Career Development

Maybe You Need a Coach

Paul Cecala - Career Coach

(Photo:  Paul Cecala presenting at the PMINJ Career Fair on October 18, 2019) Maybe You Need a Coach Are you feeling stuck in your career? Have you lost a sense of direction? Have circumstances changed in your job and you don’t know what to do now? Well, maybe you need a coach. Let me tell you …

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Agile Career Development

I am a PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

(Mike Griffiths’ book is an excellent study guide for the PMI-ACP exam.) PMI Agile Certified Practitioner I passed the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) exam yesterday. This is PMI’s fastest growing certification. It’s value is becoming more significant as the trend toward Agile in many companies continues. (Click the image above to see details on …

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Books Career Development

The Final Thing on My 2018 To-Do List

From Contempt to Curiosity

The Final Thing on My 2018 To-Do List The final thing on my 2018 to-do list that needs to be completed is finishing Caitlin Walker’s book, “From Contempt to Curiosity.” I have a few chapters left. It’s been highly thought provoking to this point. Clean Language One big take-away for me is the realization that …

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Career Development

A Journey of a Thousand Miles

A Journey of a Thousand Miles For quite some time I’ve thought about adding a blog to this website. I’ve had the domain for a number of years and have intended for it to contain meaningful content, as opposed to merely facilitating my email address at my-own-name-dot-com. All the networking/career-building advice I’ve read has concurred …

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