Podcast appearances and mentions of richard bolles

We are all in the attention economy.Louise Karch (pronounced CARSH) makes sure good people like us break out not blend in.Louise is delighted to speak us. She has a special fondness for environmental educators having been an Outward Bound Instructor.For over a decade, she also was a career management professional, She was honoured to study with and support Richard Bolles, the author of the bestselling career/life planning in history, What Color Is Your Parachute.It was Richard Bolles who inspired Louise to write guidebooks. Louise is the award-winning author of Word Glue, and head cheerleader and one of the co-authors of the global mega-hit The Carbon Almanac, It's Not Too Late (Penguin Random House),Louise's most recent book, First Aid for Fairies: From Rain to Rainbows, is an uplifting steampunk-inspired guide that helps teens shift from stress to strength It's been nominated for the American Library Association's MIchael Princz award.Louise has mentored leaders in 71 countries and edu-tained audiences from Australia to the Arctic. She prefers being warm.You can find Louise at…Word GlueFirst Aid for FairiesInterview Database with Addendum for Environmental Educators RESOURCES MENTIONEDWhat color is your parachute? (2022)*Transitions (2019)*Brag! Toot Your Own Horn Without Blowing It*Outward Bound (Canada)Outward Bound (USA) ASSESSMENTInstitute on CharacterJackson Vocational Interest SurveyGallup CliftonStrengths Finder CREDITS:Producer: Tania MarienMusic: So Far So Close by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License;SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License.Subscribe to Transferable Solutions.Talaterra is an affiliate of Bookshop.org. Commissions earned support the publication Transferable Solutions.Contact Us

Trained by Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?, with a Masters in Vocational/Career Counseling, Shell has more than 35 years of experience and education in the field of career counseling and coaching. Shell also brings coaching, teaching, training and nurturing gifts to ADHD adults that focuses on illuminating, creating and transforming lack of clarity to a well-defined direction and sustainable work life. Shell recently launched the quintessential course book (A COURSE FOR ADHD ADULTS AND TEENS: UNLOCK YOUR CAREER PATH) that breaks down and simplifies the career decision-making process for the ADHD community. Some have described her book the most ADHD-friendly book on the market. Shell's mission in life is to build empowerment and confidence in ADHD adults and young adults to do the work they love and that fits them like a glove. She loves to educate, inspire and uplift others to feel and be confident in their career decisions.Shell Mendelson, ADHD CAREER COACH  | CAREER COACHING WITH SHELL  | www.careercoachingwithshell.com | shell.mendelson@gmail.com | 8302372735 Sign up for one of our negotiation courses at ShikinaNegotiationAcademy.comThanks for listening to Negotiation with Alice! Please subscribe and connect with us on LinkedIn and Instagram!

Welcome to the  Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast! In this episode, we'll share insights on embracing your unique ADHD-driven creativity to reconnect with the core of who you are and live your best life. Trained by Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?, with a Masters in Vocational/Career Counseling, Shell has more than 35 years of experience and education in the field of career counseling and coaching. Shell also brings coaching, teaching, training and nurturing gifts to ADHD adults that focuses on  illuminating, creating and transforming lack of clarity to a well-defined direction and sustainable work life.  Shell recently launched the quintessential course book (A COURSE FOR ADHD ADULTS AND TEENS: UNLOCK YOUR CAREER PATH) that breaks down and simplifies the career decision-making process for the ADHD community. Some have described her book as the most ADHD-friendly book on the market.. After her own diagnosis of ADHD later in life, Shell profoundly understands how ADHD can impact our work experience and delay creating real work or career options that are meant just for us. CLEAR, FOCUSED, REAL options! Connect with Shell here: FB: Career Coaching with Shell LI:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/yourpassiontocareer/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/shell_mendelson/ www.careercoachingwithshell.com Grab the freebie here: https://passiontocareer.com/self-accommodation-at-work-ebook =================================== If you enjoyed this episode, remember to hit the like button and subscribe. Then share this episode with your friends. Thanks for watching the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast. This podcast is part of the Digital Trailblazer family of podcasts. To learn more about Digital Trailblazer and what we do to help entrepreneurs, go to DigitalTrailblazer.com. Are you a coach, consultant, expert, or online course creator? Then we'd love to invite you to our FREE Facebook Group where you can learn the best strategies to land more high-ticket clients and customers.  Request to join here:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/profitablecoursecreators QUICK LINKS:  APPLY TO BE FEATURED: https://app.digitaltrailblazer.com/podcast-guest-application GET MORE CLIENTS: https://app.digitaltrailblazer.com/client-acquisition-accelerator-pdf DIGITAL TRAILBLAZER: https://digitaltrailblazer.com/ JOIN OUR FREE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/profitablecoursecreators

Unlocking Career Fulfillment: ADHD Strategies and Success StoriesThis episode is for jobseekers who are both ADHD and neurotypical. Featuring career coach Shell Mendelson, they discuss the importance of self-awareness, the impact of ADHD on work life, and effective strategies for job success.Mendelson shares personal anecdotes, practical tips, and success stories of clients who navigated career shifts, emphasizing the potential for growth and achievement through intentional lifestyle and career design. Listeners are encouraged to discover and pursue their ideal work environments, understand their specific needs, and feel empowered to advocate for themselves in the workplace.********TIME STAMPS:00:00 Welcome to Cultivate Your Joyful Life00:48 Job Search Bootcamp Highs01:37 Sharon's Inspiring Job Search Journey05:53 Introducing Shel Mendelson: Career Coach for ADHD08:27 Understanding ADHD in the Workplace13:16 Managing Career with ADHD: Pre and Post Diagnosis28:45 Finding the best careers for people w/ ADHD31:16 Understanding ADHD Challenges in the Workplace32:15 The Role of an ADHD Coach33:05 Empowering Job Seekers with ADHD35:13 Identifying and Owning Your Skills37:58 Real-Life Success Stories41:00 Steps to Take if You Suspect ADHD42:56 Personal Journey and Career Impact45:22 Navigating Career with ADHD48:07 Resources and Masterclass for ADHD53:46 Final Thoughts and Encouragement********ABOUT SHELL MENDELSON:Trained by Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?, with a Masters in Vocational/Career Counseling, Shell has more than 35 years of experience and education in the field of career counseling and coaching.Shell also brings coaching, teaching, training and nurturing gifts to ADHD adults that focuses on illuminating, creating and transforming lack of clarity to a well-defined direction and sustainable work life.Shell recently launched the quintessential course book (A COURSE FOR ADHD ADULTS AND TEENS: UNLOCK YOUR CAREER PATH) that breaks down and simplifies the career decision-making process for the ADHD community. Some have described her book as the most ADHD-friendly book on the market.********LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:LEARN MORE ABOUT HAPPILY HIRED FORMULA AND ENROLLCareer Coaching w/ ShellShell's Course BookYour Next Career Move MasterClass - Schedule an Intro Call with ShellRELATED EPISODES:Ep. 002: How to Have Fun as an AdultEp. 007: How to give yourself permission to pivotEp. 012: Enneagram 101 | Enneagram Test Types Explained w/ Nhien VuongLeave me a comment on our blog

Today the Dads welcome back superstar Shell Mendelson! Shell is an ADHD career coach who has trained with Richard Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute? She helps adults with ADHD navigate career decisions and transitions. She published A Course for ADHD Adults and Teens: Unlock Your Career Path. Mendelson has been on numerous podcasts and helps individuals unlock their purpose and discover true happiness in their careers. This week the Dads discuss with Shell the benefits of advocating for ourselves in our path toward a career, as well as in the workplace. If there's one thing we can stress, it's to advocate for your best self wherever you are, and when you're an adult, you're often at the office. Shell shares with the Dads some strategies to discovering our paths, and making them work for us. Website www.careercoachingwithshell.com Your Next Career Move MasterClass A Course for ADHD Adults and Teens: Unlock Your Career Path Purchase on Amazon We are incredibly grateful for Shell's return to the podcast. If you feel moved to purchase her incredible workbook, please let us know. And as always, thank you for your support! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theadhdads/support

“In any situation we may ever find ourselves, no matter how much we feel we are at the mercy of vast immutable forces that are totally beyond our control, we can always find something that is within our control, however small, and work on that.” Richard N. Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute? A podcast where we share sixty seconds of inspiration to help you create a kinder, gentler world faster than the speed of heartbreak. We believe that kindness needs to be the number one cherished idea in the world today. So, we created a show that adds one sweet droplet of goodness into the ocean of your life - every day.  #onekindmoment #kindness #focus Yesterday by John Hobart - Music Design by Jason Inc. https://brucewaynemclellan.com/    

