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Career Skills

The Career Skills section is where you will find advice and perspectives on career planning, building transferable skills, navigating workplace dynamics, mentorship and transitioning into leadership.

Staking Your Claim: Convergence, Working the “Long Tail” and Defining Your Personal Brand

by Sean Cook 06.23.2011
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My name is Sean Cook and I am the original and only genuine Higher Ed Career Coach™. It is my personal coaching brand, and is supported by web properties and coaching programs and services that support my personal brand.

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Lessons Worth Finding and Questions Worth Asking

by Sean Cook 06.22.2011
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Over the last five years, I’ve experienced a convergence of events in my personal life that drove me to consider the need to change my circumstances and with it, hopefully my personal and professional destiny. First I became a father. Then I learned that I have a neurological disorder, which affects my mobility and is [...]

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Convergent thinking, convergent practice, convergent careers

by Sean Cook 06.21.2011
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The unfortunate reality of being a convergent is that people don’t get you. As I mentioned last week in my posts on game theory, convergents are hard to “get” because people try too hard to fit them neatly into their own boxes (or circles) and to define what they know and what they do in [...]

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Existing at Points of Convergence

by Sean Cook 06.20.2011
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All my life, I have been an outsider. But not a conventional outsider, in the Rebel Without A Cause, the Outsiders, or even a [insert your favorite John Hughes film title] kind of outsider.

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Risks and rewards: Playing your own game

by Sean Cook 06.16.2011
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Games are played when you take calculated risks, in anticipation of potential rewards. So let’s finish out this week’s discussion of game theory, careers and business by examining the risk-to-reward ratio, and how you should figure it out. If you work with me, you do have some level of risk, because I will tell you [...]

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