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 would love to win this. I am not a college graduate. I began working at home at age 23. Today I’m 48, not exactly the prime age for those looking to hire someone. I’ve only been back in the workforce the last 5 years and I’ve never really had the opportunity to examine “what I want to be”. This would be a wonderful opportunity to examine what my options are and where I would most enjoy spending the next 10 years or so.
This is an answer to prayer. I live in a small town – 6,500 people and there are no decent paying jobs. For the past 5 years, I have driven 50 miles each way to work. I am a single Mom and my daughter has just started driving. With the cost of gas prices rising my monthly gas bill is literally half of one paycheck. The stress of the drive, the negativity of my workplace and working for a single, no kids, six-figure salaried boss who doesn’t even have a clue what it would be like to have to struggle both mentally and financially, is enough to make me want to jump ship, but there is no where to jump. I need help making my resume stand out from the other 100′s that apply for the same job. I want to actually work somewhere that I enjoy spending the day at and not wake up each morning dreading going to work.
I am newly married, and unemployed. My sweet husband has a job he loves, but it is a stressful job and he works so hard! I want to be able to make life at home easier on him. He works odd hours- the midnight shift!- and his days off are in the middle of the week, so I would like to find a job with hours that allow me to spend time with him. Money is really tight for us right now, so I really need to find a well-paying job soon. I have been looking for a job since May, but part of the problem is that I still am not sure what I want career-wise. I’d love to be able to work from home, but I don’t know where to start. I need a Career Makeover because my husband deserves a break. He is a public servant, and he is such a sweet man who gives me everything I could ever ask for. I want to be able to help him and make things easier for him. Thanks for your consideration.
I am currently unemployed and job seeking at age 51. I have been a social worker and a probation/parole officer for over 30 years. I have experienced a number of health problems including 2 bouts with cancer. I have always been a working mother. I have 2 great adult children (both now married) and a grandchild. I need to makeover my career to a new field with less stress.
I am currently a realtor and the market does not look as if it is going to pick up in the near future.
I am also a CPA that in the past worked with corporations to improve their profits, cash flow or make their operations more efficient.
I have been out of the accounting field for almost 10 years and at the present time updating my knowledge base with 160 of continuing education.
I am also 63 years old and need assistance with reentering the world of corporate finance. I need assistance with my career path.
I would use your program wisely if I have the chance to do so.
Thanks,
Ann
Over the past six months, I have submitted my resume in response to no fewer than 15 job postings for positions that I have held in the past and could do with my eyes closed and one hand tied behind my back. I haven’t had a response from any of them. I don’t know what I am doing wrong, but it must be something basic. The rules of successful job searching have obviously been re-written and I need The Savvy Jobseeker’s Guide & Workbook: Five Steps to a Simply Successful Job Search to help me learn the new rules.
I desperately need a career makeover! I haven’t stopped working since my kids were born, but instead of being “out there” and going to work every day, I’ve been freelancing as a writer and teacher. There has been a huge amount of variety and I’ve been able to learn on the fly to do whatever is required of me every day. Every day is different and I have learned about so many different topics and acquired so many different skills that I don’t know how to package myself any more. When asked for the one work description of what I do, the only word I can think of is “everything!” and that sounds kind of arrogant.
I love my current job but I know it’s not a career. I have considered a hundred options, from med school to SAHM, and need some guidance! My husband is tired of hearing me worry and wonder.
My husband is desperately seeking a new job, anywhere in the world in his field but its been hard to find one. We have a little baby and another on the way. My husband is pretty shy so he could use advice on how to land a job successfully. anything would help. thanks so much for this opportunity!
I am entering for my mom, she needs a career makeover because she quit working when we were kids, but when my parents got divorced after 20 years of marriage she had to go back to work and she hasn’t been happy since. I think she needs some guidance to help her be happy in her latter years.