Registration and Location: Workshops are $79 for 3 - 3.5 hour sessions, $125 for full day sessions Location: 11038 Marine View Place SW, West Seattle p. 206.242.4336 Pre-registration and pre-payment required. Check, money order, or credit card (through Paypal.com)  How to pay by Paypal. Refunds or credit towards future workshops with 14 days advance notice of cancellation. Class dates and times subject to change. Each class limited to a maximum of 8 participants Space is limited.  Register early!! $5 discount offered for early registration. Payment must be received two weeks prior to the workshop (discount does not apply to package offers). Please contact sherri@resourcemaximizer.com for scheduling information, space availability and payment confirmation. These personalized, information packed workshops are designed to assist busy professionals in becoming more productive and new job seekers or individuals desiring a career/job change in gaining control of their search efforts, by building skills from one workshop to the next. Each workshop is available as a stand-alone, with the appropriate preparation indicated in each description to gain maximum benefit. Workshops: New!! Getting Started With Your Job Search ALL New!! Career Assessment New!! Goal Setting - Getting Focused New! Managing Multiple Commitments - Getting it all done Strategic Networking and Informational Interviews - The Basics New! Strategic Networking & Informational Interviewing - 200 ALL New!! Tricks for Tailoring Your Resume:     Interpreting Job Announcements Building Powerful Resumes Writing Effective Cover Letters Interviewing Techniques Negotiating Compensation: the Secrets to Establishing Your Worth ALL New!! Planning Your First Year in a New Job ALL New!! Finding A Mentor (Networking 200 Series) New!! Constructive Conflict Resolution How To Get What You Want Through Effective Communication New!! Managing Email - Getting Control Over the Enemy schedule   return to top New!! Getting Started With Your Job Search $79 (3 hours)** Are you interested in making a career change or re-entering the job market after an extended absence, and have no idea how to get started? Have you invested too much time in an unproductive search and don't know why? Are you unclear about exactly what it takes to get the job you want? Are you wondering if it is simply luck? Learn basic premises of the job market, key elements of an effective job search and easy behaviors to adopt to ensure success. schedule article return to top All New!! Career Assessment $79 (3.5 hours) ** The economy continues to ebb and flow, causing the job market to become less certain each day. Are you considering a career/job change or desiring career growth and don't know where to begin? Are you currently in a "Plan C" or "Plan B" job and wanting to move up to "Plan A"? This workshop will assist you in evaluating your current employment situation in relationship to your marketable skills in today's job market, while staying focused on the elements that are important to you. You will identify the key, tactical and actionable steps that are required to get you moving in the right direction (for you!). schedule article return to top New!! Goal Setting - Getting Focused $79 (3.5 hours)** Are you feeling powerless over your personal life, your work, or your career? Learn how to develop realistic objectives and action plans that will support your career/personal goals, based on your commitments, projects and daily schedule. You will learn realistic and tactical methods for achieving personal and professional goals. (This workshop builds on the discoveries resulting from the Career Assessment Workshop and is also applicable to people wishing to define non-career related goals. This is a tactical process requiring a summary of the outcomes the participant is striving for in their work or personal life.) schedule article article article return to top Managing Multiple Commitments - Getting it all done $79 (3.5 hours) ** Are you running as fast as you can to keep up? Do you have too much to do and too little time? Trying to balance work commitments with having a life? Learn to take control over endlessly changing priorities and never-ending "to do" lists by identifying realistic objectives and building an action plan. Learn effective techniques to manage your time and commitments that will support your personal and career goals based on your commitments and daily schedule. This will include instruction on how to work within changing time lines on projects involving others. (Participants will need to bring their current goals and objectives, a calendar, and any "to do" lists. If you do not yet have clearly defined goals and objectives, then completing the Goal Setting Workshop prior to taking this workshop is strongly recommended to obtain maximum value.) schedule article return to top Strategic Networking and Informational Interviews- The Basics $125 (full day) Have you hit a dead end in your current role or with your    organization? Think you know what you want to do, but aren't sure how to    proceed, or if it is right for you? Have you chased job postings to no avail? Want to get the real scoop on a new industry, or line of work? Are you hoping to find the inside scoop on specific    organizations? Have you heard about networking but have no idea how to get    started? If you answer yes to any of these questions, this workshop is for you. 85 % of all available positions are filled by word of mouth referrals, and most of the important information about an organization's culture and industry trends is learned from those that are inside doing the work. Learn how to develop professional relationships, identify resources, pursue leads, request informational interviews, ask the right questions and gather information. Learn how to develop your career or a new business, build your communication skills, and apply networking courtesies that contribute to long lasting relationships. schedule article return to top New!! Strategic Networking & Informational Interviewing - 200 $79 (3 hours) (Pre-requisite - Strategic Networking Basics) This workshop is a facilitated hands-on, interactive intensive dedicated to practicing the concepts learned in Strategic Networking Basics and to improve upon networking communications previously used. Participants will script and role-play approaches to new networking contacts, past colleagues, and key contacts at organizations of interest. (Participants are required to have completed the basic level workshop within the past 24 months to participate). schedule article article return to top Tricks for Tailoring Your Resume: Interpreting Job Announcements $79 (3 