Career Planning school training courses in Chicago, IL (public, in-house or online)

Having had the good fortune to secure an interview, you must put your best foot forward so the hiring staff knows what you can contribute to the company, while at the same time making sure you do not make any missteps.

You will learn to:

Know the do’s and don’ts of interviewing
Develop the questions you should ask in an interview
Create explanations for ticklish issues and subjects likely to come up in the interview
Develop a briefing book and use it to practi...

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Interviewing Skills is a course designed to prepare students to answer questions typically asked during interviews for professional/technical roles. The course will cover strategies for creating an effective resume package needed to land that first interview. The course is an online workshop where students have the opportunity to practice answering interview questions. At the end of the course, students will have an opportunity to submit a personal resume for objective review.

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Our workplaces have become very challenging places. Changes arise without advance notice; competitive pressures require extraordinary efforts to maintain customer satisfaction and organizations are expected to increase earnings every quarter. The sum total of these factors is that the average employee is doing the work of 1.3 employees just ten years ago. It is no wonder that even the most organized and efficient among us are feeling the potential of burnout.

This workshop is designed to ...

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There are so many choices, yet so little time. Or so it seems to most of us. Life has become a more complicated and fast-paced experience that appears focused on keeping us all spinning.

As we seek to make sense of it all and accomplish the things that really matter to us [while leaving enough time for enjoying our special moments], it is important that we develop some strategic life skills early.

This session will explore some of the key philosophies and practical tools that prepa...

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This session allows participants to identify their professional objective and support that objective with accomplishment statements. A professional objective will provide them with the direction they need for their career plan, and set the tone for other communication to help them select and prioritize their contact lists and targets.

In addition to identifying their skills, personal characteristics, interests, and values, they will be able to determine their main competencies which enab...

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