Career Smarts: How to Create the Career You Love – and Get Paid, of Course! – In this lively talk, rich with anecdotes from his own life as a student, a journalist at MONEY Magazine, and as a guest commentator on national TV and radio shows, Goodman explains that, once you’ve identified your passion in life, there are concrete steps you can, indeed must, take to achieve your dream.
Careers, Career Planning, Getting a Job After College
Cutting-Edge Resumes for a Cut-Throat Job Market
A well designed resume can be the difference between getting the job interview—or getting passed over. Marja Lee Freemans’s Resume Designs That Work seminar teaches everything you’ve wanted to know about job resumes. The Cutting-Edge Resume program breaks down the first step towards a successful job search into several simple tasks. This workshop will make sure your resume stands out over the flood of 300+ resumes that an employer sees each week.
Knock Their Socks off with the Interviewing Edge
This information-packed workshop and 21-page booklet are guaranteed to improve your interviewing skills. Not knowing the basics of how to get through a formal interview can be the kiss of death for your future potential. Make yourself an attractive job candidate by being prepared and standing out from the crowd. Learn how to prepare for the interview, how to research the company in advance, what to wear to make the best impression, what to take with you, what questions you can ask and how to do effective follow-up to keep yourself in the running.
Networking Your Net Worth
When it comes to transitioning from college to career, you may not be as prepared as you think! Learn how to properly interview, network, follow-up, negotiate the workplace, and what employers don’t always tell you. This fun and interactive presentation will provide students with invaluable information to assist them in transitioning from college to career. Warning: You will learn secrets that you will not find anywhere else!
Turning Workplace Conflict Into Career Cooperation
This pivotal workshop is the key to conflict management and how to work with difficult people. The answer to dealing with difficult people isn’t confrontation—but conflict resolution techniques. You’ll learn to work with anyone. No matter how big of a jerk they are! Learn to lead – and follow – even the most difficult people; become the peace-maker in any team situation; learn to cope with even the most outrageously annoying habits; learn to identify and deal with every type of personality, learn what to do when there are differing priorities, objectives and goals; recognize when YOU just might be part of the problem.
Why Your Internship is Critical to Your Success
There’s no pay, no benefits and the bills keep piling up. Well, it’s only for a semester, but you GOT the internship. This session explains why everybody needs an internship… even if it’s not in the field of your choice. Think about it. Every doctor, dentist and even mechanic needs that practical experience. Not only that, but it sets the stage powerfully for where you might go in your career opportunities. This customized session will get your students workforce ready.
Working & Living with Difficult People
It’s going to happen – getting a dorm mate from HELL! They don’t clean up after themselves, the bathroom looks like a disaster area and to make matters worse they keep borrowing things from you WITHOUT ASKING. Now imagine you work with this person EVERYDAY! There’s no getting around it, it will happen. So, what does it take to work and live with this person without serving jail time?? This is a CAN’T MISS program in conflict resolution that will come in handy for years to come.
