Articles by Wayne Finley
Is your career heading in the right direction?
A career path is not set in stone. It is natural for people to wonder if they are working in the wrong profession, underutilizing their skills or not living up to their full potential. Millions of office cubicles all over the world are occupied by dreams of new career paths and opportunities.
According to a 2019 survey by the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics, the average person switches jobs 12 times during their careers. Long gone are the days when people, such as my uncle, would spend their entire careers with a single employer (in my uncle’s case, British Rail). Nowadays, it...
KOTESOL Gives Back! Conferences Are a-Changin’
Grab a hold of a paintbrush. Illustrate the first image that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘conference’. If you’re like me, you start drawing a room… perhaps an auditorium. You sketch out a presenter with a microphone. Hundreds of faces come next, listening attentively to the speech (or if you’re a realist painter, looking down at their smart phones). What you don’t paint is KOTESOL Gives Back, the fundraising event that added new color and shaped new meaning for one of the greatest English language teaching conferences in Asia.
A conference is about so much more than sharing...