Say goodbye to career planning: Tim Clark at TEDxPlainpalais

Tim says "career" is a verb and that every day you have the chance to change your life... Tim is an entrepreneur, trainer, author and former professor of business who leads the global personal business model movement at BusinessModelYou.com
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[@timclark3763]

My original proposal was to show exactly how to build a personal business model, but TED guidelines restrict anything that could be perceived as self-promotional. They are a very impressive organization, and it was a lot of fun to work with the organizers.

[@Treachery959]

Have you made this video? I would watch it.

[@markystein4088]

I would like to do a TEDx talk on "Say Hello to Career Planning". According to the US Department of Labor, people from age 18 to 60 change their careers - not just jobs - but totally different careers an average of 5 times. By the time a person reaches 48, they have changes jobs an average of 14 times. Psychologists say that job loss and career transition is the 2nd most stressful event someone can experience in a lifetime. As a Career Coach for 25 years, I never would have a client plan a "perfect career for life". That's absurd! People change, interests change, the economy and the landscape of technology change - move forward and become obsolete every 3 months. People need assistance to plan these changes. We don't need to do away with "career planning". The original meaning of the word career WAS a verb and not a noun - he is correct. "Career" actually means "how we spend our time" - give it some thought. It is entirely possible for everyone - yes everyone! - to enjoy how they spend their time.

[@luciacee5151]

What are good resources for people interested in "saying hello to career planning?"

[@amyonherrectangulardevizz9129]

I want to be a career coach cause nothing makes me more happy than helping ppl to live happier life.. and I have helped some of my friends to find thier passion, but without methods, am just improvising.. can you please advice me on where I should start to make this legit? That would be really great if you could reply to me and would love to know if you Wil do a ted talk.

[@JaksAlym]

@@amyonherrectangulardevizz9129 Same here ))

[@jus3278]

I think he also highlights how the skills we gain over our careers shouldn't be seen as pointless jobs,but rather as meaningful experiences that can catapult us to dreams beyond our imagination

[@jose.montojah]

In other words, our lives are our own work of art.

[@jus3278]

One of my favorite Ted Talks. Obviously a lot of us plan for what we want to do, but the reality is that careers are often times not neat or fixed.

[@0787Joy]

I love how he's so down to earth. This was very inspiring.

[@wisepersonsay3142]

My purpose all along working was to retire early - 55. It was my only goal, and worked hard for it by getting jobs of different kind which paid me reasonably enough to save for my early retirement. I also invested my income more than I spent it. Career doesn't mean much to me at all. You have to have a way bigger goal than career planning - finding what you make out of your only once life. Career and finance doesn't always go together. If your motive is right, earn income by contributing to the society, money follows miraculously.

[@koshkloud9]

This is kind of self-contradictory if you associate the lesson with the title: Say Goodbye to Career Planning. But this is truly a fact since we need to model a career not make a fixed plan and follow it to death. So I guess the title should have been more like "Don't Fix Your Career - Keep the Plan Flexible." Makes so much sense. Create a Personal Model - You. :)

[@mike569112]

***** after 5 seconds of watching this I thought the same thing.

[@unavocatepice]

That actor would be Crispin Glover - a very unusual and gifted actor!

[@gero9369]

Thank you. I got the insight and saved me 14 minutes

[@wowere19]

He reminds me of Doctor Who, totally unorganized and absent minded, but genius, charismatic and perfect at the same time :). Nice speech that shows unpredictability of life :).

[@heliosign]

Magician archetpye.

[@Kittonwy]

I bet instead of jumping into a cab he got into a telephone booth and was never seen ever again.

[@ggrthemostgodless8713]

I really like the concept of this talk... and love his unpretentious sense of humour. When you first see him you wouldn't think he HAS a sense of humour. A sense of humour about the right things.