hours) Have you sent out resumes without getting responses, time and time again? Have you gotten replies, even invitations to interview, but hit a dead end after the first round? Are you still wondering what "key words" are, or are you not clear about what they mean? Increase your competitive position by learning how to interpret and understand employers' needs as presented in postings and job announcements. Learn to identify and comprehend key words, recognize unwritten requirements and deal breakers. This workshop will help take the mystery out of your job search. schedule  article return to top Building Powerful Resumes $125 (full day) Does your resume need an update, or an entire overhaul? Learn how to identify and respond to what prospective employers are really asking for and how to easily adjust your resume to the needs of the job you are applying for. Improve how you relate your accomplishments and transfer your value in the workplace by utilizing quantifiable results and appropriate keywords for your industry or field of interest. schedule  article return to top Writing Effective Cover Letters $79 (3 hours) Have you thought you need to be a creative writing wizard or and journalism major to write a compelling cover letter? Have you spent hours crafting exactly what it is you want to say and not gotten any responses? Trade those hours and hours of agony in today, and learn the science and the art of writing effective cover letters. Learn the logical steps you can take to convey value and quickly capture the essence of what employers respond to. schedule article return to top Interviewing Techniques $125 (full day) You have done your homework well and your resume has captured an employer's attention. They want to interview you! This workshop covers how to be confident, relaxed, alert and prepared for the interview. Learn how to gain control of the interview process, overcome any concerns about your background, provide positive responses to frequently asked interview questions and get the offer! (This workshop is most effective if taken after completing the Career Assessment, Basic Networking and Resume Building workshops.) schedule article return to top Negotiating Compensation: the Secrets to Establishing Your Worth $79 (3.5 hours) Many of us believe we are underpaid, or simply have no idea what to respond with when asked what our salary requirements are. This workshop will teach you how to determine your current market value and/or your value to your current employer. You will learn how to effectively request a raise, or to negotiate an offer with a new employer, including how to determine appropriate and reasonable requests that you are likely to succeed in winning. schedule return to top ALL New!! Planning Your First Year in a New Job $79 (3.5 hours) If you had a long climb getting where you are today and want to start your new job on the right foot? Are you in the development stage and need to plan your next move? Are you unclear about how to make allies? Are you interested in knowing how to handle yourself if there were a merger, buy out or major lay off? You will learn: How to get a bead on your new role and the organization. How to establish goals, objectives and time lines for how you    will spend your first year. How to position yourself to be perceived as having value    in a changing environment. Want to get the real scoop on a new industry, or line of work? How to take a controlled approach to your new beginning and    maximize your situation. This workshop is designed for individuals expecting to begin a new role very soon, those who have recently joined a company, or someone striving for a promotion or has just received one. schedule article article return to top All New!! Finding A Mentor (Networking 200 Series) $79 (3 Hours) Have you evaluated where you are in your career path and    established where you would like to be? Do you need help navigating politics at work or understanding    a company's culture? Are you ready to enlist the help of another person    to provide honest feedback, develop your self-awareness,    support you in achieving your goals, provide you with a fresh    perspective on issues and help you grow professionally? Learn how to get focused on your objectives and what you intend to accomplish with the help of a mentor. Learn to recognize traits that would make someone an effective mentor and identify ways to locate the right role models. (This workshop is most effective when taken after the completion of the Strategic Networking and Informational Interviews- The Basics workshop.) schedule article return to top New!! Constructive Conflict Resolution $125 (full day) Are you having a difficult time working with a particular group or coworker? Have you made attempts to resolve the situation and failed? Learn how to transform difficult circumstances into win-win experiences. Learn constructive approaches to explore and positively identifying the causes behind conflicts, how to define the real problem, and how to develop tools for analyzing and responding to difficult situations. Learn strategies for resolving personal and organizational conflicts through collaboration and negotiation of win-win agreements. You will learn to: Recognize attitudes and behaviors that create conflict Recognize organizational conflicts (at all levels) Improve interpersonal communications Anticipate and prevent conflict schedule return to top How To Get What You Want Through Effective Communication $125 (full day) Have you been having trouble: Being heard? Being clear? Getting the responses you desire from phone calls, emails or networking events? You will learn how to accomplish more, and get the results you want, through accurate and effective communication. Learn how to produce positive outcomes from business and personal conversations, maximize the results of meetings, choose empowering words, create clearer correspondence, build trust and close deals. schedule return to top New!! Managing Email - Getting Control Over the Enemy $79 (3.5 hours) ** Are you overwhelmed with email? Is your in box bursting? Do you feel like your email is controlling you? This workshop will help clarify the real issue behind your frustrations and offer strategies for learning to live with and even benefit from this form of communication. Learn how to read and prioritize it, and most of all, how to organize and manage it. schedule return to top ** Special Package Offers: Purchase 3 designated workshops** for $200 Save 10%: Purchase 4 designated workshops** for $270 Payment must be received two weeks prior to the workshop. No other offers apply.
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