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Creating Career and Family Balance as a Dad

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This Sunday is Father’s Day! We will discuss how working Dads can make progress in creating career and family balance allowing more time to be with his children. My guest, Scott Behson, is The author of The Working Dad’s Survival Guide: How to Succeed at Work and at Home.

He is a work-life balance advocate and zealous forging discussions about Dads having work flexibility options for more face time with their families. I comment on the show that I wish this book were around ten years ago when my sons were younger. But more now than ever it is needed discussion as this book is first of it’s kind.

Scott Behson’s day job is as an Associate Professor of Management at Farleigh Dickinson University. He has a doctorate in Organizational Studies, and blogs at Fathers Work and Family. He is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Good Men Project, and Salary.com.
As a Dad, do you struggle with a lack of time for your family? What is one of your challenges in creating career and family balance for your life? We’d love for you to share your thoughts.

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Chandra says that in her business, you have to be an avid user of the product to garner serious consideration

Here some of the highlights of our conversation:

Scott said that after reading many career books and parenting books that there weren’t many that included both in the same books
Work and family are treated separately when they interact with each other
Love the quote and the context of Dads are parents too
No matter the family relationship, the communication dynamic needs a team approach
Scott included a chapter of how to negotiate more flexible hours
He also discussed how to affect the dialogue to where remote work is good for the long term
Build up a good reputation at work and it’s probable to receive an opportunity for work flexibility
Dads can offer ways to measure performance and produce trial run proposals and progress reports
It’s better to look for the win-win rather than to your benefit
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About Mark Anthony Dyson

I am the "The Voice of Job Seekers!" I offer compassionate career and job search advice as I hack and re-imagine the job search process. You need to be "the prescription to an employer's job description." You must be solution-oriented and work in positions in companies where you are the remedy. Your job search must be a lifestyle, and your career must be in front of you constantly. You can no longer shed your aspirations at the change seasons. There are strengths you have that need constant use and development. Be sure you sign up to download my E-Book, "421 Modern Job Search Tips 2021!" You can find my career advice and work in media outlets such as Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Glassdoor, and many other outlets.

20 Questions to Inspire Close Career Management

Career management is that second job you’ll always have. It’s laborious like doing laundry for a family of four. It takes diligence like checking your closet and basement for a useful book you read ten years ago. If you want to prepare for the next bottom to fall out of the economy, you’ll need to manage your career as closely as your health (and many of us even closer).

So I would like you to entertain the below 20 questions to stimulate and inspire thoughts about things you can do now. Today. After reading this article go do something that will ready you for your next career move. Note that these questions in no way answer specific problems in career management, but they do bring awareness to potential pitfalls (I also digress a bit too).

1. With all of the QUALITY free learning resources available, why can’t you create a basic Linkedin page with a photo?

2. And why is your Linkedin page photo taken with your wife, dog, husband, children, co-workers, parents, far away, one-eyed or with sunglasses? Linkedin is NOT Facebook!

3. What do you have against asking for referrals? What do you against giving referrals? Or encouragement? Or endorsements?

4. Ever noticed networking with the same self-absorbed, self-centered and self-serving people get the same results? #Justsayin’

Did you know that your resume is not a magic wand

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(S/O to Chaz Pitts-Kyser, @careeranista, Episode 59)?

6. Was your last “informational interview” an interrogation, Spanish inquisition or a useful conversation?

7. Have you stopped managing your career since you started your new job in October?

8. Ever noticed that “canceled” is spelled correctly with one l and not “cancelled (U.S. only)?”

9. Did you know that your spouse has a network too (he or she may be a career management nut)?

10. Did you know that you can negotiate compensation and benefits even if you don’t have a current job?

11. Does talking matter more than listening to a conversation, job search, interview, and/or networking event?

12. What is the purpose of an objective statement? Why do you still have one on your resume?

13. Does the lack of race diversity concern you from your last panel interview?

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If you’re presenting yourself as an “expert,” then why can’t I find an original thought from you on Google?

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15. Did your job search start after your last “performance appraisal” or “performance review?”

16. What skills do you possess with more than 75-90% proficiency? Are they highlighted somewhere on the top 30% of your resume?

17. Did you know mom, dad, brother and sister have professional networks too (they may be career management nuts)?

18. Are you sure that follow-up email you sent after your last interview will be enough to be remembered by an employer?

19. So what if the company only has five employees?

20. And why isn’t that A+ graduate paper on your personal website devoted to your job search? Or reference on Linkedin with a link to the site where it is posted? Or anything that displays proof of your competence. Or greatness.