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Summer Career Management: How to Invest in Your Career and Still Have Time Off

June 20, 2018 @ 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm – It’s summer.  You have your priorities and they involve the out of doors and water.  And yet, there is that little voice at the back of your head saying: “Maybe I should be looking for work.  I know I need a job and come the fall I will really want to be working . . .”   Why […]

The Power of You: How giving up our power in the job market undermines our morale and how to recover it

June 2, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – The process of landing a job is challenging and can be scary.  By giving up our power it becomes mind numbing, morale sapping and frustrating.   We give up on our dreams for a good job for reasonable pay in 1000 small ways.  Join coach Win Sheffield to learn how to shift our mindset from job […]

Getting Active and Passive Value from LinkedIn

April 27, 2018 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm – Career coach Win Sheffield will spotlight using LinkedIn to find the answers you need and how to connect with those important to your business and career campaign.  The talk will focus on using LinkedIn to build your network, attracting people to you and your business.   Microcasts to listen to on this topic: How can […]

A Seminar in Resume Problems

April 10, 2018 @ 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm – In the job market, the resume is essential. So if there is a problem with it, we feel lost and hopeless. How can a piece of paper never hope to fully convey our value?  It cannot.  Yet, we are obliged to make it as effective as possible.   In this seminar career coach Win Sheffield […]

Career Management for Introverts

March 29, 2018 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Do you feel you shouldn’t have to sell yourself?  Are you uncomfortable around people who are talking about their accomplishments?  Do you find yourself looking for ways to get out of conversations rather than into them?  Perhaps instead you find yourself coming up with the answer while the person you are listening to goes on […]

The Demise of the Elevator Pitch: Would you rather ‘pitch’ yourself or tell your story?

March 12, 2018 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – In our job campaign we need to communicate our value to any number of people in any number of circumstances.  Keeping on top of what we want to say is hard enough and especially hard, if our targets are changing, if we have more than a single direction or when we are not sure where […]

Organize Your Job Campaign: Getting on track & keeping on track

March 3, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm – The whole process of a job campaign is unfamiliar, unpleasant and ambiguous.  It does not have to be so burdensome and can be approached following simple steps using our strengths.   Join coach Win Sheffield to learn simple ways to: * Keep track of priorities and make good use of your time * Start without […]

Handle difficult interview questions by sharing your accomplishments

February 15, 2018 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – * What will you be doing in five years? * Tell me about your worst boss. * What is your biggest weakness? * What would your colleagues say about your leadership? * What sets you apart from others? * “Behavioral” interview questions. These and other queries strike terror in the hearts of interviewees everywhere. But […]

The Power of You: Where You have Given Up Your Power in the Marketplace and How to Recover it

February 8, 2018 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – For many of us (maybe most) our experience in the job market runs from unfamiliar to demoralizing.  Our approach to the market makes sense based on what we know and have heard.  We are acting in good faith.  It turns out, though, that some of what we know can work against our success and that […]

The Power of You: Where You have Given Up Your Power in the Marketplace and How to Recover it

January 17, 2018 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – For many of us (maybe most) our experience in the job market runs from unfamiliar to demoralizing.  Our approach to the market makes sense based on what we know and have heard.  We are acting in good faith.  It turns out, though, that some of what we know can work against our success and that […]