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Career Dreams or Dream Career

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Career Dreams or Dream Career

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.

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Careers within, before going outside

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Careers within, before going outside

In our 22nd podcast, David Kee, the Founder of Funkee Careers, puts focus and reasoning on exploring career options and pathways within your current workplace. As an analogy he likens the Manager and Employee relationship to being dance partners at a dance club! Listening time: 12 min 41 sec.

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Parent Teenager Connection

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Parent Teenager Connection

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.

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Product of your Environment

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Product of your Environment

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.

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Get Smart

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Get Smart

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.

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Employability Skills

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Employability Skills

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.

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Who Where How Career Evolution

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Who Where How Career Evolution

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.

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Where am I going?

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Where am I going?

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.

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Career Interests: Wow I like doing that!

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Career Interests: Wow I like doing that!

In our 4th podcast episode David Kee the Founder of Funkee Careers, talks about a raft of career related interests in understanding “Who am I?” and their connection to careers. He provides an explanation on the vast array of possible interests by breaking them into interest categories that are defined and applied in the results of Morrisby Online Career Assessment Reports. 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 minutes.

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Aptitudes: Doing what comes naturally

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Aptitudes: Doing what comes naturally

In our 3rd podcast episode David Kee the Founder of Funkee Careers, talks about aptitudes and their connection to “Who am I?”. He provides an explanation on 5 aptitudes being Verbal, Numerical, Abstract, Spatial and Mechanical and their relevance to particular careers. The commentary is presented in a lively and slightly humorous manner.

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Painting a Funkee Careers Picture

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Painting a Funkee Careers Picture

In our first episode the Director of Funkee Careers, David Kee introduces himself and provides a high level of view of the unique way way to find careers that will bring you joy. The commentary is presented in a lively and slightly humorous manner. Hopefully the listening it’s self will bring some joy to your day.

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