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in our 25th podcast, David Kee, the Founder of Funkee Careers, reflects on a career chat with a teenager that he found inspiring on how the teenager came to the realisation that her dreams while sleeping had meaning in identifying a career for her. The learnings of this chat applies to all ages underpinning the importance of being curious as to your thoughts, activities and experiences in how they can have career meaning to you. Listening time: 6min 56sec.
In our 21st podcast, David Kee, the Founder of Funkee Careers, talks are things career journey with Kate Taylor, who with a Science qualification applied science methodology to become a corporate business problem solver. The commentary is presented in a lively and slightly humorous manner. We hope the listening brings joy to your day, just as our purpose is to help you find careers that will bring you joy. Listening time: 61min 9sec
In our 19th podcast, David Kee, the Founder of Funkee Careers, provides practical advice for Parents on how to be there for your Teenager by sensing the moments where your Teenager needs support, direction and/or feedback. Equally, he highlights the need for Teenagers to be proactive and open to allies and parents helping you. The commentary is presented in a lively and slightly humorous manner. We hope the listening brings joy to your day, just as our purpose is to help you find careers that will bring you joy. Listening time: 15min 5sec.
In our 18th podcast, David Kee, the Founder of Funkee Careers, explains how you are a product of your environment and introduces us to a way to improve our self awareness by using the Johari Window. This ‘window’ could change the way you look at life and yourself. The commentary is presented in a lively and slightly humorous manner. We hope the listening brings joy to your day, just as our purpose is to help you find careers that will bring you joy. Listening time: 12 min 48 sec.
In our 16th podcast, David Kee, the Founder of Funkee Careers, talks about how we are all smart in different ways. You know we all have our thing! Now your mission, if you choose to take it, is to delve, explore and investigate your ‘smartness’. Let me explain. This guy in 1983 Dr. Howard Gardner, Professor of Education at Harvard University. developed the theory of multiple intelligence. By you using this theory you can find your area(s) of smartness and think about how that could translate into career choices.
In our 15th podcast, David Kee, the Founder of Funkee Careers, talks about how backing yourself in will give you the career confidence you need to achieve your career goals. He explores the importance of mindset being pivotal in developing career confidence. The commentary is presented in a lively and slightly humorous manner. We hope the listening brings joy to your day, just as our purpose is to help you find careers that will bring you joy. Listening time: 12 min 54 sec.
In our 12th podcast, David Kee, the Founder of Funkee Careers, talks about the significance that employability skills play in your career journey, whether your applying to a job, attending an interview, seeking a promotion or wanting to be a good performer in the workplace you will need to demonstrate you have the employability skills to get the job done.
In our 11th podcast, David Kee, the Founder of Funkee Careers, talks about the importance of looking after your Career Wellbeing as work often plays a big part in our lives both in effort and time. He discusses the need to be proactive in checking in on your Career Wellbeing to ensure it is enhancing your overall wellbeing. The commentary is presented in a lively and slightly humorous manner. We hope the listening brings joy to your day, just as our purpose is to help you find careers that will bring you joy. Listening time: 9 min 55 secs.
In our 10th podcast, David Kee, the Founder of Funkee Careers, explains how career evolution is a fundamental concept you need to understand and apply in knowing Who am I?, Where am I going? and How am I getting there?. The Who Where How is at a point in time. You see, you start out with a destination in mind and then events just unfold, some planned, some unforeseeable. Your career will evolve as you build your skills & experience and you learn more about yourself, different roles and industries.
In our 9th podcast, David Kee the Founder of Funkee Careers, introduces you to the career journey element of “How am I getting there?”. Instead of providing one of his zany analogies he shares his own personal experiences by taking his own “Where am I going?” statements and explaining the strategies he thought up to answer “How am I getting there?” He focusses on working out the opportunities in the FUTURE and determining the effort required NOW. Listening time: 12 min 48 secs
In our 8th podcast, David Kee the Founder of Funkee Careers, introduces you the career journey element of “Where am I going?” through managing and utilising employment information and self information to identify your most suitable career related options. He speaks of knowing “Who am I?” as the cornerstone to gaining understanding and clarity on “Where am I going?”. Listening time: 8 min 29 secs.
In our 6th podcast, David Kee the Founder of Funkee Careers, makes a comparison where at Christmas time there are many questions that need answering just as there are many career development questions that need answering. So in an attempt to answer these career development questions he gets a cooking bowl mixes in a number to cups of career development together with Christmas tidings to provide some tasty responses. The commentary is presented in a lively and slightly humorous manner. We hope the listening brings joy to your day, just as our purpose is to help you find careers that will bring you joy. Listening time: 15 minutes.
