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Career paralysis – five reasons why our brains get stuck making career decisions
I get some nice comments about my ‘Career Paralysis’ presentation which is very gratifying: “I’ve since found the Career Paralysis slides show. This is incredibly valuable and relevant to me at this time“. Grant. “Very cool … and a great reading list. Thanks for sharing it with me” Steve Hayes, author of Get Out of [...]
Distilling the Essence of Your Value Proposition
This is a useful article about how entrepreneurs can communicate their value to others. Some highlights of the article: Be clear: Your listener needs to understand in simple, specific terms what the heck you are talking about. Most entrepreneurs go too high and too abstract, or get way down in the weeds with technical jargon. [...]
Acting with Awareness – A New Study
One of the first things I ask career changers to do is to start noticing their lives more. That is, notice what is happening in the present moment, be that something in the external environment, or thoughts or feelings experienced internally. This awareness can help build a better understanding of what drives us, motivates us [...]
Venture Navigator
Not to be confused with my own CareerStorm Navigator, this is is a site dedicated to setting up your own business; Venture Navigator. Venture Navigator was created by the Business Edge Consortium which cosists of the Universities of Essex, Cambridge, Leeds, Liverpool, Glasgow and Warwick plus The Open University. In particular, I like the following [...]
Take This Job And Shove It
Quite like this. RSS 2.0: http://bloomblogrob.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
A nice e-mail signature…
Thank you Lisa Sansom! It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched [...]
A Brief Guide to Psychometric Testing
Clients are often interested in psychometric tests but not many understand what they are for. Many feel quite sceptical about them, whereas others trust them too much. Broadly speaking, there are three different types of psychometric test: Aptitude Assessments Aptitude tests look at your strengths and weaknesses as an employee. Aptitude tests usually focus on [...]
10 Psychology Findings That Affect Career Decisions (6-10)
6. It’s other people that make us happy – Csíkszentmihályi (1996) You might not believe it, crammed onto the Northern Line, but it’s true. Evidence shows that it is isolation, not feelings of despair, which cause mental illness, depression and even suicide. This is perhaps unsurprising as being with other people and collaborating with them [...]
10 Psychology Findings That Affect Career Decisions (1-5)
1. We’re poor at decision making – Kahneman & Tversky (1979), Gilbert (2004) When weighing up the costs and benefits of a decision, we make two errors. First, we overestimate the probability of failure in a new direction because of our negative bias. Second, we underestimate the benefits of change because we fail to imagine [...]
Attention Bias, Career Change and Getting Stuck
Take a look at this video. Most people don’t spot it, but even if you do it illustrates the limitations of our attention. In short, we see what we expect to see. For a career changer, this brings serious drawbacks. For a start, we tend to believe the stories we build up about ourselves. The [...]