About Me
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Personal Statement
A high-gear person, my life work is to balance my needs with the needs of others…and enjoy the process. I usually dive into a project and then paddle my way out. It can take a long time to do the latter, so to keep myself sane, on a daily basis, I take Yoga or Pilates lessons and walk along an inlet to the Bay.
A continual learner and teacher, I love to discover something new about myself, about others, and about life in general. For example, when my daughter went abroad for a student-exchange program in her junior year of high school, I missed her so much that I interviewed other mothers and daughters and wrote a doctoral thesis on mother-daughter influences. When she was about to head off to college, I was burnt out from a job that I had outgrown, so I left my full-time administrative position, opened a private career counseling practice, taught part-time, and wrote a book about how I was leading my life and what kind of example I was setting for my daughter and other younger women.
As I was writing the mother-daughter book, I contemplated my next move and concluded that whatever I did, I needed to do it at my own pace and in a pleasant environment. Empathizing with the struggle that my adult students have in commuting to both their work and school, while trying to maintain a reasonably sane personal and family life, I created a self-paced, online job search and employability course (http://www.jobjuggler.net) for workers in transition, from high school on up.
When I was designing the online job search curriculum, I found that there was so much material on portfolios that I separated portfolio from the resume lesson, and gave portfolio its own lesson. Subsequently, I have found that electronic portfolios are growing exponentially and will probably replace resumes within the next 10 years, so I have begun both researching and sharing information with others on this development.
I see my role as not just counseling and coaching, but also educating my clients so they can take charge of their own career development. I acquire information on labor market trends and other career developments, digest this information, and make it palatable for my clients and students. As a result, my students and clients can hit the job market running by immediately using the information efficiently and effectively for their own purposes and for the greater good.
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