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Self-Assessment and Exploration: What do I want? What are my options?
Getting Unstuck: Moving Forward to Career Satisfaction and Growth
Are you ready to move forward in your career? This job group is specifically designed for those individuals who want to work as a team to identify barriers to career change and develop strategies to overcome them. During these two sessions, team members will use a variety of career assessments and exercises to explore yourself and gain more knowledge of your skills, personality and what is keeping you stuck. Team members will offer appropriate support and feedback as each group member clarifies a vision and identifies roadblocks. Each person will develop specific action steps toward his or her unique goal.
Pre-registration is required as space is limited to six people. Open to those currently employed and those in transition.
Dates:
Section A: Saturday, January 28th, 10:00am -2:00pm
Section B: Saturday, February 25th, 10:00am – 2:00pm
Section C: Saturday, March 31st, 10:00am – 2:00pm
Cost:$100 (includes all materials and assessments)
Facilitator: Hilary Romanoff, M.Ed., M.A., hilary@hilaryromanoff.com, 415-640-8190
Group size is limited, advance registration is required.
Exploring My Career Options
You know the criteria that are important for you to be fulfilled in your worklife. Perhaps you’ve done assessments and focused internally to determine the qualities that are important to you. Maybe you even have some ideas of paths to follow. Now what? This workshop will aid in brainstorming career options and finding information on the careers you are considering. It’s great to blue sky what you most want to do, but you need to also focus externally and find the critical information that will ensure that your plan or idea is viable.
Date: Friday, February 3rd
Registration deadline is Monday, January 30th
Time: 12:30 to 1:30pm
Cost: $50
Facilitator: Terry Karp, MA, tkarp@bayareacareercenter.com, 414-398-4881 ext. 352
What Career Is Right for Me? Understanding Your Personality and Interests to inform Career Planning
What Career is Right for Me? will help you understand how your personality and interests provide information and clues to realizing career satisfaction and success.
This workshop will offer an opportunity to identify your type, reflect and understand how your personality has influenced and impacted your life and work, and better prepare you for the next steps in your career/life journey. Additionally, you will explore how your interests, combine with your personality in identifying how to move forward with your career exploration and planning.
The Myers Briggs Type Indicator is one of the most researched and extensively used personality assessments in the world. Knowledge of your Myers Briggs type can deepen and affirm self-awareness, help you to better understand and communicate with others, and inform a path for personal and professional effectiveness.
The Holland Theory of Career Choice, assessed by the Strong Interest Inventory, identifies your natural career preferences, based on your interests and the relationship of your personality to the kinds of work you like to do, your work values, and the type of environments in which you thrive.
Participants will receive a personalized tutorial utilizing the results of their assessments, that will describe how to maximize use of the extensive O*Net database in their career planning, including exploring information on careers, accessing current labor market trends, salary information, and career exploration resources.
Upon registration, participants will be set up to take the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Strong Interest Indicator online, prior to the workshop.
Date – Session options:
Session A: Saturday, February 4th, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
or
Session B: Sunday, February 19th, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
or
Session C: Saturday, March 3rd, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
or
Session D: Saturday, March 24th 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Cost: $165, includes MBTI assessment administration and personalized type reports: MBTI Interpretative Report, MBTI Career Preference Report, Strong Interest Indicator Report, personalized O*Net tutorial and all resource materials.
Facilitator:
Susan Jewkes Allen M.S.W., GCDF. sallen@bayareacareercenter.com
Phone:
(415) 728-8502
Reinventing Yourself: Strength and Skill Based Career Planning
Have you ever asked yourself, “Is this what I really want to be doing?” Do you feel as if your job is just a job and not a career? Whether you have been in the same field for a number of years or bouncing around from position to position, this workshop is for you if you want to finally figure out who you are and how your strengths and skills apply to a new career. In this two part, highly interactive process, we will use a number of assessments including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, SkillScan and a Prioritization analysis to help you understand your unique assets.
