[jsfg_cinti] Topics for presentations and training

Dear Fellow Job Seekers,

The programs and training committee would like some suggestions from
you. Please look over the list below and reply by e-mail to me, Pat
Samson, and Lynette Dean. Their e-mails are on the cc list above.

We would like your requests for programs or trainings in the areas
listed below.   If there are other areas that you would like programs or
training, please let us  know.

I have been between jobs many times and have been thinking about the
process of looking for the right spot.  I like a job that uses my best
talents, because then I am glad to go to work each day.

Aspects of being between jobs include the following:

1. Managing your emotions. How to focus on your positive talents and let
go of the last job and the unfairness of that situation. 

2. Identify your best talents, skills, and interests, which go with you
regardless of your job title. This personal inventory is a great
exercise and can easily take 40 hours of writing down the
accomplishments you feel best about. This is an essential step and must
be done. Maureen Moorhead's class on What Color is Your Parachute is one
approach. Another is to do this exercise with help from a Career Coach.
We have a stable of coaches available. One company is Career North,
Scott Henderson's company.  Another is Centennial.

3.  Construct a functional resume based on your best talents and skills.

4.  Develop a series of short answers to common questions based on your
best talents and skills. Practice using those answers with a mock
interviewer.

5. Develop your networking skills. Always ask about how you can help
others as part of this process. (Givers gain)

6. Get coaching in interviewing. Colleen Mangot provides training for
our group in behavioral interviewing.

7. Seek out some informational interviews.

8. Attend trainings and apply what you learn.

9.  Review what is working for you and what is not. Does your resume
need a review? If you are interviewing for jobs that sound good to you
and you are not offered the job, why is that?

10.  Persist in your search and do not settle for accepting a job that
is a poor fit or one that involves a situation that does not feel right
to you.

11.  Do something for yourself every day.
Life includes more than a job.

Please get back to Lynette, Pat and me so we can provide the best
possible support for you.

Thank you for your input and suggestions.

Bruce Strickland
Program Chairman

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