The Career Summary: Living and Writing Roles
In the career development world, it is not enough to have lived a role successfully. It must be written about it if more successful roles...
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CDA Insights
- Apr 16, 2018
- 2 min
Success: What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?
While failure is an excellent learning opportunity, the goal, of course, should be success. Then why do people still set themselves up...
- Mar 19, 2018
- 2 min
Performance Reviews: The Career Development Side of Multi-Rater Feedback
For some people, it may be pretty scary to think that others are watching, evaluating, and commenting on their work at any given time....
- Feb 19, 2018
- 3 min
Counselor Competencies: Developing and Maintaining Counseling Proficiencies
Staying on top of your game is probably a more sports-minded way of saying “remain competent.” Just as athletes must consistently...
- Jan 15, 2018
- 3 min
Supervision: Too Much or Too Little Won’t Go a Long Way
Long ago, I was a college student and psychology club president. While not exactly a supervisor, I learned a lesson that I took to my...
- Dec 18, 2017
- 2 min
Is Making a Million Enough?: People Think Money Isn’t Everything – or is it?
In the debut issue of CDA Insights (January/2013), the focus was on “Making a Million.” An insightful debate could ensue as to whether...
- Nov 20, 2017
- 2 min
E-Coaching: Electronically Upping Your Skills and Services
Being online is easy – working online is a whole different story. It is definitely not as easy as putting up a webpage. Taking time for...
- Oct 16, 2017
- 3 min
Time Off: Advantages of Breaking From Work
About 10 years ago, I read about a unique way to test new career options – take a “vocation vacation”. While I don’t know if that option...
- Sep 18, 2017
- 2 min
Kindness and Respect: Two Keys to the Counselor’s Role
Beneficence, actively doing good, is a primary responsibility of career services professionals, according the NCDA Code of Ethics, and...
- Aug 21, 2017
- 3 min
Metaphorically Speaking: Using Language Tools to Convey Career-life Meaning
Does your client walk away from your sessions nonplussed? Do the vets you assist realize your compliment of “passing with flying colors”...
- Jun 22, 2017
- 2 min
Corporate Culture: Understanding Leads to Collaboration
My company focuses on providing quality career services. We offer employees flexible work options and we do not house everyone in a...
- May 15, 2017
- 2 min
The Job Search Jungle: The Rough and Wild Side of the Job Search
While I like to put humor into every situation, sometimes it is difficult to achieve laughter when talking about rough job searches....
- Apr 17, 2017
- 2 min
New Growth in Spring: Time for Professional Development
Being noncommittal to your professional development is like walking a tight rope across two tall buildings – once you fall off, it is...
- Mar 20, 2017
- 2 min
Execute is One Key for the Executive: The Optimal Package is The Goal
Creating and maintaining an effective strategy for an executive career is more work than most people can envisage. Networking, branding,...
- Feb 20, 2017
- 2 min
Staying Upbeat: Be Courageous, Dream On, Get Inspired
The winter months take their tolls on the psyche. Staying positive is important year round, and can require redoubled efforts when the...
- Jan 16, 2017
- 3 min
Being the First: Who or What is First in the Work Life?
Being the first, means you are a leader – you are key, cardinal, head, or premier. As a career practitioner, you lead your clients into...
- Dec 19, 2016
- 2 min
Outside the Box: Using Resources Beyond Your Desk
Despite sounding ordinary, in and out are very powerful prepositions. Someone may be “out of a job”, or “in a career search mode.” We are...
- Nov 21, 2016
- 2 min
Work As Identity: The Job is but one Story in Life
Discerning work’s meaning to the individual is like trying on masks at a costume shop. Quite often more than one is picked up, placed on...
- Oct 17, 2016
- 2 min
Technology Techniques: Apps & URLs & Social Media – Oh My!
If you think back to the days when all this technology at our finger tips did not exist (or are you too young to recall that), you may...
- Sep 19, 2016
- 2 min
Intergenerational Teams: Achieving Goals ~ Working with Differences
Stereotypes. You try to ignore them and they pop up again. They work for you, especially when faced with a team of players that you do...
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