I am puzzled because you explained in an earlier response that career-wise ways is how an individual goes about advancing in a job and building a career. How does this work?
Full Question: I am puzzled because you explained in an earlier response that career-wise ways is how an individual goes about advancing in a job and building a career. How does this work? Is there an age group or a gender-type that you are thinking of when you describe who career-wise ways applies to?
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This question comes up often when I am speaking about CWW Career-Wise Ways.
"CWW Career-Wise Ways...",applies to both men and women who want to be successful in their jobs and careers.
While doing my research, I talked to a lot of people who opened up and shared their passions, disappointments and disillusionments about working, finding a job, keeping a job, and figuring out how to prepare to move from job to job and what makes a career.
Some people needed additional training in order to hold on to a job they'd had for a number of years and they didn't see the fairness in that. Others were content to push sons and daughters toward college educations, only to find out that they needed to do a mid-life reality check themselves about their own jobs. And many were concerned with the examples they were setting for the same sons and daughters.
A lot of the individuals I talked to were women who were in mid-life transitions from relationships, empty nests, former jobs, from former lifestyles and who were on the move to exciting, but scary new ventures. The number of people who opened up to me voluntarily left me awed and I knew I had to do something with what I was learning.
What I learned is that most were quite accomplished in many areas of their lives. Many were stagnated and bewildered by the challenges of pioneering into new frontiers, especially as it related to working and career building. Many women I talked to had never even touched a computer back in 1999. A lot of them told me they dusted around the computer so their husbands and children could use it, but they never dared trying to learn how to use it themselves. Others told me they were afraid to go beyond their own neighborhoods to look for work.
After many conversations and brainstorming sessions and an imbued resonation, the phrase, "career-wise ways" came into reality for me. I imagined it as a way to get anyone who desired it, could focus on the word career and not just having a job. Eventually the brand was established as, "CWW Career-Wise Ways...Not Just a Job, But a Career". And it meant taking one job opportunity and making it work and then layering on another job opportunity and to continue layering experiences, skills, know-how, one next to or on top of another until a solid foundation has been built. Career-Wise Ways is learning how to deliberately start at the beginning of starting over. If practiced, it becomes a way of thinking about how to create and re-create your life's work.
At some point, everybody needs career-wise ways. It's just a matter of time when you realize that the time has come for you to use it to get to your next career development stage.
I hope I've given you insight and inspiration and perhaps the opportunity to see your own challenges in the challenges of someone else that may allow you to practice or adopt some career-wise ways for yourself.