BIO
From the beginning, I had difficulty figuring our what I wanted to be when I grew up. So many things sounded interesting, but then I was afraid that I might get bored doing one thing all the time. Barbara Sher would probably say that I was a Scanner. For a few years I did what my parents told me I should do - Teach. Looking back it was good advice except I was not cut out to teach/discipline high school students. So I earned my Masters degree in Psychology and Guidance with certification as a guidance counselor just as a recession was beginning and schools were reducing positions and budgets. (It appears that some things in life do not change.) Next career was starting a family! In many respects raising children is meaningful and fulfilling, but I still wanted a career.
So what kind of job do you get when you have degrees in Psychology and Biology but you get easily bored. A newspaper ad for psychology instructor position "magically" appeared one Sunday morning. I answered the ad, yes occasionally this method of job searching works, interviewed and got the position. As fate would have it, the position was to teach Self-Assessment and Career Planning. My husbands reply was “How can you they hire you to teach that, you still don’t know what you want to do for a living.” My response was “True, but I know all the exercises, to help other people find jobs.” Several careers were thus born. Today having several simultaneous careers is a Portfolio Career; the labels were not so flattering in the 1990s.
Teaching Self-Assessment and Career Planning eventually grew into teaching psychology and sociology as an adjunct instructor at several colleges. Since I was teaching courses required for majors in Nursing/Health Care, Education, and Business, I often found and still find myself in conversation with adult students who are career changers and with younger students who are trying to decide on majors and future careers.
In 1992 I started Career Development Services as a resume writing business. The initial obvious goal of my business was to write resumes and help people find jobs, but what I liked best was hearing their stories, their skills, their accomplishments and what they wanted to do with their lives, and then providing guidance, advice, or counseling. Career coaching as a professional career had not yet begun, but between the resume business and teaching, I was coaching. During 2009, I took the Changing Course's program to be an Out-of-the-Job Box consultant, which has since been renamed Profiting From Your Passions Coaching. In January 2010, I made it official and completed a certification course to be a CPC (Certified Professional Coach). In my coaching practice, I follow the guidelines of the ICF (International Coaching Federation).
Work, careers, employment trends including the growing trend for home-based business and self-employment has been a steady current in my career life (I guess I finally found something that was not boring), but in almost everything that I do I am an educator. Whether I am helping students or clients explore their interest, passions, and skill, helping a career changer prepare a new resume, or brainstorming with a Profiting from Your Passions client about new business ideas, I share my knowledge and I draw out of my students and clients self-knowledge they may not have known they had.
So what kind of job do you get when you have degrees in Psychology and Biology but you get easily bored. A newspaper ad for psychology instructor position "magically" appeared one Sunday morning. I answered the ad, yes occasionally this method of job searching works, interviewed and got the position. As fate would have it, the position was to teach Self-Assessment and Career Planning. My husbands reply was “How can you they hire you to teach that, you still don’t know what you want to do for a living.” My response was “True, but I know all the exercises, to help other people find jobs.” Several careers were thus born. Today having several simultaneous careers is a Portfolio Career; the labels were not so flattering in the 1990s.
Teaching Self-Assessment and Career Planning eventually grew into teaching psychology and sociology as an adjunct instructor at several colleges. Since I was teaching courses required for majors in Nursing/Health Care, Education, and Business, I often found and still find myself in conversation with adult students who are career changers and with younger students who are trying to decide on majors and future careers.
In 1992 I started Career Development Services as a resume writing business. The initial obvious goal of my business was to write resumes and help people find jobs, but what I liked best was hearing their stories, their skills, their accomplishments and what they wanted to do with their lives, and then providing guidance, advice, or counseling. Career coaching as a professional career had not yet begun, but between the resume business and teaching, I was coaching. During 2009, I took the Changing Course's program to be an Out-of-the-Job Box consultant, which has since been renamed Profiting From Your Passions Coaching. In January 2010, I made it official and completed a certification course to be a CPC (Certified Professional Coach). In my coaching practice, I follow the guidelines of the ICF (International Coaching Federation).
Work, careers, employment trends including the growing trend for home-based business and self-employment has been a steady current in my career life (I guess I finally found something that was not boring), but in almost everything that I do I am an educator. Whether I am helping students or clients explore their interest, passions, and skill, helping a career changer prepare a new resume, or brainstorming with a Profiting from Your Passions client about new business ideas, I share my knowledge and I draw out of my students and clients self-knowledge they may not have known they had.