My Director of Talent Research at Markham Media recently published a Career Haiku on MediaDailyNews with the idea that tackling your career doesn’t need to be so stressful and could even be fun. So, give yourself that well needed moment of zen and stop back here (and on MediaPost) each week for a simple token of advice in the ancient Japanese poetic form. Below is her Haiku as it appears on MediaDailyNews:

By Alyse Walsh

Let’s try something new

Career advice on the run

Why not a haiku

Alyse Walsh, a Markham Media colleague of “Dear Bev” career advice columnist Beverly Weinstein, has offered a “career haiku” as a way to stimulate some thinking, dialogue and maybe a little bit of poetry exchanging among the readers of MediaDailyNews.

A haiku, of course, is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of three metrical phrases of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively.

If you’d like to try your hand at one, please post it here, and use it to connote or evoke anything you’d like to about your career in media.

Here’s another example:

Do you golf or ski?

Build a stronger resume

Add activities

Take a look on MediaPost: http://tinyurl.com/cn8ykl

One reader, already added to the dialogue by posting her own Career Haiku as a comment to the publication. Frances Page, founder of Frances Page Project Room LLC, a brand creation and media company wrote:

Auto, financial,

Pharma, Retail, QSR.

Upfront weak again?

I’d love it if you submitted your own to us as well!

Illustration by Doug Savage via KimandJason.com