Are you a mom returning to work now that your kids are in school, are you working but looking for a new and better career, or are you even looking to market your skills and work from home? If you fall under these, or any other similar job seeker description, you will want to keep reading.
This could change your life!
Around this time of year, we usually think about getting our kids ready for Back To School, but along with the kids returning to school, many Moms often return back to the workplace as well. Whether they are returning just for the school term, or returning permanently because their kids are older, it’s probably a bit daunting, especially if they have been out of the workforce for a long time.
The Job Search Strategy Lab is a website that contains resources and training for the serious job seeker. They have everything from books, e-books, free e-courses, a podcast hosted on BlogTalkRadio and in depth career coaching and job search strategy training programs. They have vast resources available for every aspect of your job search.
One of the resources at The Job Search Strategy Lab is an e-book called The Savvy Jobseeker’s Guide & Workbook: Five Steps to a Simply Successful Job Search that is geared towards helping people prepare themselves for a job search in today’s job market. It will save you countless hours job searching by helping you to isolate your skills and present them in a manner that is valuable to employers. It will also save you from costly mistakes that could lose you that coveted position! It will help you from start to finish, from writing a resume that dazzles, to conducting your job search to save you time and effort, to mastering that ever important interview.
With it’s step by step process, The Savvy Jobseeker’s Guide & Workbook will help the returning to work mom avoid the anxiety, frustration, depression and intimidation that comes with the job hunting process, will help you evaluate yourself to pinpoint your skills and determine your unique value in order to “merge your passion with your career.”
One of the programs available at The Job Search Strategy Lab is the Job Search Strategy Audit & Action Plan. This program involves a review of your resume and one-on-one coaching and role-playing to help you put your best foot forward in interviews. This is an intense career workout that will leave you with a customized plan for your job search and help dust the cobwebs off your interview skills. It includes two hours of interview coaching, interview role playing, a resume critique, and a written audit of your current job search strategies and a plan of action going forward.
Roxanne Ravenel, the Founder of The Job Search Strategy Lab has a “passion for helping job seekers to transform their lives by securing work that they truly enjoy and that helps them achieve their personal definition of success.”
Roxanne has many years of experience with hiring job seekers at various levels and now uses her experience by sharing winning job search strategies with job seekers during her weekly The Savvy Jobseeker Podcast on BlogTalkRadio and by providing training and resources at The Job Search Strategy Lab.
Roxanne’s experience and training can help job seekers at all levels but she has expressed a particular interest in helping moms who are returning to the work force. A lot has changed in the years since many stay-at-home moms have written a resume, searched for that perfect job and went on an interview. Roxanne’s goal is to help make this transition easier by providing proper training and great resources.
Because of Roxanne’s desire to help moms who are returning to work she has VERY generously offered 5 prizes to our readers.
GRAND PRIZE:
1 winner will receive a Career Makeover (Job Search Strategy Audit & Action Plan) valued at $247. For more information on what this entails, visit: Job Search Strategy Audit & Action Plan.
ADDITIONAL PRIZES:
4 winners will each receive The Savvy Jobseeker’s Guide & Workbook: Five Steps to a Simply Successful Job Search e-book valued at $37 each. For more information about the guide, visit: The Savvy Jobseeker’s Guide & Workbook.
HOW TO ENTER:
- To enter to win the grand prize, you must submit a comment indicating WHY you desperately need a career makeover. You do not necessarily have to be a mom returning to the work force, anyone can enter. Your comment must contain a description indicating why you believe you deserve this prize. Make sure to note that you are submitting your entry for the career makeover. The grand prize winner will be selected from all the qualified entries by Roxanne herself, so really tell her why you need this prize.
- To enter to win one of the 4 additional prizes, you must leave a comment on this post indicating why you are interested in the Job Seekers Guide and Workbook. Make sure to note that you are submitting your entry for the Guide and Workbook. The 4 winners will be chosen at random from all the qualified entries.
Remember, Roxanne will handpick the winner of the Career Makeover. Whether you are returning to the workforce, looking for a new job or career, or even trying to get a work from home position, this makeover can change your life! Be real and be passionate and let us know why YOU NEED and DESERVE this makeover!
Anyone may enter to win both prizes but you must submit 2 separate entries.
Giveaway is open to the USA and Canada and ends at noon on August 25, 2008.
About Kim
mommi
I want to find livelihood that matches my social values.
i’m getting old pretty soon it will be to late.
I could use the Job Seekers Guide and Workbook to assist me in getting back into the workplace. Searching for jobs is completely different than it was ten years ago. I hardly know the best way to go about it productively and effectively.
gkstratos@yahoo.com
I’d love a career makeover. I worked at an executive level for many years and then left to raise my kids. It’s time to get back in the work force but I don’t know if I want to go back to the same field; or even the same level.
gkstratos@yahoo.com
I recently relocated back to the East coast in order to get myself out of the rut that my career and life had fallen into.
In the interim, I have committed to being a ‘manny’ for my brothers new baby girl. However, I know that as a college graduate I am capable and have the potential to be much more. I sincerely need the assistance of the Job Seekers Guide to re-enter the workplace with confidence.
I am interested in the Job search guide and workbook because I am very rusty in the career department. I got pregnant while I was student teaching and since having my children I have subbed occasionally, but nothing more.
The step by step guide for making a resume, interviewing, etc would help me tremendously. Especially the interviewing. I’ve only interviewed one time for a real job and I was a basket of nerves. Needless to say, I didn’t get the job.
So please consider me for this workbook. Thank you!
I really need a career makeover because money is getting tight and I don’t know how much longer I can be a stay at home mom. I have my bachelors degree and a teaching certificate, however my heart is just not into teaching anymore. I know there is the perfect career out there for me and I have so many ideas, I just am having a hard time narrowing it down, getting started, etc.
Some of the things that I am interested in are writing, reading, people, helping people, owning my own business, party planning, etc. I have all these interests, but no direction.
Working from home would be ideal for me because my husband travels a lot for his job and every part time type job I have looked into, it would cost me more to put my two children in daycare than I would actually be bringing home so I am again stuck. I have looked at all the working from home jobs but I am unsure as to what is legit and what is a scam. Like I said, I need direction.
If you pick me, I will be forever appreciative. I need this career makeover desperately. Thank you for your consideration.
I would love to win the Job seekers guide and workbook to assist me in my career makeover. It would help guide me in which direction to take when I start my job search. It would help me to isolate my skills and to write a resume that ‘dazzles.’ Thanks so much!
I need a career makeover, definitely. I need a career! I am returning to work next month after not having worked for over a year. We’ve just been scraping by with family’s help at times. I would love to win so I can provide my daughter with what she deserves.