MCDA Newsletter – April, 2019 Universities are producing PhDs in record numbers in all disciplines. It’s exciting to have all this brain power! We have phenomenal technologies and research coming from university labs, while our PhDs are being groomed to continue their research and teaching. Yet, according to Nature, while the number of academic PhDsContinue reading “PhD’s at the Crossroads: Career Counseling and Coaching for a New Direction”
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What’s Your Professional Development Strategy?
The most frequent responses I get to this question is #1 Strategy: keep getting a paycheck and hope to get promoted;#2 Strategy for Free Agents: Keep current contract(s) or get new clients. I consider these non-strategies. Too many people approach learning something work-related as a task they have to do to keep their jobs orContinue reading “What’s Your Professional Development Strategy?”
New Course for Career Professionals Working with Mature Job Seekers
Marvin Adams and I have teamed up to create a professional development course for career professionals, “Winning Strategies for the Mature Job Seeker,” at CEUOnestop. This self-paced, online course looks at the unique issues that older clients face as more and more people are looking for work. Career professionals will find information, resources and links toContinue reading “New Course for Career Professionals Working with Mature Job Seekers”
Learn to Learn
When I keep doing what I always do, why do I think it will have a different result? This bit of insanity applies to many aspects of our lives. But let’s look at just one. We do our jobs well and manage the constant winds of change. Like a sailing a boat we know howContinue reading “Learn to Learn”
A Peek Into Your Crystal Ball
Our Future Selves is an interactive look into the crystal ball of our future. From the Columbia University Grad School of Journalism, you can see at what your future will look like for the next 50 or so years. This is an easy to use graphic depiction of ethnicity, health and wealth data to seeContinue reading “A Peek Into Your Crystal Ball”