Jackie Hartley’s BLOG

Whilst wandering around downtown, we were handed a slip which reads:
"Admit one: Personality & IQ Testing. The Church of Scientology extends an invitation to you to be tested free of any charge. Your intelligence and personality have everything to do with your income, your future, your personal relationships and your life. Such tests would ordinarily […]

Saw a job advert today in the Management section of the classified ads in the San Francisco Chronicle:
"Hippies with the flow - Hip Art Co has 5-6 immed openings for people who enjoy casual dress & working with the opposite sex. Car required."
The CVs (sorry, resumes) should make interesting reading and what to wear […]

Called into the San Francisco Apple store (computers not fruit) today and had an interesting retail experience. Whilst Mike got someone to give him advice about why the laptop was not picking up the wireless network in the hotel, I knocked out a few email on one of the demostration machines. The man opposite me […]

Came across an interesting article in a local free newspaper the hotel gave us. Arguing for a strong small business agenda, the paper says
‘Cities function best with diverse economies dominated by locally owned businesses, with money circulating within the community. Cutting-edge restaurants talk about serving locally grown food. Beverage savants want local beer and wine. […]

Well, here we are at last. The flight was, well, long. 10 hours from London to San Francisco. 10 hours sat in a not too comfortable seat with limited leg room - Jumbo jets feel like airborne slave ships after about 8 hours. Never mind, after a good nights sleep we are feeling okay. Found […]

Reading Mark's comment on my Last on the list, as usual post (interesting and thought provoking, thanks for that Mark), and mulling over this stuff about the teenage brain, is now making me think that maybe we are basing our approaches to career planning on a theoretical basis more suitable for adults. Expecting young people […]

During the training in Hampshire today we got talking about the research being done into the teenage brain. I was saying that when it comes to getting adolescents to career plan we are facing a real uphill struggle because this research shows that the teenage brain is still not fully developed. Between the ages of […]

A recent report by the University of Central England on students attitudes towards careers resources found, from talking to students, that resources aimed at teenagers should:

have a bright, eye catching cover
be divided into short, manageable sections and make use of subheadings
contain illustrations
make use of charts and tables, but not rely solely on these
be printed in […]

So, how do you get an employer's attention in these days of personal branding, verbal business cards and e-portfolios? Well, you could try holding them to ransom like this guy! Not sure I'll be recommending this one …

Came across this interesting article the other day, which has echos of my views about careers being a dirty word. In the article, Jamienne S. Studley, makes the point …
"Too often students are introduced to the world of work and the process of career planning the same way they learn about sex, i.e. on the […]