Leider and Shapiro suggest there is a difference between growing old and merely getting old. They write: “We're not denying time advances, but we are advocating to reimagine old age and the earlier we begin, the better.” Join Leider and Shapiro as they guide us in aging into the fullness of life. Richard J. Leider is the founder of Inventure -The Purpose Company, whose mission is to help people “unlock the power of purpose.” He is the author of many books including: The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better (Berrett-Koehler Publishing 2016). David A Shapiro is a philosopher, educator, and tenured philosophy professor at Cascadia College in Seattle. Leider and Shapiro are the co-authors of many books considered classics in the personal growth field. They include: Repacking Your Bags and The Power of Purpose (Mjf Books 1996) and Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old? The Path of Purposeful Aging. (Berrett-Koehler Publishing 2021)Interview Date: 12/8/2023 Tags: Richard Leider, David Shapiro, Viktor Frankl, aging, eldership, eldering, Hersch Wilson, storytelling, legacy, purpose, Richard Bolles, poet Jack Gilbert, life purpose, Personal Transformation, Psychology, Aging

“..a disability is something within you. A prejudice is something within the employer... don't look at yourself through their eyes. Look at yourself through your own eyes.” Richard N. Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute? A podcast where we share sixty seconds of inspiration to help you create a kinder, gentler world faster than the speed of heartbreak. We believe that kindness needs to be the number one cherished idea in the world today. So, we created a show that adds one sweet droplet of goodness into the ocean of your life - every day.  #onekindmoment #kindness #disability Yesterday by John Hobart - Music Design by Jason Inc. https://brucewaynemclellan.com/    

In today's show, Shell Mendelson joins Eric on the podcast!  Since January 2021, Shell's Your Next Career Move MasterclassSM  has empowered ADHD adults to create confident career options and was trained by Richard Bolles, the author of “What Color is Your Parachute?”   With a Masters in Career Counseling, Shell offers more than 35 years of client experience while bringing her counseling, coaching, teaching, training, and nurturing gifts to help others clarify and focus on a well-defined direction and abundant livelihood.  Following her own diagnosis of ADHD later in life, Shell profoundly understands how ADHD can impact one's work and to reliably choose the best career direction: one that takes our “interest-based ADHD brain wiring” into consideration. Get in touch and find out more about Shell's Next Career Move MasterclassSM on her website at CareerCoachingWithShell.com Questions/Topics:  [00:01:23] Introducing Shell [00:02:35] Training with Richard Bolles and how it changed Shell's life  [00:07:13] What are some examples of some of the questions Shell might ask when someone is trying to figure out a career direction?  [00:09:32] Looking beyond money and Safekeeping Self  [00:10:32] Addressing potential deficits in self-awareness and answering self-assessment questions   [00:25:44] So what is the “best” career for someone with ADHD?  [00:26:55] If you were to ask 100 people if they knew exactly what they wanted to do for work, what is the percentage of people who could actually answer this question?   [00:30:11] The role of stepping-stone jobs and the difference between someone who doesn't know what they want and someone who does know what they want  [00:31:44] Addressing the person who holds a marketable skill set in a lucrative profession but hates the work [00:32:19] Stories that Shell hears from people who reach out to her  [00:34:40] Looking at other career options: “How do we figure this stuff out?”  [00:36:36] Once you discover your “what,” the “how” appears, and a discussion next steps and different types of research  [00:47:40] What is Shell's 8-Week Masterclass and who is her class for?  [00:52:21] How to get in touch with Shell, closing thoughts, and words of wisdom  Resources & Honorable Mentions: Book: What Color is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles

Shell Mendelson is an ADHD career coach who has trained with Richard Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute? She helps adults with ADHD navigate career decisions and transitions. She has an invaluable resource coming out in the form of a workbook titled A Course for ADHD Adults and Teens: Unlock Your Career Path. Mendelson has been on numerous podcasts and helps individuals unlock their purpose and discover true happiness in their careers. This week the Dads pick Shell's brain about what this process looks like, and how she helps adults with ADHD unlock their potential. For more episodes and other content, check out TheADHDads.com. And thanks for the support! Email shell.mendelson@gmail.com Website https://passiontocareer.com Books https://passiontocareer.com/author-page-2/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theadhdads/support

ADHDers tend to be good at a bunch of different things, but just because we're good at something doesn't necessarily mean it's the right career path for us. In fact, career counselor Shell Mendelson is here to ask us: forget about the things you're good at, what are the skills you love using?    As a career coach and counselor of 30 plus years, Shell specializes in supporting ADHD adults in building lasting, fully satisfying careers and businesses. She has developed a unique career counseling system based on Richard Bolles's book What Color is Your Parachute? that involves taking a deep dive into all the aspects of what would make up an ideal job on an individual level.   During our conversation Shell shares her own ADHD backstory before getting into how to identify whether you're in the wrong job, why building a career foundation based on what excites you is so crucial for ADHD health and happiness, ways to advocate for your specific needs during the hiring process, and much more.    Shell believes in focusing on the skills that bring us joy rather than simply what we excel at, a simple yet important mindset shift that just may have you considering a whole new career path.  Resources: Website: Facebook: Career Coaching with Shell  LinkedIn: Gmail: Tracy's program: spyhappy.me/mc  

