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
Wow! How timely. I really need this career makeover!
I’m a flight attendant with…drumroll please…United Airlines. Yes that United, the airline everybody loves to hate. It’s also the airline that is closer to liquidation than any other major airline. It’s so bad that I check their website before I leave the house for a trip to make sure they are still operating! LOL! Seriously.
I’ve been there since 1998. I took a semester off of college, where I was going for a degree in nursing, to “fly around and see stuff”. I swore to my parents that it would be only a semester. It’s been a reeeeally long semester.
Since then, I got married and have 2 children (twins). I still enjoy my job, but the writing is on the wall. I HAVE to have an exit plan. I have a lot of skills that could transfer to another career, and some that don’t really transfer. (Who’s looking for employees that can evacuate a full 747 in under 90 seconds?) Problem is, how do I find the best fit for me? I’ve been where I am for 10 years, I’ve been happy here, I thought I was incredibly lucky to find a career I enjoy. Is it possible to find that again? Don’t people search and search for the one? Could I possibly get a 2nd one?
I think I deserve this because I sincerely need help in this area. It’s strange to even write that. I’m self-sufficient and independent by nature, but I am truly at a loss at this point.
Thank you for all the work that you do, and for taking the time to read these responses.
Hope to hear from you,
Monica
peanutpeddler @hotmail.com
(e-mail I signed up for when I first started my job. Get it? We used to have peanuts back then!)
If ever there was a Makeover with my name on it, this one is it. I’ve been a Stay At Home Mom since the 80′s. My youngest turned 18 today, so now its time for me to have a new life.
In the past year my husband left me for a 23 yo, empty out our bank accounts and took everything even our friends. He lied in court and since hes a member of the Good Old Boys Club, we won the house and everything and didn’t have to give me a penny.
So now here I am 43years old, sharing a 2 bedroom apartment with my 23yo daughter and living on my Disability Check of $744 a month, and no marketable job skills. And I’m scared. I don’t know where I go from here or what my best options are. And honestly at this point .
I need a career makeover. I’ve been at the same job since I was in high school. It’s physically demanding and I’m always exposed to the elements. This makes me so tired when I come home to my son. I’ve always wanted to be a stay at home mom. Recently I found out my son has a peanut allergy, this could be due to his difficulty at birth. The doctors weren’t sure if he would make it, but he was a fighter and survived several days of testing and antibiotics. It is extremely scary for me to send him to daycare every single day wondering if he might have an allergic reaction there, and if so will they be able to take the right procedures to help him. You hear about kids dying at daycare from allergy reactions and I desperately don’t want my son to be one of them. I cannot afford to be a stay at home mom. If I could find a stay at home job it would mean the world to me and my son who cries and clings to me every morning I walk out the door while daddy takes him to daycare. Please help me to start a new career from home so I can be with my son who needs me and needs a home that is 100 percent safe for him to be in.
I’m in my mid thirties and I’m in the proverbial rut-I’ve been in the same job since graduating from college. It’s comfortable-a little too comfortable. At this point, I feel as though I’m the only person my age who still doesn’t know “what I want to be when I grow up.” I think that I’ve been dreaming of a career make-over without realizing it.
I’ve been working doing research for 3 years, and I am ready to get back into practicing law. I’ve been out of the field for soo long, I want to make sure when I go about making the transition I do it in the best way possible.
I am a SAHM who relocated here from Europe 3 years ago.
I have since had 2 kids. I am very happy in the US and just got my greencard so I am ready to work. But I have no idea about the job market here and need some confidence getting back to work. I would really appreciate the guidance and support of this career makeover!
I am a stay at home mom, and I haven’t worked for seven years. Prior to that I worked in sales at two different publishing companies (one a book publisher, another a magazine publisher). I have a degree in Linguistics and I would like to find a job that uses those skills in some way. My husband has a good job though, so if there is someone who desparately needs this I would rather they get the grand prize.
Six years ago, my consultation business was just starting to blossom. I was getting referrals from individuals and state agencies and I was building a reputation for myself. My husband, a software engineer, was laid-off and it sent our lives into a tailspin. One horrible thing after another started mounting against us, so I was forced to abandon my start-up and take a miserable job with a steady, reliable income to help level things off until my husband could secure a position in his field. Sixteen months later, he found a job that required a great deal of travelling, so, I quit my lousy job to be home for our disabled daughter after school and during school breaks. Since then, my contacts have dried up, and frankly, my confidence is gone. With our three older daughters all attending college this fall, we have never been in greater need of a second paycheck. Can you help?
if i cant have personal help from roxanne maybe i can figure it out on my own with the book. I need any and all help i can get!
Oh PLEASE HELP ME! I need a career makeover! Here is my sob story… My whole life has basicly been volunteer experience, I received 2 master’s degrees (MA Christian Ministry and MM Nonprofit Administration) last year but have not had a chance to use them. All my work experience, a whole 2 months, was done overseas in Africa. I have been job hunting ever since my husband and I moved back to America 1 year ago when I got pregnant. I send out at least two resume’s a week for ALL types of jobs (except McDonalds) and I have not been called in for an interview even once!!! Do I not have enough experience? Am I overqualified? Plus since I had moved around so much in the past years I dont have anything that shows I will stay put in any job that I do take. My husband has a good degree but it is from Congo and it means jack squat in America, so although he has a job it is not enough to support us and we have to live with my mother. I must be the only person in the state with two master’s degrees yet lives off of the WIC program and Medicaid to cover mine and my son’s medical care. What do I need to do to get a job???? PLEASE HELP! I don’t want to live with Grandma forever!!!