Career Planning & Job Search Techniques for Experienced Job Seekers
This seminar helps experienced job seekers overcome challenges like age discrimination and career transitions, providing strategies for career planning, job search, personal branding, networking, and interview preparation.
Description
Career Planning & Job Search Techniques for Experienced Job Seekers
Note: Participants who successfully attend the seminar will be issued an e-certificate.
Experienced job seekers often face unique challenges that can make the job search process more complex than those earlier in their careers. Among the challenges faced are age discrimination, skill gaps, salary expectations, inability to make career transitions and challenges in navigating career transitions, limited network or outdated connections, perception of career plateau, psychological and emotional concerns, and many more. It can be stressful for experienced professionals who cannot secure a decent job despite their perceived capability to succeed in the job. Why am I struggling to land a job despite my experience? Why am I called for numerous interviews but failed to get an offer? Often, these experienced job seekers feel the world is against them. This seminar unravels the key to overcoming such challenges and prepares job seekers to spring back.
Course Outline
Module 1
- Self-assessment and career vision
- Long-term planning and overcoming current hurdles
- Networking strategies and industry connections
- Job search strategies & tools
- How to beat the competition
- Making career transitions and navigating career transitions effectively.
Module 2
- Personal branding & online presence
- Interview preparation & techniques
- Writing effective resumes (with sample template)
- Understanding how recruitment works and why applications are not shortlisted
- Understanding the minds of the recruiters and hiring managers and repositing yourself
Programme Objective
Participants will find this seminar a life-changing seminar that will help them better understand themselves and how things work in the employment scene. The speakers are highly experienced in human resources and career counselling and are experienced interviewers. They will guide you to see things from new and different perspectives.
Additionally, the seminar will:
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Identify their short-term and long-term plans.
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Understand the issues that block their growth and progress.
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Equip experienced professionals with advanced job search strategies.
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Enhance career planning and personal branding
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Provide tools for networking and leveraging industry contacts.
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Develop skills for navigating the modern job market.
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Preparing an effective resume.
Who Should Enroll?
This seminar is designed to address the unique needs of experienced professionals seeking to advance or pivot in their careers or those trying to get back into employment after a career break. Candidates who are struggling at their current employment are encouraged to attend.