Have a heaping helping of story goodies with your stuffing, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie … Michael Margolis has been running a series this week emphasizing how entrepreneurs can better tell their bio stories: The Power of Storytelling: From Hauling Trash and Addiction to Stardom The Key Ingredients of a … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2011
Friday is National Day of Listening (to Stories)
November 25 is the third annual National Day of Listening, a national holiday started by the acclaimed oral history nonprofit organization StoryCorps in 2008. It is a day when families are encouraged to give the gift of storytelling to their loved ones, leaving a legacy that’s likely to be treasured … Continue reading
Narrative Career Intervention Results in Less Career Indecision: Life-Story Interventions that Guide Career Choice, Part 3
As part of my exploration of life-story-based career interventions, I came across an academic paper, “Analysis of an Online Career Narrative Intervention: ‘What’s My Story?’” by Lisa Severy, director of career services at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who created a narrative online intervention as part of her dissertation project. … Continue reading
“Présumé™” Offers Story Elements and Gets Employer’s Attention
The first time I came across Hanna Phan’s presentation resume, or Présumé™, I admired it as terribly clever and creative but decided against writing about it because it doesn’t truly tell a story. But the next time the Présumé™ came over my virtual transom (at right is a slide from … Continue reading
Storytelling Cited as Essential Job-Seeker Skill
Career columnist Liz Ryan, long a supporter of storytelling in the job search, has included storytelling on a list of five new skills job-seekers need: “I have a strong work ethic and get along with all kinds of people” is about as compelling as “I had cereal for breakfast” — … Continue reading
Free Download Helps Analyze Book Audience
Denis Ledoux has been offering loads of free goodies for November’s National Life Writing Month. The latest is a free download, Who Will Read Your Book?. The guide includes a detailed form that enables authors to truly understand whom they’re writing for. Ledoux’s own audience is lifewriters/memoirists, but the handout … Continue reading
Google and AMEX Helping Small Businesses Tell their Story on Video
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
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