Welcome to The Coaching Commons » identity http://coachingcommons.org Where Radical Possibilities are Explored & Pursued Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:43:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Listen to an Uncommon Conversation from April 30th, 2009 – Helping Your Clients Find Their Transferable Skills http://coachingcommons.org/telecalls/join-an-uncommon-conversation-helping-your-clients-find-their-transferrable-skills/ http://coachingcommons.org/telecalls/join-an-uncommon-conversation-helping-your-clients-find-their-transferrable-skills/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:00:02 +0000 Elizabeth Crouch http://www.coachingcommons.org/?p=3125 Listen to the recording:

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Time: 12:00 noon- 1:00pm Eastern Time

Guest: Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCC

Host: The Coaching Commons

Topic: Helping Your Clients Find Their Transferable Skills

The concept of transferable skills is important for job seekers in today’s economy. In your resume, cover letter, and during the interview process, you need to prove that you have the experience, knowledge, passion, and drive to get the job done.

How you explain to potential employers what you’ve done up to this point, depends on what you want to do next.

If you have been doing the same job for years, and plan to stay in a similar position, or identical industry, your present skills are what you showcase to employers. If you are looking to switch industries or take a different position than the one you have now, you will have to show potential employers why you are the best candidate and the best match for the position.

Transferable skills are the skills you have acquired up to this point in your life that can help you do something else in your career. This means your entire life, not just what you have been paid to do.

Join Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCC, veteran career coach and author of 6 best-selling career and business books as she shares her secrets on how she helps her clients find and showcase their transferrable skills so they can find a job in today’s tough economy and job market.

Note: this is a Q&A call. Deborah prefers to find out what’s on your mind and directs the call based on what’s important to you. So, brings lots of questions!

More about Deborah…..

Deborah is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and the President of Surpass Your Dreams, a successful career, life, and mentor coaching company that has been delivering a message of motivation, success, and personal fulfillment since 1998.

She specializes in four areas with emphasis on Career Change, Career Development, Career Effectiveness, Wellness, and Mentor Coaching:

1) Career coaching for Senior Executives, Vice Presidents, and Managers who are looking for new career opportunities or seek to become more productive in their current role.

2) Life coaching and Wellness coaching for those who want to improve other areas of their lives in addition to their career.

3) Start-up and practice building for those who want to make coaching their next career.

4) Writing services for those who want to stand out in their career.

Before becoming a coach, Deborah spent twelve years running sales & marketing programs for Fortune 500 companies and dot.coms. She currently works with a variety of clients including Coaches, CEO’s, Entrepreneurs, Financial Service Executives, Internet Executives, Lawyers, Marketing Executives, MD’s, Partners, Professionals, Senior Executives, Sole Proprietors, Students, Small Business Owners, and Vice Presidents.

Deborah’s extensive education and background:

Graduate of Coach University’s Accredited Coaches Training Program in Business and Personal Coaching

Advanced Training in CoachVille’s Graduate School of Coaching

Founding member of Coachville.com

Member of the International Coach Federation

Member of the East Moriches (NY) Chamber of Commerce

BA in Marketing from Hofstra University

AAS degree in Data Processing from Queensborough Community College

Certificate in Financial Planning from New York University

Professional Background: Financial Services, The Internet, Marketing, Sales Management and Web Technology

Learn even more about Deborah here: http://www.surpassyourdreams.com

As always, please post your thoughts/questions below.

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As Stacey Basting requested in her post, I have uploaded a pre-press version of the article, “Finding our way home: Coaching’s search for identity in a new era“. I would love to get people’s reflections. The paper attempts to place coaching within an historic and developmental context as the basis for decisions about its future, e.g. the relationship(s) with science and evidence. One of the gifts of the Coaching Commons as it grows will be as a forum to help coaching professionals position our field in the existing landscape while at the same time evolve new ways of thinking about what it means to be a profession. I believe we can do so with vigorous and rigorous imagination and courage.

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