Mika Brzezinski - Comeback Careers: Rethink, Refresh, Reinvent Your Success at 40, 50, and Beyond (Enhanced Audiobook Content)

COMEBACK

CAREERS

R E T H I N K , R E F R E S H , R E I N V E N T

YO U R S U C C E S S

AT 4 0 , 5 0 , A N D B E YO N D

MIKA BRZEZINSKI

GINNY BRZEZINSKI

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R E SOU RCE S

Career-Finding Exercises,

Programs, Methods, and Workshops

iRelaunch (iRelaunch.com) is the pioneer in the career re-entry space and has a comprehensive website geared toward women re-entering the workforce after a career break. They offer online guidance to help struc-ture your return to work through the iRelaunch Roadmap as well as annual conferences and a full list of career re-entry programs.

ReBoot Accel (ReBootAccel.com) offers workshops on discernment (self-assessment), self-discovery, and finding your why and bootcamps for help with LinkedIn, rsum building, and interviewing.

Korn Ferry s program KFAdvance.com is a subscription-based service to help move your career forward.

The Muse Grid. Found in The New Rules of Work by Alexandra Cavoulacos and Kathryn Minshew, it helps you sift through, and narrow todays ever-growing menu of job and career options, using the simple step-by-step Muse Method.

The Landit Career Playbook (landit.com) is a personalized playbook for women seeking to move their career forward. Find opportunities, create your personal brand, assemble your board of advisors, and get advice.

Self-Assessment Tests and Surveys

Myers Briggs (MyersBriggs.org)

StrengthsFinder 2.0 (GallupStrengthsCenter.com) Strong Interest Inventory test

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r e s o u r C e s

Careerleader.com

ONet Interest Profiler (mynextmove.org) Passion Profiler (thepassionprofiler.com)

Career Coaching

Liz Bentley Associates (LizBentley.com) Carroll Welch Consulting (CarrollWelchConsulting.com) Mary-Beth Barrett-Newman, 2nd Career Consulting (2ndCareerConsulting.com)

Diane Flynn, ReBoot Accel (ReBootAccel.com) Katie Fogarty and The Reboot Group (TheRebootGroup.com) The coaches at iRelaunch (iRelaunch.com) Advancing Womens Careers (AWCNY.com)

Chrissy Scivicque (EatYourCareer.com)

The Inside Scoop on Company Culture, Salary, Interview Questions, and More Fairygodboss (Fairygodboss.com) is the largest career community for women and helps you get the inside scoop on pay, corporate culture, benefits, and work flexibility, with more than twenty-five thousand reviews by real women who work there.

Glassdoor (glassdoor.com) has reviews for more than six hundred thousand companies. Input a job, and Glassdoor will suggest Featured Jobs,

Similar Companies, and a Related Job Search to help expand your search. In addition, Glassdoor has CEO approval ratings, salary reports, benefits reviews, salaries, and even office photos.

Strategic Volunteering and Social Purpose Websites Catch a Fire (catchafire.org) begins by asking, What are you good at?

Search by your skills and nonprofit causes. Use your professional skills to make a difference in project-based volunteering opportunities, from one-hour phone calls to three-month projects, all done remotely.

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r e s o u r C e s Taproot Foundation (taprootfoundation.org) connects skilled volunteers to nonprofits and social change organizations through one-day projects, six- to nine-month projects, or virtual opportunities.

Compass (compassprobono.org) assembles teams of MBAs and other highly skilled professionals to provide pro bono strategic guidance to nonprofits. (Locations in DC, Philadelphia, and Chicago.) Idealist (idealist.org) lets you search volunteer opportunities as well as jobs and internships by keyword, skill or interest, and location.

Volunteer Match (volunteermatch.org) allows you to search volunteer opportunities by cause and location.

Encore (encore.org) is a program designed for people interested in tran-sitioning to the social purpose sector.

Online Learning: Update Your Tech and Business Skills and Fill Knowledge Gaps

LinkedIn Learning is available to LinkedIn Premium members. It has webinars, videos, and online classes on business, creative, and technology topics. Check out tutorials in everything from project management and negotiation to leadership skills and online marketing strategy as well as learning about SEO, LinkedIn, spreadsheets, word processing, and more.

Sample courses include Body Language for Leaders, Communicating with Confidence, and Writing to be Heard on LinkedIn. There is also LinkedIn Slideshare, a platform that hosts eighteen million presentations from experts on every professional topic imaginable.

MOOCs . A MOOC is a massive open online course that often can be audited at no charge. Two of the top academic MOOC providers are Coursera and edX, which both partner with universities to offer classes.

In addition to free classes, Coursera and edX both offer paid verified certificates for successfully completing a course. Some MOOCs even offer college credit.

Coursera (coursera.org) has courses taught by top instructors from the worlds best universities and educational institutions. Courses include

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r e s o u r C e s recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, and community discussion forums. When you complete a course youll receive a sharable electronic course certificate. Coursera now also offers an iMBA.

For example, there is a sample course in Design Thinking for Innovation (UVA).

edX (edX.org) offers courses from the worlds best universities and institutions to learners everywhere. edX now offers a MicroMasters degree in partnership with several universities. For example, a sample class is Criti-cal Thinking and Problem-Solving (RIT/Rochester Institute of Technology online).

Udemy (udemy.com) offers sixty-five thousand online classes taught by experts that include topics in business, tech, and personal development.