Dr. Jim Herbert, Professor of Counselor Education and Rehabilitation and Human Services at Penn State, joins us in the studio today. In this first part of a two-part series, Jim discusses the recruitment challenges identified in his study- Recruitment and Retention of State Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors: A Mixed Methods Analysis.   Please listen in as Carol and Jim unpack this study and discuss the four significant challenges and possible solutions you can apply to your situation.   Stay tuned as the focus shifts to the retention side of the study by Dr. Jim Herbert in the next episode of Manager Minute.   Listen Here   Full Transcript:   Music} Speaker1: Manager Minute brought to you by the VRTAC for Quality Management, Conversations powered by VR, one manager at a time, one minute at a time. Here is your host Carol Pankow.   Carol: Well, welcome to the Manager Minute Doctor Jim Herbert, Professor of Counselor, Education and Rehabilitation and Human Services at Penn State, is joining me in the studio today to discuss his recently released study, Recruitment and Retention of State Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors, A Mixed Methods Analysis. I am so happy to have you here today. How are things going in Pennsylvania?   Jim: Well, first off, I'm happy to be had and things are going very well in Pennsylvania. It's a beautiful summer day and the nice thing is that many academician might appreciate it. While we love students, summer session, they're not here, which means you can get parking spaces downtown, lots of restaurants. You don't have to wait a long time to get in. So it's a good time and good place to be in State College, Pennsylvania.   Carol: Oh, that's awesome. Say, are you getting any of that wildfire smoke from Canada?   Jim: You know, it's funny you say that because we just got an alert that indicated like over the next couple of days, Yeah, it's going to be coming this way.   Carol: Yeah, we definitely got hit with it the last two days. And I saw it moving off to the East Coast, looked like the apocalypse here. It was very, very weird. So to set the stage for our listeners, I first met you through the CSVAR Operations and Personnel Committee, and I used to co-chair the old version of that committee. It was called The old HRD with Cynthia Speight, and I continued to participate in it when I entered the TA world. And so back in the day, Cynthia and I were super interested in recruitment, retention issues of counselors. And I'm talking like, this is probably like eight years ago now. And we had done several surveys with state agencies to kind of gauge where they were at with getting new counselors. And we kept seeing this shrinkage of people entering the field and the reduction in universities offering a master's in rehab counseling. And then you came to that committee to collaborate on a study you were doing that was partly supported by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehab Research or NIDILRR,   Jim: right.   Carol: And so in the executive summary, you noted that there had been a consistent shortage of qualified rehab counselors employed by the state federal VR program for actually several decades. I mean, we're kind of thinking this is a new deal. And it's like this has been going on for quite some time and the Covid 19 pandemic really exacerbated the shortage. And you were also looking at the funding RSA provided to graduate programs that encouraged individuals to work and to be in VR. And you wanted to see like what happened after that two year kind of payback phase. And really, I found that interesting, that the funding had been provided for 65 years, but there had been no formal study about the scholars continuing their employment with VR after that period of time. So your study primarily examined recruitment, retention, concerns of the state vocational rehab agencies, and you identified strategies to address those. And in addition, you looked to see if there was a mechanism to track that long term employment outcome of the former RSA scholars working for the state VR program. So we're going to do this in two parts because you have a lot of stuff you did, and I think our listeners will kill us if we're going to do a two hour podcast. So we're not everybody just stay buckled in. We're going to tackle in two parts. And Jim and I are going to talk today about the retention side of the project. And then next month we are going to talk about the recruitment part of this. So, all right, enough background. Let's dig in. So, Jim, can you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself, like how long you've been in academia? How did you get there?   Jim: How did I get here? Well, I've been an Academician here at Penn State for 37 years. And where did the time go in terms of kind of how I got here? Probably like a lot of your audience, when you think about people that work in the rehab field, a lot of times you get in the rehab field because they have either personal experience with disability or a family member. And that's exactly what happened to me. I had a brother who had Down syndrome, and so I got interested and did volunteer work on high school and in college. And I loved working with people with developmental disabilities. That's how I got interested in rehab. And then during my, you know, college, I knew I wanted to work with people. But a lot of times, you know, when we teach career development, we kind of make it sound like it's this very logical process that you, you know, pluses and minuses and I going to do this. And yet we fail to acknowledge there's a lot of things by fate that impact on your career choice. You just happen to be in this office who you just happened to say something who happened to know somebody else who happened to have this job. So when I look back at my own career, one of the things I tell my students is that, yeah, you can plan and you want to be in a position to have opportunities. To come, but there's a lot of things you can't control and there's a lot of things that just sort of happen, if you will. Some might say by divine providence. I don't know if that's the case. But anyway, there's a lot of things that you can't plan. So in my own career, how I got that was sort of a combination of just fate happen to be in this place at this time. And then obviously preparation in terms of formal education and experience. But yeah, it's gone by fast.   Carol: I love that when you said 37 years, we probably have some listeners out there going, I'm not even 37 years old right now. And I was thinking this year I just had my 37th anniversary. And so you and I have been around for a little bit more than a minute. I think that's cool. But I love that that you said by fate, I think a lot of us have fallen into our career trajectory truly by fate in whatever kind of circumstance. Like you said, you came into it at the time. So what went into approaching this study and kind of how long have you been at this?   Jim: Yeah, it's funny. As far as doing this study, how I kind of got interested in it was I mean, I've been a project director for many RSA training grants throughout that time period. There's a lot of investment that you make and help students become rehab counselors and Penn State I think like many universities, we have a strong commitment to the state VR program. You know, I've always said that I feel that State VR people, you should have the best trained people to address the difficult needs and complex needs of people with disabilities have. So there's a lot of investment that's made. And then also, as you know, after they graduate and they get supported through RSA traineeship, they'll typically work for every one year of support, two years of full time employment. So if they work for a state agency, there's a lot of investment the agency makes. You'll often hear it takes 2 to 3 years before you just kind of feel like, I know this job. So when you combine that, you see the amount of financial investment and professional investment that educators and practitioners make. And so over the years when I've had a chance to meet with a number of our former alumni and what are you doing? And one of the things I notice is some of them would be working for a state agency, and then after a couple of years, they do their two year payback and said, I'm out of here. It's like, man, you know, what's going on? What's happening here? What are we doing? And what I came to learn talking with other educators across the country is it's not something I think, wow, is this something just unique to us? Maybe we're doing something wrong here. Maybe we need to do a better job, which of course, we could always do. But what I learned anecdotally was that, no, this seems to be kind of a nationwide problem. So you had that on top of I was interested. So what research has been done to look at the long term effectiveness of the RSA training program? And what I learned was I could not find any study throughout that whole history. I thought that was kind of interesting because I know we followed in the first two years, but after the payback period, that's it. So that started a pilot project that I had done. So I was just interested what happened with the people that came through Penn State, received the RSA Scholarship and worked. And what I learned from that pilot study, even though the data was a small sample size, I learned when we look at the percentage of people who are at the agency versus those that worked at Non State VR, I learned that it was significantly higher. The rate of people who are intending to leave the state VR. So that kind of rang some bells for me. And from there, with that pilot data, we then decided to undertake this three year study to investigate what's going on and more maybe not necessarily more importantly, but just as importantly, what can we do about it? So we are just finishing our second year of data and today and next month, we'll talk about some of the results of what are some of the things that we found from that study. So that's really kind of how this whole thing emerged.   Carol: I really love that you tackled this because that was so interesting to me, especially when you were looking at 65 years of this program. But there was nothing done like there had been no study of what happened to the people. I'm sure as you were talking to directors and I used to be a director, you know, anecdotally we could see and tell you, like we knew in Minnesota, I felt like we were the training grounds for the VA. And so, you know, staff would come in, they would do an internship with us, come on board, Yay, you know, and all of that. And then the next thing you know, there's skedaddled over to the VA because they could make like 20,000 more a year starting. It was crazy. So it's like, how do we combat that? And we'll get to some of that. You had definitely some ideas for folks on how to do it, but I was really super pleased to see what you had undertaken there. So let's talk about the recruitment challenges that you identified in the study. What are the top challenges that VR is facing?   Jim: Right now, the first thing I'm going to tell you, I'm sure your listeners are going to go, duh. I mean, the first big challenge is we don't have enough applicants. We don't have enough people applying for the jobs. And there's a lot of reasons for that. And I'd like to unpack maybe just a few of them. But one of the big things that states are constantly saying is years past, maybe we'd have a job opening and we might have 15-20 applicants today. We might be lucky if we can get a couple and in some cases we get none. So the big problem is we don't have a sufficient number of qualified job applicants. That's, you know, the big thing. So it's like people don't know about us. People don't know how to kind of how's this process work? To varying degrees, I think educators do kind of a mixed job on how do we market this. So why would you want to become a state VR counselor? You know, if you ask college students who want to be counselors, social workers, psychologists, and say, hey, there's this thing called a state counselor, it's like, what? What is that? I don't know. What do they do? That's a big, big problem. Another big, big problem that we have is look at the bureaucracy. You and I, we've had a history of and I'm still working in the bureaucracy here at Penn State as much as I love it. But the big thing is in that bureaucracy, the time it takes to recruit somebody, then you have to kind of review all the applicants. You have all the policies and procedures and steps and levels of people that need to review and sign off on this. Well, that process typically takes 2 to 3 months. And so you're thinking like, okay, for states that are looking and I know that regulations are changing, hiring more baccalaureate people, but especially for master's level credentialed persons, they don't have time to kind of wait two, three months to hear back from a job. If you think back to like when you know, way back in the Stone Age, when I'll just say when I graduated, you finish and you were poor and you needed money and I need to get a job and a job fast. So to ask them to wait for 2 or 3 months after they graduate, we're losing. We're losing a lot of qualified people. We need to do something about how do we reduce that time that's a little bit more manageable and a little bit more reasonable.   Carol: I hear about that from directors all the time, that hiring practices. In fact, we're doing a little bit of a pilot on recruitment retention within our VRTAC for quality management. And so you've been aware I've been working with John Connolly and Ron Vessel, John Walsh, Missy Deal and Crystal Gary on our team where we've been talking about this. We've been also coming to the Operation Personnel Committee. But one of the states we're working with, you know, it's taking them 7 or 8 months to be able to make the offer. So they literally interviewed people. And then by the time HR worked through their processes, it was eight months later. And then you're going to offer to somebody and they're like, we thought this was done because we haven't heard from you. Gosh, you're going on a year, for Pete's sakes. People aren't hanging out. And if they are hanging out, there's probably a reason they're hanging out and somebody else didn't pick them up.   Jim: You're absolutely right. Typically with state directors who we spoke with and we spoke to about 20 in the first part of this study, usually it was about 3 or 4 months. So, boy, if it's 7 to 8 months, oh, my lord, that's really, really bad. So on top of that, another big problem and this is where I think educators need to do a better job. A lot of applicants really don't understand what is it that a state VR counselor does? This might be a little controversial to say, but I think one of the things when we kind of went through the new accreditation process from CORE to CACREP and all and the counselor identity, now this is just my personal opinion. I'm not saying it represents, you know, any other constituent group. But in my opinion, I think what we've lost in that transition is we've lost a bit that the importance of career development, of job placement. We've lost, you know, kind of career counseling. And so I think students really don't understand that while I want to work in private practice, so they have this kind of idealized expectation, like, you know, I just open up my shop or I work out of my house and people just be coming and it'll be great. I'll provide good services, I'll make a good income. It doesn't work that way. It takes time to kind of do all that. And then my wife is a therapist had been doing this for 40 years. Even when you do that again, you have some idea of how you think it's going to work, and they don't really understand, like, Hey, well, what are some of the downsides of kind of private practice? And so a state view job has lots of benefits, I think, that make attractive. And one of the things I say to my students is where should I start? For me, working as a state counselor is a fantastic way to kind of get on the ground floor because you learn different systems, different agencies. You understand the whole network, and you'll also get connected in the community so you understand, you know, other providers and kind of what they do. That takes time. I think that's another problem because people have some understanding and we'll talk about the paperwork and all that. And there are definitely downsides, but there's a lot of upsides. The other big thing, no surprise, surprise, money. We don't pay them enough. We can talk about later on this podcast or the next about what certain states are doing and all. But the big problem is and you just alluded, not alluded, you actually stated that years ago, you take like the VA offer is just one example and it's like, okay, the credentials are the same. So why would I want to work at this place? It's going to pay me $20,000 less to do basically kind of very similar kinds of jobs. And so while some states have been successful in getting higher compensation, others have not. And we'll talk more about this probably in the next podcast because I do have some ideas about what you can do to address the compensation issue. So when you look at those four reasons, the fact that we don't have enough people, the fact that it takes time to go through all the recruitment that applicants, they don't really have an understanding of what's this job about? And the money, that's a deadly combination. And so we need to now think about, well, what are things that we could do to kind of make this more attractive to recruit them?   Carol: I know when we were talking money, so I did a podcast. It was in April with Scott Dennis from Maryland. For our listeners, if you didn't catch that episode, definitely go back and listen, because he was successful in getting a significant increase for his counselors and the supervisors and the regional administrators because he's in this unique position where he's surrounded by like DC and all these other states. So he goes, Gosh, we're the training ground for RSA. Like they're stealing all my people. And folks were making significantly more well by him. And this wasn't overnight. Like everybody needs to know like any of these solutions that we're going to talk about, like it takes time. Literally. They've been working on this for several years. And finally, we're able to get it through. It almost immediately stopped the bleeding because he said he was every week getting everybody was reporting up like all these resignations. And it stopped and they actually started getting people back in that used to work for him, came back and said, hey, we love that job, but now you're paying a decent wage. I will come back. I know it struck me in the study, when you go the range of pay was from like 16,000. When you're talking about like an intern, you know, and it might be like the aid type of thing up to 101,000 and you go, that is a big spread. And there's a whole lot of states talking about, you know, those master's level counselors coming out and they're making $36,000. That's not going to cut it like that is not going to cut it. So I am definitely excited as we kind of get into talking about some of the other strategies folks could use. Now, I know you called out directly that VR agencies do not have an overall strategy to develop a comprehensive recruitment plan. And recruitment really is a reactive process. When somebody leaves the agency and I know we're going to chat about retention next month, so let's talk about some strategies that might help folks on the recruitment front.   Jim: Yeah, that's right. So the first thing is, okay, when you look at traditionally like how does a state VR advertise? And often what we find is they'll do it through the State Civil Service Commission. And because that's the mechanism that historically that we've used. So we're going to continue. That's great. That's fine. But we've got to expand other outlets because number one, as I said, job applicants, many may not even know what civil servant. What is that? I don't know what civil service. I don't even know what that is. Well, we advertise there, but we have to look at accessing other networks. So the things that, you know, like indeed, and LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter, Facebook, there's just tons of social media networks that we need to be aware of. Again, I'm kind of old school, so Facebook. But yeah, I mean, my son, who's 26 TikTok and Reddit is a bunch of it anyway, so I'm not an expert on all that. But the point being is we have to think broader. So when we think about that, we have to recognize there's other tools that we're not using. Now, with that being said, and states are already starting to do this to again, historically, they've sought out rehab counseling programs as a source to say, hey, we're going to have some positions. If you have students coming out, we'd love to interview them. Great. But there are a number of states that you don't have an accredited program in your state and Savannah were fortunate because we have several, but there are some states that have none. So what they have to do in those instances, they've got to look at other programs, mental health programs and social work programs and school and psychology and substance abuse. So there are universities that have those kinds of programs. So we need to establish and I'll talk about this in a minute or two, a better working relationship with individual university program coordinators. Historically, we've had that. But in some cases, I think maybe because of the pandemic, things have kind of necessarily evaporated. But I think, you know, that relationship has been tested a little bit over the last couple of years. And not just that in terms of the network. And I think historically, State VR has done a good job in this area, but they could still do better in terms of the diversity of workforce. So there are groups I'm thinking in terms of ethnic minority groups in particular here where we need to do a better job in terms of recruitment. And so what that means is maybe we can't always rely on kind of traditional sites that many people use, but there are certain job boards and certain postings that are specifically devoted to access to underrepresented groups in terms of disability, may be wrong on this,. I think it's called recruit disability. I think there's another one called 70 million Jobs. So we have that. The other thing too, and sometimes in rural areas we have to do more and want to get back to something actually you mentioned, Carol, was I have to say this was a surprise to me. Originally we were going to do the study. We were going to interview state VR executive directors, and then the HR person who is responsible for recruitment and retention. And based on the people that responded to our surveys, we didn't find anybody. There's nobody that says this is my job title. Like, my job is to focus exclusively on recruitment and retention. And I think that's a big problem because that gets to what you were talking about a little bit earlier and that being that unfortunately, recruitment is kind of an afterthought. It's a reactive process. It's like, Oh, we just lost somebody. We got to recruit people to refill that well, that's the wrong way to kind of do things. That's sort of like we're reacting to something that actually happened and well, we'll get into retention next month. You know, part of that is how do we keep people? That's a separate issue, but also how do we recruit them? So we have to think, you know, what are we doing? So having a designated person who is responsible for this, I can't think of a more important aspect than recruiting and retaining your workforce. Lots of problems. But if you don't have a qualified workforce that is going to be around, everything else is kind of a moot point.   Carol: So I agree 100%, because I even think back to our old agency that I came from in Minnesota, we didn't really have a recruitment strategy. And in our agency, we were in a labor agency. We had all these programs. You know, you've got adult dislocated worker and Wagner-Peyser, and we've got unemployment insurance and disability determination services and all this stuff. And they finally did. They they're like, Oh, we're going to get one dedicated person who's recruiting for all of it, like for every division. And you go, okay, for one, we all vastly do way different work and having some strategies, you know? So you've got this one person I'm going to go to the career fair over at blah blah, blah place. Oh, good grief. You know, we had to all kind of help pitch in to get the message out because a lot of times, you know, on that state website, you know, your career opportunities for the state our ads suck. I mean, they aren't very good. They're not very appealing. It's like, oh, come work for us, blah, blah, blah. It doesn't sound very interesting. And I remember the very first time I was like, okay, heck, no, we are not having that. And I rewrote that advertisement and like, come and join us for this like, mission driven organization and all of that. And people were like, Oh, I don't know if we're allowed to do stuff like that. And we had people apply because they're like, We've never seen an advertisement like that, you know, just getting in some of that fresh thinking. But that is something that VR can think about. Maybe you do only have one person in the agency, but then within your own group, is there a way you can have someone that can assist in helping to like make those advertisements appealing? Can they help to get the word out? I know our colleagues in North Carolina, General, they did a really cool thing through Facebook. They were writing really cool, like, why you want to come and be on my team? I'm like, I would answer that ad like, that was awesome. I think VR has got to get in there and advocate and see how they can help be part of the solution for this.   Jim: You're absolutely right. And again, that's where, you know, kind of the history. Well, we've always done it this way. Well, that doesn't mean that we need to keep doing it that way. In any kind of professional reports that I've written about the study. I wouldn't say, you know, the way we post is sucks, but actually you're absolutely correct. That's exactly I mean, you read these job postings and say, well, is this intriguing? Like, my God, this thing sounds boring as hell. Why would I ever want to work that? No, thanks, but no thanks. And you mentioned North Carolina. That individual also participated in the study. And one of the things I remember that she had done was talking about not just how we do it, but the consistency. In other words, a state position, the same job. It's written one way in one city, it's written another way in another city. So wait a minute, how can we have the same job? And it's, you know, so we got to make sure that, number one, that the information is consistent across. But number two and the larger point that you're hammering on and I would agree, we have to think, especially with the newer applicants, again, I'm baby boomer I'm just about boomed out. But the Gen Z the millennials not to stereotype but I think they have a different view, a different way of thinking as it relates to this job seeking process. So we have to make it present, not just the job. Why do you want to work here in this office? What's unique, if you come in the Philadelphia office, what is it that we got that's so doggone special that you're going to love as opposed to Pittsburgh as opposed to Altoona or Harrisburg? So that's where we have to think a little bit more about on a unit level like and you know this and I know our listeners know this, you can go into one district office and the climate may be you can feel the vibe and you can go to another district office and there's another vibe. And that largely depends on the leadership and the sensitivity. And so you can go in and go, Wow, You know, these folks, they look like they're having fun and then, oh, this doesn't look like much fun. This is not fun. And so you have to be sincere, but you have to think I mean, that gets into a whole other issue in terms of climate, which we'll that's another topic. But anyway, the point being is if you feel like, you know, this is a good place to work, what makes it a good place? Explain to me in simple language why you want to come here. And so that's something. So while you can have the standardized because sometimes states regulations and all it has to be you can have standardized narrative, but you can also incorporate a section on why do you want to come here at this office? This is what we can offer you. This is why it's cool to work here.   Carol: And that's completely controllable, you know, like having that little added narrative, just by like we need to use our words and speak up. I think people get used to the system sort of happening to us and with our situation happening in VR, like we got to stand up and go, Hey, like that isn't working because I'm getting zero applicants from that crappy announcement. Can we just change this wording? I know we need to have in our very specific things, you know, there's required, but can I have a paragraph that I can add at the top and it can be done? We've talked to people and they're like, Well, I don't know if we can do that. Did you ask? Because for sure you're never going to get to do it if you don't ask. You need to at least use your words and ask and show them an example like, Here's all your blah blah stuff, but I need this in there to just like punch them right away. Like how and grab them. This is going to be a really cool opportunity and that is in our control.   Jim: Again, you're hammered that point very well. And sometimes people like the system or those guys, it's like, who are those guys? You know, to quote a line from a Butch Cassidy Sundance movie. So that's a movie for the baby boomers. But any rate, who are those guys? Well, we are those guys. And you're right, so often we don't even ask. We just assume this is the way. Well, could we? Oh, I don't know. No one's asked that. The other thing, too, that we talked about is the time, the time it takes before you get the job announcement and you go through this whole rigmarole and you actually hire can be months or, you know, in your case, three quarters of a year. I mean, that's unbelievable. So the question is, well, what can we do about that? It's funny because now I got North Carolina on the brain and because for confidentiality, I could probably mention but indicate I wouldn't mention people's names, but just say North Carolina, I'll leave it at that. You know, one of the things that what was happening that they identified was, well, why does it take so doggone long? What is going on there? Because the director is here and, you know, all kinds of complaints. Why, you know, from the managers and blah, blah, blah. So what things that she found that was important is like, well, let's talk with the HR people and say, can we do anything to kind of make this a little bit shorter? And so you had these like everything else, it all comes down to the R word relationship. So suddenly, like, I have a relationship with HR and I can contact them. They know me, I know them. We've built up mutual trust here. We're not just sort of a voice on the telephone or that kind of a thing. And so what they learned is, well, there are some things that we can do for reducing that lag time, but it all really kind of depended on staying on top of it. You know, so, hey, we advertise this thing last week. Where are we? What's the process? So we have to monitor and see this again. That makes a big difference when you have a designated person that says, my job. We have 25 vacancies in the state office this year. My job, part of it is finding out where are we? What's happening? What's going on? How many people? So it's that constant monitoring, following up, asking questions. So you have that. The other thing is like, well, procedurally we said, well, kind of reduce. Well, agencies, there's all kinds of background checks. You know, you got criminal background checks, you got child abuse, history clearances, motor vehicle. Sometimes you need to have those kinds of records. Some of that documentation could be done up front. So, in other words, as the application. So maybe that's part of the you know, hey, be aware that we need these. So you're already telling the applicant get started on this because it takes usually 2 to 3 weeks, sometimes a little longer. But if you kind of start that up front as opposed to 3 or 4 weeks into the, well, now we've just added on to that. So what can we do? So one of the things I know, like what I'll say to my students is most places now require you to do these background checks, whether you're going to state or not, to have these kinds of background checks, especially obviously if you're working with children or adolescents, get all that documentation from the very beginning so that when you begin the process, we're all ready to go. So I already have that information. Now, the other thing, too, again, I don't want to get too far in the retention aspect, but, you know, a lot of times like, okay, why do people leave? And one of the reasons is we'll talk about next month is people leave because they don't really understand the job as it relates to recruitment. Then there are a couple states at the moment, I can't say exactly which ones, but I do remember there are a couple states that what they had done is and I found this really interesting, is part of the recruitment process and to address the problem of what were you expecting, what was your understanding about this job? So as part of the recruitment process and the interview process, what they did was they would allow the applicant to actually job shadow a state counselor for maybe a day. You can learn a lot of information. And we know that when we have greater samples of behavior, we have stronger predictive outcomes. You know, they can see like the good, the bad and the ugly of this job. So some people might say, well, boy, if you do that, you know, we might not get that person. Well, maybe that's a good thing. Like this person. I'm not really sure this job is for me now after doing it. Yeah, I kind of think no, I don't think this is the job for me. At the same token, you have people like, Hey, I get this a little bit more. You know, I think this would actually be kind of a pretty cool job. The other thing and I can just talk more from my experience working with students who predominantly, not surprisingly, they're going to work for the state VR program would be here in Pennsylvania. And I get it. Because of hiring, you know, we have to be consistent. But sometimes, like that whole process almost sounds robotic. It's like you can't be human. You know, you have to ask these questions and you can't kind of deviate. And I'm not saying kind of break policy on that, but I would ask the again, this is the point that you made. Well, we've always done it that way. Well, did anybody ask do we have any kind of latitude here? Can we do some other things? So in other words, as they go through that initial screening process, one of the things happened is not that you have kind of the formal but you also have kind of an informal process. So one of the things that I know students really appreciate is if they have an alum who's working at that district office. So it's like, well, yeah, you graduated from Penn State two years ago as Dr. Herbert. Yeah, that guy, he's still there. They can't get rid of him. So then they have kind of a natural connection. So what states are doing is like, well, want to have kind of informal kind of get together. So maybe after you go through the formal process, you give everybody the opportunity. Some would say, yep, that sounds good. Others, no, I don't want to do that. But you give everyone the same opportunity. Would you like to talk with some of our, you know, Richard Bolles, who maybe some of your audience might not know who he is, wrote a book called What Color is Your Parachute? It's all about career and fantastic. Well, anyway, one of the things I remember many, many, many years ago when I first saw him, he said there's two decisions being made in the interview. The first is, do we want you? Do we want the job applicant? But the more important decision is do they want us? We got to pay more attention to that aspect we represent. So when you're interviewing, you know, like who are they interviewing with? It's like, what's the energy that you're communicating with? Yeah, we need to do a better job with that. The other thing I'll just kind of finish up on. This aspect is I talked about the importance of relationship, and that's the same thing here, states and rehab educators. We need to kind of reengage, if you will. I think because of the pandemic. I think that relationship to some extent has kind of impacted. And so make sure that you have a working relationship with your individual program directors and also to think about like, well, when jobs are going to be available, you know, let's say, hey, we're going to have something in May, well, usually they might contact us maybe in April. If you can be a little bit more proactive, if you know something's coming down the pipe, let us know earlier because then we can kind of, hey, these are coming available. I guess the final thing I'll just say, we've done this historically in Pennsylvania and over the last couple of years, it's been phased out. I'm hoping it'll get back phased in. Think about allocating a portion of your budget to offering paid internships. If you can give students the opportunity to say, look, it's a paid internship, you're going to get some income because they're poor, even though they have the training grant. Most programs, that's not going to cover all of the expenses. So providing that kind of paid internship. And in Pennsylvania, I'll say we're fortunate they also provide medical benefits. So you do the paid internship if you do a good job, you know that, Wow, you're going to be hired here. Maybe not this particular office. We do an internship, but one of these offices. And so giving that kind of opportunity and also more importantly is then you can see, I mean, the job interview, anybody can fake it for an hour or two. But when you have somebody for 15 weeks, you know, whether or not, you know, hey, this is a person we want to retain or we don't want to retain. Yeah. So I feel like I've been a little gerbils speed up, but hopefully that that kind of covered it.   Carol: No, I love it. Jim. I think the important thing is to take away from this conversation today is that really VR has got to look at this differently. We cannot be operating the same way we operated 20 years ago. Like times have changed. So we have to deal with the situation where we're at today. We need to be proactive instead of reactive. There are a number of things within our control and we should be good at like we're people, people, relationship building that's in our… like we're good at that, Like buy a muffin for those people. I used to tell folks that whatever you need to do to grease the skids to get things rolling, like really working proactively, looking at your messaging, looking at I love that. Paying for the internships for the folks. Absolutely. We started doing that. I can't believe when I first came, it's like, okay, we're going to have interns come in and we're not going to pay them. Well, nobody has any money. Like, what's wrong with minimum wage or something? Let's give them some money so they'll come and do that. And it is a great insight into how folks can work. I really look forward to us continuing the conversation next month to go through the rest of the study. So I really appreciate your time today and definitely I will put the link for your study out with our podcast announcement as well. So thanks for joining me today. Really appreciate it.   Jim: Thank you. It's a wonderful time and I look forward to talking with you next month.   Speaker1: Conversations powered by VR, one manager at a time, one minute at a time, brought to you by the VR TAC for Quality Management. Catch all of our podcast episodes by subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening!

