Have No Fear – The Stress Doc Is Here – Practice Safe Stress – Managing Transitional Stress in Conflict Through Humor

Mark Gorkin, Ph.D “The Stress Doc” ™ will help you rev up your job search. He will focus on managing stress in a transition by using humor.

Mark is an international/Celebrity Cruise Lines speaker, psychotherapist, syndicated writer and author of Practice Safe Stress: Healing and Laughing in the Face of Stress, Burnout & Depression. He was recently interviewed by BBC Radio, Mark is a “Motivational Humorist” for corporate, government, association, and non-profit clients. He leads dynamic and interactive, inspiring, and fun programs on stress and burnout, managing anger and conflict, and team building and organizational change. All his programs are dynamic and inspiring, interactive and fun.

The Doc is also America Online’s “Online Psychohumorist” ™ (Keyword: Stress Doc). In 2003, the Doc received the National Association of Social Workers-Metro-DC Chapter’s Social Work Entrepreneur Award. The Doc runs his weekly “Shrink Rap and Group Chat” on AOL/Digital City DC Stress Chat.

See his multi-award-winning, USA Today Online “HotSite” — www.stressdoc.com Stress Doc homepage (cited as workplace resource in a National Public Radio).

Federal Resume & KSA Writing Workshop – All New “Outline Format” April 27, 2009

Kathryn K. Troutman a leading authority on understanding the US Government job market will be the feature speaker on Monday April 27 at 40Plus.She will be covering four (4) important lessons to stand out in a federal job search:

- Introduction to the newest Federal Resume format for USAJOBS: The Outline Format
- Keywords and Accomplishments (Create your Top Ten List) – critical elements
- Analyzing vacancy announcements to match your Resume – KSAs and Essays – three new formats!

Kathryn Troutman’s major career accomplishments include: 1. Founder and manager of The Resume Place, Inc., the leading federal job search consulting and Federal resume writing service in the world. 2. Pioneer designer of the Federal Resume Format in 1995 with the publication of the leading resource for federal human resources and jobseekers worldwide – the Federal Resume Guidebook.3. Author of “The Federal Resume Guidebook”, which is in it’s 4th edition in 10 years.

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Jeanine Cogan led a lively and informative session as the featured speaker at yesterday’s 40Plus Monday Morning job networking meeting.  The presentation was all about networking and included a number of useful tips, including subscribing to the Contacts Count Newsletter.  It’s free and a useful tool for any job seeker.

Tips for the Overqualified Job-Seeker

Here’s some worthwhile reading from Washington Post Columnist Michelle Singletary, who recently wrote a column about “Landing a Job When Your Resume’s Too Good for It.”

Clips for job-searchers

Here’s three articles that just came in from Gabe Goldberg’s clip file:

Longer Unemployment for Those 45 and Older

An Online Toolbox Starts With a Polished Résumé

Networking for people who hate to network

Buried in Business Cards? How to Re-connect and Follow Up with Ease

On April 20 spend time with Jeanine Cogan, Ph.D and find out what to do with all those business cards you have collected.

You’ve introduced yourself and answered “What do you do?” dozens of times. Now what?

What are good “next steps” with the people you meet?

How can you teach people about your character and competence so you build trust and credibility?

What is the one tool that when used will make follow-up natural and easy?

Certified leadership coach and professional speaker, Jeanine Cogan will share with you the secrets of follow-up at this meeting. Turn networking into something you love . . . rather than loathe!

Interviewing – Your Time to Shine

On April 13 you will have the opportunity to find out how to stand out during that important interview. Sharon Armstrong has 20 years of experience as a Human Resources consultant, trainer and career counselor. Since launching her own consulting business in 1998, Sharon Armstrong and Associates, she has consulted with many large corporations and small businesses. She has provided training and completed HR projects for a wide variety of clients in the profit and non-profit sectors.

Turning One’s Age Into a Job-Market Asset

From yesterday’s Washington Post, worthwhile reading for all 40Plus members, “Turning One’s Age Into a Job-Market Asset.”

Branding isn’t just for colas!

New York Times article “Putting Yourself Out There on a Shelf to Buy“ quotes a branding expert on creating effective online profiles: Brand yourself as someone insightful in a particular area, so when people think about filling a job, they think of you.

And “Finding your niche is the key,” said Dan Schawbel, author of “Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success” (Kaplan, April 2009), and a personal branding guru (that’s his brand, by the way).

He espouses a four-step process — discover, create, communicate, maintain. That translates into: discover your passion and put it together with your expertise; create a “personal branding tool kit” (which may include a résumé, online profile, blog and portfolio of your work) that consistently reflects your brand; pitch your brand online and offline; and update and monitor any conversations about your brand. (Try Google Alerts, so that every time your name comes up, you’re notified.)

40Plus, of course believes in — and trains in — a multi-step process for career development and finding jobs.