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
I need a career makeover! I’m back in school after almost 15 years as a secretary of one sort or another. My resume was great when i was looking for Admin jobs in the Construction field, but now that I’m looking for an entry level position in Information Technology, I really need help with my resume… Plus, I have a feeling that job-hunting a professional career is a bit different that interviewing to be an admin assistant. I feel less confident than ever about my skills…
I am entering for both giveaways for my husband. He is currently going to school and will be graduating in a year, and while he’ll have the education, he’s struggling on how to make himself shine to get the job over the uneducated but experianced applicants. He’s applied at job after job trying to just get his foot in the door so that he can get some the experiance as well, but without luck. To make matters worse, he hates his current job where he has been for almost 4 years. While he loved it at first, he has a supervisor who makes everyones lives a living hell. His boss is wonderful though so it puts him in a tight spot since he wants to use them as a reference but at the same time, for obvious reasons, doesn’t want them to know. Did I mention that it is the only position he’s had that could potentially qualify for experiance? Anyways, he’s a stress case and I don’t know what to do to help him but I know this would be wonderful… even if it’s just the smaller giveaway… anything is better than nothing!
I have been in a rut for far too long! From the outside I think I seem very successful, but I am just not excited by my career. I know I am smart, interesting, curious and great to work with, but I feel boring, isolated and undervalued in my current position. I need something to help be break the ice on exploring new options, and I really need some advice on new directions that might be a good fit for me. I am a scientist and professor, and I am really struggling to find a life balance that can work for me and for my career- and I have not found one! My current job culture is not very open to new moms, and there is very little flexibility in terms of working part time or taking any time off. So I feel like I am just not in the right place at the right time. I am missing out on important time with my son, and I am not being productive enough….so I just feel like I need to find a new spot.
I have been a SAHM for the last 4 years. I will be trying to enter the job force again very soon. Any help would be very appreciated.
I would love to win the career makeover. I have gone back to school to get my bachelors degree, which I will have August of 09. Then I will be entereing the teaching program and will earn my teaching license in aprox 18 months after I enter the program. I would like to teach the third grade. Right now I am working as an acount supervisor/office manager for an Environmental Management company. So it is a huge carerr switch for me. I am stuck at where I am until I earn my teaching degree. When I say stuck, I mean I have already topped out. I cannot grow anymore with this company. I think the makeover would definitly help this huge change.
I’d love to win the Guide and Workbook, it sounds like such a great product and I could really use some extra help and expertise. Without too much job seeking experience, this would be such a great help!
A career makeover would be such a great help to me. I graduated from college w/a math degree, but went to work at the job I had through summers and Christmas vacations because they were in a pinch. Seven years later and I’m still here, stuck in a rut, and desperately needing to improve my situation and learn new skills. Not having had a lot of jobs, and those that I have had have sort of fallen into my lap meand that I haven’t had much experience searching for a new one and am quite intimidated with the whole thing.
The Job Seekers Guide and Workbook would be a help in my jobsearch. It’s been over 12 years since I’ve looked for a job and I need help in updating my resume, deciding where to send it and practice with interviewing.
I would love to win the career makeover. I’ve been in my current job for 12 years and have been seriously considering a change lately. It’s been a long time since I’ve looked for a job. Right now, I’m not even sure if I want to stay in the same field or look in a totally new direction.
“Graduating with highest honours, Doctor Amy Tucker.”
In 1993, I returned to school to get my Bachelor’s degree, which led me to a Master’s degree and most recently my Doctorate of Education. During my educational career, I celebrated my life with four wonderful, children and a grand-child.
Today, I am 42 years old and am ready to begin my career as a professor. But I need help, I look and dress like a university coed (dressed for comfort). I need your help! I am desperate to begin my life and start my career this fall.
I REALLY NEED THE Job Seekers Guide and Workbook.