Session one will focus on:
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. (MBTI) Myers-Briggs is one of the most widely used career and life assessments and has brought insight to millions of people around the world. It is one of the most important tools in career planning because it forms a foundation upon which other significant work can be done. The MBTI will help you to identify your strengths and natural abilities. You can use the information to better understand yourself, your motivations and potential areas for growth. Participants will take the online version prior to the workshop.
Session two will focus on:
SkillScan is one of the most unique tools available to help you evaluate existing skills and abilities as well as design a future career based on that knowledge.
By the end of workshop you will have:
- Renewed sense of confidence
- A list of possible careers options for exploration
- Profile sheet which defines priorities in career
Dates:
Section A: Saturday, February 11th 10:00am- 3:30pm
Section B: Saturday, March 17th, 10:00am – 3:30pm
Cost: $150 (includes Assessment Report, Introduction to Type publication, Skillscan and additional materials)
If you have taken the Myers-Briggs, it may be possible to customize session two for a small group.
Facilitator: Hilary Romanoff, M.Ed., M.A., (master practitioner) hilary@hilaryromanoff.com
Upon registration, you will be sent instructions to the online assessment.
Group size is small so please register early.
Assessing Your Skills and Accomplishments
All of us have many skills and talents but do you know which ones you most enjoy using? Can you articulate your skills strategically for your job search or networking activities? In this workshop, you will be guided through a process of identifying the skills you have that you want to use in your work and learn how to create powerful bullet points for your resume. You will also learn how to effectively answer skills based behavioral interview questions.
Date: Friday, February 17th
Time: 12:30 to 1:30pm
Cost: $50
Facilitator: Terry Karp, MA, tkarp@bayareacareercenter.com, 414-398-4881 ext. 352
Time for a Change? Charting a Course Towards a More Satisfying Career
Is it time for a career change? Do you sense that you might find more satisfaction in a different job or entirely new career path? Are you ready to explore what might be possible, but are not sure where to begin?
The Time for a Changeworkshop will facilitate your discovery and help you to chart a course to a more satisfying career. Participants will engage in self-assessments, activities and discussion that will help identify where you are and what is important to your career satisfaction and success. We will:
- Discover your key career influences and experiences.
- Identify your transferable and preferred skills.
- Explore your personal and professional value sets.
- Create an action plan to define the next steps in your career exploration journey, through practical and creative strategies for discovery and moving forward.
Time for a Change serves as a good follow-up to the What Career is Right for Me? workshop,
Date:
Session A: Sunday, March 4th, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Additional sessions date/time options may be offered, for more information contact facilitator.
Cost: $125, includes all assessments and resource materials.
Facilitator: Susan Jewkes Allen M.S.W., GCDF
sallen@bayareacareercenter.com
Phone:
(415) 728-8502
Group size is limited and groups fill up quickly - advance registration required.
Finding Your Way Through Career Transition
Are you considering or in the midst of a career change?
Do you want to find more fulfilling work, but are not sure what steps to take?
Whether you are just beginning or have already done some career exploration, this workshop will provide you with a framework and resources that can serve to guide you along each step of your career transition, exploration and planning.
You will engage in activities that will help you determine what information you may need to make sense of and bring some order to the process of career transition. Topics covered will include the key aspects of the career planning cycle: Self-assessment, researching options, identifying opportunities, networking, and marketing yourself.
Participants will receive a Career Planning and Assessment Guide that will provide information, resources and helpful tips for finding success through career transition and beyond.
Dates:
Session A: Thursday, January 26th, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Session B: Saturday, March 10th, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Cost: $150 includes all assessments and a resource handbook
Additional sessions date/time options may be offered, for more information contact facilitator.
Facilitator:
Susan Jewkes Allen M.S.W., GCDF and Linda Lesem, MA, Clinical Psychology
For information or to register contact, Susan Jewkes Allen:
sallen@bayareacareercenter.com or by phone: (415) 728-8502
Group size is limited and groups fill up quickly - advance registration required.
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