Peak Careers

Professional Development for Career Practitioners

Interviews

INTERVIEW: Brand Yourself On LinkedIn

by Leave a Comment

Learn from these two experts on how to brand yourself on LinkedIn. What makes you unique? What is your value? What is your story? LinkedIn is much more than just a social media platform. Learn how to create a strong Headline and About section from Shelly (a.k.a. LinkedIn Superwoman) and Hannah (a.k.a. Career Sherpa).

MY GUESTS TODAY ARE: Shelly Elsliger, President of Linked-Express and Hannah Morgan, Career Sherpa

Watch and listen to these two LinkedIn experts for their advice on creating a quality Headline and “About” section (formerly called Summary) and their top 2 tips on how to ‘engage’ with others.

brand yourself on LinkedIn

BIO’S

SHELLY ELSLIGER is an engaging LinkedIn Trainer and President of Linked-Express. She is also referred to as LinkedInSuperwoman. Shelly coaches and empowers executives, diverse leaders, aspiring women leaders, business students and job seekers, as well as corporate teams; inspiring them to maximize their professional branding potential, social influence, and leadership ability on LinkedIn. Shelly is a Forbes writer, A Woman of Inspiration Nominee, and on the list of Globally recognized LinkedIn trainers.  You can find her at linkedexpress.ca and connect with her at https://www.linkedin.com/in/selsliger/

HANNAH MORGAN provides actionable job search and career guidance. She loves keeping track of the latest job search trends and social networking strategies. Her work has been featured in numerous national media outlets such at Money Magazine, Huffington Post and USA Today and is listed as a top resource by some of the top names in the careers industry. Hannah is the author of “The Infographic Resume” and co-author of “Social Media for Business Success.” You can find her on Career Sherpa.net To keep up with job search trends, follow her on Twitter @careersherpa, Facebook and  LinkedIn.

Check out more Peak-Careers interviews here.

Want to learn more about LinkedIn? Check out the 5 week, discussion-based online seminar with Bob McIntosh here.

JIM PEACOCK is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a monthly newsletter for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching. He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move

Sign up to receive my TOP 10 TIPS WHEN WORKING WITH AN UNDECIDED PERSON. You can also receive the career practitioners newsletter which includes a variety of career topics, industry news, interesting events, and more. https://peak-careers.com

Peak Careers - Professional Development for Careers

INTERVIEW: Staffing & Recruiting Agencies

by Leave a Comment

Why should career coaches and career service providers know about staffing and recruiting agencies?

Listen to this interview with an owner of a staffing agency and a top recruiter discuss why you might want to
refer a client or student to a staffing and recruiting agency.

My guests today are:

Wendy Schoen, CEO & Managing Partner of Schoen Legal Search
Cathy DeMerchant, President and Co-Owner of Capital Area Staffing Solutions

What we explore:

  • When might career coaches and practitioners refer their clients to a staffing or recruiting agency?
  • What recommendations do you have for identifying the right recruiter for the client?

This complements my blog on the same topic Read Blog

staffing and recruiting agencies

Watch the interview now

BIOS

Wendy Schoen, CEO & managing partner of Schoen Legal Search, is an example to all of the up and coming women professionals today that you can succeed in your chosen career if you want to. And if not, you can change your career, multiple times in fact, and be tremendously successful.  Wendy was one of a handful of women to earn her MBA from the University of Chicago in 1980. She returned to Wall Street where she worked in investment banking through the turbulent and exciting ‘80s. Wendy made the first of her career turnarounds when she earned her law degree in 1991 from Boston University Law School. She embraced this second career by clerking and then joining a law firm.
By late 1992 Wendy knew that practicing law wasn’t for her so it was time for another career change, and she turned herself into the legal recruiter she is today. Twenty some odd years later and she is one of the top legal recruiters in New York, placing attorneys into law firms, banks, management consulting firms, and funds through her own company Schoen Legal Search. Wendy places general counsel, partners, counsel, and associates.  More importantly, she has a list of connections that just cannot be beat.

Cathy DeMerchant is president and co-owner of Capital Area Staffing Solutions. Cathy and her two partners, Edward Moran and Peter E. Dunn, Jr., opened the corporate office of Capital Area Staffing Solutions, Inc. in March of 2003 in Augusta Maine, followed by their first branch, Bangor Area Staffing Solutions, in 2011. She has been in the staffing industry since 1996 and was a founding member of the Kennebec Valley Human Resource Association. Cathy has active memberships on the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce, the National Rifle Association, the Kennebec Valley Human Resource Association, the Maine Staffing Association, the American Staffing Association, and the Society for Human Resource Management. An avid hunter, Cathy and her husband live in Vassalboro with their labs, Buck and Trapper.

