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    The Career Explorer's Journal 2014
    The Career Explorer's Journal 2014
    The Career Explorer's Journal 2014
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    The Career Explorer's Journal 2014

    By Paul G. Diamond

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    The Career Explorer’s Journal is an eBook companion for the life and length of your career.

    Unlike most other career guides, we're not here to tell you how it is. We know you’ll be the guru one day so our aim instead is to provide you with support, encouragement and all the time it takes to make this role your own.

    Following a new year of updates, The Career Explorer's Journal is now even better equipped to encourage and support a unique journey of discovery for each and every reader. All you have to do is pay attention to details and record what you find, in order to change the way you see your career forever.

    What readers of The Career Explorer's Journal have said:

    "This book is my go-to source whenever I'm confronted with work related issues." Kyle
    "The Career Explorer’s Journal really provokes you to think about how much you know about your career." Faiz
    "A great companion to have on my journey." Richard
    "The Career Explorer's Journal helped me to build on my strengths and develop a positive attitude towards my current and future career." Abigail
    "My most striking discovery has been the values and talents my employers always saw in me" Ramon
    "Each question answered felt like a new stamp in my passport." Gabi
    "The author poses questions, gives examples, never lectures." Gavin
    "Entertaining 'out-of-the-box' career thinking." Kuldip
    "The intro is great, who would have guessed Charles Darwin and Dr. Seuss said much the same thing!" Rosa

    Praise for The Career Explorer's Journal...

    'The Career Explorer’s Journal is one of the most stimulating, inspiring and simple books to help anyone wishing to make progress in their work and life. I strongly recommend that you read this book and begin to ask yourself the questions it poses.'

    'This is a very good career management and analysis book for anyone wanting to expand their career to its full potential. The Career Explorer’s Journal talks to you through all of its chapters. It doesn’t tell you to do this or that, it simply asks if you’ve considered all of its questions. Instead of trying to teach me a lesson, this book helped me learn.'

    'As I answered the questions I discovered a consistency between my values, talents and goals and things people have said about me in the past. These findings are positive surprises that consolidate overall self-esteem, in my view something every one of us needs.'

    'The Career Explorer’s Journal provides an accessible alternative to manuals that are 300+ pages long and seem daunting before ever cracking the cover. I know because I’ve read many of them and felt daunted more than once.'

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul G. Diamond
    Release dateApr 28, 2010
    ISBN9781452323787
    The Career Explorer's Journal 2014
    Author

    Paul G. Diamond

    Paul G. Diamond is the author of 'Edict 9', ‘Journey Time’, ‘The Career Explorer’s Journal’ and 'The Ball: A Philosophy on Football and Life'. Paul describes himself as a lifelong fan of science-fiction and the genre’s ability to liberate thoughts on society and the human condition. Paul is also fascinated by careers & the very personal relationship each of us has with work. His other literary interests include football (soccer) and narrative storytelling in general. The literary influences Paul cites for his work include Albert Camus, Arthur Miller, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick and John Steinbeck, among many others.Originally from East London, Paul now lives in Hertfordshire with his wife, daughter and two (generally) well-behaved dogs.

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      The Career Explorer's Journal 2014 - Paul G. Diamond

      Introduction

      If you are willing to begin with doubts, you will end in certainties.

      Francis Bacon

      Welcome to the 2014 edition of The Career Explorer’s Journal, a new kind of companion guide for your career. Wherever you are right now the aim of this book is to help you fill the road ahead with positive new experiences. The Career Explorer’s Journal was written to change the way work makes you feel. To capture and in some cases recapture the sense of wonder in your relationship with work. To empower you to think about what’s possible, whether it’s for the first or one-hundred-and-first time.

      A new journey of career discovery will build a world of support around you. In time this will help you become more confident to make decisions and take next-steps, whether they are large or small. Right now, at the very start of your unique journey through these pages, I challenge you to see things anew. Whatever your age, experience or situation, from this point forward your challenge is to look at work and your career through the eyes of an explorer. The eyes of an explorer will help you see things differently. They will help you embrace and appreciate details and subtleties you might have otherwise missed. Explorers know that taking the time to look carefully sounds simple but it is an art.

      If we’re not focusing or looking it’s all too easy to miss the capability, courage, potential and ambition that always lies within us and within our careers. Seeing things with new eyes is an art and a skill anyone can learn, and that learning journey is a far better experience when it comes with support, encouragement and the time to adjust. The Career Explorer’s Journal gives you all three as it accompanies your unique journey towards making career choices and decisions for yourself. This book is filled with supporting evidence but it also gives you plenty of time and space to think and plenty of encouragement to keep up the good work.

