Career Prescriptions – A Talk to Tuesdays with Transitioners
with Douglas E. Welch
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I presented this talk to Tuesdays with Transitioners, a local group dedicated to helping workers recover from layoff and make the move to a new career.
A video podcast of this talk will be released in a few days.
Visit the Tuesdays with Transitioners site for more information on this great group.
Happy Holidays from everyone here at Career Opportunities and WelchWrite.com. I hope you enjoy this year’s holiday presentation from Friends in Tech. — Douglas
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“Mattie Stevens, a young boy of the early 80’s, dreams of owning a Commodore 64. He sets out to convince everyone this is the perfect gift. But, along the way runs into opposition from his parents and everyone around him including old Santa Claus”
Written By:
Kreg Steppe and Douglas E. Welch
Produced By:
George Starcher – Typical Mac User Podcast
Victor Cajiao – Typical Mac User Podcast - – Typical Shutterbug Podcast
Steve Holden – Tech News Radio - Jersey Boys Podcast – AztecMedia.net
Cast of Players:
Narrator: Kreg Steppe – Technorama
Harvey Stevens: Dad – Kevin Devin
Mandy Stevens: Mom – Susie Murph – How to Grow your Geek Podcast
Mattie Stevens: Son – Daniel Devin
Sandy Stevens: Little Brother – Spencer Holden
Curtz Eisenberg: Friend to Mattie – Harrison Steppe
General Beringer: General – Douglas E. Welch
Lieutenant: Steve Holden – Tech News Radio
Mrs. Little: Katie Floyd – Mac Power Users Podcast
Santa’s Helper: Chuck Tomasi – Chuckchat.com
Santa: Larry Pesce – Pauldotcom.com Podcast
Judge: Victor Cajiao – Typical Mac User Podcast – Typical Shutterbug Podcast
Andrew Carnagie: Andy Helsby – Absoblogginlutely!
J.P. Morgan: Grant Bichocco – Mr.Grant.com
UPS Guy: Paul Asadoorian- Pauldotcom.com Podcast
Skipper: Rylie Starcher
Tip of the Hat to the old Christmas Commodore 64 Demo
Previous FiT Holiday Specials:
This has been a Friends in Tech Production.
It’s time for Make-A-Move Monday again. What goals do you want to accomplish (or make progress on) this week? What tools or information can you share that would help out your fellow Career Opportunities readers and listeners?
My recommendation for this week is David Allen’s book, Making It All Work. This is the second follow up to Allen’s well-known book on organizing your live, Getting Things Done also known as GTD.
I am looking for ways to take the GTD methodology to the next level and I think you will find this book interesting and useful, too.
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After we completed CareerCamp Online 2009, I knew I wanted to do it again in about 6 months. While it has been a bit longer than that, I am feeling the itch once again. This time I am undecided whether this will be an online CareerCamp, a face-to-face conference here in Los Angeles or, more likely a combination of both.
This is where you come in. I am looking for your advice and comments on what CareerCamp Fall 2009 should be. What talk would you like to present? What would you most like to see? Who should we invite to speak or should it be entirely an unconference? Where should we hold the event? When?
Let’s use this discussion to get started. If we need/want to move to a wiki or some other planning tool, we can do that as we start to gain momentum.
Add your comments, questions, advice, recommendations as part of this discussion.
Let’s get started!
Douglas
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Douglas E. Welch speaks to the career group, Tuesdays with Transitioners, which meets each week in Northridge, California. (62 mins)
I will be speaking on The importance of Visibility to Tuesdays with Transitioners on May 12, 2009.
Complete information on the group, and their regular, weekly meeting follow.
Douglas
Have you been laid-off or downsized?
Is the economic meltdown making you uneasy in your current position?
Are you looking to transition to a different career?
Then Tuesdays with Transitioners is the place for you!
We meet every Tuesday for lunch, support and encouragement, and to discuss ideas, share stories and resources, and garner tools that can lead us to new work, and unlock the potential for a hopeful future and career.
This week, we are going to talk about how to transition from one career to another, so come join us!
When: Every Tuesday, from 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m.
Where: Congregational Church of Northridge, Fellowship Hall
9659 Balboa Blvd., Northridge
(818) 349-2400
www.northridgechurch.net
Contact: Jennifer O’Connell at joliveroconnell@gmail.com.
Jobs Offered (from BarCampLA Mailing List)
- Product Manager, Content Promotion: 3+ years Technical Product Management experience in an online content environment (flexibility for a Director position for a qualified candidate)
- Program Manager: 3-5 years Project Management experience within software, Internet or consulting fields
- Digital Operations Manager: 3+ years Product Marketing related experience in a web publishing or digital advertising supported organization
- Linux Systems Engineer: 3+ years experience designing, developing and operating resilient high-capacity Web Serving environments. Functional experience in Ajax, Java, PHP, MySQL preferred; CMS sub-system development and support (Alfresco, Liferay) a plus
- Application Engineer (Tomcat/JBoss): 3+ years experience designing, developing and operating resilient high-capacity Web Application platforms and support MySQL Database environments. Functional experience in Ajax, Java, PHP, MySQL preferred; CMS sub-system development and support (Alfresco, Liferay) a plus
- Executive Producer: 3+ year digital media background managing and programming content plans for consumer-facing web sites
See complete details at http://tinyurl.com/career-op323
* You can find more job openings at : http://jobs.welchwrite.com
* Join the Career Conversation at http://careercommunity.welchwrite.com
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