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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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Recently, I went searching for image ideas for a new Career Opportunities logo. A quick Google Image Search on Career turns up these images…

Is this really the image of a career today? Are we still in a world of suits, ties and briefcases?

What should the new image of career be? I’m not sure myself. I am been struggling to come up with a new graphic icon for careers and now I come to you for suggestions.

When you think of careers — your career, careers in general — what images come to mind?

I’d love to hear your ideas either here in the comments, on the Career Opportunities Facebook page, our Google+ page, Twitter or whatever social media site you use most often. Even better, post your answer on your own blog and share a link to that post here or elsewhere.

I look forward to your ideas!

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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 – December 2012

1. Part-time Opportunities
2. Help Desk Technician-Long Beach, Veteran’s Administration
3. Temporary Production Assistants
4. Cost Estimator/Proposal Analyst
5. Part-time Credentialed Instructor
6. Vice President of Human Resources
7. Temporary Production Assistants
8. HR Manager (Consultant), San Diego
9. Extraordinary Chief Diversity Officer, University of South Florida
10. Customer Care Associate, Irvine
11. Compensation Analyst, USC
12. Receptionist, Joni & Friends
13. Payroll Specialist
14. Programmer/System Analyst, Contract-Walnut Creek, CA
15. Product Manager, Glendora, CA
16. Sr. Human Resources Manager
17. Sr. HR Specialist
18. HIPAA Security Lead/ SOX Compliance Lead needed in Denver, CO and Pasadena, CA 
19. Project Manager, Santa Maria
20. Personal Assistant, New York
21. HR Opening
22. Family Shelter Weekend Staff
23. SOS Program Staff
24.  John’s Market is hiring (Various Positions/Opportunities)
25. Human Resource Specialist
26. Multiple Positions/Opportunities
27. Recruiter, Transamerica
28. HR Generalist, Santa Ana, CA
29. UTA Listings for 11-30-2012
30. Director of Total Compensation
31. Recruiting Manager, RAND Corporation
32. (Warner Bros.) Administrative Support, Various Departments
33. United Talent Agency Entertainment Industry Jobs

Link to Tuesdays with Transitioners for details on all these positions

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A great article from Forbes on how and where to “invest” in your career. One item they mention is using a career coach. This is something I have been doing more of lately. If you are interested, you can check out this page — Douglas E. Welch Career Coaching.

Five Most Effective Ways to Invest in Your Career

You are accountable for your own success.   As such, it is your responsibility to discover your special gifts, attributes and capabilities that can give you a competitive edge and the greatest probability to have a flourishing career.   Career management requires quality networking, being in the right place at the right time, earning a voice at the table, knowing your unique value proposition and how to use it, managing your personal brand, being influential – to name a few essentials.  But in the end, all of these factors require one important thing:  a personal commitment to manage and invest in your career the right way.

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Lots of good advice and pointers to additional material in this article from US News and World Report. For me, the most important messages are the need for self-motivated entrepreneurship and self-leadership in any worker today. You need to feel that your work has a bigger purpose and bigger rewards than simply paying the bills. I personally believe that the only way to do “great” work is to have an intrinsic love for that work. Otherwise you work will be only “good” and perhaps just passable.

10 Must-Have Skills and Must-Read Books for Today’s Worker By Hannah Morgan

What do employers’ value? What are they really looking for? According to Natasha Dalzell-Martinez, a research director with Apollo Group, parent company of University of Phoenix, these are the top 10 qualities employers seek today. As a job seeker, employee, and/or a business of one, you will want to develop and promote these qualities in terms that are quantifiable and meaningful to your future or current boss. Try developing these qualities by picking up the books mentioned.

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Everyone wants to make money in their career, but many of us also want to have the biggest effect possible on the world. We seek out ways to do good as well as live good using our work and enterprise as the engine for the good.

They panel discussion from Yale holds some interesting thoughts about how to engage in social good while also being good to your career and life.

Panelists champion careers in social good

For all Yale students considering investment banking, Doug Hausladen ’04 has a message for you: Do not go to the dark side.

The undergraduate organization Net Impact hosted an event to launch its organization on Tuesday that aimed to inspire Yale students to explore the field of social enterprise — or socially-conscious entrepreneurship. The panel included Hausladen, Ward 7 Alderman and the co-founder of ActualFood; Barry Nalebuff, co-founder of Honest Tea and professor at the Yale School of Management; Maxim Thorne LAW ‘92, former vice president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Cary Krosinsky, senior vice president of TruCost; and Kate Cooney, an SOM professor. At the talk, the speakers explored their definitions of social enterprise and suggested an alternative to traditional careers in business or non-profits.

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

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

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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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Yesterday we held our 3rd CareerCampSCV (our 7th CareerCamp overall) and it was another great day. I am always so pleasantly surprised with how well these events work. I think we provide a lot of value and everyone seems to go away very happy and ready to take on the next step in their career. Here are some photos I took during the event yesterday.

Don’t see the slide show above? View the slideshow on Flickr

Here is a list of the sessions that were presented at CareerCampSCV 2012. I recorded all of my sessions (3) and will be releasing them over the next week or so.

• Who are you today? Interview with a new attitude with Karen Hudson
• Career Branding and You with Jennifer Oliver O’Connell
• Marketing yourself in social media
• Learn what employers expect
• Social Media and your career: A Discussion
• Conducting an effective job search
• 21st Century Blogging
• Business Etiquette “Stand Out”
• Living and working abroad
• What is working in your job search?
• Managing your online presence while seeking a job
• Rethink. Refocus. Reinvent. with Jennifer Oliver O’Connell
• Staying motivated while looking for work
• Guerilla LinkedIn: Steps to do tonight and benefit tomorrow
• Career Compass: Finding your Career “North” – How to find the work you truly ‘want’ to do with Douglas E. Welch
• Who am I now: What my clothes say about me
• Resume Review with Mitch Krayton
• Marketing yourself during a job search
• Ask HR – Q&A with a Director of HR
• The power of your transferable skills
• 1o Things to do while you are still looking
• Interviewing and preparing
• What is a resume for? with Mitch Krayton
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective Job Seekers
• Interview with Confidence, Competence and Value with Mitch Krayton
• What is success…and why you might have it already? with Douglas E. Welch
• Maximizing your LinkedIn Profile
• Paint your career “green” without starting over