In the news 06/27/10:

 Jody's Top 10 Tips for Job Seekers

• Customized Career Coaching for Clarity and Results

• Unique and Practical Workshops and Presentations

• Career Assessment and Guided Exploration

• Dynamic Professional Development Training and Presentations

• Outplacement Services and Support for Small Business

What is Career Coaching? 

Customized, professional support that meets you where you are…and provides a boost to your next level of personal and professional success. 

Career Marketing:  short term services and support to guide you in developing, implementing and managing an immediate job search campaign.  Coaching focuses on defining your objective and implementing an effective job search motivated action plan.  Clients greatly enhance their focus, commitment, motivation and results through generating new strategies, developing new leads, and gaining valuable skills that create new opportunities for success. 

If you already know who you are and what you want….Career Marketing Support can help you achieve it!

Career Management:  focuses on the “big picture” and broad issues related to your entire career/life balance including past challenges and current obstacles. This “whole life” approach to career coaching ensures that the “shoe fits” and your career direction will likely create ongoing opportunities and challenges that reflect your deepest values, greatest strengths, and highest priorities.  A wide variety of evaluation tools, career assessments, and personal reflection exercises assist us in gaining clarity, determining priorities, and understanding your unique set of skills, values and motivations.

If you could use a confidante, advisor, and career strategist to help you explore and clarify your next best steps….Career Management Support can help you find your focus and realize your plan.

Job Skills Building Seminar

Natural Networking: Making people your priority

Barrington Career Center

Thursday,  Sept. 2, 2010  at 7:00 PM

Are you a nervous networker? You can be a "natural" by leaning on your innate style in making "people connections." Build your understanding, skills, and confidence with this positive "soft sell" approach to opening doors and creating opportunties. Come learn how to create casual connections quite "naturally" with ready to go scripts, easy conversation starters, and specific tools and ideas for expanding your network of support.

Jody Eriksen is a professional career coach and presenter committed to helping job seekers take the misery and mystery out of their search for meaningful work.

Location: 600 Hart Rd., Suite 275, Barrington, IL Contact: Sherry Leginski  Phone: 847-304-4157 Email: careers@barringtoncareercenter.com

The New Job Search Strategy

Flossmoor Public Library

September 16th 7 – 9:00

Free and open to all

Let’s get on board with the current trends and new approaches that will land you your next job opportunity. Social networking sites, new resume rules and the contemporary tools and strategies that will help you create opportunities and open more doors. Whether you are just getting going or needing to boost your search…join Jody Eriksen, Certified Career Consultant and owner of Career Support Services Corporation to get up to speed with the latest tips and strategies for job search success.

Creating Connections with Confidence

St Thomas the Apostle Jobs Ministry Workshop Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.

Free and open to ALL

Jody Eriksen, a certified Career Coach, workshop presenter, and motivational speaker, will present, "Creating Connections with Confidence!" From casual conversations to cold calls, the people to people approach to job search success is the most practical and powerful method of opening doors and creating meaningful opportunities. If the fine art and science of networking seems more like a nagging chore or nightmare…this is the workshop for you! Career Coach Jody Eriksen of Career Support Services Corp. invites you to join her in this 2 hour session focused on how to put people at the center of your search strategy.