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Rejuvenating Your Career Without Quitting Your Job

12/31/2015

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As the holidays end and a new year begins, are you bummed about going back to work! After the joy and excitement that the holidays bring, does it seem like kind of a drag to go back to your weekly routine? I think many have the impression that you would only want to seek career consultation when you have just lost your job or are fed up with your current one. While my clients are usually ready for a change from their current career situation, the consultation helps them see their work lives in new ways that enhances their current job role.

What often surprises them is how unique their talents are from those of others. My clients tell me all the time that they are annoyed with particular job tasks or co-workers usually because they assume that everyone sees those work situations in the same way as themselves. The key is to remember that your approach is truly, entirely distinct from that of others. "Why does everyone always expect me to do that?" I often hear. "Why can't they just do it?" my clients will say. While it may be true that others are not responsibly fulfilling work tasks, very often my clients learn that their approach to those same tasks makes them the preferred person to complete certain job tasks in the best possible way over others, which helps them view these situations differently.

At EPIC Career, we help you single out those talents. Those are the bits that must be brought out in job interviews, Summary sections of resumes and the like. Employers want to know this about applicants, but job applicants often do not understand or know how to articulate these qualities. As we launch into a new year and back into familiar and perhaps draining work routines, remember that your talents are unique. Career assessment and consultation can help you understand how you are different from others and how you can optimally express your unique potential contributions to supervisors and potential employers to win coveted opportunities. Whether you are ready to make a major career change or simply expand your understanding of your talents, EPIC Career is hear to help!
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First Semester Bust!

12/31/2015

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Did your first college semester not go so well? Were you surprised to learn that the major that you long planned to pursue really wasn't your fit when you began taking related courses? The key now is to find your fit as soon as possible to save you time and tuition costs and so that you don't earn unneeded coursework by graduation. Many believe that internship, volunteer and other short-term job opportunities are the main answers to this conundrum, but the reality is that you do not even know in what professional field to focus these efforts. This is where career assessment and consultation comes in.

​At EPIC Career, our assessments compare your responses to those of thousands of men and women who have indicated preferences for particular career fields and college majors from more than 50 years of solid research. Even if you are comfortable in your career focus, wouldn't you like to know what all these individuals just like you have for so long indicated to be their preferred career fields? From this knowledge, we help you make sense of your past and present interests to make a college major and career plan that offers the highest possible likelihood for a lifetime of career success. Sign up now, and you can move into next semester with confidence in a new long-term college major and career plan that will work, lose the anxiety of uncertainty, and have fun in college. This will help you not just in immediate course planning, but also in internship and volunteer pursuits and networking preparation for the big job when you graduate or graduate school. When you are ready to build this kind of solid confidence in your career direction, EPIC Career is ready to help!
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Career Assessments Myth #3: Only About Careers?

3/24/2014

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Myth 3: The information revealed about yourself from a career assessment relates only to your career.

False!

Career Picture, Life Picture

It is often surprising to clients that our meetings reveal more to them about themselves than just career-related data. In the first hour or two of the consultation, we explain a couple of frameworks that help to explain basically how you are different from others. From this, you begin to learn not only about your unique ways of experiencing the world, but you also begin seeing aspects of yourself that you may have neglected because of any number of life circumstances. The goal is to help you see your natural talents and how they can be optimally applied to careers.

As we progress through this discussion, however, you may begin to understand how past experiences have shaped your everyday behaviors, both at work as well as your everyday life. Then, we begin the process of helping you fully comprehend what you truly enjoy in life and how your life may need to change in fundamental ways to achieve that happiness. While no one has an entirely ideal support system in place in their lives to help them move toward their ideals, from this discussion you may discover that you have more opportunities to make changes than you might have originally thought!

Yes, career choice is a personal, individual decision and we at EPIC Career are committed to helping you sort through the many aspects of your life to discover just how you can move toward your ideal career goals. Are your current career prospects weighing you down in ways that stifle potential happiness in the rest of your life? Are you ready to move forward in your career in ways that will move your entire life forward toward your ideals? At EPIC Career, we are here to help.    

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Helping the Teen or the Parent?

3/11/2014

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I started career consulting wishing to use my career assessment and higher education leadership background to help individuals make a career plan. What I did not expect, however, is the impact my work with teens would have on their relationships with their parents. I have been amazed at how parents and teens have revealed that in addition to helping the teen develop well-formed career goals, the service has enhanced their mutual understanding of one another.

Parent Perspective

Based on assessment results, parents report improvement in how they interpret the personality proclivities of their teen after consultation. Specifically, they see how the unique talents and interests of the teen can translate into a significant career. They often report that they have wondered how their teen would adapt to the adult and work world. After consultation they understand the root of their teen’s behaviors and how their teen has already made adaptations in his/her life to overcome weaknesses. Upon reviewing this history, it becomes clear to parents that their teen is highly likely to continue successfully using their strengths and adapting for weaknesses in the same way throughout his/her life. When reviewing career roles typical of others like their teen from assessments based on decades of research, they also see how their teen is likely to act successfully throughout his/her future. Both teens and parents seem quite relieved to gain this insight.

Beyond Just College Major Choice


While I started career consulting with the main purpose of helping clients build focus around a career that they will love, I have found that the insight gained from career assessments has yielded enhanced understanding and communication among parents and teens. As a parent, have you felt unsure about how your teen’s interests, skills and overall personality could lead to college and career success? Have you worried about whether your teen will ever discover career success because you feel some of his/her behaviors or past decisions illuminate a future trend resulting in your teen being too unusual to “fit in?” At EPIC Career, our gold standard career assessments will reveal exactly how your teen’s responses relate to responses of individuals who have reported success in particular career fields. In addition, we help you better understand your teen such that a lifetime of success in particular career fields becomes clear. If you seek this level of insight about your teen, we at EPIC Career are here to help.

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