My notes (Page references) 

1. A copy of these notes are both in this post - http://lifeworkps.com/hubbard/weblog/4112.html and in the review section of the book in LibraryThing.
2. 11 - I am very impressed that the author has created 16 worksheets that can be downloaded from http://www.execglobalnet.com/careercenter/resourcesworksheets/
3. ...
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In LibraryThing

1. Details
2. Description
3. Work
4. My review  (See My Notes above)

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I attended the excellent 12 hr "Transition Yourself" workshop ¹ offered by Susan Kay Wilson via the Hard Times Grant funded by the Washington State Library Renew Washington Project under the Federal Library Services and Technology Act, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ²

I am hopeful that there will be many more workshops offered and that the weekly (Friday) network support group continues its meetings.

I'm also hopeful that the "Transition Yourself" Google Group will be made public.

Below are a few highlights from that workshop.

1. Your "Elevator Speech"    
2. Your "Employment Tool Kit" (Private) - My version
   

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Return to my LWPS post called Google Groups.

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¹ 
Information about the workshop is located here - http://www.cityofpt.us/Library/Hardtimesworkshops.asp
² Here is an article about the same grant awarded to the Whatcom County Library System

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Welcome to my LWPS post about my Google Groups (GG).

I am most active in the private "Transition Yourself" GG.

Please click on this link to go to the LWPS post I am maintaining about my work with that group.

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My Google Profile (Private)

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has just released this table of employment by occupation, 2008 and projected 2018.

Thanks to Dr. Laurence Shatkin's Tweet 12/10/09

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Ofer Malamud, a University of Chicago labor economist, has written an interesting paper on the effects of early specialization on career change. His findings are that university students who specialize early are more likely to change careers than students who specialize later. He proposes that the years of university exploration contribute to a better understanding of tastes, preferences and abilities and lead to greater alignment between studies and work.

See http://www.nber.org/papers/w15522 for an abstract and info on downloading. Also, Inside Hgher Ed has an article on the paper at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/11/25/nber.

It’s an interesting exploration that can be obtained from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Downloads are free to people with .gov and .edu email addresses.

Source: Scott Gillie's post on the ACSCI-L Yahoo Group

In his  "Back to School Event" speech at Arlington, Virginia on September 8, 2009, President Barack Obama said ...

Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide.

Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up. No one’s written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

These people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you.

So today, I want to ask you, what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country?

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The speech - http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/
The video - http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/A-Message-of-Hope-and-Responsibility-for-Americas-Students/

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Dr. Laurence Shatkin just posted a tweet about a four (4) page PDF entitled "Career planning the second time around" which is pages 12-15 of the Summer 2009 • Occupational Outlook Quarterly.

I mention it here because the article emphasizes the need to "know yourself" through self-assessment and reflection. "Knowing yourself" is not only important the "second time around", it is also important everytime you either think you are about to have, are in the middle of one, or have just come through a transition. (http://lifeworkps.com/transitions)

But most career changers need to assess themselves, especially their skills and interests. “Self-awareness is critical, but it’s not much appreciated or understood,” says Jansen. “It’s important in identifying what you want to do, what your skills are, and what you don’t—and do—like about your current occupation.”

Self-assessment can be a difficult process because it involves identifying personal flaws as well as strengths, and failures as well as successes. “It’s a big stumbling block, because many people are resistant to the process,” says New York career counselor Angel Román. Like it or not, though, career changers need to consider their values, skills, and interests.

Self-assessment is step 2 of the career/lifework planning process. Reflection is step 6.

As you read the article and review the steps of the career/lifework planning process, you should be thinking about where you will record/collect the data, information and knowledge about yourself. Consider your blog and create a post like mine that I call "My LifeWork Planning Portal". It is the MOST important post in my blog. It shoudl be in yours as well.

Click on the tag "know yourself" below to see other post.

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I stay focused on and connected to my LifeWork by ...

1. ... reminders from my 43things account
2. ... maintaining a very short list of the key words that describe my LifeWork, and
   
3. ... creating a Google alert (GA) for variations of the key words in that list. I will get emails when someone writes about my key words. Here is a list of my GAs, and
   
4. ... finding Wikipedia articles about aspects my LifeWork (like career development, etc) and adding them to my Wikipedia watchlist, then making a note in my calendar to review my watchlist periodically, and
   
5. ... periodically sending out short notes (Tweets are a maximum of 140 characters) to my several networks.

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Click your browser's BACK/Return arrow to return to the post that brought you here, or return to ...

• My LifeWork Portal

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This post will contain links to other posts which will provide text for each of my sections in my VisualCV at http://www.visualcv.com/petehubbard

1. My Resume
2. My ...
3. My ...

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Click your browser's BACK/Return arrow to return to the post that brought you here, or return to ...

• My Resume(s) --> My Job Search Plan --> My LifeWork Plans --> My LifeWork Portal

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When you have a thought that you want to preserve, journal it ("ink it" either on paper or computer) then "link it" so you can easily find it again.¹ 

Journaling captures your thoughts so they become real for you and so you can review them later and reflect upon what is important to you before, now and maybe in the future.

But you must be able to find related thoughts so it is equally important that you "link" your thoughts via tags, and hyperlinks in your blog and indices and table of contents in either your blog or your paper journal.  

Click on the "journaling" tag below for more posts about this important topic.

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¹ I got the idea for the phrase "Think it, ink it, link it" from a similar phrase "Think it, ink it" from these pages in the Higher Awareness website.

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