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The following excerpt from Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work by Halimah Bellows MA, MS is now featured on Bublish at: https://bublish.com/bubble/stream/15086?share=email.
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Author Insight
Although there is no simple solution to finding the right career path for you, there are simple steps you can take utilizing all of your resources to make a good decision.
Book Excerpt
Now is the time to begin a self-assessment process that will give you more choices, broaden your options, and give you the confidence to know you are on the right career path. A self-assessment will clarify your characteristics, interests, values and skills. It will define your strengths and your weaknesses. Looking for a match between these and the work you are considering is the most important step you can take before you write a resume or begin a search for a job. In fact, when the time comes to write a resume and prepare for a job interview, you will find the task easier if you have completed the self-assessment process first.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, October 5, 2017 – “Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work” by Halimah Bellows, MA, MS has been named a finalist in the category of Careers in the 2017 competition sponsored by Book Excellence Awards of Brampton, Ontario. A complete list of finalists can be found at http://bookexcellenceaward.com/honorees/2017-finalists/ .
“Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work” also won the Summer 2016 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award in the category of Self-Help Books and was named a finalist in the category of Business-Careers in the Thirteenth Annual Best Book Awards sponsored by i310 Media Group, Inc. and a finalist in the category of Business-Careers in the Eighth Annual International Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest.
“Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work” addresses the needs of a new generation of career seekers in a rapidly changing economy and job marketplace. Designed as self-paced career development workshop in book format, “Champion Your Career” provides self-assessment tools to enable individuals to explore their personal passions, values, strengths and skills, along with sound strategies and resources for decision making, goal setting and networking to begin a fulfilling new career. “Champion Your Career” is available in print and as an ebook on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million and Powell’s online bookstores. It is also available directly from the author’s website, http://www.championyourcareer.com. Additionally, it is also now being carried in bookstores around the country as well as in some local college bookstores and college and public libraries in the Pacific Northwest.
Halimah Bellows is also the creator of a unique self-coaching tool called CAREER QUEST CARDS TM ©, a set of 24 cards providing a distillation of 30 key career-coaching exercises. A Career Quest App is available through Amazon as well as at the google and iBooks stores.
Bellows is a sought after and respected resource for career advice and coaching. She teaches her clients to re-frame their lives and career choices by choosing positive and life affirming goals that have realistic time frames so that discouragement doesn’t set in. She stresses, “What I focus on and teach others through my book and the CAREER QUEST CARDS TM ©, and app is that, in order to meet a goal, you need to turn to those things that you want to make happen, things that will give you a sense of accomplishment, skill building and joy. Those goals will be much more sustainable.”
Halimah Bellows is available for radio, television and media interviews as well as readings and discussions in bookstores and other venues. For a review copy of “Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work” or an interview with the author, contact her at hbellows@championyourcareeer.com or 206.595.7927.
Author’s Insight:
By answering the second question you can help uncover the real or underlying value for you. So for you, perhaps money is not the real value; perhaps the real value is “security” or “being successful” or “being independent” or “being able to provide for my family.” It’s always helpful to anchor or relate the values you express to real world situations. If you say you value “honesty” or “teamwork,” write down what “honesty” or “teamwork” would mean in terms of your behavior and how it would impact others.
Author’s Excerpt: from CHAMPION YOUR CAREER: Winning in the World of Work
Step 3: Now you have two lists. Go back and compare your two sets of answers to the question. Is there anything there that surprises you or concerns you? For example, if you are concerned because the word money is on your list, you might ask, “What does money mean for me?” Your answer might be “Money means security” or “Money means success” or “Money means freedom” or “Money means being able to provide for my family.”
Author Insight:
Many people cannot express what their five to ten core values are and thus are living lives unconnected to them. This ambivalence can lead to a life of unhappiness, discontent, conflict and unease. Some may feel conflicted because they are trying to live a life according to the values of a certain company, religious or political organization, or the values of their friends and colleagues or their partner rather, than living a life according to their own core values.
If you feel your life is unfulfilled and unhappy or has too much conflict in it, then it may be that you are leading a life that is not in accord with your own core values. The question is: Do you know your own personal core values? Do you know whether or not you are expressing them in your daily life?
Author’s Excerpt: from CHAMPION YOUR CAREER: Winning in the World of Work
Let’s go jewel hunting for core values by considering the following question:
What in your life is important to you?
Step 1: Don’t think about your answers at first. Just write down whatever comes into your head no matter how strange, amusing or worrisome it may seem. These first answers are probably your intuitive answers; sometimes those are closer to the truth than answers that you “think” about.
Step 2: Now think carefully about what is important in life for you. Take some time to consider your answers before writing them down in a word or short phrase. Don’t worry if some of the same answers appear in your first list. Just write them down again.
