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The economy, like every other aspect of life, what rocked in unprecedented ways when COVID-19 hit in early 2020. The Xavier University Office of Alumni Engagement (a longtime partner of ours) decided to provide the graduating seniors and alumni community with resources for the daunting task of job searching during an economic downturn. We created this session, Confident Communications During Job Searching, to help them on their job search journeys.
The objectives for this session were:
Identifying personal strengths and strategies for clearly communicating value during job searching.
Building knowledge of assertive communication techniques to better advocate for oneself in cover letters, interviews, and professional networking.
In short, we provided the participants with resources to better understand and more clearly present their strengths, as well as with communication tools to utilize when going after their next big job. Searching during a time of economic uncertainty is fraught with obstacles. Among those obstacles should not be your view of yourself or how you communicate that view with the world.