Enlightened employers implement policies that provide flexible working hours, or condensed periods of work that provide for more “leisure time”. Yet for many of us, we still seem to be at the office 24/7, or we harbour the guilty secret that our work actually gives us more or “kick” than our so-called leisure-time.
Approaches that emphasise certainty and hold out the promise of providing neat answers are attractive to
people confronted by the uncertainties and complexities of their lives. It is therefore not surprising to
discover that clients seek out certainty in career counselling and prefer that counsellors give advice,
opinions and answers. This presents a challenge because we live in a world that is not simple, certain and predictable, and a world that is populated by people who are complex, changing and inherently unpredictable.
The Australian Psychological Society has endorsed the 3-day Career Coaching, Counselling and Assessment Course. APS members of the Colleges of Counselling, Education/ Developmental and Organisational can claim 36 specialist PD points for attending. Other APS members can of course claim 36 generalist PD points as well. The Career Creativity workshop with Norm Amundson and ...
Five-time batting champion Wade Boggs missed a week when he lost his balance putting on his cowboy boots and fell into a couch
The authors make the point that proactive personalities are more closely associated with supervisor ratings of overall job performance than that reported for any of the Big Five personality factors
Anyhow, you can expect 2 essays a week making a series of essays, commentary, opinions, roasts and research on all matters relevant to careers, career development, job hunting, psychology and all that jazz. Hopefully informative, possibly humorous, and where appropriate scientific and evidence-based. This is the career column.
Here is a segment I did on Channel 10 for Kickstart careers. It is on job search strategies.
