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Dealing with Change

Understand and accept changes in your career path.

Many individuals credit involuntary unemployment as the turning point to a more meaningful, fulfilling, and prosperous life. However the loss of employment tends to be a very stressful event. The ability to recognize, understand and effectively deal with unhelpful emotions can greatly determine the success of one’s efforts to transition into another job or career.

This module is designed to help you understand, manage, and even prosper from change, in both professional and personal contexts. Through interactive exercises and proven techniques for combating stress, we help our clients to understand and ultimately accept change.

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Career & Personal Interests

Explore new career options through self-exploration.

One positive effect of a job loss is that it offers the opportunity to explore new career options that otherwise may have seemed unworkable or impractical. Unemployment affords many people with the chance to reaffirm and continue their previously chosen career path or chart an entirely new career course.

Starting with the 320-question Campbell Interest and Skill Survey, we open the doors to a candid self-exploration of individual talent and personal reflection. Your customized report will include over 60 occupations as well as a comprehensive career planner to help you interpret the results and plan for your new career.

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The Resume

Create the resume that catches the attention of recruiters and electronic filtering systems!

The goal of networking is to enlist the support of others so that they will make you not only aware of job opportunities that may be of interest to you, but also recommend and endorse you as a strong and viable candidate to prospective employers.

By sharing recommended resume formats and feedback from career transition coaches who possess extensive staffing and recruiting experience, we place a heavy emphasis on resume “marketability.” Our custom Resume Builder feature automatically enables clients to create three distinct resume formats from a single data entry.

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Networking

Tap into the hidden job market by identifying, leveraging, & expanding your network .

In simplest terms, your resume should help open the door for further consideration by a prospective employer. It should be relevant to the specific position you are seeking and sufficient in content and style to stand out from the crowd.

Unmatched in value, this module demonstrates how to make contacts, gather and share information, and tap into the hidden job market. Referencing the exponential power of the principle of Six Degrees of Separation, clients develop their story lines, identify lead sources, and make contacts using ready-made scripts.

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Job Sources

Stay ahead of the crowd by knowing about the most valuable job boards, recruiter websites, and professional contacts.

In addition to searching for employment opportunities through networking contacts, there are numerous other sources available- you just have to know where to look. Finding job opportunities requires a comprehensive understanding of the resources available.

With links to countless online job sources, we help clients find shortcuts and stay ahead of the crowd with tips on how to effectively search through internet job boards, job fairs, employer websites, employment offices, professional association websites, government agencies, professional associations, and search firms.

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Interview Preparation

Outperform other candidates by preparing for an interview like you’re studying for a final exam – the effort will be worth it!

The key to a successful interview is largely determined well before the actual interview ever takes place. Just like training to run a race, successful interviewing requires intense preparation, discipline, practice and commitment.

Along with sharing an inside perspective of what recruiters want to hear, clients are challenged by dozens of basic and behavioral questions that provide them with the background knowledge they need to ace interviews.

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Interviewing

Ace the interview by knowing what to do – and what not to do! – during actual interviews.

The resume, the networking, the preparation; all of these activities are intended to accomplish one common goal – to get you an interview. While it’s certainly possible for you to land an interview without expending much effort, it’s doubtful you will receive a job offer if you don’t do well in the actual interview(s).

We equip you with the tools, training, and awareness to demonstrate how your technical skills and personal actions can fit the needs of your prospective employers. This includes a detailed action plan for before, during, and after the interview.

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Negotiation Skills

Learn how to diplomatically request enhancements to job offers – in a way that hiring managers will respond positively.

The path of least risk is simply to accept a job offer without attempting to negotiate any changes or enhancements. However, since a recent survey suggests that 70% of employers are prepared to negotiate offers, this module is primarily devoted to helping you learn how to successfully negotiate with an employer.

Certainly one of the most appreciated modules, you’ll learn how to separate wants from needs and how to request job offer enhancements in a manner that is amicable, compelling, and effective. To make it easy, we even provide comprehensive scripts and lists of negotiable items.

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Personal Career Transition Coaching

At the Navigator Institute, we didn’t stop after developing the the world’s most highly interactive online outplacement program. We understand great technology alone cannot entirely replace the human touch — especially during career transitions. That is why every client is assigned a personal career coach who possesses extensive human resources and recruiting experience.

The coaches’ unique insights — acquired from having personally hired and rejected job candidates themselves — offer invaluable preparation for increasingly rigorous selection processes. From experience, they know you can’t land a good job with a bad interview, and they make sure you know it, too. Whether it’s helping you prepare for interviews, cope with the stress of a job loss, write your resumes, or even assist with negotiating job offers, our team of personal career transition coaches will be with you all the way.

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Your Resume

Everything you need to know about writing your resume is laid out before you. Our host will walk you through the different sections, formats, and the critical matters of style and content. The tutorial covers when and how to insert key words, action words, competencies, and countless other techniques that enhance and polish ordinary resumes. With our proven resume templates,

it’s just a matter of inserting your information into the individual sections provided.

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Durfees Laws

Videos: Durfee’s Laws

Matt Durfee, author of the award-winning book, The Job Search Navigator, gives personal anecdotal advice in “Durfee’s Laws.” These are short video segments that cover everything from interviewing to onboarding. Matt is able to offer useful advice because he’s an Executive Recruiter who has also held major HR & Staffing positions at companies such as Hard Rock, Marriott, Frito Lay, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Nestle.

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Campbell Interest and Skills Survey

The 320-question Campbell Interest & Skill Survey provides helpful insights to anyone considering a career change or wishing to explore how his or her talents and personal interests match-up over 100 different occupations. Included are numerical and graphical representations of the survey’s results as well as narrative comments to help clients understand which vocational areas they should pursue, explore, or avoid.

Study Guide

Study Guide

The digital study guide built and integrated into the Navigator Institute is a simple and easy to follow system to prepare your responses for an interview, provide introspective questions to navigating a career change, provide further reading material for each module, download accompanying documents, templates, and handouts, and access ongoing webinar recordings.