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/
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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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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

Received an email from Dr. Barrett with the following:

I am embarking on a new form of research, to be conducted online.

Participation is open to K-12 teachers or teacher educators. To be a full participant in this open action research project, teachers need to do the following:

1. Set up a new blog to document your process of implementing ePortfolios with your students. Use Blogger, WordPress, Edublogs, or any blog that has RSS feeds. Send your blog address to Dr. Barrett by

email: eportfolios@gmail.com. In this private email, describe your context (grade level/subject, type of school, state where you are located, whether you are urban, suburban or rural, etc.).

2. Create a blog entry that outlines your goals for implementing portfolios with your students - and create a web page that describes those goals for both students and parents. This web page could be on your school web space, or a Web 2.0 space such as Google Sites. Send the web page address to Dr. Barrett by email, when you get it posted.

3. Maintain weekly blog entries about the process, including what you did, what your students did, examples of instructional materials that you used (or developed). Dr. Barrett will follow your RSS feed and will respond as time permits by commenting on your blog.

4. This Google Group on K12 ePortfolios will be used to support teachers participating in the project. In this group, Dr. Barrett will post suggestions and answer questions about the ePortfolio development process using Web 2.0 tools. Due to limited time and resources, answers will be limited to the use of blogs, wikis, GoogleApps and other free Web 2.0 tools, not on using commercial or open source tools. The primary communication will be through email posts to the group. (This group is now moderated to avoid spam.)

5. For those who like to Twitter, use the following tag #web2eportfolios or join the group: http://www.twibes.com/group/web2eportfolios

6. Use the following resources to support implementation of ePortfolios in K-12 schools:

http://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioswp/ (ePortfolios with WordPress or Edublogs, developed by Dr. Helen Barrett) http://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioapps/ (ePortfolios with GoogleApps--Docs & Sites, developed by Dr. Helen Barrett) http://sites.google.com/site/reflection4learning/(Reflection for Learning -- ideas for scaffolding reflection in ePortfolios developed by Dr. Helen Barrett and others)

7. If you are alone in your school, trying to implement ePortfolios, find a partner and get your principal's support! My previous research shows that it really takes a school team and strong leadership to effectively implement ePortfolios. Let's see what we all learn together!

If you maintain weekly blog entries, you may schedule regular Skype conversations with Dr. Barrett to discuss your specific implementation strategies, issues and concerns.

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

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