      As your journey continues it may surprise you to learn how much experience and guidance can emanate from you. A good example of this is the central role played by your Values, Talents and Goals, or VTGs for short. In the same way explorers use a map, compass and notebook, career explorers use their VTGs to help them find their way. The first half of the book is dedicated to the discovery of your VTGs. At the same time you will be introduced to one or two famous explorers to help you make discoveries and move your exploration forward. As you read on, the book’s second half introduces stories from new career explorers just like you. Their experiences demonstrate how VTGs and exploring make a difference in the many situations we face at different times during our careers. Later in this second half you will also find chapters on resume/CV writing, networking, interviewing and dealing with difficult times. All of this information is here to keep you exploring and ensure you feel prepared and supported when your career needs it most.

      Unlike the old-school career companion guides the aim of this introduction isn’t making everything sound easy. There’s nothing more disappointing that being promised something up front, only to find those promises absent or irrelevant later on. I want you to have all the facts before you decide and really commit yourself to this career exploration. I want you to know it won’t always be easy from the start. To accept this and still choose to explore your career because you know it will be worthwhile. I could tell you why I think you should embark on this new journey but my experience as a career explorer, plus the years I have spent talking to hundreds, perhaps even thousands of people about their careers, have taught me a valuable lesson. When it comes to your career, your beliefs, your actions and the commitments you are willing to make are far more important anyone else’s words. Exploring your career is something you can either choose or choose not to do. Your decision that this is a worthwhile journey is what matters. Knowing you made this choice for positive reasons will also keep you going, and in a much more sustainable way than a promise made by someone else.

      If you do make the positive choice to explore your career, there are three additional things I want you to know. First, you won’t be exploring alone. Thousands of people have made the same individual choice and many have shared their experiences and the stories of what they have learned. Some of these individuals and their experiences are already part of this book. Second, in addition to the art of exploring and your unique VTGs, the following beliefs offer support throughout your exploration:

      • You can make great career decisions

      • There’s no such thing as a wrong turn

      • You know more about your career than anyone else

      If they don’t sound true make a point of testing them. Go at all three with a heavy, metaphorical hammer and see what you find. Which brings us to my third and final point. The more you are willing to explore, the more evidence you will find. This evidence will support and challenge some of the most important aspects of your career. It takes time and dedication but the evidence will come and discoveries will follow as you go forward with this book and beyond.

      I now urge you to follow whatever your inner courage compels you to seek.

      Paul Diamond,

      November 2013

      exploreyourcareer.com

      * * * * *

      Part 1

      I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

      David Livingstone

      * * * * *

      Chapter 1

      The Art of Exploring

      Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

      Jonathan Swift

      In December 1831 a tall ship sailed from Plymouth, England on an expedition bound for the vast seas, huge skies and distant lands of the Pacific Ocean. On board this ship was a gentleman naturalist called Charles Darwin. There’s every chance you’ve heard his name before. You might even be able to picture his face but in 1831 Darwin wasn’t the big-bearded, grandfatherly figure we see on the back of a ten-pound note. When he set out on this now famous voyage young Charles was just twenty-two.

      A 180-year-old journey by a young man who studied rocks, plants and animals sounds like a strange place to begin a book about modern-day careers but the closer we look the less strange it becomes. The journey ahead for Charles Darwin would be unlike anything he had ever known. A rush of new experiences lay before him. He couldn’t foresee what was in store, what he would face day-to-day and how it might change him. Surrounded by all this uncertainty Darwin put his trust in the art of exploring and it would change his career forever.

      Throughout his 5-year voyage on HMS Beagle Darwin kept a journal. Day and night, on ship and on land he wrote and sketched in a series of notebooks. Like countless explorers throughout history, Darwin’s careful act of recording created a wealth of evidence he could look back on. Later on this voyage and much later in life, Darwin’s journals made a priceless contribution to his career. Perhaps the best example of this can be seen in his theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin’s most famous work was the result of lifelong study but some of its roots can be traced back to memorable encounters he had on the Beagle as a young man. Curious things he wondered about, like the tiny differences in the beaks of mockingbirds around the Pacific. Small details he recorded in his journal without any idea how important they would become.

      Two acts Darwin performed throughout the Beagle’s voyage bring this story right back to your career and the present day. If he hadn’t looked carefully at everything around him - recording his

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