Ep. 035: Help Your Teen Find Their Life Purpose, with Dearbhla Kelly
Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job
Mac Prichard
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
It’s graduation season and a time to celebrate the great accomplishments of our graduating high school students. It’s also a time for those students to make some big decisions about their future. Should they continue their education? Enter the workforce? Take a gap year? Or perhaps sign-up for service?
“What to do next” is a big question and one that can causes teenagers and parents a lot of stress. It’s also choice on many people’s minds as graduation season nears.
This week on Find Your Dream Job podcast, we talk about how to help teens choose what to do after high school so that they build a solid foundation for their career. Our guest is Dearbhla Kelly, author of Career Coach, a book to help parents and teens with career planning for young people.
In this 31-minute episode you will learn:
- How influential parents are on career choice for teens
- Why parents need to guide (not lead) teens when it comes to career management skills
- How open ended questions can help teens make good career choices
- The importance of informational interviews, job shadowing, volunteering, and career day opportunities
This week’s guest:
Dearbhla Kelly (Twitter | LinkedIn)Career CoachAuthor, Career CoachDublin, Ireland
Listener question of the week:
- “How do you stay challenged in your job while helping others?” - Cheryl Curry
Don’t forget to leave your question (or comment) on Mac’s List Facebook page! If you have a question you’d like us to answer on a future episode, please contact Jenna Forstrom, Mac’s List Community Manager at jenna@macslist.org.
Resources from this week’s show:
- Career Coach
- The Weekend Resume Makeover online course
- Good.co Mobile App
- SkillShare
- Luminosity
- Strength Finders 2.0
- DearbhlaKelly.com
- Land Your Dream Job in Portland (and Beyond) - On sale through June 15!
If you have a job-hunting or career development resource you’d like to share, please contact Ben Forstag, Mac’s List Managing Director at ben@macslist.org.
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| 1:01.5 | This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, |
| 1:17.3 | have the career you want, and make a difference in life. |
| 1:20.1 | I'm Mac Pritchard, your host, and publisher of Max List. |
| 1:22.9 | I'm joined by my co-host, Ben Forrestag, our managing director, and Jenna Forrestrom, our community |
| 1:28.1 | manager. This week, we're talking about how to help teenagers choose what to do after high school |
| 1:33.5 | ends. It's a big question, and one that can cause teenagers and parents a lot of stress. It's also |
| 1:39.7 | a choice on many people's minds as graduation season nears. This week I talked to Dervlick Kelly, author of |
| 1:45.7 | Career Coach, a book to help parents and teens with career planning for young people. Ben Forsteg |
| 1:50.7 | has an app you can use to determine what careers best suit the personality of teens or adults, |
| 1:55.9 | and Jenna Forstrom answers a question from listener Cheryl Curry. |
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