Career Assessments: Do they work?

Selecting a career that fulfills you, motivates you, and challenges you just enough to maintain a continuous level of excitement is not impossible.

Career assessment are developed to guide you in revealing your authentic self while also directing you to career options that reflect your personality, skills and interest.

When adding an expert to the mix, such as a career coach or career consultant, their expertise can aid you in discovering your purpose.

Watch this video on career assessments, and feel free to contact me, Dr. Cris if I can assist you further.

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Whistle while you work: 7 tips to keep you motivated at work

Staying positive and upbeat in the workplace maybe easier than you thought, there are a few proven tips that employees use to keep them encouraged and even enthusiastic throughout the day. The following tips are just a few that you may want to consider when you feel that grey cloud looming over head.

1)      Whistle or sing one of your favorite tunes, even if you don’t know all the words don’t let that bother you, you’re not auditioning for American Idol, you’re just having fun. The point is to provide your mind with a few moments of a chipper tune to temporarily distract you from the hustle and bustle at work. And then during that time you might even learn to relax a bit. 

Introducing Dream Job Magazine

For the most part, blogs provide an excellent resource to consumers who are looking for up-to-date information, guidance, and tips to assist them with just about any area of their life they are looking to improve or enhance. But some consumers may desire a more collective approach where bloggers, authors, or writers can join together and unite their areas of expertise in one forum. 

 

Health and wellness expert Kim Trowbridge, M.Ed, CHES, Health Improvement Manager for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company; Alease Michelle, Owner of the School of Creative Business; R. Alexandria Williams, certified cosmetologist and skin care specialist who owns the Purple Rose skin care spa; and Dr. Cris, certified career coach and owner of Dr. Cris, the Dream Job Doctor, have all united their passions and expertise to give their readers a little bit more of what they’ve been searching for. 

 Through a new online magazine titled Dream Job Magazine (DJM), these ladies have decided to join their efforts and share with their customers and newly found readers practical tips and advice to empower them to live the life that they’ve always dreamed of, and in the process, tap into a fulfilling career. 

Each quarter on the 15th of June, September, December, and February, readers can expect a new DJM edition that will specifically assist readers in knowledge to enhance their career, health, wellness, and beauty. Additionally, each edition will focus on a success story of someone who is passionately living their Dream Job. 

This month’s edition is all about preparing for a new career, with articles that suggest the importance of appearance at an interview; steps for obtaining a great new job; maintaining a healthy balance by establishing the appropriate boundaries; and marketing tactics used to increase sales. Take a moment to visit DJM; you will be informed, excited, and anxious for the next edition.

New Partnerships for Dr. Cris

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You can now enjoy even more career tips and career advice from Dr. Cris through her new partnerships with the Examiner.com as their Charlotte Career Coach and also with The Careereffect.com as their Career Author.

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Thank you all for your support.

Need a change in your career?

Thinking about a career change, but you’re not sure how to go about it? Are you concerned that the timing isn't right or that making ends meet might be a concern?

Perhaps this video on making a career change can help.

Enjoy,

Dr. Cris

Three of the Best Books for Professional and Personal Growth

Sometimes finding your next great read will have a lot to do with how much you desire to grow both personally and professionally. The three books noted below provides a great start to how you can begin to transform your life.

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Dr. Cris

The Purpose Driven Life

This book was not what I expected but I was pleased with the results. Author Rick Warren explains that when we decide to connect with God, then we begin to connect to our purpose and our passions. For our purpose is centered on His will for our lives, but we must first let go and learn to appreciate that God does haves a special plan for each of us and we can receive the best possible life based on His intention. It is then that we will blossom into the person that we are destined to be. 

Our purpose driven life is our awakening to surrendering. Our acknowledgment that our best life is a reflection of not only Gods’ will but also our passion. So if we allow ourselves to trust Him and serve Him then we also place ourselves in a position to serve others which is one of the five principles that Warren focuses on in this book. 

If you think that something is missing from your life, and perhaps a change is in order, I would strongly suggest this read. The Purpose Driven Life will make you reevaluate your life, what you value and your motives. Hopefully it will transform you. 

The 4-Hour Work week

“Can a person really work less than 50 or 60 hours a week?” was my first question when I picked up this book. So the possibility of working less than five made me immediately desire to learn more. What Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich, is celebrating and trying to get across to all of us, is that life is worth living, not working away. And there are easy-to-learn strategies to get you to the comfortable life that you desire. Some of the main points that Ferriss suggests are…

• Creating a mobile lifestyle so that you can enjoy your life while facilitating your workload
• Outsourcing your workload through a virtual assistant – one of my personal favorites
• Creating automatic cash flow opportunities so that you are getting paid without punching a time-clock
• Eliminating 50% of your work in 48 hours

I’ll admit that initially the concept sounds too good to be true; however, once you decide that you are fed up with the rat race and desire more from your life then you may consider doing something about it, and this book is a great place to start.  

The Vision Board

It may be difficult to accomplish your dreams if you can’t see them. Once they are in front of you constantly, your dreams can begin to take shape and unfold from the visions, pictorial images, and text that represent your mantra into a creative representation of the life that you desire to live.  

Author Joyce Schwarz shares a detailed step-by-step process to capture your dreams and turn them into reality. The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life provides a how-to guide to understanding the power, the creativity, and the genius associated with creating a tangible representation of what you truly desire out of life. 

After Schwarz describes the basic process of creating your vision board, she then focuses on the importance of activating it, through the use of affirmations, visualization, and Feng Shui. Without connecting these three important components to your vision board, you have basically created an art project that lacks active energy and the power to take you to the next level. 

How to Prepare for the Best Job Interview You Ever Had

Preparing for a job interview can be challenging, exciting or even scary.  Some of your best interviews can occur when you do your homework and know that being prepared can make the difference between getting a job or continuing your job search.    

Check out this video on how you can prepare for the best job interview you ever had. 

Enjoy,

Dr. Cris

Entering the Promise Land: Tips for Women Executives on Breaking through the Glass Ceiling - Tip #5 Plan out Your Career

Hello All,

This is our final week of career tips for women executives who desire to break through the glass ceiling and enter the promise land. This week's tip provides practical advice on the importance of planning out your career.

I hope that you’ve been inspired by this weekly series, and you can look forward to more to come.  

Enjoy,

Dr. Cris

Tip #5 Plan out Your Career  

Plan out Your Career – Without a plan, you plan to fail. So knowing this in advance, you want to strategically plot out what steps you can take in your career to receive the benefits that you desire out of life. It all goes back to this question: what is it that you truly want to do with the rest of your life? What is your purpose? If you can imagine yourself a few years from now, where do you see yourself in your career? What is your dream job?

Once you have defined it and can envision it, then you can determine what specific steps you will need to take in order to achieve your dream job. Don't think about what obstacles may be in your way. Now is the time for you to realize that in order to achieve your plan, you can’t doubt that your career goals are achievable; don’t give up on your dream, and recognize that breaking through the glass ceiling is possible and that entering into the promise land can be your reality.