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Category Archives: Careers
Bait and Switch
Barbara Eirenreich speaks. We listen. It’s strangely familiar…
Pulling back the curtain on the paradigm of employment and jobseeking in white collar America, even in 2005 when this interview took place, reveals some hard truths about how we are preparing our graduates for (futiley) pursuing their Dream of a great career. Although some issues such as [...]
Posted in Careers, Economics
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Careers in the Arts
It seems ironic to me – and reason for concern – that parents who have nurtured the creative and expressive nature of a child would still be frightened when the child says: I want to be a…. (dancer, an actor, a painter, a musician, etc fill in the blank with some artistic occupation here).
Despite all [...]
Posted in Careers, Creativity
Tagged arts careers, Careers, employment, innovative thinking
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The Long Hallway
It is important to make space where creativity can emerge, and where individuals can get help or share ideas not when and where the preset agenda dictates, but in the moment when the need or thought occurs. “The long hallway” refers to a comment made by a participant in a study of work in documentary [...]
On employment and unemployment..
I worry about the latest growth industry in our community: the Employment Industry. Think about it. Here we have a changing world of work, where lifetime employment is a thing of the past, where the ‘hard’ skills we train for can be made redundant by technology, change is rapid, economies are global, the ‘knowledge economy’ [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Careers, Professional Development
Tagged Careers, economy, employment
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School-to-Work Transition for Artists
Summary of Notes for Presentation Montreal Dec 8 2001
Q: What kind of ‘transition from school to work’ initiatives would be the most efficient to implement in a context where 50 percent of the 809,000 cultural workers are fully or partially self-employed? How can we better prepare graduates for the realities of the cultural sector workplace?
A: [...]