Career expert Barbara Herzog offers presentations or workshops on a variety of topics. Samples are described below. Sponsors can decide what format works best for them. Possibilities include a one-hour presentation at a breakfast, lunch or evening meeting or a longer morning or afternoon workshop. Workshops are free to most non-profit groups.
Latest Job Search Strategies
Because we don't search for jobs very often, most of us aren't knowledgeable about the latest job search strategies. In this presentation you will learn the basics of proactive techniques used to shorten job search time and increase the number of live offers. You will learn about:
- How to uncover emerging openings - before they are advertised and you have hundreds of competitors
- The four best ways to search
- How to target your search, and research your targets to make yourself a stronger candidate
- How to allocate your time
- How to network effectively and generously
- How to search if you donít have a large network
- How to prepare for interviews
Eight Steps to Successful Career Change
Having trouble deciding whether to change careers? Or figuring out how to do it? If so, you're not alone. Many people aren't sure what would satisfy them most. Others are concerned about whether they have the skills to get hired in a new field, and don't know how to conduct a search.
If you are in this position, be sure to attend this session! You will learn how to analyze your skills, interests, values and personality. These are the key factors that combined (you'll see how) make for satisfaction in a job. You will also learn how to reposition yourself. What does a career change resume look like? How can you play up your skills, and reposition yourself away from your old type of job? Learn four easy things you can do within a few months to strengthen your credentials and help you land a job in the new field.
You'll leave with new knowledge that will help you decide whether to change your career, and if so, how to maximize your chances for success.
Write the Right Resume!
Have you polished up your resume recently? Still thinking of your resume as your work history?
It shouldn't be! Your resume should be a marketing tool, designed to get the attention of a particular audience.
Come to this workshop and you'll take away a 5-step process that will help you select the appropriate resume for your intended audience, and produce a resume that's eye-catching, up-to-date and effective. Then take away samples of what's hardest for most job-seekers to write: a powerful summary. Writing this short statement will help you answer that predictable and tricky question, "Tell me about yourself."
Your resume is your most important job search tool. Write it for success!
Ten Steps to Interviewing Success
A recent survey found that a large percentage of people would rather have root canal than go to a job interview. Really. Is this you?
Hopefully not - but you can still benefit from brushing up your interviewing skills. Come to this workshop to learn how to be more comfortable - and more effective. You'll come away with 10 steps you can take to view the interview differently, to prepare yourself more effectively, and to enhance your chances of success. You'll learn what the most common interview questions are, and how to respond most effectively. You'll also learn why the interview should be considered a business meeting, and how to prepare so that you are not one down. Finally, you'll come to understand several common approaches that interviewers use in differentiating between candidates, and how to prepare for each type of interview.
Don't miss this chance to enhance your interview skills!
Staying Employable in a Tight Job Market
In this workshop, you'll learn some tried and true methods to make yourself more valuable to your current employer and increase your employability if change is on the horizon. You'll be advised on what not to do when layoffs are the corridor news. Equally important, you'll come away with six things you can do that will make you more employable in the event your job disappears.
Get ahead of the curve with this professional development seminar.
Who, Me? Negotiate my Salary?
Research has found that only 25% of job seekers even TRY to negotiate their salaries. Yet those who do often end up with a better package: higher salaries, more vacation, tuition expenses, car rental, moving expenses, etc. In this workshop you will learn negotiating basics that will help you throughout your professional career.
First, you'll find out when to start negotiating. You'll learn the timing of when to keep making your services more valuable, and when to actually talk money. You'll learn about leverage, and how to use it. You'll learn how to avoid confrontation by exploring options in a polite and professional manner. And you will take home a salary negotiation worksheet that will walk you through the 9 items that can and should be on the negotiating table.
Even if you are not in the job market right now, this workshop will provide you with skills and a take-home resource that you can keep for your next job search.
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