About this Event
6 p.m. - 7 p.m.: "Professional Critique":
This meeting will be in person only.
Receive a personalized evaluation of your professional goals, and develop a customized strategy to expedite your transition into your next professional opportunity:
Personalized Career Coaching:
- Assess your professional strengths, and create customized strategies to optimize your strengths and manage areas of improvement
- Evaluate and prioritize your professional goals, and create strategies and specific timelines to achieve each
- Learn how to minimize the risk of being a "close second" for a job
Personalized Interview Coaching:
- Learn how to come to a job interview prepared
- Learn how to convey technical skills, team skills, intelligence and attitude in an interview
- Learn how to convey specific skills and knowledge during the interview
- Learn how to convey the most appropriate answer, in an interview, to a specific interviewer
- Learn how to convey current and relevant skills, while distinguishing them from past performance
- Effectively communicate your professional skills during interview(s) of various time lengths
- Learn how to compensate for technical inadequacies during a phone or Zoom interview
- Learn how to avoid fatigue after traveling for an interview
Personalized Resume Review:
- Optimize your resume's keywords and formatting to maximize compatibility with current Applicant Tracking Systems
- Align your resume to the correct style, layout, tone and formatting, including keywords, sentence structure, spelling and grammar
- Learn how to include your latest experience, skill set, certifications and education, and how to numerically quantify your contributions
- Learn how to ensure that your resume is the correct length, and that its content is being optimized for employers, including its most important and relevant information
- Determine what should (and shouldn't) be included on your resume
- Learn how to optimize keywords to align your resume with specific opportunities
- Tailor your resume to affirmatively include career change(s) or gap(s)
- Determine what name and contact information should be included, and what should be included in the summary or objective statement, to optimize job candidacy
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.: "Leveraging LinkedIn For Job Search":
What are the most important parts of a LinkedIn profile to optimize?
How do you follow and leverage business pages, use job search filters,
explore and participate in groups, network on LinkedIn, find LinkedIn
influencers to follow, comment to reach a greater audience, write
LinkedIn newsletters, and post and schedule content on LinkedIn?
This presentation will also include a live demonstration on LinkedIn.
Diana Stephens, a career coach and Certified Personal Branding
Specialist, works within global enterprise outplacement. She helps
professionals navigate layoffs, job searches, careers pivots, resumes,
LinkedIn, networking and interviews.
In Person:
Holy Archangels Parish Job & Networking Ministry
729 Grand Canyon
Hoffman Estates, Illinois 60169
Please note, that by registering for this event, you will be added to our monthly email newsletter. Please feel free to send any questions to [email protected] or call (708) 232-6535.
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Holy Archangels Parish, 729 Grand Canyon Street, Hoffman Estates, United States
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