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Calling It What It Is

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“Passion” got a double treatment (Passion! Passion!) recently, so I thought I would move on to something with a slightly different flavour this time around: callings. What’s a calling? Researchers […]

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Passion: The Enduring Debate

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I like to learn about the origins of words. Not only is such “word etymology” educational, it’s often both fascinating and startling to see how starkly the meanings of words […]

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Do We Need A New Word For “Career?”

February 25, 2013by David Lindskoog 1 Comment

When a post like last week’s is as popular as it is (so far it’s definitely the most-read article I’ve written here), it’s rather difficult to know how to follow […]

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Career Blogs I Actually Read

December 14, 2012by David Lindskoog 3 Comments

If there’s one thing I’ve realized since getting into blogging about career stuff, it’s that there’s a lot of career related blogs out there. Case in point: this post, titled […]

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My Answer To The Best Question You Can Ask

August 24, 2012by David Lindskoog 1 Comment

“How did you get to be where you are?” It’s a question I’m asked a few times a month, sometimes more. It seems like I can tell when it’s about […]

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Imagination as a Career Skill

June 22, 2012by David Lindskoog 1 Comment

“Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world” Albert Einstein Have you ever thought about how amazing it is that we have the capacity to imagine? It’s part of the reason […]

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How Do Career Professionals Help?

June 15, 2012by David Lindskoog 1 Comment

I often assume people know the same things that I know. I assume that people know what I can do for them. It’s easy to get caught up in a […]

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How To Be More Like Batman

March 9, 2012by David Lindskoog

Although the towering stack of Marvel cards (mostly series 1 and 2) I’ve got stashed away in my closet may suggest otherwise, I’ve never really been a comic book person. […]

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Career advisor/counsellor and optimistic prairie boy stumbling through life on the left coast. I write about career development, post-secondary student issues, and whatever theories I'm currently enamoured with.

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