[@studiouspanda1999]

Maybe we have different definitions for what career planning mean. To me, career planning means 1) understanding everything about yourself, internally, and externally (You can use things such as the IKIGAI as a guide) 2) you hypothesise on what you what to achieve, and you hypothesise on how to achieve that (for example, you want to be a Singer, you can plan out taking courses) 3) After which, you test those hypothesis by taking actions (just take the course) As time progress, you will have more information, and you can revisit (1) again, and replan it all over again. To me, its not saying goodbye to planning, but making a plan that constantly evolves.

[@franklintclark]

Wow, a real eye-opener. Thanks!

[@jaymenna]

Nice to Stumble upon you again Tim!

[@frankhynd885]

This guy took a big chance to start a Japanese language website in the early nineties and sold the business to a tech company for a large profit probably before the year 2000 which was when tech startups died in great numbers before they could be be sold in IPOs etc. He was in the lucky five percent of Internet startups which were successfully sold by their owners.

[@lizlugo8962]

This was entertaining, though I got nothing from it.

[@ignatiosification]

my thoughts exactly after I leave the strip club

[@ChrisWaterguy]

Welcome to TEDx.

[@MomoWard]

@@ChrisWaterguy hahaha so true

[@travis_approved]

Welcome to the Internet

[@worklifedevelopment5234]

Tim Clark on navigating your working life by creating your own personal business model. Very much with an Away From motivation.

[@maxmoore8631]

This is a great TED talk, year ago I stumbled upon this guy and the "Year you get your dream job" seminar. I can't be more thankful for Tim Clark, Scott Dinsmore & Ryan Niessen for changing my career and my life in general! Seminar was little pricey but well worth it!

[@maxmoore8631]

Oh, here is the link for the seminar (bit.ly/1QDgSZy) if you are interested!

[@JUANPRESA]

How to say almost nothing in 14 min

[@francoispirart2805]

Great talk and great book!

[@MustufaBhavnagarwala]

Such an Inspiration!! :)

[@jaredvaughan1665]

Thank you ENFP. ENFPs are great with languages and are constantly moving from one thing to the next. ENFPs don't plan like judging types because an ENFP is a perceiver.

[@anetaw.3742]

Am I the only person who wonders how he managed to swing between those all professions just like that? I am 26 years old, just before ending my Masters Degree I started to work and after 1,5 year I feel that I'm trapped. I'm constanly struggling to find a job in other profession, that corrsponds with my education and interests, yet without work experience in that particular field or any connections form the "inside" it is just not posssible...

[@minimaldigitalist]

+Aneta W. There's a difference between having "connections" and networking. With tools like LinkedIn and so much free knowledge on the internet, it's possible to succeed in almost any field. Not easy, but definitely possible ;)

[@anetaw.3742]

Yeah right, especially in Poland...

[@DanFletcher90]

+Aneta W. Just for a modern day example. I'm 26 too. I've been in the food industry, I've been a CNC machinist/programmer, a fork lift driver, a landscaper, I've driven excavators, terminated high voltage transformers, solar panels, and wind turbines. I've worked as a back up cook, a street musician, a warehouse labourer and most recently I'm a computing curriculum consultant at Khan Academy, a blogger, and a programmer at a web design company while studying Computer Science online. It definitely is possible. Also although I'm currently working towards a Bachelor's part time, I only have a GED - I dropped out of high school at 16. You just have to stop thinking in terms of interest or education. If an opportunity comes up, just jump at it and try your dam hardest at becoming good at it, until it is no longer fruitful. Eventually you'll find your way to something you really enjoy doing. I have an amazing work/life balance right now (which is important with a wife and 3 year old), but it took a lot of risk, failure, and a ton of handshaking to get here. I think I only have like 1 or 2 jobs that I got strictly through an application. The rest were just word of mouth with the right people. You can do it! Just get yourself out there and meet people! And make sure you have an open mind to what a "change in profession" means for you.

[@migueldecarvalho8012]

+Aneta W. Perhaps you could sample opportunities and/or signal to prospective employers where you are going by taking some sort of specialised training.

