Seminar 1 - Intro to Career Clinic

WCCC#1 – Introductions and Today’s Competitive Career Marketplace
(the first of our -Free- four-part series)

· 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

· What is changing in today’s job market; traditional careers, independents, affiliates, curating your career, creatives, assembling a living, mobility and headhunters and placement agencies

· 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 transferrable job skills and characteristics

· Staying positive and energetic during the search (diet, exercise, meditation, mindfulness and positive energy sources) – be interesting!

· Media:

o RSA Animate: Work

o Sheryl Sandburg: Lean In

· Exercises:

o Power Pose

o Tour de Table

o 16 personalities types

o What Color is your Parachute

o WCP – Workbook Characteristics / Petals

· Workplan / Commitment

o 360 degree feedback