Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch

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

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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:

…and I learned that from an art teacher I had at Walt Disney Imagineering. We were lucky enough – even though I was in IT — we got to go to art coaching nights if we wanted and I took great advantage of that. I’m an amateur watercolor painter mainly because I got to work with my art coach, Ron and one of the first things Rosa said — we’d be working away and doing little stuff in the coaching session — and he’d say, yeah, that’s finished. Sign it. Because when you sign it you take ownership. You become proud of that and you will do better work after that point because you have taken control and pride in that work and I say, and I know it sounds a little weird in the career world “Sign the darn thing!” Make sure your name is on there somewhere and you can get away from anybody thinks you’re just being boastful or whatever by saying “If you have any questions. Contact me.” You’re doing it in a helpful way that says “Hey. I’m here to help.” It also gets your name in front of their face — also very helpful, but you can couch it a little bit in that.

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

• Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Career Compass Kindle Book
• Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners
• Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

• Circle Career-Op on Google+
• Like Career-Op on Facebook

* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs 

** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! 

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

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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:

Another important concept of all these things is to be proud of your work. I sort of took this to heart in the corporate world where reports would get made. Reports would get sent up the chain and questions would get asked. Your boss would come back to you with the questions and your answers would get filtered back up through the chain of command. I made a point — after about my second year at Disney — that if I did anything — if I did a report if I did a spreadsheet — if I did help with a project. You know what I did? I signed them. There’d be somewhere in that program, that spreadsheet, that document that said — “By the way, if you have any questions, talk to Dog. He’s the one that did it.” Because otherwise, you are an anonymous cog in a corporation. You don’t exist. Some cobbler’s elves down in the basement put together that report. You’re not doing it to be boastful. You’re not doing it to show off. You’re simply — like any artist — signing your work.

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

• Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Career Compass Kindle Book
• Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners
• Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

• Circle Career-Op on Google+
• Like Career-Op on Facebook

* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs 

** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! 

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

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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:

…and I have people find talks years later. They’ll write me very, very heartfelt notes and say “Oh my gosh! I just stumbled across this now. This is great and exactly what I needed to hear.” I say, “Ok.” That reinforces the reason I do these things and also enforces the reason I tell people things because I have seen it work in people’s favor. Because, again, you want to be first in people’s minds when they have a need. Regardless of what that need may be. It can be any specialty, as I said. You can be a plumber, a cook, a chef, whatever. It does not matter. If someone wants to learn how to cook coq au vin. Ok. You go to Google or YouTube and type coq au vin — coq au vin recipe and you’ll find just as many videos that people making coq au vin as you will find recipes listing it out in text. It can be very very useful to you.

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

• Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Career Compass Kindle Book
• Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners
• Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

• Circle Career-Op on Google+
• Like Career-Op on Facebook

* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs 

** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! 

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

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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:

Another really big one right now — I won’t say it’s very good for income anymore, but as ways of telling people what you do and how well you do it — YouTube. When I talk about new media I talk about the levels of intimacy of various media. A written book can be very intimate. We can cry at the end of Harry Potter ok, and it can really hit us with the feelings, but audio is another level of intimacy. I often describe it as an audio podcast is literally whispering in the people’s ears. If you think about how the people walk around their ear buds in you’re, literally whispering in people’s ears. A much higher level of intimacy and of course, when you get to video, you’re now at the level of intimacy falling just short of being there in person. Because they get much more physical cues from you in a video. They see your face. They see your gestures. It is the reason that you see I set up my camera and my mic tonight. I record everything I do because it all goes on YouTube. That’s where I can send people to.

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

• Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Career Compass Kindle Book
• Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners
• Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

• Circle Career-Op on Google+
• Like Career-Op on Facebook

* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs 

** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! 

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

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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:

One of the things I learned when I started podcasting was — I figured when I started podcasting — I did an audio podcast of my weekly career column that I had been writing for several years — and I figured, “Oh this is just another way for those readers to consume the column, right?” No. This audience let’s say was probably — I’m going to say — a fourth crossed over with that audience and I would say that is a good number for all these. Yes, there’ll be people who follow you in both places, but the majority of the people who follow you on Twitter will not be the people who follow you on Facebook and they won’t be the people following you on LinkedIn and they won’t be the people who follow you on Tumblr. It’s a separate audience, So each one of these that you use to expose your work and “What you do and how well you do it” actually gets you another audience.

