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Presented by Career Partners 3. MS, CADC Educator and Therapist in the field of career transition. Director of Youth and Family Services for Lisle Township. Pioneered the concept of Job Clubs networking groups for job seekers. Hosts two on a weekly basis, - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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MS, CADC
Educator and Therapist in the field of career transition.
Director of Youth and Family Services for Lisle Township.
Pioneered the concept of Job Clubs networking groups for job seekers. Hosts two on a weekly basis,
Member of Community Career Center Board of Directors.
Founder and co-host of weekly Job Talk radio show
Featured in USA Today, the Chicago Tribune and on Chicago’s NBC News
Co-authored a book on career change: A Taste for Work.
Co-hosts monthly seminars for WOW (Woman on Work)
Let’s Start With …
The Good NewsThere are
No Wrong Answersin this workshop…
…always a plus
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You Are
Right Where You Need To Be
…To Be Whom You Need To Be
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Let’s Have Some More …
Good News
For Those Who Think They’ve
Made Some Bad Career Decisions
We’re Going to Dispel That BeliefWe’re Going to Dispel That Belief
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Even More …
Good News
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The Good News
Is Worth RepeatingYou Are
Right Where You Need To Be
At All Times
…To Become Whom It IsTo Become Whom It IsYou Are To BeYou Are To Be
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The Bureau of Labor StatisticsIn Your Lifetime:
• Change Careers 3 TimesChange Careers 3 Times
•• Change Jobs 11-13 TimesChange Jobs 11-13 Times
The Nature of Change:
• Nothing in life “is as certain as Nothing in life “is as certain as change”change”(BF)(BF)
•• Today, change is acceptableToday, change is acceptable
•• Change is actually a sign of growthChange is actually a sign of growth
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Change As a Sign of GrowthCommon Beliefs:
• Change You Didn’t Choose is Bad Change You Didn’t Choose is Bad
•• Changing What You Start is FailureChanging What You Start is Failure
Experiencing a setback makes us wiser
• Our mind can’t “unlearn”Our mind can’t “unlearn”
•• Growth comes from new Growth comes from new understandingunderstanding
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ChangeHelps You To Become
Whom It Is You Need To Be
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Personal ExperiencesMy daughter’s agonizing decision
choosing a college
•• Challenge: “Pick the best school ‘in your Challenge: “Pick the best school ‘in your field’, even if you don’t know what your field’, even if you don’t know what your field is.field is.
My own career derailed 20 years by my high school “counselor”
•• I needed the “winding road” to get here I needed the “winding road” to get here todaytoday
•• Experience taught me what I needed to Experience taught me what I needed to knowknow
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Your Job SearchWhat Did You Want To Be What Did You Want To Be When You Were Little?When You Were Little?
• “You can’t do that, you’re a girl. • “There is no money in that. • “Nobody will ever hire you to do that. • “That’s a great hobby, but you can’t
depend on it for your livelihood.
That’s before you heard:
Write it
down!
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Your Job SearchWhat Where You Told?What Where You Told?
Who Would Like to Share?
What Where What Where You Told?You Told?
Write
Them
Down!
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Personal ExperiencesMy daughter’s agonizing decision
choosing a college
My own career derailed 20 years by my high school “counselor”
The story of my client, the jet pilot
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Your Job SearchWhat you wanted to be
when you were little is how you’re wired!
You Need to Honor That!
Incorporate those characteristics Incorporate those characteristics into your career choice.into your career choice.
What are
some
of your past
messages?
When you do, you will thrive.When you do, you will thrive.
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Job Search ExerciseTo figure out how you’re wired,
and how that fits into your ideal job
Might want to
finish at home
Job: Every one you’ve had (paid and unpaid)
Like:
Dislike:
Value Added:
What I Learned:
List these characteristics. Look for common threads…good and bad.
Using what you discover,
write your “perfect” job description.
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Job Search Exercise:TargetZero into your ideal job environment
• Population• Size of workplace • Profit or nonprofit• Management style• Variety or routine • Hours and time of day
• or any important details for you.
• Population• Size of workplace • Profit or nonprofit• Management style• Variety or routine • Hours and time of day
• or any important details for you.
What types of jobs does this environment sustain?
Is environment more important than the job position? EX: Academia, prisons
hospitals, sanctuaries
Might want to
finish at home
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Have Some FunThere Are No Wrong Answers
Nor One Way of Finding Your Job.
Handouts offer some other Handouts offer some other assessments. assessments.
Check with the AU professionals for Check with the AU professionals for help interpreting the results help interpreting the results
……or feel free to call on me.or feel free to call on me.