Speaking Engagements
I am available to speak to the following groups:
- Students and Recent Graduates
- Active Duty Service Members & Veterans
- Mid Level Management
- Senior Level Management
Please contact me with details and we can discuss pricing.
Facilitated Group Workshops
Students and Recent Graduates
I tailor these workshops to address the particular marketplace needs of students and recent graduates. They can cover the entire career search process or individual segments depending on the identified content requested by the organization.
As we look at the job search process, we’ll consider questions such as:
- What does it take?
- What are the components of it?
- How can students and recent graduates best prepare for the process?
When I teach students and recent graduates about the job search, I can incorporate components of the entire job search journey or dial in to specific aspects such as mock interview role-play. This is typically where they have the most difficulty due to lack of previous experience and can find significant benefit.
If a very specific topic is requested, such as a one-hour session on resume writing, I will generally deliver a prepared presentation (e.g. PowerPoint) sharing the best practices geared toward that audience.
At this time, all workshops are provided virtually in accordance with COVID-19 guidelines. They remain live, interactive, and are delivered via Zoom or similar video platform.
Active Duty Service Members & Veterans
Although this audience shares the classification of current or past service in the Armed Forces, they tend to be largely varied in terms of their Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) code and employment experiences. For this reason, these workshops are usually different and more generalized than those for job seekers already in civilian roles.
Suitable workshop content includes:
- comprehensive job search process
- current employment marketplace landscape
- existing job search technology and how to maximize its use
- identifying and connecting with hiring managers
- evaluating differences between the civilian job search process and the military process
- translating capabilities into resumes
- using LinkedIn and traditional networking methods
- understanding the norms of the civilian employment sector
In order to customize the workshop format to best serve active duty servicemen and veterans, we may not do as much interview role-play in group workshops. Interview role-play is better suited for this group in an individual setting due to the variety of employment experience and the diversity of jobs they will be seeking. Additionally, with military personnel, I typically see more one-on-one and specific questions that are very unique to their MOS or the military-civilian employment transition.
At this time, all workshops are provided virtually in accordance with COVID-19 guidelines. They remain live, interactive, and are delivered via Zoom or similar video platform.
Mid Level and Senior Level Management
Although these management groups are at different levels in their careers, they share a significant characteristic that allows me to teach them simultaneously: they’ve had years of experience and understand what they do. Both groups need help to understand the new employment environment and landscape of finding a job.
In workshops for these management groups, we discuss the job search process and the role of technology in that process. Frequently, they’ve followed up on job leads through referrals and haven’t had to look for a job in earnest for quite some time. We’ll explore what’s available to them at the Mid-Level and Senior Level. Because these professionals are typically more credentialed and tenured, there is a greater need to be specific about the resources available to them. The tenor of these workshops is more professional and formal than my other sessions.
At this time, all workshops are provided virtually in accordance with COVID-19 guidelines. They remain live, interactive, and are delivered via Zoom or similar video platform.
Topics
Create A High Impact Brand Via Your LinkedIn Profile
In this session, we will cover Linkedin sections of most importance, expressing your aspirations when you have little experience, cross-walking experience for future impact, and improving your currency and relevancy on the platform.
For Students &
Recent Graduates
Participants will walk away with the ability to establish their new professional brand and tips for maintaining visibility on the platform.
For Active Duty Service Members & Veterans
Participants will walk away with the ability to establish their civilian brand, tips for maintaining visibility on the platform, tactics for expressing their aspirations in civilian speak, as well as ideas how to cross-walk experience for future impact, improve their currency and relevancy on the platform.
For Mid Level & Senior Level Management
Participants will walk away with the ability to establish their executive brand, create a common brand across executives within an organization, how to demonstrate executive accomplishments, improve their currency and relevancy on the platform as well as tips to integrate their personal profile and company affiliation.
Connect & Network Using LinkedIn
In this session, we will cover Linkedin sections of most importance, expressing your aspirations when you have little experience, cross-walking experience for future impact, and improving your currency and relevancy on the platform.
For Students &
Recent Graduates
Participants will walk away with the ability to establish their new professional brand and tips for maintaining visibility on the platform.
For Active Duty Service Members & Veterans
Participants will walk away with the ability to building their network for insights and potential opportunities, how to search effectively for potential connections, understand appropriate outreach strategies, learn add-on tools for connecting, and get insight on premium for veterans advantages.
For Mid Level & Senior Level Management
Participants will walk away with the ability to effectively search and outreach for promoting your individual brand in the marketplace, search effectively for potential connections, understand appropriate outreach strategies, learn about add-on tools for connecting, and understand the pros and cons of LinkedIn Premium
Boost Your Resume’s Impact
In this session, we will cover how to write a market-ready resume that appeals to both Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software and human readers in order to get the farthest reach from your application materials.
For Students &
Recent Graduates
Participants will walk away with the ability to write a market-ready resume for both Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and human consumption.
For Active Duty Service Members & Veterans
Participants will walk away with the ability to write a market-ready resume for both Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and human consumption.
For Mid Level & Senior Level Management
Participants will walk away with information on ways to mitigate unconscious age bias, a better understanding of how to work within the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software as well as developing a human-readable resume.