Business consultant, leadership development coach, and author Nathan R Mitchell, is giving members of Generation X the opportunity to share their personal story in an upcoming book titled Turn That Frown Upside Down: Discover Meaning and Fulfillment in the Workplace. “I’m extremely excited about having the opportunity to introduce my … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Career
Questions to Inspire Personal-Brand Story
Not sure how I missed this post by Dana Leavy-Detrick from the end of March. She writes about the difference between expressing your brand as what you do — and breaking that brand into smaller stories that enable your audience to connect with you on an emotional level. That’s essentially … Continue reading
Could a Storied Resume Address Top Resume Flaws?
Dr. John Sullivan’s article on ERE.net about the many flaws of resumes as the “currency of recruiting”, directed at recruiters and hiring managers rather than job-seekers, lists 30 problems with resumes from the hiring decision-maker’s perspective. Some of these issues could perhaps be addressed by the elusive storied resume — … Continue reading
Don’t Let Your Personal-Brand Story Just Sit There
Let’s say you’ve developed what you feel is the optimal personal narrative to support your brand. Are you done? Jeff Rock says no. In an article called Nurture Your Narrative, Rock says your story needs to be “developed, nurtured, and protected until such time as it can survive on its … Continue reading
Learn to Define and Apply Your Story Type in Friday (June 29) Podcast
Q&A participant Cindy Atlee will be the guest during a podcast tomorrow (Friday, June 29) at 12 Noon Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Business Channel. The show is called “The Leader Within: Define Your Professional ‘Story Type’ and Success Motivators,” and here’s the blurb about it: Do you know who you … Continue reading
Blurring the Lines and Building the Backstory
In Back to the Future: How to Find a New Vision in Your Back Story, Dr. Juliet Bruce notes: “In this constantly shifting marketplace, there’s no longer a strong segmentation [among] job seekers, consultants, and solopreneurs.” Therefore, when many of us strive to tell our stories with the goal of … Continue reading
Free Career-Journaling Challenge Workshop Starts Monday
I’m a sucker for any endeavor that combines job search/career with elements of storytelling. Thus I’m intrigued by a career-journaling challenge and workshop offered by Mari L. McCarthy, a well-known blogger on journaling. The workshop kicks off on Monday, June 25. Though the workshop is free, the accompanying workbook, Do … Continue reading
Expanding on the Job-Interview-as-Shared-Narrative
One of the most exciting posts and concepts I’ve come across in the last couple of years came from my colleague Walter Akana (pictured) in 2010 — The Job Interview As Shared Narrative, which I wrote about here. Now Walter has taken the concept to the next level with an … Continue reading
Storytelling Career Fulfillment, Journaling Career Success, and Wrestling with the Storied Resume (Again)
Three dispatches from the world of story and job search/career … I stumbled across a blog I’m surprised not to have found before, Figuring Out Fulfillment, which describes itself as “a storytelling project about finding a career and finding yourself.” Providing a nice set of prompts, bloggers “Margaret and Bill” … Continue reading
Should We Flip the Script on Job-Search Storytelling?
When I read Michael Margolis’s recommendation to “flip the script” on a certain kind of story, I wondered if that suggestion should apply to accomplishment stories told in the job search. Even before storytelling was recognized as a significant technique for job-search communication, the standard formula for job-search stories was … Continue reading