Integrating your Multiple Work Identities - the Power of Hybrid Professionals VS Experts or Generalists
Presenter: Dr. Sarabeth Berk
Location: Virtual (a Zoom link will be sent to you a few days before the event, after registration)
Date: Friday, October 22, 2021 & Friday, October 29, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
PART I FOCUS: The Process of Discovering and Branding Who You Are At the Intersection of Your Multiple Professional Identities
PART II FOCUS: How to Guide Others in Revealing The Unique Value that Lies at the Intersection of Their Multiple Professional Identities
There are three types of professional identity in the workforce, and until now, we've been stuck in a binary of singularity (experts) or multiplicity (generalists). Hybrid professional identity is the third type, and it involves the integration of multiple work identities. By examining the intersections between professional identities, workers are able to reveal their full selves and communicate their unique value when compared to others with similar job titles and labels.
For people who feel stuck in their career path, pigeonholed as one type of worker, or fraught in an effort to niche down and specialize, they may be hybrid professionals and not know it. By giving people permission to integrate their work identities together, not only do they feel more empowered, but they also finally see who they really are and how to apply their gifts.
Through my research and one-of-a-kind process, workers learn to convey why and how their work identities fit together and what that means for their career goals.
In this two-part workshop, I’ll take you through my process so you can experience it for yourself. Then we’ll spend time unpacking it and understanding how you can use it with your clients. I’ve been studying the efficacy of my process by working with diverse individuals and small groups across industries. As a result, I believe unlocking a person’s hybrid professional identity is the foundation of shaping their purpose, passion, and ability to navigate their career.
Key takeaways from this two-part series:
Speaker’s Bio:
Dr. Sarabeth Berk is the leading expert on hybrid professional identity, and a hybrid professional herself. She was featured in Forbes, and is a TEDx speaker, author of More Than My Title, and recipient of a Colorado Inno on Fire award for her innovative work.
Sarabeth obtained her PhD from the University of Denver, and has degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Rhode Island School of Design. Her hybrid title is Creative Disruptor because she works at the intersection of being an artist, researcher, educator, and designer.
She developed a one-of-a-kind approach that takes personal branding and career development to a whole new level. Today, she helps professionals discover and articulate their hybrid professional identity and unique value in the workforce. As a result, her clients feel more seen, empowered and confident, and teams recognize each other as more than their job titles, valuing the critical yet different roles of experts, generalists, and hybrids in the workforce.
November 4th, 2pm-3:30pm
Employer Panel - Celebrating NCDA Career Development Month
Topic: Post-Pandemic Recruitment & How We Can Support Employer Partners. How has employer recruitment changed over the course of the pandemic and what are the newest trends, challenges and expectations they have for applicants? Event information is here.
Registration for this event will open in late September. CCC Members can attend this event for free!
Modernize Your Resumes
Presenter: Louise Kursmark
Date: Friday, Nov 12, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
This is Part 1 of a 2 Part Sequence. You are encouraged to attend "Modernize Your LinkedIn Profiles" on Friday, November 19th, but this is not mandatory. Register for Part 2 here.
Despite growing competition from LinkedIn and other online sources and services, the resume remains the primary document for anyone seeking to find or change employment. But resume writing, format, and design have evolved and changed. If your knowledge of resumes and your advice to clients are based on strategies and practices from ten, five, or even two years ago, it’s time to update your expertise and learn what works today.
Topics to be covered:
Using ideas and content from her best-selling book Modernize Your Resume (2rd Edition), Louise will provide the most critical and up-to-date information to help career counselors and coaches guide their clients in creating powerful career marketing documents.
Louise Kursmark is a career storyteller who has been crafting branded resumes and career documents for more than 20 years. She is the author of some two dozen career-related books, including 3 titles in the MODERNIZE YOUR CAREER series with co-authors Wendy Enelow and Jan Melnik. Louise was the first person worldwide to earn the Master Resume Writer credential, has won 6 “best resume” awards, and was a founding board member and executive director of Career Thought Leaders and the Resume Writing Academy. A resident of the Boston area for most of her adult life, she currently resides in Plymouth. Among her favorite things in life, in addition to her friends and family, are traveling, biking, visiting baseball stadiums around the country, and sharing success strategies with a (virtual) room full of career professionals.
Modernize Your LinkedIn Profile
This is Part 2 of a 2 Part Sequence. You are encouraged to attend "Modernize Your Resume" on Friday, November 12th, but this is not mandatory. Register for Part 1 here.
Registration for this event will begin July 30th
In today’s career management environment, LinkedIn has assumed equal importance to the resume. In fact, often the LinkedIn profile is the first image seen by recruiters, network contacts, and potential employers. For career professionals, it can be a challenge to write (or guide clients in writing) unique and interesting profiles that reveal both qualifications and character—the skills and experience that are needed plus the style and attributes that signal a great fit. In this session, we’ll delve into many different ways to tackle this challenge.
Using ideas and content from her recent books, including Modernize Your Resume (2rd Edition), Expert Resumes and LinkedIn Profiles for Managers and Executives, and Modernize Your Executive Job Search, Louise will provide the most critical and up-to-date information to help career counselors and coaches guide their clients in creating powerful career marketing messages.
Best Practices Roundtable:
Working with Immigrants and Refugees
Facilitators: Adesuwa Igbineweka & Andrea Horton-Meriçli
Date: Thursday, December 2nd
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST
The job search process can be daunting for immigrants and refugees or anyone who is unfamiliar with the US job market. This roundtable conversation will cover different topics to help ease the pressure faced by clients/students in search of and keeping a job. We will discuss resume/cover letter writing, workplace culture, and general cultural differences.
CCC Networking Night: Talking about Career Assessment Tools
Winter 2021
Date: Thursday, December 9
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EST
Hosts:
Laurie Stickels, Senior Internal Talent Consultant, Center for Workplace Development, Harvard University
Michele King Harrington, Career Counselor, Workforce & Career Planning, MIT
Join us for a winter networking night full of conversation on career assessments. We want to hear what your go-to career assessment is & look forward to exchanging ideas and learning new tools with you!