[@DanFletcher90]

Thanks Ben :) There is a different story for every job I've worked, but sometimes it's just shaking hands with someone and getting to know them. Sometimes they are business owners and looking for someone, and you happen to be looking for work - that's more or less how I got into landscaping. The few CNC jobs I had started out as luck really, but I took initiative and leveraged that luck. My original CNC experience started at a company that was pretty small at the time (they are much bigger now, and I'm currently building a website for one of their dealers ironically enough). Since they were so small, I got to experience a lot of different machines simply by bugging them everyday to learn more. A couple years after I had moved on from that company, I was looking for work again, and tried to see if the little experience I had would qualify me for an entry level CNC position at an Aerospace company, which is where I used to read CNC machine manuals between cycle times, and that knowledge later got me a better job at a company that "required" a collage education and 3+ years experience. The way I got that job - I like to think - is by writing a very candid cover letter. I was straight up and as honest as possible about where I was with my knowledge, and what I was looking to gain from the company. They called me in for an aptitude test, and I passed; job was offered to me the same afternoon. Obviously I can't share every story here in a KZbin comment, but there were a lot of jobs that I took, that sounded pretty crappy if you just read the job description. Despite this, when in a phone conversation with a project manager who I called myself, and the hen says to me - "We work 60+ hours a week, we're on the road away from our families all of the time, sometimes we do shift work to get the job done, and at times you'll be waste deep in freezing cold water and mud, you'll be on contract with no benefits or vacation etc etc..." I said, "Sounds good enough, when can I start?". Turned out to be one of the best jobs I ever worked.

[@himson99]

any thei students?

[@stella822]

hi

[@alexwu2701]

Nice to meet you

[@hungtakyiu4859]

hello

[@byarter567]

hi~every one

[@roychan2190]

hi

[@KarenMSmith-ck3ul]

your first couple of sentences validated my work life. however in deciding to change professions requires a modicum of planning.

[@BlondeQtie]

I would like my career. I just can’t get a job in there. Only like 2 open positions each year and they require experience that I neither have nor can acquire without immense sacrifices 🙄

[@aylarcCc]

Put it in a nutshell; try to know yourself better, follow your gut and be creative, career is not about planning.

[@alexSAFR]

I learn English and listen to the end. I did not look for meaning because I work as a psychologist and do not need a career)

[@vincentjanse]

Dude, the moment he was getting to the actual plan he cut himself off. Now I need to go buy this damn book! Screw this guy, time to go to amazon.

[@gyli88]

Great! Did you find the answer yet? I think that you can share your translations with your local community firstly. Will BMY buy it?

[@AxmedBahjad]

Desing your own business model! We have many business model imitators. Business model you!

[@user-df2pk8be9x]

very good point.

[@johnswolter]

Tim, thanks for the talk, I've been doing the Canvas for new business ideas. I can also use it for getting a rudder onto my career. -------------------------------------------------- Boy, the spammers keep posting all over KZbin. I've not seen any audited balance sheets from them yet.

[@BironClark]

This video brings up some very good points! wow..

[@Altarior]

Great speech, I feel like I got something useful from it!

[@AxmedBahjad]

Altarior Share what you've learned from it?

[@meditationforsuccessatoz5143]

You bet!

[@luciatilyard2827]

Rather like him, vague, abstract, but realistic.

[@razitambosi5153]

Does anyone know what is the name of the company that he had sold to Nasdaq ?? what type of company is it, i would like to build one in Saudi Arabia

[@waindayoungthain2147]

😀🙏🏼 thank you for everyone the Next Generations. Please, implant the virtue in the kind of morality, You🤗.

[@testtere2311]

It's called Planned Happenstance and it's a career development theory that's been around for a while: www.everup.com/2016/02/04/planned-happenstance-accidental-career-success/

[@meditationforsuccessatoz5143]

When you can dare to say goodbye to career planning, you can dare to speak like Tim Clark. :)

[@leongooorg]

You are not a cog. You are not a gadget. You are a business!

[@xumay1088]

Hmm so how exactly should I build a personal business model do I need to purchase his books? ...

