Workshop Series 1: Changing Careers
Are you struggling to stay afloat in a job that you hate? Stop wondering if you’ll ever get your career on the right track. It’s time to get a better job. And TheGrindstone is here to help.
We’re launching a new series of online workshops designed to help women recover their work mojo.
Our first series focuses on changing careers. Leaving your job to start in a new field can be a daunting proposition. Visions of pay loss, longer hours and starting on the bottom rung often deter employees from taking the risk. But if it gets you more job security, better earnings and more general fulfillment, it could be exactly what you need.
Before you make such a big change, you need the right tools. Our experts will help you assess your current situation and get ready for a successful career transition.
Is it time to move on? Can you get better hours? Can you gain expertise in a completely new field?
Our career coach, marketing expert and entrepreneurs will answer all these questions and more during three 1 hour long online sessions held during your lunch break.
You can purchase access to one of the Changing Careers sessions for $10 or all three for $20. If you can’t watch at work, you can send us your questions and view the seminars at your leisure for a year.
If you consider how much a new career can change your life, $10 is not a lot to get started.
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March 1 12:30 -1:30 pm EST Featured speaker: Lisa McDonald Cost: $10 |
March 8 12:30 – 1:30 pm EST Featured speaker: LinkedIn’s Nicole Williams Cost: $10 |
March 15 12:30 – 1:30 pm EST Featured speakers: NurturMe’s Caroline Freedman and Lauren McCullough Cost: $10 |
| Career coach Lisa McDonald will walk participants through the basics of a career transition – from revamping your resume to networking and personal branding. | Nicole Williams, Connection Director of LinkedIn, will help instruct participants on how to use social media and other marketing tools to position themselves as “experts” in their new field in order to secure an ideal position. | Entrepreneurs Caroline Freedman and Lauren McCullough can speak to the challenges of starting a small business in an unfamiliar industry and offer advice based on firsthand experience |
| Lisa McDonald owns Career Polish Inc., where she serves as Career Coach and Transition Strategist. A Certified Professional Resume Writer (and career transitioner herself), Lisa expertly prepares her clients for all aspects of business growth and career transitioning. Lisa has worked with a wide range of clients including independent business owners, C-Level executives, athletes, management, front-line employees, college students, ex-offenders and career changers. Lisa has spoken to networking groups, professional associations and corporate clients, tailoring her presentation within the topics of networking, effective elevator pitches, body language in the business world, resumes and interviewing. | Nicole Williams is the bestselling author of three books, the latest of which, Girl on Top: Your Guide to Turning Dating Rules into Career Success, has been optioned by the producers behind the Academy Award winning films American Beauty and Milk. The company she founded, WORKS by Nicole Williams, is the go-to resource for career-minded young women and was named one of Forbes magazine’s Top 10 Career Websites for Women. She is a regular guest on Today, Good Morning America, and CNN. Her writing has appeared in ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire, SHAPE and the Wall Street Journal. Nicole was recently named LinkedIn’s Connection Director. | Caroline Freedman was a longtime Dell employee and Lauren McCullough was a Special Education teacher when they left their day jobs to start baby food company NurturMe in 2010. They launched NurturMe in their kitchen after learning about a disturbing lack of innovations in the baby foods market since they were children. They’ve been focusin on NurturMe full-time for an year and a half. and now the company’s products are sold in 1,000 stores in the U.S. |