Individuals
It takes seven seconds or less for you to make a first impression! With so little time you want your first impression to make a positive and lasting impression.
Are you prepared to begin an efficient, effective, and organized search for employment? Will interviewers and prospective employers consider you skilled? Do you have a polished and professional appearance? Do you need to dust off and update your résumé? Update your business look? Brush-up on your interview skills before you meet that prospective employer?
In this competitive environment, getting your first job, attending a college interview, and transitioning from one job to the next can be a difficult process. You need to make sure you have every edge imaginable. Through personal coaching and public workshops in different skill-building areas, Katen Consulting can help you to appear polished and professional as you pursue your goals!
Katen Consulting offers Personal Coaching and Public Workshops in the following areas:
- The ABC’s of Employment: Basic Personal Skills that Employers Want
In competitive environments, such as at an interview or in the workplace, students need a competitive edge. Students learn the top 10 must-have personal qualities that employers seek.
- Building and Updating Your Business Attire
"You never get a second chance to make a first impression." Learn how everything from your attire and accessories to your grooming, body language and mannerisms can create positive or negative impressions of you
- Honing Your Communication Skills
In order to succeed in today's competitive environment it is essential that you speak well and communicate effectively. By participating in this workshop, you will practice the four essential elements that will encourage most individuals but especially employers to develop a favorable impression of you.
- Practicing Your Presentation Skills
You will learn the three components of an effective presentation and how mastering those components will help you to appear knowledgeable, skilled and covey your information in an interesting, effective and comprehensible manner.
- Brushing-up on Your Business Etiquette
You will be asked to role-play techniques for presenting yourself with the kind of polish and professionalism that shows you can be taken seriously in the business world. Topics include: proper manners, common courtesies, business essentials, and how to write a business thank you note.
- Embarking on a Successful Job Search
In this workshop you will begin or fine tune your search for employment. You will learn how to utilize a variety of resources, find unpublished leads capitalize on employment opportunities and distinguish yourself among the other applicants.
- Writing, Revising, Polishing Your Résumé
Employers form an impression of you long before they meet you. You will learn what currently works and what needs to be modified in order to create an effective tailored document that reflects who you are, the value you bring and how you can benefit the organization to which you are applying.
- Creating an Impressive Cover Letter
A cover letter is one of the most important documents that you will use as you embark on the job search. You will write a cover letter introducing yourself, explain how you can benefit the position or company, and highlighting how your qualifications will add value to the position or company.
- Compiling a Professional Reference List
As you may know, many times when you are being seriously considering for a position, employers may request a reference list. Learn who to include on your reference list and how to compile a reference list that will add to the positive impression you have already made.
- Dining with Etiquette
How others see you can very often help or hinder the success of your endeavors. Learn to create positive and lasting impressions through your social etiquette and the way you interact when dining. Understand some of the most common food-related pitfalls to avoid and the invaluable skills that will help you to achieve a polished persona.
- Learning How to be a Savvy Networker
In this competitive environment, networking is a key part of increasing awareness to who you are and what services or products you provice. You will practice techniques, strategies, as well as questions and answers that will help you to appear confident, poised and smart at any networking event.
- Practicing One-on-One Mock Interviews
Present yourself with confidence, poise and eloquence. Learn some of the most frequently asked interview questions and strategies for successfully answering them. A successful interview can be your key to the door of opportunity! Remember: practice makes perfect. Build confidence, learn mistakes to avoid and appear polished by participating in simulated employment interviews.
Katen Consulting works with individuals of all ages with unique personal, professional and educational goals and objectives.
