Also blogging at University Affairs Careers Café- Hangin’ with the students May 15, 2012 Nicola Koper
- Where do I put… May 7, 2012 Jo VanEvery
Category Archives: Career Planning
The downside of goals
Your goal gives purpose to your life right now. That’s a good thing. It enables you to do all the small, sometimes menial, things that bring you closer to reaching that goal.
You expect to feel elated when you achieve your goal. But you might feel adrift, purposeless. From the perspective of having achieved the goal, it’s purpose might even seem inadequate. Continue reading
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Tagged Conscious Careers, goals, happily ever after, PhD, purpose
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mid-career blahs
A big topic of conversation in the higher education media is the mismatch between secure academic positions (tenure-track jobs if you are in North America) and the number of PhDs being awarded. A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher … Continue reading
Context is everything
When you were in high school, you were consistently getting As. Those grades got you into a good undergraduate program, possibly one that was hard to get into. You got scholarships. Prizes. You applied for post-graduate programmes. The minimum grades … Continue reading
Actively managing your career
The problems identified around leadership/management seem to be twofold: there are good people who are not moving into those roles/positions there are people in those roles/positions who are not doing the kind of job we’d like them to be The … Continue reading
Are negative images preventing good people from applying?
This post is not based on research. This is me thinking aloud about some of the issues I brought up in recent posts on management and leadership. I invite you to think aloud with me in the comments. Research is … Continue reading