From Dick Gaither, the Wizard of Work, an expert in work search training and trainer of job-search trainers, comes a set of questions for identifying accomplishments stories to use in job interviews (and resumes and cover letters for that matter). One of the most important questions any job applicant has … Continue reading
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Storied Career Mistakes
Visit The Mistake Bank Such a serendipitous chain of events … a story, if you will … On Monday, I blogged about reconnecting with the Ning social networking group, Worldwide Story Work. While I was reconnecting, I posted a blog entry to Worldwide Story Work about an upcoming project in … Continue reading
Valuable for Its Story Prompts
I’m not big on recognizing sites that have costs involved — especially when the sites are dysfunctional — but there’s a way to get value from The Remembering Site without spending money. The idea of the site is to provide a template for writing life stories — and then charging … Continue reading
Checking In With Worldwide Story Work
2020 Update: Worldwide Story Work is now a Facebook group. Just got an e-mail over the weekend from Shawn Callahan of Anecdote.com reminding me of the social networking group on Ning, Worldwide Story Work, described as “a community of story practitioners focussed on the application of story-based techniques in organisational … Continue reading
Business Stories from The Chief Storyteller (and Their Applicability to the Job Search)
The Chief Storyteller is a firm that helps businesses tell their stories. Visitors can download short PDFs of these stories. What I found intriguing is The Chief Storyteller’s five-phase approach to telling a client’s story, especially Phase 1 (see below), which includes an elevator speech, Web site, success stories, advertising/PR, … Continue reading
Video Storytelling 101
Sony, as part of its Backstage 101 Learning Center, offers a 3-part course in video storytelling. Not sure how long it is or exactly what form it takes, but the outline is: Find a story you are passionate about Gather the gear you need to tell your story Plan your … Continue reading
This Week’s Wordle Story
This week’s Wordle.net colorful word/tag cloud based on A Storied Career.
Reminders about Storytelling in Blogging
Just a few reminders not only if how important storytelling is in blogs but also how to do it well: Inspired by a blog post in MarketingDeviant by David Kam that discusses marketing as storytelling, Scott Sweeney writes in Man vs. Blog about the importance of storytelling in blogging. Sweeney … Continue reading
New Repository for Digital Storytelling
The Center for Digital Storytelling has been around for awhile — 10 years to be precise — but has a new repository for digital stories.
Guidelines for Entrepreneurial (or Job-seeker) Stories
I’ve been interested in entrepreneurial storytelling since I taught an entrepreneurial seminar using storytelling as the central theme. If I were teaching it now, I might direct my students to a blog entry and podcast by author and marketing expert Lisa Johnson of Reach Group Consulting offering a framework for … Continue reading