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/


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1. Your "Elevator Speech"    


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

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

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?

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.

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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