FireProof Your Career:

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FireProof Your Career 5 Strategies To
ProtectYour Future In Volatile Times
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Webcast Features

• Use the QA feature in the lower right-hand side
  of your screen to submit a question to the online
  expert. Lynne will answer as many questions as
  possible.
• Remember the audio is through your phone.
• The presentation will be available for download
  throughout the program.
• This event will be archived on the Career Webcast
  page (http//www.astd.org/content/careers/careers.
  htm).

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• Thank you to our sponsor

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Our Presenter
Lynne Waymon Professional
Speaker CEO of Contacts Count Co-author with
Anne Baber of the FireProof Your Career ToolKit
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Doing the Numbers

• In 2007, more than 1.5 million Americans were
  laid off.
• In February, 2008 more jobs were lost than in any
  other month in the last 5 years
• In 2008, will you be outsourced, merged,
  down-sized, eliminated, pink-slipped, or
  otherwise
• derailed?

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Whats Your Situation?

• Poll question
• Answer each question by
• selecting Yes or No.

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3 Truths About Job Security

• Job security and career security are not the same
• They dont owe you anything
• You can absolutely re-invent yourself
• P.S. Dont take it all personally!

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5 Career Security Strategies

• 200 people interviewed
• Field-tested, practical, in your control
• Easier when you join a career change
  support/strategy group
• Will help you get a better job faster, even if
  you dont get laid off!

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Rate Your Readiness To Bounce Back From A Lay Off

• Poll Question
• Answer each question by
• selecting Yes or No.

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Questions?Send them to the Online Expert,
Debbie.
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1 Liberate Your Mind

• Re-define the contract you have with yourself and
  with your employer
• Become
• psychologically self-employed

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1 Action Steps

• Manage your career from your home office, not
  your employers premises
• Think of yourself as an expert with multiple
  options, not as an employee whos tied to one
  job. Say I currently work for . . .

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2 Line Up Your Finances

• Get financially fit by spending less, saving
  more, and managing better
• Act your wage!

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2 Action Steps

• Eliminate credit card debt
• Get expert advice

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3 Learn for Employability

• Assess your EQ and update your technological
  tools, job-specific skills, and transferable or
  soft skills
• The only job for life
• is learning.

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3 Action Steps

• Imagine the one question youd hate to be asked
  at your next job interview
• Identify a transferable skill and find a way to
  fit mastery of it into your busy life

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4 Lean Out of Specialization

• Dont get pigeonholed in one specialty or
  type-cast in one role
• Slide, glide, ooze, leap, or roll over into
  adjacent careers
• How wise the little mouse
• who never entrusts his life
• to one hole only.

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4 Action Steps

• Join a task force, committee, or project that
  takes you outside of your cubicle, team, division
  
• Seriously explore the career youve always had in
  the back of your mind, put never thought was
  practical or possible

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5 Link Up With People

• HBR says that networking is the key professional
  skill that gives you access to
• Private information
• Diverse skills sets
• Power and influence
• Become a go-to person.

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5 Action Steps

• Get visible and active in your professional
  association
• See networking as teaching and giving, not
  talking and taking

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5 Action Step Bonus

• Develop several answers to, What do you do?
• Give a talent or skill
• Tell a time that you saved the day, solved the
  problem, or served the client

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Where Are You Most Vulnerable?
Poll Question Choose no more than two Yes
answers. Think Which statements best describe
your situation?
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In Summary

• Real career security is knowing that no matter
  what happens to your job, you will continue to be
  able to earn a living

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Next Steps

• Eliminate the word they from your vocabulary
• Make networking an art . . . Not an accident with
  resources at www.ContactsCount.com
• Go to www.FireProofYourCareer
• and explore whats available there
• Start a support/strategy group to help you
  weather the change

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Thanks for attending

• Lynne Waymon
• 301-589-8633
• Silver Spring, MD
• www.FireProofYourCareer.com
• www.FuturizeYourCareer.com
• www.ContactsCount.com

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