Dawn Rasmussen
Dawn Rasmussen, a Certified Advanced Resume Writer and CMP, is the president of Portland, Ore.-based Pathfinder Writing and Career Services and author of Forget Job Security: Build Your Marketability, which provides a complete roadmap on how manage your career. Her relentless and tireless desire is to help people understand the importance of actively managing their careers every minute of every day. When she isn't busy working with resume clients, speaking to conference groups internationally and nationally, writing articles and blogs or teaching, Rasmussen hikes in Oregon's spectacular outdoors with Brad, her husband, and their two dogs or putters around the house wielding a mean circular saw working on home improvement projects.
Dawn Rasmussen, a Certified Advanced Resume Writer and CMP, is the president of Portland, Ore.-based Pathfinder Writing and Career Services and author of Forget Job Security: Build Your Marketability, which provides a complete roadmap on how manage your career. Her relentless and tireless desire is to help people understand the importance of actively managing their careers every minute of every day. When she isn't busy working with resume clients, speaking to conference groups internationally and nationally, writing articles and blogs or teaching, Rasmussen hikes in Oregon's spectacular outdoors with Brad, her husband, and their two dogs or putters around the house wielding a mean circular saw working on home improvement projects.
You 2.0: The Brave New World of Social Media and Reputation Management
With so many social media channels growing and evolving, how you manage your own content and what people say about you is going to be key to your career destiny. This session will provide reputation management and job search tips using these important online tools while also delivering insights about what's coming next in reputation management.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn which social media channels...
Personal Branding Rodeo
Everyone has a unique value proposition. So how do you stand out, let alone figure out how to come up with a branding statement that articulates that value?
Personal branding can follow you everywhere, and potentially shape your career future. If you define yourself, you have control over what people think of you. This session, lead by career expert Dawn Rasmussen, CMP, CARW, will take you through the steps of developing a brand in an engaging and challenging format.
More than a Handshake: Networking With Purpose
Did you know that most people have only one interaction with a new contact, and then feel that they have properly "networked?" The truth is that networking goes beyond an initial handshake, and is much deeper than you think. Being successful in cultivating contacts into trusted relationships requires etiquette, patience, and persistence. But the rewards can open doors you never even knew existed! Career management coach Dawn Rasmussen leads this interactive session and helps attendees...
Building Up Your Success Stories that Tell Your Career Narrative
Let's face it: most of us do a lot of work day in, day out, and we don't really stop to think about what the overall impact is of what it is that we are doing and how it fits into the bigger picture. But what you do DOES matter and an important step in taking ownership of your daily successes can be the stepping stones to positioning yourself for a pay increase, career advancement, or being considered for a job opening.
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Cloud Sourcing Your Career
The era of resumes and job boards is over. Everything we do is now becoming aggregated content that paints a bigger picture of who we are... and employers are using this to make generalized assumptions about how this might serve their company... or not. This session will talk about the concept of managing one's career in an era of online reputation management and social media connections, and how to harness this into a strategy that actively guides our career forward towards a desired...
Taking the Tiger by the Tail: Seizing Control of Your Career Destiny
The very nature of how we manage our professional career and go about finding new/additional work has radically shifted due to emerging technologies and constantly changing economic conditions. There is no such thing as 'job security' in today's workplace- it's now all about employability. Building this mindset will allow anyone to be able to navigate quickly (and be in control of) future job transitions. Knowing where you want to go and preparing accordingly adds purpose and paves...
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