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

• Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Career Compass Kindle Book
• Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners
• Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

• Circle Career-Op on Google+
• Like Career-Op on Facebook

* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs 

** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! 

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

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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:

The next step…once you’ve got your blog up and running…is sharing, beyond your blog, what you do. Now, how many people use Facebook? How many people use Facebook effectively? I struggle with this every day. Facebook right now — and these items from here on in could change — they could change by the time I get home tonight, but these are the things that are kind of attracting attention right now. Facebook has not been that useful to me over the years, but recently — through a connection of friends and the way they’re doing stuff on the site — it has actually become on of my foremost interaction points beyond my blog itself. It was Twitter for the longest time, but Twitter’s not quite sure what it is anymore, but it’s still useful. I still use Twitter. If you follow me you’ll see what I post there.

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

• Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Career Compass Kindle Book
• Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners
• Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

• Circle Career-Op on Google+
• Like Career-Op on Facebook

* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs 

** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! 

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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

Read the book

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:

The next step…once you’ve got your blog up and running…is sharing, beyond your blog, what you do. Now, how many people use Facebook? How many people use Facebook effectively? I struggle with this every day. Facebook right now — and these items from here on in could change — they could change by the time I get home tonight, but these are the things that are kind of attracting attention right now. Facebook has not been that useful to me over the years, but recently — through a connection of friends and the way they’re doing stuff on the site — it has actually become on of my foremost interaction points beyond my blog itself. It was Twitter for the longest time, but Twitter’s not quite sure what it is anymore, but it’s still useful. I still use Twitter. If you follow me you’ll see what I post there.

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

• Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Career Compass Kindle Book
• Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners
• Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

• Circle Career-Op on Google+
• Like Career-Op on Facebook

* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs 

** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! 

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A clip from the presentation, “Transition is the New Normal” to OPEN (Outstanding Professionals Employment Network) Ventura County in Simi Valley, CA on March 4, 2016

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Transcript:

If you can find a way of combining interests like this — where they come together — that’s the energy in your life, because having a job that expresses one interest of you life is great. Having a job that expresses 3, 4, 5 interests in your life, that is amazing. That’s amazing — totally the best type of life that you are looking for is where you can engage as many of your interests as possible and that allows you to seek out your wants, needs and desires.

I want to thank you so much for having me out today. If you have any questions feel free — please feel free to visit the web site. You can also email me and I have a card I can give you with an email address on it. You can find tons of talks on my web site or in my YouTube channel. YouTube channel is directly YouTube.com/dewelch. Iknow that is kind of cluttered there but basically my first initial, my middle initial and my last name. There you’ll find talks on transition as well as a bunch of other career topics and even if you are into gardening you can see me puttering around in my garden as well. Thank you again.

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

• Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Career Compass Kindle Book
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• Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners
• Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

• Circle Career-Op on Google+
• Like Career-Op on Facebook

Learn more about your career with these books from Amazon.com

* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs
** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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

Read the book

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:

You want to be in someone’s mind — companies sit around saying, “Oh geez, our accountant’s leaving — our CFO is leaving — who do we know that — who do we know? Does anyone know any CFOs and CPAs that want — Oh, how about Bob?” That’s where those jobs are coming from. Long before it ever gets listed. Long before it ever gets bantered around even the internal circles the people inside that company go, “Who do we know?” and that doesn’t necessarily need to be a hard contact like “I know Bob. We have lunch every week or play golf or whatever reason like that. It can be a casual contact. “You know I’ve been reading this guys blog about this and he’s here locally. We should talk to him about this.” You never know.

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

• Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Career Compass Kindle Book
• Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners
• Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

• Circle Career-Op on Google+
• Like Career-Op on Facebook

* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs 

** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! 

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS

A clip from the presentation, “Transition is the New Normal” to OPEN (Outstanding Professionals Employment Network) Ventura County in Simi Valley, CA on March 4, 2016

Watch this entire presentation

Transcript:

Transition is a force for good in our lives, not evil and I think so many of us see it the opposite way. We see change as scary and frightening and bad and we seek to avoid it at all costs. Please don’t do that. It is these changes that arise that — like the Troy-Bilt opportunity I mentioned before — bring amazing opportunities into your life and much like the Compass, if you start to draw — how many people remember Venn Diagrams from their math class, right?– Union, Intersection, and all that stuff – if you start drawing the interests in your life and where they connect — soi say this is gardening. This is technology. This is writing. It’s where these interests bang up against each other that all the great stuff happens.

Links for items mentioned in this talk:

• Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Audio: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
• Career Compass Kindle Book
  • 
• Video Archives: Career Prescriptions at Tuesdays with Transitioners
• Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch

• Circle Career-Op on Google+
• Like Career-Op on Facebook

Learn more about your career with these books from Amazon.com

* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs
** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out!