Speaking Engagements
The Wired Woman Society
Nov 2003
Riding the Rollercoaster of Reinvention–
Coping in a Shifting Job Market
Are you frustrated in your job search, stuck in a career rut or struggling to launch your new business? Whether you're employed, self-employed or wading through transition, we are all facing tough new employment realities. Certainly, demand for our skills can shift rapidly, sometimes it seems almost over night. Attempts to repackage and reinvent ourselves in response to fluctuating market conditions can be trying at best. That is, if we can find the energy and motivation to do it at all.
Managing career issues today takes more than luck – it takes skill, finesse and just plain street smarts. It can challenge the best of us. Lynne O'Connor is a career management professional, who has not only counselled hundreds of job seekers to deal with complexities of today's career issues, she has lived through them herself. Moving from full-time employee to entrepreneur and back again, she understands the necessity of rebounding quickly from setbacks in a volatile employment market, and how to capture the opportunities that remain until the cycle swings upward again.
Lynne will share her own story of reinvention and add some of the wisdom she has gathered in her association with people who have inspired her faith in the work she does. In this session she will:
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Debunk the Silver Bullet Theory of Career Success
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Outline the Ten Guiding Principles for Successful Job Search
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Identify Top Career Traps for Women and How to Work Through Them.
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Evaluate Entrepreneurship as a Career Option
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Share Emerging Trends in Effective Self-Marketing
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