Table of
Contents for Life Work Transitions.com
PART 1: Putting Your Spirit to Work in the 21st Century
Part one addresses
the needs and concerns of individuals making career and lifework
transitions in the 21st century. The changing nature of the workplace
including the new employment contract and career management competencies
prepares the individual for successfully navigating the new waters.
In addition, models of self
actualization,
healing and career development are presented. This philosophical
introduction provides the reader with a unique perspective on
the changing nature of employment as it offers hope to individuals
seeking to redefine themselves.
PART II: Beginners Guide to the Internet
The Beginners Guide
to the Internet is a tutorial for the real beginner. It
walks the beginner through a step-by-step process to discover
the Internet using career and job search topics for content.
The format is answering Frequently Asked Questions about the
Internet, search engines, how to search, bookmark and
set up an email account. It also prepares you to utilize
the unique feature of this book, pre-selected internet sites
that help you with every conceivable step in the process.
PART III: Finding Your True North: Creating
a Personal Mandala
Part Three presents
our model for discovering "Your True North." Our four-quadrant
model helps you answer key assessment questions: What
do I like to do? Where do I like to do it? Who
do I want to work with and for? Why do I do what I do?
Specific exercises for self assessment are covered in Chapters
One - Four. Chapter Five provides the reader with a tool for
pulling together the results from the exercises, using personal
criteria to create a life work objective.
Chapter 1: Telling Your Story
Telling your story
is at the heart of this process. By authoring your own story
you begin to acquire the perspective that you have indeed authored
your life. Several
different exercises are
offered to provide answers to the key questions identified in
the model. Several assessment instruments on the internet are
presented for acquiring additional information.
Chapter 2:
Defining Core Competencies
This chapter helps
you assess how your skills match up with those needed in the
New Employment Reality. It also will answer the question, What
do I love to do? There are exercises to help you identify
your adaptive,
special knowledge and
functional/transferable
skills. Through
this process you will also identify your training needs and create alternative
portfolios of skills.
Chapter
3: Redefining Your Self: Passions, Preferences and Purpose
This is the chapter
that focuses on discovering the answers to the questions posed
in the last three quadrants. It addresses the concerns: where
do I do my best work? who are the people I most want to
collaborate with and serve? And, finally, why do I do
what I do and what are the rewards I hope to achieve?
Chapter
4: Goal Setting: Creating a Life Worth Living
After uncovering what
motivates you internally and externally, you have to consider
how to put all you have learned into action. If you add something
to your life you must drop something from your life. This chapter
provides goal
setting exercises
that will help you set your priorities and design action steps
for fulfilling your lifework objective.
Chapter
5: Pulling Together Your Profile: A Mandala for Success
The culmination of
the process of self assessment is to create a new definition
of yourself, and this chapter provides you with the opportunity
to reflect again, prioritize your key criteria and create a visual
profile that is truthful and accurate. The multi-faceted
mandala, a Sanskrit word meaning center or circle, was
selected to represent wholeness and balance. From this you will
be instructed in creating a researchable lifework objective.
PART IV: Putting Your Spirit to Work in the
Marketplace: Making the Connection
It is easy to fell
overwhelmed by the marketplace if one is unclear about work and
purpose. The new age with its expanded use of technology holds
the promise of powerful paradigm shifts in how the marketplace
is viewed and constructed. Using the Internet to visit preselected
sites will give you the confidence to explore your fields of
interests and find career and job opportunities.
Chapter
6: Exploring the Wide World of Work Through the Internet
"What's out there?"
is the most common question heard from our clients. This chapter
helps you explore Internet
sites to discover
the wide variety of the world of work. It takes you through a
nine steps for visiting sites about job trends, vocational definitions,
professional associations and company research. The result will
be refining your lifework objective that will combine the rich
internal personal information with the language of the real world
of work. You will also be increasing your internet skills while
becoming familiar with a wealth of career information found on
the internet.
Chapter
7: The Job Search: Using the Internet to Set Yourself Up for
Success
This chapter provides
a case study to walk you through the process of 1/ Getting the
Lay of the Land; 2/ Verifying your Interests and 3/ Applying
and Getting the Job. We use a sample lifework objective to identify
trends, vocational requirements and training necessary for a
specific job title. We will also take you to the top
ten job and resume posting
sites on the
internet as well a number of niche sites.
Chapter
8: The Resume and Cover Letter: The Perfect Introduction
This chapter teaches
you how to write a resume that introduces you in the most
focused way possible. It employs the common sense wisdom of an
introduction that connects you with the employer and facilitates
excellent conversation in the interview. Six sample resumes are
provided as well as several Internet sites to help you write
and send an electronic resume.
Every resume must be
accompanied by a cover letter and this chapter teaches
you how to write one that will be sent rather than stay on your
desk in several drafts. Internet sites are provided that are
so simple that there is no excuse for letting a cover letter
prevent you from action.
Chapter
9: Winning the Interview
The interview
is a culmination of all your self reflection and job research.
It is an extension from inner self exploration to the outer world,
the defining moment connecting you with the world of work. This
chapter teaches you how to make every interview a meaningful
dialogue and therefore setting the stage for a relationship with
your employer based on mutual respect and two way communication.
There is a myth that
plain hard work will get you ahead, however, if you are in the
wrong corporate culture, all that hard work will not make
a lot of difference. The culture of an organization is its personality.
It is made up of values and beliefs which can effect your satisfaction
and success. This chapter helps you figure out corporate culture
before you take the job.
Those who ask for money
are the ones who get it. Good salary negotiation is based
on preparation, research and conversation. This chapter teaches
you common sense steps for determining appropriate salary ranges
and how to maneuver through a negotiation. Excellent internet
sites accompany each stage.
Chapter
10: Your New Beginning
This chapter reminds
you that change is constant, that your true north, or spiritual
core, is fluid rather than static. It assumes change and that
you are interested in keeping up with your evolving self and
the changing nature of the world of work. What you have learned
in this book will be re-employed many times throughout your life.
The models of self actualization, healing and career development
are reviewed, providing a simple assessment tool for you in your
current situation. In addition we answered the question "What
if we could only suggest one website for each topic?" discussed
in the book, and listed the results.
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