Jim Peacock is the principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a monthly newsletter for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching. He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move

Sign up to receive my TOP 10 TIPS WHEN WORKING WITH AN UNDECIDED PERSON. You can also receive the career practitioners newsletter which includes a variety of career topics, industry news, interesting events, and more.

Peak Careers - Professional Development for Careers

INTERVIEW: Would You Benefit from Hiring a Business Coach?

by Leave a Comment

Peak-Careers Interview

What are the benefits of hiring a business coach for career practitioners?

In our interview today, I talk with two successful career service providers who talk about the benefits of hiring a business coach. Whether you are in private practice or a career practitioner that wants to advance your own career, would you benefit from hiring a business coach?

Listen to this interview to learn about the benefits of hiring a business coach and why you might consider it.  This is a follow up to my blog on the same topic, Do You Need a Business Coach?

My guests today are: Karen Chopra, Founder of Chopra Consulting for Consultants and Mark Danaher, Founder of Mark Danaher Training and Coaching

What we explore:

– How has working with a business coach helped you in your private practice and your own career development?

– What recommendations do you have for identifying a coach for career practitioners?

benefits of hiring a business coach

If you are thinking about starting a coaching business or are struggling with yours, you may want to check out our 5-week, online seminar, Building Your Coaching Business.

BIO’s

Karen James Chopra, LPC, CCC, NCC, is the founder of Chopra Consulting for Consultants  (www.KarenChopraConsulting.com), which helps therapists, counselors, coaches and other consultants create thriving businesses.  She also has a well-established career counseling private practice in Washington, D.C. (www.ChopraCareers.com), and has helped hundreds of clients with career exploration, job search, and career management.

A former U.S. Government trade negotiator, she is the author of Coaching Career Clients on Salary and Other Workplace Negotiations and numerous other articles on the business and practice of career counseling. MCDA has honored her with both their Outstanding Career Practitioner and Lifetime Achievement awards. She received her M.A. in Community Counseling from the George Washington University, and her B.A. from the University of Virginia.   She also has a master’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Mark Danaher, LPC, BCC, CCSP is the founder of Mark Danaher Training and Coaching (www.markdanaher.com), which helps people create awesome new careers that pay them well and provide them freedom. Mark has been a career counselor and coach for over 25 years working with students and clients ranging from high school through retirement.

Through his private practice, Mark has the delight of running workshops and trainings for career services professionals, universities, and organizations around the United States. He has earned two Master’s degrees in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology from the University of Connecticut and Eastern Connecticut State University.  Mark has served as President of the National Career Development Association (NCDA) and the Connecticut Career Counseling and Development Association and as the North Atlantic Region Trustee for NCDA.  Currently, he serves on the Training and Education Committee for NCDA.

BIO:
Jim Peacock is the Principal of Peak-Careers Consulting offering:

Are you a career practitioner? Career counselor?
A person who delivers career services?

Sign up to receive “The Top 10 Tips Working With an Undecided Person ” and our weekly career content for career practitioners.

Peak Careers - Professional Development for Careers

INTERVIEW – Creating the Conversation Using Card Sorts

by Leave a Comment

Another Peak-Careers Interview

Creating the Conversation Using Card Sorts

My guest today is:
Lesah Beckhusen, President of SkillScan

What we will explore
– How do you use SkillScan card sorts when working with a client?
– What are the things you do to really get the client to THINK about making their next career move?
– What type of clients are best served using card sorts?
– Share some stories about clients who used card sorts and how the activity helped them.

Look for my blog on this same topic at Peak-Careers

card sorts
Watch now at https://youtu.be/R_S9jI2JW6Q

If you are a Career Services provider and interested in SkillScan print or online assessments, please check out her website for more information: www.skillscan.com or contact [email protected]

BIO: Lesah Beckhusen, M.S.
Lesah is a career consultant and President of SkillScan. She developed a suite of transferable skills assessments including two online assessments, Drive and SkillScan Express and Advance Pack 2.0.

She has worked in career development in a variety of environments for over 30 years including Berkeley/MBA career Services (23 years), community colleges, outplacement adult career centers, universities and held a private practice (10 years).