Stay tuned for part two on What these two lists reveal.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, JULY 10, 2017 – Seattle-based author and career counselor/coach Halimah Bellows, MA, MS, CCC, CPC will be featured on www.paperbackradio.com on Thursday, Jjuly 13 at 11:30 AM PST (2:30 PM EST).
Self-empowering, motivational, and practical…this book will inspire you!
By Johanna Bouchardon
Career counselor and coach, Halimah Bellows, delivers an insightful guide designed to help lead readers through the process of both choosing and pursuing a career that is the right fit for them. Uniquely combining career coaching with career counseling, the book presents readers with intensive questions designed to help them discover their individual skills, talents, goals, and passions- showing them how they can use that knowledge to select a personally fulfilling career- along with supplying innumerable tools and strategies to then acquire a position in their desired field.
Champion Your Career is a fantastic resource for people of all life stages, from college students who are struggling to pick the right career path, to those who are already in the work force but feel ready for a change, all the way through the retirement stage—and I can especially see this being a great book for junior high and high school students who are beginning to plan for college and/or their future careers.
The book is full of questions designed to get your creative juices flowing to discover just what exactly you are good at and passionate about, and (perhaps most importantly) also contains excellent strategies for overcoming your personal hang-ups by dealing with insecurities and doubts (dubbed “Gremlins”).
Self-empowering, motivational, and practical at the same time, this book will inspire you to use the information presented to put together a plan and start taking the steps needed to land (or create!) your personal dream job. A well-written and informative read, highly recommended! I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, May 31, 2017 – Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work by Halimah Bellows, MA, MS has been named a finalist in the category of Business-Careers in the Eighth Annual International Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest. Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of American Book Fest announced that this year’s contest yielded over 1,500 entries from mainstream and independent publishers, which were then narrowed down to 300 winners and finalists. For a complete list of winners and finalists, go to: http://www.internationalbookawards.com/2017awardannouncement.html.
Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work also won the Summer 2016 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award in the category of Self-Help Books and was named a finalist in the category of Business-Careers in the Thirteenth Annual Best Book Awards sponsored by i310 Media Group, Inc.
Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work addresses the needs of a new generation of career seekers in a rapidly changing economy and job marketplace. Designed as self-paced career development workshop in book format, Champion Your Career provides self-assessment tools to enable individuals to explore their personal passions, values, strengths and skills, along with sound strategies and resources for decision making, goal setting and networking to begin a fulfilling new career. Champion Your Career is available in print and as an ebook on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million and Powell’s online bookstores. It is also available directly from the author’s website, www.championyourcareer.com. Additionally, it is also now being carried in bookstores around the country as well as in some local college bookstores and college and public libraries in the Pacific Northwest.
Halimah Bellows is also the creator of a unique self-coaching tool called CAREER QUEST CARDS TM ©, a set of 24 cards providing a distillation of 30 key career-coaching exercises. A Career Quest App is available through Amazon as well as at the google and iBooks stores.
Bellows is a sought after and respected resource for career advice and coaching. She teaches her clients to re-frame their lives and career choices by choosing positive and life affirming goals that have realistic time frames so that discouragement doesn’t set in. She stresses, “What I focus on and teach others through my book and the CAREER QUEST CARDS TM ©, and app is that, in order to meet a goal, you need to turn to those things that you want to make happen, things that will give you a sense of accomplishment, skill building and joy. Those goals will be much more sustainable.”
Halimah Bellows is available for radio, television and media interviews as well as readings and discussions in bookstores and other venues. For a review copy of Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work or an interview with the author, contact her at hbellows@championyourcareeer.com or 206.595.7927.
Adrian Granzella Larssen was the first employee and founding editor of The Muse, the career platform that’s helped more than 50 million people find and succeed at their dream jobs. Now, she serves as The Muse’s editor-at-large, is a nationally recognized career expert, and helps other early-stage startups create content that readers truly love. Be sure to connect with her on Twitter and Instagram.
Career consultant Joseph P. Liu interviews Adrian bout building career bridges at:
http://content.blubrry.com/career_relaunch/CR019_2017_05-18_Building-Bridges.mp3
Go to https://josephpliu.com/career-change-myths/ for a video of Joseph P. Liu, Career Consultant, Podcast Host and Speaker debunking 4 career change myths at the General Assembly in London.
Seattle-based author and career counselor/coach Halimah Bellows, MA, MS, CCC, CPC will be featured at a reading, signing and discussion of her book, “Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work” on Thursday, April 13 from 7:00-8:30pm at Third Place Books, Ravenna, 6504 20th Ave NE in Seattle. For more information, call 206-525-2347.