Career Outcomes Matter: Well they matter to me, and, the life outcome matter to this coach too. We believe that we humans have our lives in spearer compartments. Thanks to Descartes we believe that our brains are separate from our bodies and that our work is separate from out lives. When in fact whole we are […]
One of my favourite Job Hunting Quotes is this: “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.” Katherine Whitehorn It’s beautiful in its simplicity, and equall,y the echoes around it’s real meaning have resonated for years for me. I think this is because it has a connection to […]
Job Hunting Meaning: In the past I think believed that the meaning of a job hunt was to go out, to find one and to kill it. Rather like a cave-dweller, I had leave the domestic fires, wrap up against the element, grab my spear and risk travelling miles of uncharted territory in order to […]
I like this short list of job hunting tips from The Guardian: “In the digital age, it can sometimes seem a little old fashioned to approach a recruiter by telephone, but it’s still an effective method. If you’ve made an application online and haven’t had a reply in a few days, don’t be afraid to […]
Do we go about job hunting all the wrong way around? Do we literally treat it like “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt“? Does following the mantra “we can’t go over it and we can’t go under it, we’d better go through it” consistently really work for us? Or would it be wise to take […]
Why would you seek career transition coaching? Two reasons shout loudest to me. Firstly your role has changed beyond recognition. Secondly because you have outgrown your role. I explore many of the reasons that your professional culture might have changed beyond recognition in this earlier content. The fact that as individuals we might outgrown our jobs […]
Are you currently facing career transition? Whilst there are obvious career transition points in a life time, for example leaving academia or home buying, starting a family or retiring, there are all sorts of other triggers in between. Many of these triggers can feel that they are not of our making right now. With budgets […]
Career Development Coach: “I don’t know how you do this.. it’s like witchcraft!”, voiced a client who had just outlined her life purpose to me (& indeed to herself!), for the first time. And it Is a shock, every time we reach the heart-centre of this journey, with each individual. It does take time to get […]
Has your career development plan gone as you had envisaged? No? Nor mine! It is 2 the two year anniversary of the Daemon Career Coach business entity, and, never could I have imagined such fun! With this in mind I wish to share a quote with you that I stumbled accross that made me grin: […]
Career development: It is the height of spring. It is the time, in the wheel of life, that the dreams and hopes that we have been nurturing since deepest winter, begin to come to fruition. In “conversations with God” by Neale Donald Walsch, the belief is that: thought, then word, makes action. It is actions that makes our dreams […]