Shell Mendelson has built her 35-year career in education and career counseling. There are a lot of career counselors, though. What makes Shell indispensable for us today is that she has ADHD herself and has spent that career helping others make career choices that reflect joy and passion for their unique ADHD brains.This week on the show, Shell brings us new insights into jobs and the ADHD brain. We talk about finding the right match, how to target those deal breakers we've been thinking so hard about the last few weeks, and how to approach discussing ADHD with hiring managers. We review what it takes to find a career coach that can help you with your unique career direction and how to work with a career coach to get the most out of the relationship.One other thing about Shell that is germane to this conversation: she was mentored by Richard Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute?: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success She's custodian of the methodology now and has taken it in her own wonderful direction to help the neurodiverse population. Even so, we're intrigued by just how well the Parachute model aligns to our thinking around ADHD and encourage you to check out the book. It's a classic. And Shell has an updated working for ADHD adults which should be available in the next two months. Keep an eye out!Learn more about Shell right here, and make sure to connect on LinkedIn if you're on the hunt and need a coach!Other LinksThe Damn Good Resume Guide, Fifth Edition: A Crash Course in Resume Writing by Yana Parker and Beth Brown (00:00) - Welcome to Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast (01:19) - Support the Show: Become a Patron and Join the Community! https://patreon.com/theadhdpodcast (03:29) - Introducing Career Counselor Shell Mendelson (09:23) - What Color is Your Parachute? (15:54) - What makes the ADHD hunt hard? (18:53) - Where is ADHD in the process? (23:51) - The ADHD Disclosure Question (29:51) - The "Means to an End" Job (37:55) - Performance Plans (44:29) - Moving into the Job Hunt (49:05) - The Job Market (53:56) - Learn More ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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There tends to be a kind of wonderful synchronicity to finding the right people for your team. And often, I don't even find them. They find me — which feels like even more of a gift. That's how it worked with Rachel Silves, who is currently our Program and Marketing Coordinator at Team KK. Rachel brought more than a decade of entrepreneurship with her when she decided to make the transition to being an intrapreneur with Team KK. And she brings her varied and interesting experience with her inside the Success With Soul Incubator, where she helps with programming and coaches women who are ready to be done with the grind forever and want to start building a soul-aligned business that nourishes them and serves their whole life.  You're going to love this conversation with Rachel and guest host Indira!  What you'll learn in this episode: How and why Rachel went from being and entrepreneur to being and intrapreneur with Team KK What her zone of genius is — and how she uses these gifts to help women inside the Incubator Which Team KK values are her favorite What surprised her most after joining the team Her advice for hiring someone to her position Subscribe and Review Thanks so much for joining me this week. If you liked what you heard, please leave an honest review for The Success with Soul Podcast on Apple Podcasts so we can improve and better serve you in the future. Plus, you could be featured on a future episode during our listener spotlights. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And finally, don't forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts to get automatic updates. My goal for this podcast is to inspire those who seek flexibility and freedom in their lives by making something happen with holistic, soulful, step-by-step strategies from me and other experts.   Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode:    Ready to maximize your business's potential? Check out the sanity-saving, abundance-creating strategies we use inside the Success With Soul Incubator that help you start building a business you love and that serves your whole life. Some of Rachel's favorite books and tools:What Color Is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen CoveyTime Boxing for time management Follow me on Instagram @katekordsmeier   More Ways to Enjoy Success with Soul Download a transcript of this episode Download on Apple Podcasts Email me new episodes Don't forget to join our free Success With Soul Facebook community for follow-up conversations about the podcast episodes and where I also often go live to answer your burning questions. Hangout with like-minded bloggers and heart-centered online business owners exchanging priceless feedback, encouragement, and other golden insights from the trenches. EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Danny Ozment at https://emeraldcitypro.com

