Drawing out the implications
David considers storyboarding - {click for original post} David tries it out on Advanced Guidance Skills - {click to see the slide} David reflecting on how it went - {click to see post on TPB, stuff on...
View ArticleA strengths-based approach in careers guidance
I would like to thank Elaine Denniss from The Careers Group for contributing this guest posting. — David. ‘… One cannot build on weakness. To achieve results, one has to use all the available...
View ArticleAwkward questions
Building a bigger picture from questions Recently on Twitter, I’ve been tweeting about ‘Questions people don’t ask often enough’. (The most recent questions have their very own hash tag...
View ArticleApplied Chaos
Using the Chaos Theory of Careers in Counselling I would like to thank Dr Jim Bright of Bright and Associates for contributing this guest posting as a follow-up to an earlier post of mine on The Chaos...
View ArticleHow SMART is SMART?
An open goal - that's surely better than a closed one? Following on from Jim Bright’s post about applying the Chaos Theory of Careers to work with clients, I wanted to pick up on the thought that...
View ArticleWhat a mess
I have just finished reading A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freeman. I have a feeling that this is a marmite book. Some people (like me) will love it...
View ArticleDwindle, dwindle little STAR
Catch a falling STAR The STAR model is ubiquitous. Almost every application form and interview presentation contains the acronym: Situation, Task, Actions, Result. Some graduate recruiters even...
View ArticleWhat is our output?
So, do your dials go up to 11? I’ve been having some very interesting conversations lately on LinkedIn groups. In one discussion, a Canadian career service manager described how his team had been...
View ArticleStory crafting
Pulling the threads of the narrative together A paper recently published in the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance explains an approach to narrative-based careers counselling...
View ArticleInterview confidence
Getting the balance right can be tricky A couple of months back someone asked a very interesting question on Careers Debate about how one expresses and demonstrates confidence in one’s area of...
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