Video: CareerCamp: New Unconference Methods for Helping People Build the Career They Deserve with Douglas E. Welch
CareerCamp Founder, Douglas E. Welch, shares CareerCamp with the attendees of the California Placement Association at their annual 2015 conference in San Luis Obispo.
He discusses What is CareerCamp?, how it might be used in your organization and takes you through an example of a Day at CareerCamp.
What is CareerCamp and Career Camp International?
CareerCamp is a community organized, career-focused, unconference which calls upon local communities and people to share their knowledge, expertise and other important information on developing yourself and your career.
What is an unconference?
Unconferences are self-organizing conferences, similar to many professional conferences, but instead of hiring well-known, professional speakers, they call on the attendees themselves to provide the content and focus for the event. Every person who attends is highly encouraged to present on some topic deeply important to them or, barring that, to facilitate an open breakout session or round table discussion or even just to engage and converse with their fellow attendees between presentations. A few organizers band together to find a venue for the event, recruit sponsors and invite attendees, but the focus of the unconference is driven solely by the attendees.
Some might question the usefulness of presentations by their peers, but we have found that there is an enormous amount of real-world expertise available in each and every local community. CareerCamp utilizes a format that draws out that expertise and benefits everyone. CareerCamp (and other unconferences) provide a structure and an opportunity to share this expertise in ways that traditional conferences do not. Additionally, CareerCamps also attract career development professionals who can use CareerCamp as a way of introducing themselves to a new audience of potential clients.
How was CareerCamp developed?
The genesis of CareerCamp was found by attending BarCamp unconferences held around the world. CareerCamp founder, Douglas E. Welch, was a long time attendee of BarCamp, which is an event that embraces any topic, although it often leans toward technology. After seeing the success of BarCamp as a way to illuminate and educate within a community, Welch applied the unconference concept to the specific world of Career Development.
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Audio: It’s Your Career, After All with Douglas E. Welch – Presented at CareerCampSCV 2014
It’s Your Career, After All with Douglas E. Welch – Presented at CareerCampSCV 2014
Listen to It’s Your Career, After All with Douglas E. Welch – Presented at CareerCampSCV 2014
Douglas E. Welch, writer/host of Career Opportunities and Founder of CareerCamp International speak at CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) on July 12 2014. (Title card states 2013, but this is an typographical error)
“Your career isn’t about the externals of resumes, interviews, suits and ties, it is about the internal issues of your wants, needs and desires. You need to know what you want out of your career and then take the actions and make the decisions necessary to get there. If you don’t manage your own career, there are plenty of people who will gladly do it for you. Don’t let your career happen to you, though.”
Also mentioned in this talk, is Career Compass, FInding Your Career North. You can watch an entire talk on Career Compass, from a previous CareercampSCV, sample and buy the Career Compass book or read the original Career Opportunties column, Career Compass.
For more information on CareerCampSCV, visit http://CareerCampSCV.wordpress.com and http://CareerCampInternational.org
Douglas is writer and host of Career Opportunities, a long running column and podcast dedicated to “Helping to Build the Career You Deserve!” Career Opportunities began in 1997 as a magazine column and expanded to a podcast in 2004. Douglas is also a New Media Consultant, Technology and Career Consultant with over 30 years experience in high-tech. You can find all of Douglas’ work at DouglasEWelch.com.
Video: It’s Your Career, After All with Douglas E. Welch – Presented at CareerCampSCV 2014
It’s Your Career, After All with Douglas E. Welch – Presented at CareerCampSCV 2014
Douglas E. Welch, writer/host of Career Opportunities and Founder of CareerCamp International speak at CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) on July 12 2014. (Title card states 2013, but this is an typographical error)
“Your career isn’t about the externals of resumes, interviews, suits and ties, it is about the internal issues of your wants, needs and desires. You need to know what you want out of your career and then take the actions and make the decisions necessary to get there. If you don’t manage your own career, there are plenty of people who will gladly do it for you. Don’t let your career happen to you, though.”
Also mentioned in this talk, is Career Compass, FInding Your Career North. You can watch an entire talk on Career Compass, from a previous CareercampSCV, sample and buy the Career Compass book or read the original Career Opportunties column, Career Compass.
For more information on CareerCampSCV, visit http://CareerCampSCV.wordpress.com and http://CareerCampInternational.org
Douglas is writer and host of Career Opportunities, a long running column and podcast dedicated to “Helping to Build the Career You Deserve!” Career Opportunities began in 1997 as a magazine column and expanded to a podcast in 2004. Douglas is also a New Media Consultant, Technology and Career Consultant with over 30 years experience in high-tech. You can find all of Douglas’ work at DouglasEWelch.com.
CareerCampSCV 2014 Session List
Here are the sessions that were presented at CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) 2014 on July 12, 2014.