On this episode Ariel is joined by Beverley Giroud, a professional educator, licenced massage therapist, personal trainer and life coach, about the power of transition. If you're transitioning, or know someone who is, listen on, some great ideas are discussed on this episode. What Color is Your Parachute: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success by Richard Bolles. This book is updated often and has excellent tools and exercises to help you understand your work and life skills and how to apply them in a different career to make decisions regarding transition. KEY TAKEAWAYS I planned. I had a job as an administrator for an excellent massage therapy school and during the course of the time I was there I was planning for a time when I would leave. I didn't know wen that was going to be, here I am being thankful that I planned. Life coaching training was something I did during covid because he school was down for he most part, I didn't want to get to the end of 2020-2021 with nothing to show for myself. Teaching adults is fun and challenging and I felt I wanted to be better at navigating challenging situations, be better, more prepared and more helpful to my staff, students and clients. It was supposed to support my job and eventually I'd come home and have my own practice, but that's what I'm doing now! When I cleared all this stuff out of my life, the things that I wanted – namely a special relationship – showed up. And I was available and ready to go and it's been great. In the end, the theme I found underneath everything is the same theme that has been my issue and challenge for life is about picking the right relationships, picking healthy relationships, relationships that are healthy for me, picking relationships where I feel respected, where I am respected, where I'm valued and not choosing relationships that are the opposite of that. Not just romantic but professional. So, I left that last job/unhealthy relationship I'd been in for 10 years, that was an amazing job and in some respects my dream job. I couldn't do without that experience, because I learned so much, but growing up and going through life coaching school and getting more clear about myself I knew I needed to make a transition.   BEST MOMENTS “Life coaching was always supposed to be an enhancement to my social skills with people, leadership skills and being able to educate and help.” “With this transition I'd say I'm slowing down a bit. I'm 60, I'm not done yet, but I'm finding success in areas of my life that I wasn't paying attention to. I keep having to remind myself to look at what I'm doing now that I could never have done before, the relationships that'd I'd never have had, travelling. I'm happier than I've ever been, but I think ‘is that alright?' because I'm not overachieving.” “I'm very present, there are no other channels running in the background when I'm with someone. Being present is how I find my joy.” “If it feels big and more than you're able to manage, find a life coach. I've had one for many years and that's how I was inspired to go to school. Trust your intuition but make sure you're not consufusion fear with your intuition, because we often do that.” ABOUT THE GUEST Beverley Giroud serves as the Director of Education for CRSMT (Costa Rica School of Massage Therapy). Beverley discovered a love of teaching and a passion for the industry while earning her massage therapy certificate in 1998. She became an instructor in 1999 and has been volunteering on a national level throughout her career. She served on and chaired the NCBTMB's (The National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork) Exam Development Committee for 10 years and has been serving as a COMTA (Commission on Massage Therapy) Commissioner since 2012. Beverley's extensive experience in private practice as well as many hours of interaction with other professionals in and out of the classroom provides a wealth of learning experiences to share. She is also the author of “Ethics and Professionalism for Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers”. Instagram: @beveryleygiroud ABOUT THE HOST Ariel is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, Empath and Psychic who has been involved in holistic healing since 1988. She is also an educator, speaker, author and mentor for empaths, spiritual seekers and medical professionals. 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I read a book titled "what color is your parachute" by Richard Bolles and found it super insightful. Based on some insights from the author, I learned that there are two approaches to job searching, one being traditional and the other being more strategic with an end goal of getting a job you really love and which utilizes your skills. In this episode, I discussed some elements involved in these two approaches and gave some examples of how this plays out in day-to-day job hunting. Please enjoy and learn something new :) Love, Ololade

