Career & Professional Development Resources
Thanks for attending my session on your career! Here are the slide deck PDFs for my most popular sessions:
- 1-hour 300-Level Guide to Career Internals: Planning Your Career
- 3-hour 500-Level Guide: Building Your Brand – this one includes the above 300-level, but then goes on much deeper.
- Building a Brand By Sharing Your Work – choosing between blogging, presenting, live streaming, and open source scripts.
300-Level Guide to Career Internals (1 Hour)
After that above SQLBits session, here was the open Q&A that I streamed online:
500-Level Guide (2.5 Hours)
Bookmarks I recommended in the session:
- My online bookmarks at Pinboard – especially the tags for career, marketing, presenting, business
- 1,000 True Fans essay
- Jonathan Stark’s free resources on pricing your services
- My Epic Life Quest and Steve Kamb’s quest that inspired me
- Startups for the Rest of Us podcast series, especially their greatest hits
- Double Your Freelancing
- My own blog posts on career topics, consulting, marketing
Books I recommended:
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- Blue Ocean Strategy by Mauborgne & Kim
- ProBlogger by Garrett & Rowse
- The Secrets of Consulting by Gerald Weinberg
- 50 Management Ideas by Russell-Walling
- The Cluetrain Manifesto, Theses 1-40
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
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