Introducing Melody Green Careers Expert

Hello there

Radical Career Makeover and Melody Green Careers Expert are one and the same person.

I often find I reinvent myself and my business to reflect new understanding and perspectives.

All previous posts will be re – released into reports at a later date. So come and join me at my new site

http://melodygreencareers.wordpress.com

To your career success!

Melody

Melody Green Careers (formally known as Radical Career Makeover) is still about empowering women to develop fulfilling, satisfying careers by providing career advice, workshops and E-tools. Melody is located in Sydney, Australia and can be contacted on melodygreencareers@gmail.com

Easter Bless-sings

Hello there

I decided rather belatedly to take a break a little early – so no more blogs from me this week!
But I will be back next week – I promise!
Have a blessed Easter even if you do not celebrate this break as a religious festival.  It is still a time for reflection and peaceful contemplation.
Until next week

Melody

PS  If you would like your question answered on Radical Career Makeover’s Q&A Monday , write you question below!

Melody Green is a career advisor specialising in career advice and planning workshops for women in Sydney, Australia. Her workshops offer practical tools to get your career on track and  to empower you to express and engage your fullest potential in your career. Checkout: www.radicalcareermakeover.com

Who in the world is reading Radical Career Makeover?

Hello there

I am always interested to know who reads my blog. It is not just a matter of who is reading it but why they are reading it – so the latest feature developed by WordPress.com which maps where people live who read my blog is fascinating.

Of course I would have hoped that the blog was read most by Australians and in particular Australian women – and this seems to be the case, but it is interesting to see who else looks up the blog as well.

So to all my readers and subscribers – a big thank you.  I am glad I can help you!

According to the statistics you come from

1. Australia
2. United States
3. Ireland
4. India
5. Canada
6. Brazil
7. Singapore
8. New Zealand
9. UK
10. Kenya
11. Pakistan
12. Italy

To your radical career success where ever in the world you are!

Melody

Melody Green is a career advisor specialising in career advice and planning workshops for women in Sydney, Australia. Her workshops offer practical tools to get your career on track and  to empower you to express and engage your fullest potential in your career. Checkout: www.radicalcareermakeover.com

Bouncing Forward with my guest blogger- Sam Cawthorn

Hello there!

Today I am pleased to introduce you to the amazing Sam Cawthorn. It has been my privilege to have worked with Sam during my time with Career Advice Australia. His wisdom, wit and common sense making him a valuable mentor for the 13 -19 year olds we were working with.

Here are some of the things people have said about him:

‘You are the most extraordinary person that I’ve ever met. Your courage and will to overcome adversity is commendable. I truly feel privileged to have witnessed such an amazing talent. You are changing the world one person at a time. You’ve changed us.’
Google

‘Inspiring and entertaining the room was transfixed by Sam’s message of optimism in both business and in life. ’                                                                                 CEO Citibank

“Sam is a very engaging speaker and his message of “bouncing forward” resonated with our team.  He’s a living example of how important it is to stay positive, to be resilient and to keep pushing forward no matter what challenges come”
BP President

“Extraordinary, if you’ve met Sam its a unique experience.”                                   Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia

“You speech was thoroughly inspiring and crafted with just the right amount of humour, drama and showmanship. Once again, thanks for your magnificent effort in closing the National Speakers Convention”
President – The International Federation for Professional Speakers

“Without a doubt the BEST speaker we have ever heard and one of the most inspirational hours of our lives.”
Pymble Ladies College

‘I have been coming along to these type of conferences for over 15 years, this session is by far the BEST session that I have ever attended.’
Manager
Commonwealth Bank

So here is Sam’s thought for the day!

Adversity Growth

Only those who have managed to fail greatly have succeeded greatly.

 While many fortune 500 companies where laying off and going through massive changes at the start of the Global Financial Meltdown, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi (one of the most amazing woman on the planet) decided to do something different. She travelled around the world boosting her employee’s morale and encouraging them to see the good in every bad situation. This action had a profound impact on the company and also her as a leader. In fact Fortune Magazine named her the most powerful woman in the world in 2009.

Financial crisis can ignite our greatest innovation & creative leadership. There was a 34% rise of Australian Millionaires in the middle of the Global Financial Crisis.

 People such as Oprah, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and some of the greatest ever people had significantly worse crisis throughout their lives, then 90% of people in the world. Yet they ended up being in the top 1% of the most successful people on earth. The bigger your challenge, the stronger you become!!!

 If you want growth, you HAVE to be open to adversity. Those who succeed have had more adversity than most but they are willing to go through this in order to succeed.

 Many want success through innovation but they are not willing to have adversity first.

‘I will try that only if you can guarantee a success.’ I will innovate in this area, only if it is a guaranteed that I will win. Our fear of failure stops us from innovation and creativity, and inevitably taking risk & going forward.

 What this means is that having adversity can ignite some of the greatest of opportunities in our life. Sometimes we need a failure in order to see the new opportunities that were right in front of us all along.

 The fastest growing company in history was founded in the middle of the recent recession. In just 18 months from start-up, Google offered them 5.3 Billion dollars, which they declined. Today they are only 2 years old. This is the organisation known as ‘Groupon’, a group-buying phenomenon.

Bouncing back from adversity will help you get back to the place you were before. Yet if you want success through innovation and creativity within your life & workplace, sometimes the only way that this can happen is if you fail, and then focus not on just bouncing back,  but bouncing forward.