Diese Taktik bei der Jobsuche ist häufig Zeitverschwendung! Dein aktueller Job macht dich unglücklich. Da ist die Versuchung groß schonmal nach etwas Neuem in einer Stellenbörse zu suchen. Doch hast du dich wirklich mit dem auseinander gesetzt, was du wirklich willst? Oder weißt du bislang nur was du nicht willst? Aus einem unzufriedenen Zustand direkt in die Suche auf Jobbörsen zu gehen, kann große Zeitverschwendung sein. Ich erzähle dir, wie du Jobbörsen in deiner Suche nach dem richtigen Job gezielt einsetzt, Zeit sparst und deine Bewerbungschancen erhöhst. In dieser Podcast-Folge erfährst du

When can you retire? What savings rate is needed to achieve a secure retirement? What impact will Social Security have on your retirement? What are the different retirement accounts that may be available to you? How do you balance other life expenses with saving for retirement, and how should you prioritize them? Bill relates his answers to his decades of providing advice to individuals nearing or entering retirement. Anastasia "OK Boomer"s Bill for the first time on this podcast, but don't worry, it was all in good fun. For those looking to plan ahead for life in retirement, Bill recommends reading What Color is Your Parachute? For Retirement, by John Nelson and Richard Bolles. For questions and comments, you can email us at askcreatingwealth@taberasset.com.

Howard00:00Hello, this is Howard Fox host of the Career Focus Series on the Success InSight Podcast. I want to welcome you to Career Focus Q & A. Our guest today is Anita Jenke, the Executive Director of the Career Transition Center of Chicago. Anita joined us this year on the Career Focus Series for episode 87, which was published on October 25, 202.We received emails from individuals who listened to the episode and they had questions for Anita, who has been gracious to come back on the show and share her answers and insights with our listeners. Anita, welcome.Anita00:42Glad to be back. Thanks for having me.Howard00:45Fantastic. Anita question number three is, what's the number one book or your favorite book you recommend to someone to read or review when they're faced, or right in the beginning of their job loss?Anita01:00Okay, so I'm going to answer the question with two books that I have read, and two books that I'm planning to read. I think it's an oldie, but a goodie, is What Color is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles? I know it's old school, andl it's been around forever, but it really does have good advice in the sort of the psychological and the emotional aspects of job searches, as well as helping you hit the reset button. Click here for a link to What Color is Your Parachute on Amazon.I also like StrengthFinders 2.0 by Tom Rath. It's a very positive forward-looking book. If you're beginning to feel like I've got nothing to offer, take their assessment, and it'll give you your top five strengths and that can help you reinvigorate yourself.Click here to find StrengthFinders 2.0 on Amazon. Two books that I'm really interested in reading, and I have to confess I haven't done it yet, is Rising Strong by Brené Brown. She interviewed leaders and successful people who overcame challenges, and she gives insight on how you can overcome challenges. Click here to find Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead on Amazon.Then there's a new book out that I'm really intrigued by Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, using a design mindset to ask questions and problem solve your way into a job that's meaningful and fulfilling.They have exercises, checked boxes, helpful advice, and websites you can reference. And that's one that I'm kind of intrigued by because I liked this idea of using a design like product design, design mindset.Click here to find Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life on AmazonHoward02:22Anita, thank you for the answer to the question. And again, for joining us for Career Focus, Q & A.Anita02:29My pleasure.Howard02:31Folks, you can learn more about Anita and the Career Transition Center of Chicago by visiting their website at https://ctcchicago.org. We'd also love for you to add your likes and comments to this short post, and also to share it with your friends, family, and colleagues as well.You can also visit us online at https://successinsightpodcast.com, or you can search for Success InSight, and follow us on the leading podcast platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Audible, and Spotify.Take care now.