Lesah has a Master’s Degree in Counseling from San Diego State University.

BIO:
Jim Peacock, is the Principal of Peak-Careers Consulting offering:

– The Facilitating Career Development (FCD) class since 2001
– Online discussion based-seminars for career practitioners since 2010
– F2F workshops for career professionals
– Individual career coaching

Are you a career practitioner?
Career counselor?
A person who delivers career services?

Sign up to receive “The Top 10 Tips Working With an Undecided Person ” and our weekly career content for career practitioners

Signup and learn more at https://Peak-Careers.com

Peak Careers - Professional Development for Careers

INTERVIEW: TED Talks for Career Practitioners

by Leave a Comment

TED Talks for Career Practitioners

My guests today to discuss TED talks for career practitioners are: Marie Eddy, MS, GCDF, CCSP and Karla Wynn, MA, GCDF, CWDP, CPRW, CCSP

What we will explore

– What is it that you like about TED Talks?

– How are you using them for your professional growth or with clients / students?

*See my blogs on this topic: https://peak-careers.com/tag/ted-talks/


TED Talks for Career Practitioners

Watch the interview now.

BIO’s

Marie Eddy, MS, GCDF, CCSP. Prior to starting her own career counseling business in 2018, she spent much of her career as a school counselor and guidance coordinator in Vermont.         www.eddycareerservices.com

Karla Wynn,  Student Development Specialist with Harford Community College. Career Coach, Recruiter, Workforce Development Professional, and Workshop Trainer with five industry certifications: GCDF; CWDP; CPRW; CCSP; and Certified Practitioner of MBTI Step I and Step II Instruments

Jim Peacock is the Principal of Peak-Careers Consulting offers:

– The Facilitating Career Development (FCD) class since 2001

– Online discussion based-seminars for career practitioners since 2010

– F2F workshops for career professionals

– Individual career coaching

———————————————————————————–

Are you a career practitioner? Career counselor? A person who delivers career services? Sign up to receive “The Top 10 Tips Working With an Undecided Person” and our newsletters for career practitioners Go to https://Peak-Careers.com

Peak Careers - Professional Development for Careers

INTERVIEW: What is Mindfulness and Why Should Career Practitioners Care?

by Leave a Comment

My guests today are….well me, Jim Peacock 🙂 and Sabrina Woods, Holistic Career / Life Coach and we will explore mindfulness and career practitioners embracing it in their practice.

My good friend Bob McIntosh interviews me and Sabrina on Using Mindfulness to Impact our Wellbeing & That of Our Clients.

Bob McIntosh, SCPRW is a career trainer and coach and LinkedIn authority and asked if he could interview us as he wanted to learn more about mindfulness.

WHAT WE WILL EXPLORE

  • What is mindfulness and why is it so important to practice it?
  • How do you practice mindfulness and share your experience with your clients?
  • What benefits do you derive from mindfulness, and how do you pass the benefits on to your clients?


mindfulness and career practitioners

Watch video now

Read more blogs on mindfulness.

FULL BIO’s

SABRINA WOODS is a Holistic Career / Life Coach & Linkedin Trainer with 15+ years’ in the career services field at universities including Harvard, Northeastern and the University of London. Her joy comes from tapping holistic and mindfulness-based practices while helping people with career transitions. Sabrina also facilitates workshops and train-the-trainer sessions ranging from the Myers Briggs to Mindfulness to Networking. Her workshops combine her insights, enthusiasm and infectious energy. Sessions have been taught in the US, UK and Middle East. For more info: www.sabrina-woods.com.

BOB McINTOSH, CPRW is a career trainer and coach who leads more than 15 job-search workshops at an urban career center, as well counsels job seekers on every aspect of the job search. His colleagues rely on Bob to critique their clients’ LinkedIn profiles and conduct mock interviews. In addition, Bob has gained a reputation as a LinkedIn authority in the community, where he leads workshops for non-profit and for-profit organizations. Job seekers from across the state attend Bob’s LinkedIn workshops. His greatest pleasure is helping people find rewarding careers in a competitive job market. For enjoyment, he blogs at Things Career Related and contributes to Recruiter.com

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.

He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move and the recipient of the 2020 Kenneth C. Hoyt Award from the National Career Development Association.

Sign up here to receive my  TOP 10 TIPS WHEN WORKING WITH AN UNDECIDED PERSON.  You will also receive the career practitioner’s weekly email on a variety of career topics, industry news, interesting events, and more.