[@peterringgo3883]

maybe you can search on google about business model canvas, there so many article to explain you about it. Thanks

[@bonitonastylish]

Thank you guys for not letting me waste my time watching this 😂

[@nathanma4273]

run yourself as a company, which needs value, business model, customer base. it is similar to building your own brand, the brand name is your name.

[@RobbySmiles]

Can anyone tell me what the book was?

[@julianaferry]

Great

[@enquiryagency]

I think he has to elaborate on his financial background. That it what is missing in his video! Exploration costs money. Career Exploration costs a lot of money. With the needed careers guidance, an average income earning individual can almost reduce the cost of exploration by discovering suitable careers and careers he or she is in love with. And careers are not all about jobs, Business is a career too!

[@billlantz8751]

I thought it was going somewhere, but I got lost along the way.

[@rwichern]

Tim Clark did a great job in inventing the BusinessModelYou method, its book and website. However, in this talk he missed the chance to show the potential. It would have been great to see -- after a _brief_ introdution of the model -- where it makes the difference: Where leads unclarity to stagnation? Which changes can offer new opportunities? Sorry, from this talk I was not possible to learn anything next to the fact, that there is such a tool as BusinessModelYou. (And this is really a GREAT tool!)

[@wetlazer2443]

I created this thing (that you can't use) and it made my life a lot better (but it won't do anything for you) and I achieved all of this success (but I can't show you how to achieve). Lolls

[@jackdanny6520]

What is a personal business model?... Is it this drawing with the rooms and processes on it?

[@AdrianMei]

scrolling through the comment section trying to find a summary

[@aseem1708]

Awwwwwwwwsome

[@ahmedgalal2139]

That’s a great story! Very entertaining and learned nothing ❤️

[@achanajith8590]

I went straight to the comments so I decided to not watch the video😂🤦‍♀️

[@krishafyme]

Same pinch!!!

[@DmacAttac702]

If human beings were no longer customers bcuz money has no importance to us anymore what would you call us? (Human beings with needs) a human needs you give bcuz God loves that

[@bleuneptune]

He looks like Colin Firth.. 😃

[@ChrisWaterguy]

There's a thing called a business canvas that you can use for your career, but it's not described here. Now you don't need to watch this.

[@danf4447]

someone should tell this guy that job hopping (not staying too long) looks horrible on your resume.

[@atwaterpub]

If you equate a personal career with a business venture, you must remember that 9 out of 10 business startups eventually fail, they never succeed. Unfortunately, if you apply that model to a personal career that means that nine out of ten careers end in failure, or in other words, nine out of ten people's lives end in failure. THIS is the real lesson of capitalism - you are most likely doomed to failure, unless you are the lucky ten percent. But how "lucky" can you really be if 9 out of 10 of your childhood friends are doomed to failure, and you "enjoy" your success by yourself?

[@ryantroy5614]

Too many broad strokes

[@logicrule]

Daffy duck

[@discoveryworld260]

Me arruma um green card

[@stevenlandberg4417]

Typical consultant/book writer who changes "career planning" into "you business model" and thinks it is revolutionary)) Careers certainly evolve and are haphazard for most....perhaps they would be enhanced through some regular evaluation and modeling/planning...as an executive recruiter, I have certainly seen how many career mistakes people make when they are pursuing a corporate career....as an entreprenuer, I have learned many valuable lessons that would enable others to be more successful...as a consultant, I have seen fads and buzzwords come and go finding that having a plan with assumptions to test and learn from to evolve your business based upon what customers want and do tends to be what has worked forever

[@cosmo1kramer]

nothing..nada

[@whitelightning7847]

That didn't help at all but appreciate trying

[@martin.feuchtwanger]

BORING! Had to stop 2/3 way through this nonsense.

[@zochbuppet448]

Martin Feuchtwanger that because you had to check your facebook and tweets

[@whyttitude1073]

I do not agree with the speaker. Speaking is good, content is not.

[@johnanderson1916]

Hi Tim....your haircut is ridiculous.