify for more info!

Add you comment below about why you would like an invite to Happify and I will send them out on a random basis. Make sure to include your appropriate email address so I can send you the invite.

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Job Openings from Tuesdays with Transitioners

Jennifer Oliver O’Connell, organizer of Tuesdays with Transitioners posted these job listings recently. Join Tuesdays with Transitioners Meetup group to receive these job listings directly via Meetup.com and email.

Job Listings from Tuesdays with Transitioners – February 24, 2013

• Metro is hiring!
• Part-time Sales Opportunity
• UTA Listings for 02-22-2013
• UTA Listings for 02-27-2013
• Los Angeles Team Mentoring is looking for recruits
• Joke & Biago is looking for a VFX Artist!
• Executive Assistant, Illumination Entertainment
• Business Affairs Assistant to the COO/EP

Link to Tuesdays with Transitioners for details on all these positions

** Find more jobs on the Career Opportunities Job Board from SimplyHired.com

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I am starting to ramp up production of my next Career Opportunities book and I am looking for a few good advisors/editors to help me make it as great as possible. This will involve “crowd sourcing” this advice — having a number of people look at and comment on what I am producing.

The next book is tentatively entitled “It’s Your Career After All: The Best of Career Opportunities – 2003-2012.”

This will be a collection of columns from the eight years since I produced “The High Tech Career Handbook” back in 2003. Additionally, though, I am looking to expand on the previous material with sidebars, comments, annotations, links and more. This is where the advisors come in.

I am looking for perhaps 10, dedicated, advisors to help me with the creation of this book. This number might change as I move forward, but I my thinking is that 10 people can easily coordinate and communicate both with myself and their peers over the course of the book’s creation.

At this point, of your work, I am offering a free electronic copy of the book and Advisory Board credit in the book when it is completed. That said, I am hoping that you will get more from your advisory role than just a book. I think the conversations we have around the various topics could offer a great chance to think deeply about your career and hopefully jumpstart you on to some unforeseen adventures.

To be clear, this will be a lot of work. Right now the collected Career Opportunities columns run to about 50K words. With the additions I already have in mind, I can foresee the final word count to be around 75K words. While I will ask everyone to suggest edits and corrections, I am, more importantly, looking for questions that need to be answered, expansions that bring more value to the existing text, new areas of thought to be explored.

Are you interested in joining me on this journey? Email me at career@welchwrite.com and let me know your level of interest in the project. What special qualities do you bring to the table? I would love to have a wide range of advisors — in age, in skills, in careers — so that the book provides as much value as possible.

Thanks for reading and listening to Career Opportunities!

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Looking for a job? There are a host of job listings available on Jobs.WelchWrite.com every day.

Enter the keywords you are searching for and your location to get fresh and focused listings.

Jobs.WelchWrite.com

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Job Openings from Tuesdays with Transitioners

Jennifer Oliver O’Connell, organizer of Tuesdays with Transitioners posted these job listings recently. Join Tuesdays with Transitioners Meetup group to receive these job listings directly via Meetup.com and email.

Job Listings from Tuesdays with Transitioners – January 27, 2013

• Metro is Hiring!
• Development and Casting Associates
• Chief Systems Architect
• Healthcare Planner/Architecture
• Social Media Marketing, Financial
• Part-Time Executive Assistant/Project Manager
• Entrepreneur/Sales Opportunities
• Part-time Office Assistant
• Senior Software Engineer, Game Server (San Francisco)
• Part-Time Educational Reseller
• Payroll Manager, Verango Solar
• Quality Engineer (Pomona)
• Outside the Box is hiring!
• UTA Listings for 02-14-2013

Link to Tuesdays with Transitioners for details on all these positions

** Find more jobs on the Career Opportunities Job Board from SimplyHired.com

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A Year of Self Preservation with Douglas E. Welch @ Tuesdays with Transitioners

Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 12 Noon to 2 pm

Congregational Church of Northridge
9659 Balboa Blvd, Northridge, CA

Please RSVP on

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It is a fact of nature that we often spend many hours of each day focused on someone else. We focus on our boss, our job, our family, our projects — but one person is usually left out of this focus — you! We can easily lose ourselves in the clamor for our attention. This year, though, I call for “A Year of Self Preservation”. A year of returning the focus to ourselves and our own lives, so that we can continue to help others.

It is my firm belief that we can only, truly, help others when we ourselves are in a good position. If we try to do too much, without the support of friends, family or a stable income, we risk placing our own life, work and income in jeopardy. This isn’t selfishness. Self preservation is about establishing a firm foundation where you can stand so you can offer a helping hand to others.

The tenets of A Year of Self Preservation are:

• A rested parent/worker/caregiver is a good parent/worker/caregiver
• Taking care of yourself first — not last
• Knowing when and how to ask for help
• Learning when and how to say — No
• Distancing yourself from negativity and avoiding the downward cycle

Join Douglas at Tuesdays with Transitioners and see how you can make 2013 the best year possible.