What is this website about?

The JobJoy Blog is about helping you understand the value of your personal story for finding and developing your right work, based on your natural talents and motivations. Everyone has talents and passion, everyone!

Here are a few topics explored on this website:

• Personal stories of individuals who have made successful transitions to their right work and better jobfits, based on their natural talents and motivations.

• Clear explanations of jobfit based on natural talents and motivations and how that increases passion, joy and success in your life.

• How a job misfit can foster serious job dissatisfaction or career pain, and undermine well-being.

• How the ‘golden handcuffs’ and other dilemmas keep us trapped in jobmisfits, e.g. a job might pay well and provide a ‘goods’ lifestyle but if it’s also a job misfit, it does not foster a good life.

• Identifying opportunities for jobfit through practical and inspiring advice.

• Navigating the new world of work to discover and develop good jobfits.

• Overcoming negative beliefs, doubts, fears, and anxieties related to career transition.

• Expanding your consciousness about work and its meaning for our lives, and manifesting opportunities for optimizing our joy and passion through work.

• Creating vision for your life, and learning practical tools for building those visions into reality.

• Removing roadblocks and obstacles to successful transition.

• Review of resources that will help you find your right work and live out of your talents and motivations to create what really matters to you.

We are all a work in progress. I’m sharing with you what I know works, based on my story and the stories of thousands of clients. I hope you find something useful here for your personal journey towards job joy.

Who am I?

I am a Career Passion Consultant & Personal Story Analyst, who specializes in
helping individuals identify, define and develop their right work, then leveraging them into specific jobs in specific organizations or self-employment.

I provide personalized customized career consulting to individualls. When you engage me, you get someone who:

o Knows how careers are made in the 21st C;

o Will stick with you throughout the day-to-day challenges that will
arise in your job search;

o Has been around for awhile;

o Sits down with you and really listens to what your goals and desires are in the work world;

o Deals personally with your situation; not someone who
indiscriminately throws a generic-services package at everyone he meets.

o Maintains certification as a Certified Fellow Practitioner (CMF) by the Institute of Career Certification International (http://www.careercertification.org;
as a Credentialed Career Manager (CCM) by The Career Management Alliance (http://www.careermanagementalliance.com);
as a Job & Career Transition Coach from the Career Planning & Adult Development Network; and. as a Member of Career Professionals of Canada http://www.careerprocanada.ca

I am the author of ‘Job Joy: Finding Your Right Work’ and ‘JobJoy for Young Adults,’ both available as eBooks, and of the forthcoming title ‘JobJoy Bootcamp.’
I was Radio Host/Producer of ‘The Career Connection” CFRA 580 1995-2001.

My resumes and job search advice are published in:

o Directory of Resume Professionals, JIST Works (Indianapolis,IN), 2008
o Expert Resumes for Engineering Professionals, JIST Works
(Indianapolis,IN), 2008
o Military-to-Civilian Resumes & Letters, 3rd Edition, Impact Publications
(Manassas Park, VA), 2007
o Expert Resumes for Baby Boomers, JIST Works (Indianapolis,IN), 2006
o No-Nonsense Resumes, Career Press (Franklin Lakes,NJ), 2006
o Job Search Magic, JIST Works (Indianapolis,IN), 2006
o Expert Resumes for Military-to-Civilian Career Transitions, JIST
Publications (Indianapolis, IN), 2005.
o Expert Resumes for Computer and Web Jobs, Second Edition, JIST
Publications (Indianapolis, IN), 2005
o Expert Resumes for Teachers and Educators, Second Edition, JIST
Publications (Indianapolis, IN), 2005
o Expert Resumes for Career Changers, JIST Publications (Indianapolis, IN),
2004
o Best Resumes for People Without a Four-Year Degree, Impact Publications
(Manassas Park, VA), 2003
o Best Resumes & CVs for International Jobs, Impact Publications (Manassas
Park, VA), 2002
o Expert Resumes for Manufacturing Careers, JIST Publications (Indianapolis,
IN), 2002