About
About The Carer Explorer’s Journal and exploreyourcareer.com:
The Career Explorer’s Journal and exploreyourcareer.com are here to support anyone who wants to learn more about their personal relationship with work.
Why a book?
An inexpensive book provides access to anyone interested in exploring their career. It offers the simplest and most practical way to support the unique, personal journey each reader embarks upon as they ask questions, learn to trust their own judgement and move their careers forward within a tried and tested framework of exploring.
Why a blog?
The intention was to create an open, free-to-air conversation on the subject of careers and exploring, that anyone with an interest could join, either as a reader or as an active participant. A blog achieves both of these things but this blog is also a continually refreshed invitation to explore, giving readers a new opportunity with each update to consider the subject, weigh up the evidence and make up their minds for themselves. A blog also has the added flexibility to allow readers to ask and answer questions, share personal experiences and contribute new ideas and suggestions along the way.
Why exploring?
Exploring is at the heart of the book and the blog because history has proven it to be the most accessible, practical way to make meaningful, lasting discoveries. Exploring and explorers have been tested by the harshest conditions over thousands of years of human history; not all of this history is a happy tale but the positive, tried and trusted elements at the heart of this site have been proven to foster meaningful progress in individual careers at all levels.
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About Paul Diamond:
My career has always been linked to the choices we (as individuals) make about work and that’s where I want it to stay in the future. Before 2007 I worked internationally, focused on interview, assessment, technology and recruitment, spending hours with a wide range of people as they told their career stories and made decisions about the future. In 2007 I set up KEEP Consulting Ltd, a new talent & career management business to support employers and employees alike. Since 2008, I have been writing and hosting the work/life fusion blog, which gave me my first taste of publicly exploring the subject of careers and work. With plenty of help and support, over the last year I wrote The Career Explorer’s Journal and on Friday 7 May 2010 the book and this website were launched. Home for me is in the UK, with my wife Nicki and my daughter Eleanor.
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Additional Information:
The site and the book were launched together on Friday May 7, 2010
The development of this website was directed and managed by Tara Joyce of Elastic Mind
All original illustrations on this website are by and © Atholl McDonald (with due apologies to Dr Seuss in some cases)
The Career Explorer’s Journal was edited by Joanna Paterson, who also contributed to its development, as did Andrew Grey, Kyle Rollins, Saundra Griffith, Rosa Say, Ronnie Ann Himmel, Gillian Arnold, Atholl McDonald, Ken Elvy, James W. Ridley, Kuldip Dosanjh, Lindomar Machado, Steve Sherlock, Gabi Shimkofsky, Sarah Nolan-Watt and Nicola Diamond.
The Career Explorer’s Journal is © Paul Diamond and published by Smashwords.com
All other written material on this site and blog is protected under Creative Commons License.
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