Careers By the People: Soft Skills - Writing

My favorite Soft Skill is Writing! One of the biggest joys in life for me was/is being published. If I recall, my first published comments were in The Collegian which is the newspaper for the University of Massachusetts.

In this post, I could inform you to read Strunk & White, Pinker as well as a dozen others books on writing but NO, I strongly suggest that you get published .

One, this will hone your writing skills and two it will be a cool line item on your resume. Your competition will rarely have it whilst you can say “I was published in Weymouth News, Neighbors of Wailea & Makena, Atomic Ranch etc.” I doesn't have to be a huge periodical, all you need to do is get it done and add it to the resume, linkedin etc.....

When I was in tech sales, I was published in some trade magazines. It was easier than I thought. I emailed the editor of a few of the trade magazines I was reading asking “All the articles are technical, do you want one from the sales side?” If I recall correctly, I got 4 published……and funny thing, I got paid too. On resumes it stuck out….that could be the 1% that you need to get hired.

This was filmed at Secret Beach in South Maui. It is hard to find, maybe 5 or 6 parking spots on the side of the road. I past it often on the way to La Perouse Bay having no idea it was a beach. It's a small path between wooden fences.

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ISBN: 978-1634895743 ISBN: 9781634895743 ISBN: 978-1-63489-574-3 ASIN: B0BPX59FT5

The purpose of these videos is to help students, veterans, career changers narrow down their occupational choice via my experiences, books as well as people that have been interviewed in Careers By the People. Basically, anything thing I learn, can think of or find with the research in the field.

The emphasis is not like “Designing Your Life” it’s about focusing on you profession. It’s 40 years of your existence and per Frank Parsons, other than choosing a spouse, it is the most important choice in your life. Frank is the Godfather of Choosing a Vocation.

Everyone is looking for or wants a dream career, dream job, best job, a solid profession so they scour career guides, career books, career planning, take career assessments etc……which is all good. I like the approach of narrowing it down to a few occupations and fields. If you don’t like hospitals, don’t go into medical, if you love numbers maybe accounting, actuarial science etc… maybe your gig. Focus on a list of likes and dislikes.

Even if you are looking for alternatives to college, talk to people in the field that you want as well as the ones that have left the field and why. Don’t always associate money with success and joy. If all you want is money, that’s easy. Get an MBA from Wharton and work as an investment banker. They make a few million a year, so that is done. Congrats! Move to Beverly Hills! If you want some joy or a challenge for your career, you have to find what interests you and that you enjoy learning about that constantly.

Here's some questions I get….

Is this another “What Color is your Parachute?”

I always get asked “Is Careers By the People like “What Color is your Parachute?”” What Color is Your Parachute is the top selling career guide and it focuses on some subjects that Careers By the People does and others that Careers By the People does not. They are more supplemental than a competitor.

Careers By the People reviews 101 occupations from the people that worked them. They each get asked 20+ questions about their career and the majority have 5+ years in that occupation so you can read if they acquired their dream career or not.

Then I review what I would have done differently in college in hopes to find that dream job or better yet great career. I review internships, career choice career planning for college, career advancement so you have career options in the hopes of career success.

I hope with my career advice that one can choose the best career path for themselves so they can acquire an occupation that offers some type of joy and purpose.

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