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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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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.
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.
Video: What is success…and why you might have it already! from CareerCampSCV 2012
Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com/career) presents “What is success….and why you might have it already!” at CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) 2012 (https://careercampscv.wordpress.com)
There has been a “perversion” of the meaning of success these days with only the extremely famous or rich being labelled as successful. Douglas’ definition of success is “if you can support yourself and and your family doing something you love.” Success is not black or white, it has many shades of grey and we are wise to remember it.
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Video: Career Compass: Finding Your Career North from CareerCampSCV 2012
Douglas E. Welch presents “Career Compass: Finding Your Career North” at CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) 2012 (https://careercampscv.wordpress.com)
Can’t see the video above? Watch “Career Compass: Finding Your Career North” on YouTube
Buy the Career Compass eBooklet in the Amazon Kindle Store $2.99
* Kindle books are readable on all platforms and even using your web browser
Subscribe to Douglas’ YouTube Channel for more career videos
Please like this video if you found it useful. Your likes help to suggest it to more YouTube viewers.
* See more of Douglas’ content at DouglasEWelch.com
* See more career-related content on the Career Opportunities column and podcast
* See more information on CareerCampSCV
* Follow Douglas on Twitter at http://twitter.com/douglaswelch and http://twitter.com/careertips
* Like the Career Opportunities column and podcast on Facebook
* Like CareerCamp International on Facebook
* Circle Douglas on Google+
* Circle Career Opportunities on Google+
* Circle CareerCamp International on Google+
Planned talks for CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley)
The schedule for each CareerCamp is decided onsite during the opening session the day of the event, but as people register offer up the topics which they are planning to present. These topics often merge or expand due to the nature of an unconference, but here is what some attendees are going to be discussing when CareerCampSCV convenes on Saturday, July 14, 2012.
Planned/Proposed Presentations for CareerCampSCV 2012
- Career Compass: Finding Your Career North – Discovering what work you truly want to do in your career
- Social Media and Your Career
- What is a resume for?
- Interview Power: Competence, Confidence and Value
- Are we the total sum of our parts?
- Career Branding and YOU
- Building an Enduring Career Reputation
- Blogging Effectively
- Interviews, preparing for and or resume writing
- Marketing yourself during a job search
- The Power of Your Transferable Skills
- Tapping into your network
- Marketing Yourself on Social Media
- 21st Century Blogging
- Get a job!
- A Career in Customer Service
- …and much, much more!
What happens at CareerCampSCV? Great talks like CCV – Competence, Confidence, Value with Mitch Krayton
Mitch Krayton of Krayton Seminars presents “CCV – Competence, Confidence, Value” at CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley on July 10, 2010.
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