Laura Garnett reveals her simple methodology for tapping into your genius and making any job more fulfilling. — YOU'LL LEARN — 1) Two key questions that unlock your genius zone 2) How to uncover what truly motivates you 3) A handy tool to help turn genius into a habit Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep715 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT LAURA — Laura Garnett is a performance strategist, mother, TEDx speaker, and author of, The Genius Habit and Find Your Zone of Genius. She guides CEOs, executives, entrepreneurs, and teams to new heights of success by shining a light on their unique purpose, values, and abilities, transforming the way they work and freeing them to make decisions with confidence and clarity. She has consulted with organizations including Google, Pandora, LinkedIn, and Splunk. Prior to launching her own company, New York City-based Garnett Consulting, she honed her marketing, strategy, and career-refining skills at companies like Capital One, American Express, IAC, and Google. • Laura's book: The Genius Habit: Break Free from Burnout, Reduce Career Anxiety and Double Your Productivity by Leveraging the Power of Being Who You Are at Work • Laura's book: Find Your Zone of Genius: Break Free from burnout, Reduce Career Anxiety, and Make the Work Your Doing Matter by Making Your Job The Right Job for You (Ignite Reads) • Laura's quiz: ZoneOfGeniusQuiz.com • Laura's website: LauraGarnett.com — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Product: Oura Ring • Book: What Color Is Your Parachute? 2021: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success by Richard Bolles & Katharin Brooks • Book: The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success by Nicholas Lore • Book: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Book: Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert — THANK YOU SPONSORS! — • Setapp. Try out up to 200 of the best software tools in one streamlined place at setapp.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, I chat with you about using your uniqueness to get ahead. If you are looking for a new job or seeking to advance your career taking the time to do a self-inventory where you define what is important to you in seven key areas can make the world of difference.Richard Bolles in his book What color is your Parachute popularized the self-inventory flower exercise. Upon completion of this exercise,  you gain information and insight about yourself. Your one-page guide provides direction and clarity as you navigate your career and life journey.

Join Jeff and Vince as they discuss how they use LinkedIn and some of the changes to the platform, lessoned learned from What Color is Your Parachute and tons of great music from the 1960's! Also a little new business development in this weeks Cultural Corner. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/meetthenewboss/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/meetthenewboss/support

As you may know, the world’s most popular and bestselling career book is What Color Is Your Parachute?, which has been in print for more than 50 years and was written by the late Richard Bolles. Now available is a new book called, What Color Is Your Parachute For College: Pave Your Path from Major to Meaningful Work.  It’s described as the only guide students need for making the most of their college career from start to finish. It was adapted from Bolles’ bestseller and authored by our guest on this episode, award-winning counselor and career coach Katharine Brooks. She is the Evans Family Executive Director of the Career Center for Vanderbilt University. ****** Thanks to our sponsor of this episode! --> Care/Of: to get 50% off your first order, go to takecareof.com and enter code 'nobodytoldme50' at checkout. --> AirMedCare: If you're ever in need of emergency medical transport, AirMedCare Network provides members with world class air transport services to the nearest appropriate hospital with no out of pocket expenses. Go to airmedcarenetwork.com/nobody and use offer code 'NOBODY' to sign up and choose up to a $50 eGift Card gift card with a new membership! ****** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sign up for the MindStyling Newsletter: https://mindstyling.group/sign-up/Polly Crook from The HOW People was straight to the point with her Top Tip:“Find your passion!”In today's new episode, Becky and Amy reflect on what has helped them find and live their passion, and what has held them back.Are you living a life that serves you most powerfully?  Or is it one designed by Society and what your ego tells you is, or is not, the right path to follow?  Why have you made the choices that you have?We talk about how you might find your passion, and the value of identifying the key ingredients to your best life.  Do you find constructing a Wheel of Life – or even a Pizza of Life! - helpful?  Or is Ikigai more meaningful for you?  Helping you to find your sweet spot for life, where your passions and talents converge with what the world needs from you and is willing to pay you for.What if the pursuit of being paid to do what you love, simply won't fulfil your financial goals?  What if you are doing something you love, but in a toxic work environment you hate? What if your clarity of thought is clouded with self-doubt, anxiety, or depression?  How can you clear the space for yourself to consciously design a life you love?During our discussion we reference a range of excellent books, and even a video, to help you take practical steps, and give yourself the clarity to: -        start to move forwards-        say no to the things which aren't working for you, and -        believe you can build a passion-filled life.Our recommendations include:-        ‘The Code of the Extraordinary Mind', by Vishen Lakhiani  -        ‘The Passion Test' by Janet Attwood and Chris Attwood-        ‘What Colour is your Parachute?' by Richard Bolles-        ‘How to get a job you love' by John LeesWe would love to hear what works for you.  Let us know on social media using the links below: The MindStyling PodcastInstagram:  www.instagram.com/mindstylingpodcastTwitter:  www.twitter.com/mindstylingpodFacebook:  www.facebook.com/mindstylingpodcastWebsite: mindstyling.groupHost Amy Armstrong:Website: https://amyarmstrongcoaching.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyarmstrongcoach/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/amyarmstrongcoachingHost: Dr Becky SageInstagram: www.instagram.com/drbeckysage Twitter: www.twitter.com/becky_sage Website: www.beckysage.com Lakhiani's concept of BRULES  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq3TG2CEiWw 

In this episode, I interview Louise Karch, the global name whisperer and author of the award-winning book Word Glue: Find Your Million Dollar Brand Name. Louise has been naming break out brands for the past decade and has doubled the revenues of entrepreneurs on two continents. She has worked for Seth Godin, the #1 marketing expert, and Richard Bolles the #1 career genius and best-selling author of What Color Is Your Parachute. Both influencers honed her values of professionalism, empathy, and generosity. Louise comes on the podcast to talk about how important naming your brand is in your success. She will share the key criteria of a great brand name and some of the common mistakes made when it comes to naming a brand. She will also share the process she implements in naming a brand and highlight when you need to be considering renaming your brand.  Louise says coming up with a business or brand name is not a difficult process, but it’s a process that takes time. The number one advice she would give to small business owners about naming is, “Don’t be afraid to rename” This episode will shine a light on the importance of crafting the best brand name for your small business so don’t miss it. Enjoy This Cast Covers: Helping leaders ensure that their brand names break out not blend in. Why naming is so important if you want your business to thrive and compete sustainably. Her expertise in helping businesses come up with brand names that pull focus. The process of testing out a brand name in the relevant market to get qualitative and quantitative data from potential customers. Coming up with the criteria that you need to meet with your brand name. The questions you should ask before you start name storming. How she helped a brilliant pedorthist make more money and beat his biggest competitors. Why naming your business after yourself is not necessarily a good idea. Louise’s favorite brand name: Upparel - The Australian startup that would upcycle used socks into new textiles to save tons of waste from going into landfills. The biggest crime in the naming world: Renaming a business instead of creating better business values. Building businesses that contribute to making the world a better place. Holding back four weeks on a new brand name in order to get feedback from all stakeholders. Avoiding the use of the “Like/Don’t Like” matrix when coming up with a business or brand name. Additional Resources: Word Glue: Find Your Million Dollar Brand Name By Louise Karch http://www.louisekarch.com/ Positioning By Al Ries and Jack Trout Influence By Robert Cialdini This is Marketing By Seth Godin Brand New Name By Jeremy Miller Music from https://filmmusic.io "Cold Funk" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

     Fifty years ago, Richard Bolles wrote a book designed to help people find their way into the world of work. It was called, What Color is Your Parachute? The book has sold over 10 million copies in 22 languages. And...it has been updated 48 times since. Once each year, since 1975. Finding a career in a changing world apparently is a challenge.     Unfortunately, many people seem to find themselves in the same dilemma regarding their own sense of identity. It has become accessorized. Something that has to be "updated" frequently, to fit what everyone else is saying about themselves.     But what if what works for your "parachute" doesn't work in the world of personal identity? What if who I am isn't supposed to change? What if knowing who I am is supposed shape the "color of my parachute"?     Playing off of Bolles' book title, Fran Sciacca takes us on a deep dive into the world of personal identity and the role it plays (or is supposed to play) in the life of a Christ-follower, in an era of racial tension and political confusion._______________________________________OTHER  RESOURCES BY FRAN SCIACCA:"What's Wrong With the World?" - evangelism & discipleship video curriculum"Knot or Noose? - Recovering the Mystery of Marriage"  - small group video resource"The Darkside Challenge"  - social media and tech self-audit"Getting the Big Picture"  - Old Testament survey course"Yeshua in Four Dimensions" - the four Gospels (survey course)"To The Ends of the Earth" - New Testament survey course"The 15/30 Series" - studies for spiritual formation (Genesis, Psalms, Mark, Paul)

