Start your week with a community of other job seekers who support, encourage, motivate, and learn from each other through their job searches. Job Seekers Connection energizes and inspires participants by sharing valuable strategies and techniques from professional career coaches, recruiters, and Human Resources representatives.
This weeks’ presenter: Madeline McNeely
Topic: 5 Essentials to a Successful Career Transition
Career and job transitions can be challenging—they often test our confidence and shake our sense of belonging. In this interactive workshop, you’ll explore how you're preparing for your next step and how to move through this transition with greater clarity, compassion, and confidence.
Together, we’ll uncover the five keys to successful career transitions and help you assess where you currently stand in each of these essential areas. You’ll leave with fresh insight, a practical self-assessment, and renewed motivation for what’s next. You’ll remember that small wins create big gains.
- Clarity of Direction and Environment
- Understand what you want next: your values, goals, and non-negotiables.
- Identify roles or paths that align with your strengths, passions, and life stage.
- Ideal Job Environment
- Ideal Compensation: 5 compensation elements that matter most
2. Emotional Resilience & Confidence
- Managing self-doubt, fear, and the emotional rollercoaster of transition.
- Cultivating self-trust, self-compassion, and inner motivation.
- Staying accountable and adaptable through uncertainty.
3. Strategic Planning & Action
- Develop a clear plan with realistic steps and timelines.
- LinkedIn and others: Build your profile and be active weekly
- Social Media presence
4. Storytelling & Positioning
- Being able to clearly and confidently tell your story in resumes, interviews, and networking
- Framing your past experience in a way that connects to what you're seeking next.
- Resume: Multiple resumes depending on your career step aspirations
- Cover letter
- AI compatible tips for resume building
5. Relationship & Network Building
- Reaching out to mentors, peers, or connectors who can support or guide you.
- Reaching out to people doing work/activities that interest you.
- Navigating informational interviews, references, and expanding your visibility.
About the Presenter:
Madeline McNeely is the founder of Conditioning Leaders LLC and an instructor at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education. Her practice as a coach, consultant, facilitator and trainer focuses on leaders and organizational development rooted in justice, belonging, equity, inclusion and diversity principles and practices. She is published in Nonprofit Quarterly, Forbes and co-authored Millennials in Wonderland. She has an M Ed from Temple University and is a certified somatic coach.
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