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Career
Partners 3
MS, CADC
 Educator and Therapist in the field of career transition.
 Director of Youth and Family Services for Lisle Township.
 Pioneered the concept of Job Clubs networking groups for
job seekers. Hosts two on a weekly basis,
 Member of Community Career Center Board of Directors.
 Founder and co-host of weekly Job Talk radio show
 Featured in USA Today, the Chicago Tribune and on
Chicago’s NBC News
 Co-authored a book on career change: A Taste for Work.
 Co-hosts monthly seminars for WOW (Woman on Work)
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Career
Partners 3
Let’s Start With …
The Good News
There are
No Wrong Answers
in this workshop…
…always a plus
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Career
Partners 3
Let’s Have Some More …
Good News
You Are
Right Where You
Need To Be
…To Be Whom You Need To Be
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Career
Partners 3
Even More …
Good News
For Those Who Think They’ve
Made Some Bad
Career Decisions
We’re Going to Dispel That Belief
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Career
Partners 3
The Good News
Is Worth Repeating
You Are
Right Where You
Need To Be
At All Times
…To Become Whom It Is
You Are To Be
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Career
Partners 3
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
In Your Lifetime:
• Change Careers 3 Times
• Change Jobs 11-13 Times
The Nature of Change:
• Nothing in life “is as certain as change”(BF)
• Today, change is acceptable
• Change is actually a sign of growth
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Partners 3
Change As a Sign of Growth
Common Beliefs:
• Change You Didn’t Choose is Bad
• Changing What You Start is Failure
Experiencing a setback
makes us wiser
• Our mind can’t “unlearn”
• Growth comes from new understanding
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Career
Partners 3
Change
Helps You To Become
Whom It Is
You Need To Be
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Partners 3
Personal Experiences
My daughter’s agonizing decision
choosing a college
• Challenge: “Pick the best school ‘in your field’,
even if you don’t know what your field is.
My own career derailed 20 years by
my high school “counselor”
• I needed the “winding road” to get here today
• Experience taught me what I needed to know
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Career
Partners 3
Your Job Search
What Did You Want To Be
When You Were Little?
That’s before you heard:
• “You can’t do that, you’re a girl.
• “There is no money in that.
• “Nobody will ever hire you to do that.
• “That’s a great hobby, but you can’t
depend on it for your livelihood.
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Career
Partners 3
Your Job Search
What Where You Told?
What Where
You Told?
Who Would Like
to Share?
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Partners 3
Personal Experiences
My daughter’s agonizing decision
choosing a college
My own career derailed 20 years by
my high school “counselor”
The story of my client, the jet pilot
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Career
Partners 3
Your Job Search
What you wanted to be
when you were little
is how you’re wired!
You Need to Honor That!
When you do, you will thrive.
Incorporate those characteristics
into your career choice.
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Career
Partners 3
Job Search Exercise
To figure out how you’re wired,
and how that fits into your ideal job
Job: Every one you’ve had (paid and unpaid)
Like:
Dislike:
Value Added:
What I Learned:
Using
List these
whatcharacteristics.
you discover,
Look
write
foryour
common
“perfect”
threads
…good
joband
description.
bad.
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Partners 3
Job Search Exercise:Target
Zero into your ideal job environment
• Population
What types of jobs does this
• Size of workplace environment sustain?
• Profit or nonprofit
Is environment more important than
• Management style the job position?
EX: Academia, prisons
• Variety or routine
hospitals, sanctuaries
• Hours and time of day
• or any important details for you.
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Partners 3
Have Some Fun
There Are No Wrong Answers
Nor One Way of Finding Your Job.
Handouts offer some other assessments.
Check with the AU professionals for help
interpreting the results
…or feel free to call on me.