- Learn How To Reiki
- First Impressions
- Speak Well And Dress Well For Your Interview
- Job Search Strategies
- 10 Business Etiquette Trip Tips To Outclass The Competition
- Effective Blogging
- How To Get A Job Despite HR
- Shortcut Your Job Search: Turn Interviews Into Offers
- Social Media And Your Career
- Resume Writing
- Job Search Motivation
- Smart Phones, Technology, And Your Career
- Interviewing Techniques And Salary Negotiations
- Finding Work After 40
- 10 Things To Do While You’re Looking
- Marketing Yourself During Your Job Search
- Networking To Succeed In Business
- Q&A On Taxes And Small Business
- Make Your Linkedin Profile Work For You
- How Are You Selling Yourself?
- If Your Career After All: Build The Career You Deserve, Don’t Just Let It Happen To You
- What Is Your Brand?
- 10 Etiquette Tips To Outclass The Competition
- Being Relaxed With A Re-creation Of Your Skill Set
Photos: CareerCampSCV 2014 (Santa Clarita Valley)
Our 5th CareerCamp SCV (Santa Clarita Valley) was held yesterday at the Dianne G. Van Hook University Center at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, California. I always make a point of taking as many photos as possible to capture the event and the great people who attend.
Here are a few selections from the day. You can find the entire collection of photos on the CareerCamp International Flickr Photostream. You can also see a complete slide show there.
Registration is now open for CareerCampSCV 2014 – July 12, 2014
REGISTER FOR CAREERCAMPSCV 2014 TODAY TO ENSURE YOUR SPOT!
Our 5th CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) is happening on July 12th, 2014 and tickets are available starting today. We hope to see you there!
Unemployed? Underemployed? New college graduate? Considering new career options?
Join us for CareerCampSCV 2014!
When: Saturday, July 12, 2014 9AM to 3:30PM
Where: 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road Santa Clarita, CA 91355
FREE Admission • FREE Parking
College of the Canyons Career Center presents CareerCampSCV, a FREE unconference dedicated to helping you build the career you deserve. The day will include scheduled speakers, ad hoc presentations and breakout ses- sions on all aspects of building your career. CareerCamp is FREE for all adults who want to build or improve their career. Space is Limited. Register for FREE today. For more information, a list of scheduled speakers and additional career content
Video: Smartphones and Your Career with Douglas E. Welch, CareerCampSCV 2013 (51 mins)
Douglas E. Welch, Founder of CareerCamp, presents “Smartphones and Your Career” (51 mins) at CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) 2013. For more information, visit CareerCampSCV, CareerCamp International and DouglasEWelch.com.
CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) 2013 Presentations and Discussion Groups
Here is the complete list of presentations and discussion groups from CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) 2013.
- How to get focus and get results, Networking to your job with Jeffery Tyler
- Transferable skills. Empowering yourself
- No Linkedin = No job with Jeffery Tyler
- Rethink. Refocus, Reinvent with Jennifer Oliver O’Connell
- Taxes and you
- How to get the job you want now! with Keri Aaver
- 10 things to do while you’re looking wtih Jennifer Oliver O’Connell
- How can a hobby expand your career path? with Lynn O’connell
- Google-Fu search Engine Skills
- Resumes – Tips and suggestions
- Is academia for you? with Dr. Rosanne Welch
- Catching them with your cover letter with Dr. Rosanne Welch
- Mourning your last career in order to celebrate your new one with Dr. Rosanne Welch
- Smartphones and your career with Douglas E. Welch
- How to speed up your job search! with Keri Aaver
- Re-entering job market after long time not working
- Networking long distance planning to relocate?
- Interviewing techniques Discussion
- Social media and you career: a discussion with Douglas E. Welch
Photos: CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) 2013
Here are 90 pictures from yesterday’s CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) 2013. As always, we had a great group of attendees (who also became presenters and discussion leaders) and much career-related information was shared.
Click this photo to see a slide show of all the photos.
Please share your photos and memories of the event. Post your comment and photos here on the blog, to the CareerCamp International Facebook page, Flickr photo sharing site (tag them with the keywords: career camp, careercampscv, careercampinternational, careercampscv2013) or the CareerCamp International page on Google+.
One more day until CareerCampSCV! Join us!
REGISTER FOR CAREERCAMPSCV 2013 TODAY TO INSURE YOUR SPOT!
Our fourth CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) is happening on July 13th, 2013 and tickets are available\. We hope to see you there!
Unemployed? Underemployed? New college graduate? Considering new career options?
Join us for CareerCampSCV 2013!
When: Saturday, July 13, 2013 9AM to 3:30PM
Where: 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road Santa Clarita, CA 91355
FREE Admission • FREE Parking
College of the Canyons Career Center presents CareerCampSCV, a FREE unconference dedicated to helping you build the career you deserve. The day will include scheduled speakers, ad hoc presentations and breakout ses- sions on all aspects of building your career. CareerCamp is FREE for all adults who want to build or improve their career. Space is Limited. Register for FREE today. For more information, a list of scheduled speakers and additional career content
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