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You are unique. Act like it! By Douglas E. Welch Listen Discuss this column and podcast on the Career-Op Community Site Here is a little experiment. If you work in an office with cubicles, stand up on your desk and look out over the office. What do you see? If you work in an building with individual offices, walk [...]From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.comYou are unique. Act like it!

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Your career needs a holiday By Douglas E. Welch Listen Discuss this column and podcast on the Career-Op Community Site Win a Tom Bihn Checkpoint Flyer laptop sleeve from TechNewsRadio.com.Send email to technewsradio@gmail.com with the Subject Line: Tom Bihn Giveaway to enter today.Contest Ends November 1, 2009> It might seem a bit too soon to be thinking about “the holidays” [...]From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.comYour career needs a holiday

Another theme in the list of blogs and web sites I follow is innovation. Grassroots Innovation is written by Greg Eisenbach and a variety of innovation topics on a regular basis. Recent posts include “Yuck, the great contraction”, “Low cost beer packaging” and “The Dalai Lama’s Business Book.” Direct link to blogs and posts in this “What [...]From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.comWhat I’m eReading…Grassroots Innovation

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Don’t just get angry, do something about it By Douglas E. Welch Listen Discuss this column and podcast on the Career-Op Community Site I was sitting at my favorite local coffee shop the other day, reading some email and sipping my latte, when it suddenly became a very stressful place to be. Two tables away a man sat talking [...]From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.comDon’t just get angry, do something about it!

iPod Ready Video | See all past Career Tips From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.comCareer Tip 20091005 – Don’t get angry, do something! From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.comCareer Tip 20091005 – Don’t get angry, do something!

Longevity…and our 5th Anniversary! By Douglas E. Welch Listen Discuss this column and podcast on the Career-Op Community Site This week marks the 5th anniversary of the Career Opportunities podcast. The print version of Career Opportunities is now entering its 12th year. I want to offer my thanks to everyone who has read or listened to the show over [...]From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.comLongevity…and our 5th Anniversary!

What are you selling to your employer? By Douglas E. Welch Listen Discuss this column and podcast on the Career-Op Community Site The nature of work has changed dramatically over the centuries. As a people, we moved from hunting and gathering, to subsistence farming, to larger agricultural communities, through industrialization to manufacturing and into the “information economy. Sweeping [...]From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.comWhat are you selling to your employer?

[Tip] Leadership is of the utmost importance, even if you are only leading yourself. Lead yourself and others may follow, though. Get regular scheduled Career Tips by following Career Opportunities on Twitter http://twitter.com/careertips Related articles by Zemanta Time to be an adult (welchwrite.com) Why we share (welchwrite.com) The New Career Danger Zone (welchwrite.com) From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great [...]From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.comCareer Tip for September 18, 2009

Listen to this episode Discuss this column and podcastVisit the Career Opportunities Community Site This is the second in our on-going interview series, talking with high-tech workers of all types. Today’s guest is Kevin Devin, Information Systems Analyst with a large building controls manufacturer, host of In the Trenches: The Podcast for SysAdmins and founder of Friends [...]From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.comArchive: An Interview with Kevin Devin

Seth Godin’s newest book, Tribes, touches a concept near and dear to me…organizing groups, or Tribes, and helping them get things done. This is not to say I have been terribly successful at this activity, but I love helping people achieve things and doing it any way I can. I was interested in Tribes for exactly [...]From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.comWhat I’m Reading…Tribes by Seth Godin

Who are you laboring for? By Douglas E. Welch Listen Discuss this column and podcast on the Career-Op Community Site This week began with the US celebration of the Labor Day holiday, celebrating the labor that keeps our economy and our nation moving forward. Labor Day “is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and [...]From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.comWho are you laboring for?

Another in a series of leadership books I am reading. I have several areas, like leadership, where I pick up nearly book I find on the topic. I have read other books by John C. Maxwell over the years and typically find them very useful and engaging. I especially enjoyed Thinking for a Change [...]From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.comWhat I’m Reading…Developing the Leader Within by John C. Maxwell

I received this every nice email from  a Career Opportunities listener this week and wanted to share it with all of you. I am humbled by the great response I get to the show and the column. — Douglas Dear Douglas, I’m writing this e-mail just to compliment you on your Career Opportunities podcast. I’m currently employed [...]From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.comA nice letter about Career Opportunities