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The Pros and Cons of Evaluation
At the heart of any career change is a process of evaluation. Evaluation is about objectively considering what’s important to you (values), what’s you need from your career, and how you will go about meeting your goals. However, evaluation has limits. To start with, evidence from social psychology indicates that humans possess a bias toward [...]
The Most Powerful Words to Use On Your CV
Right here. RSS 2.0: http://bloomblogrob.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Creativity Exercise
The second part of my career change process is a creative process. So I’m always on the lookout for creative techniques and tests. And here’s another one – quite good fun. I scored ‘average’. RSS 2.0: http://bloomblogrob.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Portfolio Careers and Pensions
Good article from the perenially excellent Portfolio Careers Blog. RSS 2.0: http://bloomblogrob.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Autism
I know (at least) one of my readers is interested in autism, so I wanted to post a link to this in the hope it is helpful. http://www.simplestepsautism.com/ RSS 2.0: http://bloomblogrob.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Paul McCartney And Doubt
Hey Jude, Let it Be, All My Loving, Can’t Buy Me Love, For No One, Penny Lane, We Can Work It Out, Yesterday. Imagine writing these songs by the age of 27. Imagine how you would feel. Consider how your life might be different, how other people might treat you, how differently you’d feel about [...]
Why Acceptance Is Critical To Career Change
I regularly refer to Dan Wegner’s research at Harvard University. He showed in a variety of studies that the more we try not to have a thought or emotion the more we get it. This is the opposite to the external world, where if we don’t want somethng we can generally avoid it. In the [...]
What is Psychological Flexibility?
I tend to rabbit on and on about psychological flexibility. Why? Because of all the psychological phenomena that I have studied, this is the one that is of by far the most help to the people I work with. Becoming more psychologically flexible helps people not just cope with stress but to do more of [...]
How to be Kind
I’ve written before about kindness, but today the excellent Psychologies magaine is tweeting about World Kindness Day and also have a test about kindness which you can take here. This got me thinking, most people want to be kinder but many of us feel we fail. So what does the psychology literature say about being [...]
From Career Change To Career Transition
I sometimes feel I need different language for career change, because it doesn’t really capture the reality of what needs to happen for most of my clients. Career change is not changing jobs. For most of my clients at least, they want to change jobs but they also want to change their lives. It is [...]