Free Tools, Resources, and Tips

Because of the economic downturn and cascading repercussions in jobs, market growth, and professional opportunities, we are receiving more and more requests for help in job search, career path planning, and life planning. People need more tools than ever to clarify where they want to go and figure out how to get there. And, these days, people don’t have extra cash to get access to such tools. We think this is the time to give some things away.

This section of the Waters & Associates website is dedicated to providing free tools, resources, and tips for anyone who needs support with:

• Strategic Planning for Life
  • Values Clarification and Decision Making Tools (Microsoft Word)
  • Time Log Where do You Spend Your Time (Microsoft Word)
  • Strategic Planning for Life Model (Microsoft Word)
  • Life Vision Quest - the Eulogy (Microsoft Word)
  • Goal Setting Worksheet and Exercises (Microsoft Word)
  • Executive Summary (Microsoft Word)
  • Balance Wheel (Microsoft Word)
• Managing Stress
  • Managing Stressors (PDF) or (Microsoft Word)
• Conducting the Job Search
• Application and Resume Builders
  • Hard-Soft Skills Checklist (PDF) or (Microsoft Word)
  • Applications and Resume (Microsoft Word)
• Interviewing Tips
  • "30 Second me" (PDF) or (Microsoft Word)

Free Workshops in Sacramento, CA

Waters & Associates is partnering with First Christian Church in Sacramento, CA (www.fccsacramento.com) to offer a series of free workshops on these topics for the community. Led by Linda Kegerreis, an HR Director, and Sally Waters, an Organizational Development Consultant and Coach, these workshops include:

Module 1: Introduction to Taking Control - Saturday, May 30, 2009, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
What You Will Take Away

1. Awareness of resources and support you can get through this five-module series and through the community
2. A personal plan for how you can use this five-module series to make progress toward your personal and professional goals
3. Knowledge of how change and stress affect us individually and in groups and ideas for how you can make healthy responses to stress you may be experiencing
4. Personalized checklists of skills and abilities you can start using to build your ‘Master Application’ or resume
5. A personalized 30-second ‘ME’ answer to, “Tell me about yourself and what kind of job you’re seeking.”

Module 2: Strategic Planning For Life - Saturday, June 6, 2009, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
What You Will Take Away

1. Clarification of your own personal and professional goals, values, priorities, and vision.
2. Decision support tools to help you make key life decisions around job or career change, educational or training goals, or ‘detours’ in your career/life path.
3. An action plan for taking  steps to align your vision for yourself with the steps you will take in the next months or years.
4. Support and ideas from like-minded others who want to answer these questions for themselves:
   • Who am I?
   • Where am I now?
   • Where do I want to be?
   • How will I get there?

Module 3: Job Search – Action Planning, Part 1 - Saturday, June 13, 2009, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
What You Will Take Away

1. Tools, templates, and information to build or polish your resume and job applications.
2. Advice from an individual coach in the Resume Clinic to help you create or add to your resume.
3. Advice from an individual coach in the Strategic Planning for Life Clinic to help you create or add to your life plan.
4. A specific assignment for moving forward on your resume, master application, and/or strategic life plan.

Module 4: Job Search – Action Planning, Part 2 - Saturday, May 20, 2009, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
What You Will Take Away

1. More advice from an individual coach in the Resume Clinic to help you further polish your resume.
2. More advice from an individual coach in the Strategic Planning for Life Clinic to help you further polish your life plan.
3. Up-to-date information and ideas for finding out where the jobs are.

Module 5: Interviewing Skills and Next Steps - Saturday, June 27, 2009, 9:30-12:00 pm
(Note longer final session)
What You Will Take Away

1. Increased confidence and competence at presenting yourself effectively during a job interview.
2. Ideas and suggestions for making a positive impression at your interviews, based on feedback from coaches conducting mock interviews.
3. More support, solidarity, and encouragement from others who have participated in this five-module session with you.

Contact us at: 1-916-212-2516
or email us at: info@watersassociates.com for more information!