Comments on: Paradigm Shifting: Job Search vs. Career Management

By: Career: What I changed « Continental Shelf

Career: What I changed « Continental Shelf — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:34:00 +0000

[...] I read up on job search and career management, and the difference between the two (this is the theme of the week). I thought a lot about what I was looking for, and I formulated to [...]

By: Career: Cycles and seasons « Continental Shelf

Career: Cycles and seasons « Continental Shelf — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:29:49 +0000

[...] a plan, but that topic will wait until tomorrow. But I’ll give you a hint: it’s about career management vs. job search. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Ask an HR Rep — ’I Didn’t Get a [...]

By: Job Search vs. Career Management | Career Management Alliance Blog

Job Search vs. Career Management | Career Management Alliance Blog — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:08:28 +0000

[...] Job Search on August 21st, 2009 This is one of my favorite posts from over two years ago (original post here). I’m amazed at how I wrote it – even now, after the growth I’ve had, I don’t think I could [...]

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JibberJobber Blog » Blog Archive » Job Search vs. Career Management — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:20:22 +0000

[...] is one of my favorite posts from over two years ago (original post here). I’m amazed at how I wrote it – even now, after the growth I’ve had, I don’t [...]

By: katie mason stevens

katie mason stevens — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:50:38 +0000

What you say is true, but will change as the overall priorities in your life change. Just wait until you get married and have children, a real deep and abiding bedrock for your life to take root in. Your work will still be important but it will no longer be the only part of your existence now that you have a life.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:19:55 +0000

This really is great advice. I use a career toolset based on empirical/experiential evidence too. For me it is about applying the same discipline to managing your career as you do in your day job. Linking this activity to the skills you have acquired as a programmer seems like a simple idea but it is a quantum leap in terms of the knowledge and opportunity it unlocks.

By: Best career advice ever | Disruptive Leadership

Best career advice ever | Disruptive Leadership — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:51:42 +0000

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By: Robert Stanke

Robert Stanke — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:33:36 +0000

I manage my career like I manage my finances, car, etc. It is a never ending process. I have been on both sides of a job transition (forced and by-my-choice), so I see both sides. I think it is just important to remember that you never know when you will stumble on something good, so by managing your career regularly, you can jump on those opportunities right away.

Robert Stanke
http://www.robertstanke.com

By: Your Career Advisor

Your Career Advisor — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:31:58 +0000

Excellent post. The advice on creating and maintaining relationships and career management skills is right on. I know a manager who requires his employees to interview for other positions in the company just to keep their interviewing skills up and requires them to actively recruit people to join the company or help another employee obtain a new job. This forces them to keep up with the changing skill and education requirements in their field.

By: Glenn Mandelkern

Glenn Mandelkern — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:55:14 +0000

I have found Michael Maccoby’s writings especially helpful with regards to this subject of job search vs. career management. His book _Why Work_ speaks of different personalities people take on as to why they work. Some want to be the expert in their field, some like helping others, some like defending certain causes. The Career Management profiled here sounds like a mixture of the Self Development and Gamesman personas, the one who takes on work to build himself as an individual blended with the person who sees advancement as

And then there are the many people who do produce for us in this society to whom work is not the most important thing in their lives. They’re happy with a just a job, a paycheck. (It’s been argued that sometimes those are the happiest because they don’t have so many competing unfinished things in their minds; David Allen of _Getting Things Done_ fame sometimes jokes that the more educated and brightest people tend to procrastinate worst because they feel they must accomplish so much, e.g., become VP by a certain age, run a multimillion dollar corporation, and have 2.3 kids.)

It is also worth noting that at different stages in a person’s life, job vs. career may take on different importance.

And nowadays, the way that any promising line of work can become obsolete due to technology or done cheaper due to globalization, I’d like to propose the 2nd paradigm be pluralized, e.g., Careers Management.