Too bad I didn’t learn about this tool sooner as TODAY is the deadline for entering a contest based on the tool (but there’s no deadline for just using it). Google and American Express have created a tool to make it easier for small-business owners to create a short video … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Life Story, Archetypes, and Symbols: Life-Story Interventions that Guide Career Choice, Part 2
Continuing to explore some recent encounters with ways of using life story to make career choices … “… [T]o view your life as ‘nothing but the facts” is to miss an opportunity to for a marvelous adventure,” writes Laurence G. Boldt in Zen and The Art of Making A Living, … Continue reading
Story of Broke Garners Attention, Criticism
I think I’ve posted most of the entries in the Story of Stuff series; yesterday, I started seeing The Story of Broke being shared. When I went to view it on YouTube, I noted that it many critical comments were posted. I’m sure at least some of them are from … Continue reading
Life-Story Interventions that Guide Career Choice, Part 1
I write a lot about using story in the job search, but narrative is also useful in figuring out what career to pursue. I’ve experienced a recent convergence of exposure to several interventions — both online and offline — that ask users to create their life stories as a way … Continue reading
Job-Search Storytelling: Brand Story and Interview-Story Formula
A couple of recent articles by career practitioners have focused on storytelling. My colleague Sharon Graham continues her excellent series on career storytelling with Advancing your career through effective storytelling (see others in the series here). Sharon focuses on developing your personal career branding story, a “central story [that is] … Continue reading
#JobActionDay11: A Start-Up Story of Triumphing Over Job Loss
Today (11-07-11) is Job Action Day 2011, the fourth annual such event. This year’s theme is: “Skill Up, Start Up, Speak Up.” The “Start Up” aspect of the theme refers not only to tackling unemployment during the recession by starting a small business, but also developing a whole new mindset … Continue reading
Noteworthy Offerings from Story Practitioners
These goodies from practitioners have caught my eye recently: Scroll down to see more about these story-related books. In Stories Matter: How to Power Up Your Activism, Thaler Pekar shares personal stories from her own history to illustrate the power of stories in activism. She noted to me that she … Continue reading
More Lifewriting Goodies and Tonight’s Teleclass
I’m continuing to receive lots of communications from Denis Ledoux of Soleil Lifestory, marking National Lifewriting Month. Tonight at 7 Eastern is his first of three teleclasses for memoir writers, “Write the First Draft of Your Memoir: Getting Started and Keeping Going.” To register for the free class, call 207-353-5454 … Continue reading
Celebrating a New Kind of Storied Career
When I first read this article about funeral celebrants, I didn’t get what the big deal was. It talked about “a growing trend at funerals: celebrants, whose aim is to make funerals more personal and meaningful while officiating the services.” It seemed to me that part of funeral officiants’ role … Continue reading