Category Archives: Storytelling and Career

One of my long-term ambitions is to create and put on workshops that help people change their lives and careers through story: Change the Story, Change Your Life (or Career). I’ve come across a couple of models for what I’d like to do. One comes from The Story Lady, Ronda … Continue reading →

For someone who prides herself on keeping up with trends, I have been quite slow on the uptake with Multi-User Virtual Environments, such as Second Life. I don’t fully grasp this concept, and I haven’t yet become a full participant, but I’m attempting to learn more and expect to post … Continue reading →

Each chapter of Alexandra Levit’s new book, How’d You Score That Gig?, opens with a snippet of a story from someone in an interesting career. Levit then weaves the stories of several people who share each career (60 in total are profiled) throughout the chapter. Sidebar quotes from some of … Continue reading →

I have for the past several years sought out the elusive “storytelling resume.” Is it a version of the traditional resume, as I write about in my book? Is it a blog, as I’ve written about before, most recently here? Is it a social-media resume, as I’ve written about here? … Continue reading →

Apparently no one told her the story of what to expect. Within the academic (and applied) literature is a concept called “Realistic Job Previews (RJPs),” which Wikipedia describes as devices used in early stages of personnel selection to provide potential applicants with information on both positive and negative aspects of … Continue reading →

Like many people, I had one of my first introductions into the world of job-hunting through Richard Bolles’ perennial bestseller, What Color is Your Parachute? My earliest memory of this influential book is when I was participating in a job club in Knoxville, TN, in the 1970s. Something I read … Continue reading →

I’m looking for 10 people to profile on 10CareerStories.com and have a bunch of questions. Looking for folks in these categories: Teenager/high-school student planning a career College student seeking career New college grad Twentysomething worker seeking more meaning in your career MBA/grad student seeking job Mid-career changer seeking a new … Continue reading →

In response to yesterday’s entry about elevator speeches/stories, Stephanie West Allen (what would I and this blog do without her?) turned me on to two relevant entries from her blog: Lessons from Mayberry contains a section on the “Wow! How?” story that aligns with yesterday’s entry. The idea is that … Continue reading →

I heartily agree with Chris King, who writes the following about storytelling and networking: When we are meeting people at a Networking event, we are usually asked, “What do you do?” If we answer with a label (“I’m a consultant, lawyer, website designer, etc.) the reaction is blah. But, if … Continue reading →

Add new grad Andrew Cafourek (above) to the contingent of those who have secured jobs through social media. I wrote about some others here. In his blog, Andrew C., he details how it happened: A few weeks ago, I was reading Jeremiah Owyang’s blog and saw a post on people … Continue reading →