Allow yourself to fail, allow yourself to get frustrated, allow yourself to hit rock bottom. All research is telling us that these adversity moments ignite our greatest creativity and innovation as it helps us see opportunities.

This is called Adversity Growth.

Keep Bouncing…
Sam Cawthorn
Expert & Thought Leader in BOUNCE                                                                                Tasmanian 2009 YOUNG AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR                                    http://www.samcawthorn.com <http://www.samcawthorn.com/>
http://www.cawthornfoundation.org <http://www.cawthornfoundation.org/> Twitter: www.twitter.com/samcawthorn <http://www.twitter.com/samcawthorn>                                                                                      Facebook, Skype & Linked In: Sam Cawthorn                                                                Blog: www.samcawthorn.com/blog <http://www.samcawthorn.com/blog>

Wishing you radical career success!

Melody

Melody Green is a career advisor specialising in career advice and planning workshops for women in Sydney, Australia. Her workshops offer practical tools to get your career on track and  to empower you to express and engage your fullest potential in your career. Checkout the Radical Career Lunchbox Series for details: www.radicalcareermakeover.com

With so much free career advice – why do I need a careers advisor?

Hello there

A few of my colleagues tell me they have been asked this question  – and so I researched among them to find out how they answered it.

The results are below:

1) No amount of written advice can replace the place of someone working with you side by side to help you get the job search skills you need to find the job you want!

2) Written advice is generic while personalised career advice from real advisors is about the local knowledge and understanding of the job market for that particular region.

3) ‘Garbage in – Garbage out!’ You are not doing yourself justice if you only rely on the same advice everyone else is receiving.

4) The real worth of a careers advisor is in facilitating your hidden story. This means

• finding out what your real strengths are and how best to promote them
• how to help you minimise weaknesses
• how to find the gaps in your skills and show where you need to pick up more skills
• to advise you on market trends
• to review your resume, cover, letter, selection criteria answers and interview techniques (NOT WRITE THEM FOR YOU)
• to coach you in how to search for jobs
• to help you create career networks

AND

5) Discover your core gifts. This is my specific area of expertise. When  you know what you are here for, what gifts and talents you are on earth to contribute it cuts down the guessing game of where to next. It hones and focuses your job search and makes you the arrow aimed for your target career. This is a very powerful place that written advice can never offer.

My clients always comment on my ability to take a few comments they have made about themselves (sometimes of the cuff comments at that) and bring them together to ask really pertinent questions about careers they have never thought of. So the final tip is:

6) Two heads are better than one at seeing the path ahead.

A career advisor is worth their fee.

You would spend money on training for a career you detest when the much smaller cost of a careers advisor may have saved you thousands of dollars in investment and the subsequent career disappointment.

I hope these points answer the question.

To your radical career success!

Melody

Melody Green is a career advisor specialising in career advice and planning workshops for women in Sydney, Australia. Her workshops offer practical tools to get your career on track and  to empower you to express and engage your fullest potential in your career. Checkout the Radical Career Lunchbox Series for details: www.radicalcareermakeover.com

A Radical Career Makeover Wordle

Hello there

When collecting your thoughts together on who you are and what you have to offer a prospective new employer I like to use a lot of different ways to record the information – not just write it into a resume.

This is because when we ‘play’ with viewing ourselves different aspects of who we are shine and we find new ways of looking at our skills and talents which open us up to options we may not have thought of.

So today I am asking you to play.

As a lover of words  (what else can a writer be interested in?) my discovery of www.wordle.net was like finding Aladdin’s Lamp in a virtual bazaar!

It is very easy to use, fun and only limited by your imagination!

Why not make one of your own to record your skills, qualifications etc?

To your Radical Career Success!

Melody

 

Melody Green is a career advisor specialising in career planning workshops for the over 40s in Sydney, Australia. Her workshops offer practical tools to get your career on track and  to empower you to express and engage your fullest potential in your career. Next workshop is on Saturday 11 February 2012. For more details please checkout: www.radicalcareermakeover.com

 

 

Announcing the birth of – Women of the World Career Vision Project!

Hello there

I just love creating!

From getting the germ of an idea by asking the question – what if? To working out how to make the idea come to life. To the writing and bringing the idea to form. Every single bit of creating I love and while I do get a bit ‘twitchy’ when it comes to editing even that will bring a tiny, barely there smile to my face.

Today I am launching a very simple idea but with a very BIG footprint!

And I am very excited!!

You see, I meet many women who feel overworked, overstretched and under appreciated at work and I would love the world to be such that my services are made redundant! I’d like to do myself out of a job.

One of the ways I can achieve that is to help women get in touch with their deepest desire for their communities (whatever or where ever they may be) and their dream of how they would like to contribute their unique gifts to that community. This is about finding our career path by getting in touch with our desires for our community and then finding a way to serve it – and I think I have found the tool to plant the seeds of such a venture.

You can read more about it on my website at www.radicalcareermakeover.com under the heading Career Vision Project.

Please check it out. If it resonates with you take part and if it doesn’t spread the word – other women in your networks may just love the idea too!

Wishing you a radical career success!

Melody

 

Melody Green is a career advisor specialising in career planning workshops for the over 40s in Sydney, Australia. Her workshops offer practical tools to get your career on track and  to empower you to express and engage your fullest potential in your career. Next workshop is on Tuesday 31 January 2012. For more details please checkout: www.radicalcareermakeover.com