Designing your Professional Life (pt 1of2): Women's California-Style ...

Career Clinic and "Applying Design Thinking to your Career or Profession"
Design Think drives positive social and economic outcomes succeeding through rigorous creativity, critical inquiry, and ethics informed by respect for people, nature, and the world.
We introduce two acolytes, Rosanna Kurrer, Co-Founder of Digital Leadership Institute and proponent of MIT's THINK along with Patrick Wheeler, Director of DLI and proponent of Stanford's d.school
We share how we can apply the 'discipline of innovation and creativity' directly in our lives and careers, how we can grow ourselves and solve problems we did not even know existed for ourselves and our colleagues.

Intro to Career Clinic (https://www.meetup.com/Womens-California-style-Career-Clinic-Brussels/events/233116013/) & Building the 'Perfect' CV (and a lot more):

Introductions and Today’s Competitive Career Marketplace (Completely Free and Without Costs and for Women Only Please)

Bringing Design Think and the

· Who we are: sharing our experiences in the job market (the good, bad and ugly)

· How we got here … rules, expectations vs. reality, self-imposed limitations

· Re-thinking ‘work’ and the ‘hacking’ ethos with Design Think

· What is changing in today’s job market; traditional careers, independents, affiliates, curating your career...

· Why it is never too late to change your career

· Why you (may not) want to change your career, what you will not find ‘on the other side of the fence’

· Know yourself, be true to yourself, re-define yourself!

· Prejudices, handicaps, how others see us and how we see ourselves to success (or not)

· Archetypes, adjectives and how we choose to define ourselves

· An exploration of transferable job skills and characteristics

Building your ‘Profile’ and ‘Activating’ your Search

· The C.V. – its purpose, promise and managing logical inference and extensions

· Blaming the hiring manager for not seeing our potential when all we show is our past

· Building a new style CV (Jon 1 & Jon 5)

· Researching your desired position and company/geography/career

· Being fully ‘buzzword compliant’ and ensuring database searches return your C.V. (CV Adjectives)

· Building ourselves – evidencing the person the hiring manager wants to see every work-day (Training/ Coursera, Initiative, hobbies, personality matters, ‘Spark’)

· Headshots, hobbies and other critical factors

· LinkedIn and other social media – shameless, manage, curate, prune, dangers we know (& not)

· Job Search ‘Activation’