IN THIS EDITION
- Get in NOW for the Adelaide PG Cert in Career Development
- New book for Graduates
- Jeffrey Archer and Heston Blumenthal teach me a lesson about impetuosity
- Dates for 2014 3-day Coaching courses March - July book now
- Great Conferences worth attending
- Top Blog posts on Bréné Brown, Resouling and Harmony
- Youtube Careers videos
NEWS
Postgraduate Certificate in Education
(Career Development)
Adelaide this February 18 - 19 - enrol at ACU NOW!
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Dates for courses 2014 Announced!
Melbourne 3-Day Career Coaching Counselling & Assessment Course 12-14 March 2014
Brisbane 3-Day Career Coaching Counselling & Assessment Course
19-21 March 2014
Sydney 3-Day Career Coaching Counselling & Assessment Course
1-3 April 2014
Adelaide 3-Day Career Coaching Counselling & Assessment Course 15-17 July 2014
Perth May 3-Day Career Coaching Counselling & Assessment Course 19-21 2014
Our New book Brilliant Graduate CV with Jo Earl and David Winter
Our new book is out now. Completely re-written for new graduates, up to date research and advice with extensive coverage of social media.
Careers Resources at Brightcareers Youtube channel
Brightcareers Youtube channel is where we post occasional videos related to careers and the Chaos Theory of Careers. We hope you find it useful for your work.
A lot of people ask for a resource to explain the Chaos Theory of Careers in (relatively!) succinct terms. Here are a couple of resources to help you with that. The first is an interview done with Cindy Funk, Head of The Center for Student Professional Development at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. You can watch it here
The second is a link to a short film on my Youtube channel BrightCareers called Where will you be? It has had over 18,000 views which is not bad for a careers-related film! You can find the film on the channel BrightCareers
Recent Columns in the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald
Jeffrey Archer and Heston Blumenthal teach Jim a lesson in careers Being of a sociable persuasion when the mood takes me, I was looking for an excuse to invite some folks to a bit of do. I then recalled that jolly Jeffrey was wont to throw a shepherd's pie and champagne party. Now I am no admirer of the peer's literary output, but any excuse to invite people over to supply me with champagne sounded like a wizard wheeze.
Opportunity Plans might be the answer If you, like me, think goals best belong on a football pitch, perhaps you might prefer opportunity planning. Opportunity planning has the great advantage over goal setting that you do not need to have a precise destination in mind.
You must understand the nature of change to embrace change Over time we tend to forget the small changes and adjustments we are continually making, and instead think fondly of times when everything went smoothly. In reality, they were just times when we managed the change with dexterity and poise
Some Highlights from 2013
My Ten Rules of Career Success. Embracing uncertainty is a sound job strategy, Jim Bright writes. If you are thinking about your career, here are 10 rules derived from the Chaos Theory of Careers that might help you.Change is inevitable (except from a vending machine)
Why pets at work are a good idea unless they are flat packed. Pets can be a great help in our working life, Jim Bright writes. This week I was feeling somewhat flat; however, not quite a flat as our cat Missy.
Why learning to compromise is a key to career success.The art of compromise is the key to success in your work and personal life, writes Jim Bright. Are you in the perfect job? Have you found the exactly right role?
How a small number of people have a disproportionate effect on your career. Learn to tell your Lucifers from your Eellogofusciouhipoppokunuriouses, writes Jim Bright. All work is social. We produce products for other people and we serve other people.
Why career development is vital to economies Helping people realise their potential at work has far-reaching benefits, writes Jim Bright. Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! It seems to be all I have heard during the election campaign.
Here are some recent Career Development Columns from Jim Bright.
Some blog highlights
The imperfect career and a gift from Bréné Brown.By why did I mistake Conviction for Compassion? I suspect because I am drawn to and have been trained to privilege the cognitive over the emotive, and conviction to me is more closely related to ideas, and compassion is more closely related to emotion, but Brené would probably want to say it is also a process, and I think that is correct.
Finding Harmony in work: A strategy to re-soul your career Obviously harmony extends beyond music and can be found in all walks of life if we are attuned to seek it out. Cezanne stated, “When paintings are done right, harmony appears by itself. The more numerous and varied they are, the more the effect is obtained and agreeable to the eye”. Harmony is an arrangement of the elements or parts of the whole that creates a strong positive aesthetic reaction in us. All the elements seem to work together to create a pleasing order.
Five ways to resoul your career A good career is food for the soul. A good career allows us to attend to meaning and mattering in our lives (Amundson, 2009). A good career fosters our spirit because our work is social contribution (Savickas, 1997). All work is social – as John Paul Getty said, if you haven’t got a problem, you haven’t got a job – work is socially delegated problem-solving. So in working with others to help them solve problems we achieve connection, and this in turn provides us with a sense of social connection, a sense of place and a sense of belonging. We become part of a community of connection through work. Thus work is spiritual.
Workshops
There are many great opportunities to attend PD events this year in Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney.
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Career Coaching and Career Conversations
Jim works with Govt and Corporate Clients in Sydney and Melbourne, offering career coaching and careeer conversation services in relation to career development, redeployment, outplacement and performance management. He also works with individuals. Please enquire for more details
Career Conferences worth attending
Career Development Association of Australia Annual Conference Adelaide May 14-16 2014
National Career Development Association Conference Long Beach, California, June 19-21 2014
International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance Conferences Quebec, Canada June 4 - 6 2014, Tsukuba, Japan September 18-21 2015
CANSW Conference 24th Sydney, October 2014
Asia Pacific Career Development Assocation Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 19 - 21 2014
Corporate Training
Informative
Bright and Associates have been training people around the world for 24 years. Their courses are renowned for the amount of information they contain that promotes transformation of attitudes, knowledge and behaviour of those attending.
By offering courses in a targeted range of human resource related areas, Bright and Associates deliver information rich courses that have real substance and powerful take home messages. All the courses come with very extensive notes, workbooks and often books written by Jim Bright, PhD.
Entertaining
Most Bright and Associates courses are personally presented by Jim Bright, PhD. Jim has gained a well-earned reputation around the world for his entertaining deliver style. He is in demand on the speakers circuit as well as delivering training courses, addressing groups as diverse as Group Training Australia, Disability Support Network, Pharmaceuticals Companies and many Government Departments.
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Online Coaching Profiles of Reactions to Change
Change Perception Index
Change is one of the realities of modern life and work. This Change Perception Index is designed to assess your thinking about change in your career and life. Understanding your current thinking about change will provide important insights into how you can best deal with change in the future. It may also help to identify specific career development needs. 50 questions, only $9 AUS per administration including PDF printable report and email report.
The background to this test can explored in these publications: Bright, J.E.H. & Pryor, R.G.L.. (2007). Chaotic Careers Assessment: how constructivist and psychometric techniques can be integrated into work and life decision making. Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 23 (2), 30-45. and in Pryor, R & Bright, J. (2011). The Chaos Theory of Careers. Routledge: New York & London.
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