In this episode, I’m talking with Marlena Banks who is a creator of relevant, faith-based resources that help forward-thinking Christian entrepreneurs execute their God-given big ideas. Her book, Big Idea Food, is a weekly devotional that serves up dope, biblical insights specifically designed to nourish entrepreneurs along their journey in business.  Since launching her book last year, she's started sending out a free weekly email devotional to her audience, sharing encouraging content through her social media platforms, speaking at inspirational events, and working one on one with purpose-driven brands to launch their big ideas.  Her ultimate mission is to elevate the influence of more creators of faith so that, together, they can positively impact our world at the level God intended.  During this episode, Marlena discussed:   How she got started as an entrepreneur and her passion for helping others execute on their big ideas  Big Idea Food and why she wrote it  Overcoming the hurdle of feeling like she had to be perfect in order to please God  Practical steps that she took to move towards walking in her purpose  How it’s helpful to take inventory of your skills and gifts  How she renews her mind consistently with God’s word and other ways  How connecting with God can look how you want it to look How she uses systems and organization to eliminate distractions and stay on task  Leaving her 9-5 and her transition into entrepreneurship full time  And so much more! Tune in now to hear how Marlena uses the gifts that God has equipped her with to make an impact in the lives of so many other Christian entrepreneurs.  MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:  Spiritual Gifts Test: www.spiritualgiftstest.com  What Color is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles: https://www.amazon.com/What-Color-Your-Parachute-2020/dp/1984856561/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3SOBGM8KV7896&keywords=what+color+is+your+parachute&qid=1575736447&s=books&sprefix=what+color+is+%2Cstripbooks%2C136&sr=1-1 The 12-Week Year by Brian Moran: https://www.amazon.com/12-Week-Year-Others-Months/dp/1118509234 Atomic Habits by James Clear: https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0735211299 Follow Marlena on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marlenabanks Follow Big Idea Food on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigideafood Check out Marlena’s website and other resources: www.bigideafood.com I’d love for you to leave a review and stay connected with me @kristinsuttonlpc over on Instagram! www.instagram.com/kristinsuttonlpc Have any questions for me or just wanna show me some love? Send me an email: hello@kristinsuttonlpc.com

Shell Mendelson was trained by Richard Bolles, Author of What Color Is Your Parachute, Shell’s counseling and coaching is inspired by these concepts and through years of working with individuals and groups. How many of us are still working in a job, career or business that is unfulfilling? What does that feel like and how much of a toll does it take in every aspect of our lives? With all the information available and the “do what you love for a living” https://podcasts.heartatworkonline.org/shell-mendelson/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impactfullegacy/message

How can you be a competitive candidate for the professional job market? How do you go from learning to earning -- converting your academic knowledge and skills into careers? In this episode, I discuss how to assess your skills and experiences and build upon them for career competitiveness. If you want to learn more about career skills and how to evaluate the gaps in your resume, this is the episode for you.  Today, we’re on Step 3 of the GradSchooled framework -- Assess. Here’s what I cover:  Understanding the difference between what you know versus what you know how to do   Hard skills and soft skills; transferable skills and transferable experiences  How to identify gaps in your resume and find ways to fill them  Books Mentioned in this Episode:  Richard Bolles, What Color is Your Parachute? Pam Denicolo, Developing Transferable Skills: Enhancing Your Research and Employment Potential.   Instagram: @theGradSchooled Facebook: @theGradSchooled

Bist du unzufrieden in deinem Job und hoffst, deinen Traumjob über Monster.de oder sonstige Stellenausschreibungen zu finden? - Dann gebe ich dir mit dieser Folge einen kleinen Dämpfer, denn: dein Traumjob ist nicht „da draußen“ zu finden. Wo dann? Nun, das erkläre ich dir in der Folge. Ich spreche darüber: Wie ich selber vor drei Jahren auf Jobsuche war und warum ich dabei so entspannt war, wie uns der Bewerbungsprozess in der heutigen Arbeitswelt kaputtmacht, was du wissen musst, damit du überhaupt eine Chance hast, im nächsten Job glücklicher zu werden, und was statt konventioneller Bewerbung ein erfolgsversprechenderer Weg ist, den Job zu landen wo du glücklich bist. Links zu dieser Folge: Flipped Job Market – Cathy Narriman: https://flipped-job-market.de/ Mein Interview mit Cathy Anfang 2018: https://www.tobiasmaerz.de/wie-du-deinen-traumjob-findest-cathy-narriman/ Das Buch von Richard Bolles, die Grundlage von Life-Work-Planning: Durchstarten zum Traumjob, R. Bolles Übungen, um herauszufinden, was dir wichtig ist im Job, findest du in meinem Arbeitsbuch, dass du dir hier herunterladen kannst: tobiasmaerz.de Gegenseitige Unterstützung zum Thema gibt es in unserer Facebook Gruppe „Erschaffe den Job der dich glücklich macht“: Gruppe Viel Freude und Erfolg beim Erschaffen deines Traumjob!

Ein neues Jahr geht los... und ich teile mit dir heute meinen Masterplan 2018, mit dem du in diesem Jahr deinen Traumjob finden kannst – und nicht nur finden, sondern auch bekommen! In dieser Folge 3 Punkte zu Beginn: Die Wichtigkeit von Entschluss, deinen Fokus auf Zufriedenheit im Beruf und das Erreichen deines Traumjob zu setzen Was ist dein Traumjob, bzw. was erwaretst du dir? - Viele scheitern schon an der Unklarheit, an dem vagen Gefühl "es könnte besser sein"! Übung: Visualisieren Ende 2018 + aufschreiben. Anschließend teile ich mit dir die 5 Schritte, mit denen du 2018 deinen Traumjob findest und erreichst. Links: Mein Arbeitsbuch & Starterkit: Unter www.tobiasmaerz.de Richard Bolles, Durchstarten zum Traumjob: http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/for-job-hunters und das Buch z.B. unter https://www.amazon.de/What-Color-Your-Parachute-2016/dp/160774662X Alles Gute + viel Erfolg für deinen Weg! Ich freue mich wenn ich dir dabei helfen kann – das ist mein Herzensanliegen. Und wenn diese Folge für dich nützlich war, dann lass es mich wissen! Hinterlasse hier deinen Kommentar: https://www.tobiasmaerz.de/wie-du-in-2018-deinen-traumjob-findest/

Find a Great Mentor Absolutely the Best Way to Find a Great Mentor Finding a great mentor is one of the most important tasks of an entrepreneur. A mentor is a key member of your business team. Despite the importance of this task, many entrepreneurs do not know how to find a great mentor. They often approach this important task with the wrong mindset and wrong strategy. In this episode of My Biz Dream Team: Opportunity Wednesday Training Series we discuss absolutely the best way to find a great mentor. As I write this blog post, Richard Bolles, the author of the classic “What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job Hunters and Career Changers” has just died. His handy guide has provided inspiration for millions of job hunters and career changers for almost 50 years. I recall the first time I read the book when I was in college. The dream of becoming an attorney seemed so far away. However, I followed Bolles’ advice, an arranged an informational interview with an attorney in my hometown of Savannah, Georgia. I told him that I wanted to talk to him about law school and being a lawyer. He agreed to meet with me while I was home from college on winter break. That initial information interview reinforced my desire to become an attorney. This attorney was the first in a long-line of mentors who have helped me guide my career. In turn, I have mentored several people as throughout their careers. Sometimes the mentoring relationship lasts a few years or only a few months. It always depends on the fit between me and the person seeking mentoring. In my experience, the mentoring relationships that work best, are those based on mutual respect and assistance. You first build a relationship, then you ask for help. Do not expect a stranger to be your mentor! Be sure that you can offer something of value in return. Do not expect a stranger to be your mentor.Click To Tweet As an entrepreneur, you want to find a mentor who is already successful at what you want to do. You want to find someone who can teach you the ropes and help you avoid the traps for the unwary! Conclusion In this episode of My Biz Dream Team: Opportunity Training Series Dexter and I share with you absolutely the best way to find a great mentor. Find someone who understands your dream and is willingly to work with you to create a strategic action plan that you can implement. At My Biz Dream Team, we can show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you fulfill your biggest dreams and aspirations. Check out The Strategic Pathway to Success Program™. Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love!   I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, entrepreneur, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life! © Kianlin | Dreamstime.com - Mentor  

Find Your Everest – Before Someone Chooses It For You. Boulder’s Raj Rawat is on a mission to empower people to change their lives and better the world through authentic self-discovery and the development of mentoring relationships. The Boulderist talks with Raj about his profound, powerful and straight-forward ideas. Richard Bolles & What Color is...

Website: Canadian Dream: Free at 45 Tim’s Book Available at Amazon: Free at 45 – How to Retire Early & Happy Contact Tim Stobbs: candian.dream.free.at.45@gmail.com   Book Recommended by Tim Stobbs: Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin What Color is Your Parachute? for Retirement by John Nelson & Richard Bolles

Have you ever made a career change and found out immediately that you made a mistake? That’s why I was in Texas for four months… I was with Texas Instruments sitting in a room with nothing to do for four months waiting for a security clearance. I was hired to work on the Harm Missile guidance systems… but as I sat in that room, I learned how much I didn’t want to work for that company. I would have been gone faster but I had to wait on my security check to clear before I packed up and left… which is exactly what I did the very same day my clearance came through… The only thing worse that being in a job you don’t want is being in that job a day longer than necessary… That’s why I’m so excited about my next guest… Gary Bolles has made much of his career about helping other people with their careers… and he came about it because it’s somewhat of a family business. His Dad is Richard Bolles, author of “What Color is Your Parachute” which has sold more than 10 million copies over more than 4 decades. Gary’s latest project is called eParachute to help you discover your strengths, explore your career options, and chart a path through the world of work… here’s Gary Bolles