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: Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch
Topic: "What Do You Do?" Responding with Confidence in Job Transition
In this interactive session, you’ll learn how to move beyond the typical canned response to one that paints a vivid and compelling picture—one that sparks curiosity, builds connections, and creates new opportunities. You'll explore ways to tailor your answer to different situations, whether you are in a job transition or need to make your work easier to understand (even if it’s complex), learn how to share what excites you about what you do or want to do.
Stick around afterward for some low-pressure networking and put your new approach into practice!
About the presenter:
Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch is a sought-after career development leader with 20+ years of experience working at the intersection of design thinking, cognitive psychology, career counseling, and coaching. Her sweet spot is helping people see patterns and possibilities where they hadn’t before, leading to career and business transformation. She is proud to say that she has helped over 5,000 people elevate their careers and expand their businesses.
Ingrid works with a globally diverse population of clients across a wide range of backgrounds and sectors. When working with individuals she helps them identify and secure meaningful work, manage difficult work situations and create career growth opportunities within or outside of an organization. When working with organizations, she helps leaders create strategies to inspire, engage and retain their workforce.
Ingrid is not a typical career counselor, trainer, and coach. In addition to her professional career, she is an internationally recognized artist with a specialty for giving new life to recycled/upcycled/everyday items. Her ability to transform objects into something entirely new is the same process she uses coaching clients on creative ways to reimagine their careers and businesses.
Ingrid is the founder of Mosaic Careers, a consulting company providing career and leadership coaching, training and employee engagement strategy. Ingrid holds a Master of Arts degree in counseling psychology from Lesley University and a dual Bachelor of Science degree in communication arts and psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received advanced graduate training in career development from the John F. Kennedy School and is trained in Structural Consulting from Robert Fritz, Inc. Ingrid is MBTI-certified and holds a master level certification in TypeCoach.
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