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‘Most career advice is wrong’ Archive

A Career Choice Conversation

The above 7 minute video is an intense career choice conversation with Alex Zivojinovich and his parents. This excerpt was taken from a 1973 documentary “Come On Children” filmed in Canada about disaffected youths living in the suburbs of Toronto at that time.
Alex struggled with a common career decision booby-trap that trips up most teens [...]

Protected: The Career Choice Problem

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Perfect Breasts and Broken Hearts

Some people are naturally gifted for their career, but just don’t care anymore. There’s the plastic surgeon that’s brilliant at sculpting sexy boobs and lips and the corporate lawyer who is masterful at keeping her company out of jail and being sued. But the satisfaction that comes from excelling at what they do fizzled out; [...]

If your mother only told you this . . .

 . . . you may have become an architect, rather than a lawyer, or an anthropologist, rather than a computer scientist.
The brain and behavioral science community is bringing forth exciting new evidence that nature plays the dominant role in shaping our talents and traits.  Studies of identical twins raised apart in different environments turn out to [...]

Why Your Career Sucks

The aim of The Careerologist blog is to shine light on the underlying reasons why so few people are on the right career path. I’ve been a career design consultant for over 15 years and I’ve met a lot of unhappy people who are stuck in jobs that don’t utilize their natural talents. And lately, [...]