Selling Yourself in Today's Tough Job
Market: Creating Compelling Stories
A free career development workshop featuring
Curt Rosengren, The Passion Catalyst
Monday, August 23, 2010
6:30-8:15 p.m.
Community Center at Mercer View (Directions)
8236 SE 24th Street
Mercer Island, WA
Space is available for 40 guests, due to the room's capacity. To register, contact Cheryl Landes by Friday, August 20.
In today's highly competitive job search environment, it's vital to
answer two fundamental questions:
- What sets you apart from your job search competition?
- Why should a prospective employer care?
Whether you are interviewing for a job or simply networking and
planting seeds about what you have to offer, you have to be able to tell your story in a way that answers both of those questions. In this mini-workshop, you will discover how to tell that story in a clear, concise
and compelling way.
We will explore three essential components of telling your story in a
way that both sets you apart and demonstrates how an employer would benefit from hiring you.
- Skill: What skills do I have to offer?
- Passion: What energizes me?
- Needs: What are the needs that the employer is trying to meet
by hiring for this job?
The end goal is to be able to tell any prospective employer:
- This is why I can do this job (skills).
- This is why doing this job will energize me (passion).
- And most importantly, this is how my skills and passion address your needs.
In this workshop, you will learn:
- A methodical way to identify your skills that gives you insight
into both what your skills are and how they relate to the big picture of what you have accomplished. - How to create a resource with vignettes that help you tell the story of how you have used each of your skills and the beneficial outcome.
- A technique for identifying the underlying characteristics of
what lights you up. - An approach to building a picture of what needs an employer is meeting when hiring for a position.
- How to position your skills and passion in the context of meeting an employer’s needs.
About the Speaker
After years as a professional malcontent, Curt Rosengren discovered the power of passion. As a speaker, author, and coach, Rosengren helps people create careers that energize and inspire them. His work focuses on three questions:
- What lights me up?
- What difference do I want to make?
- How do I weave both of those into a career that lets me thrive?
Rosengren blogs about career passion for U.S. News & World Report. His first blog, The Occupational Adventure, was named by Forbes.com as Best of the Web. His current blog, The M.A.P. Maker, explores how to craft a life of meaning, abundance, and passion.
Rosengren’s e-books, 101 Ways to Get Wild About Work and The Occupational Adventure Guide, offer people tools and ideas for turning dreams into reality.