Marketing Your Skills (Career Center)

Unemployed Professionals

Career Center, Maine Department of Labor

185 Lancaster St., Portland

Tuesday, April 30 -- 8 a.m.

These days, it is not unusual for a midcareer professional in any field to find himself/herself suddenly out of a job -- and not particularly prepared to mount a successful job search in a difficult and changing marketplace.

Cindy Edwards of the Maine Department of Labor manages the free weekly Unemployed Professionals program, at which outside speakers present useful and confidence-building information for attendees. The group also engages in networking and mutual support conversations.

In this presentation on Marketing Your Skills, Jim Milliken will lead a discussion of ideas and insights on the concept of preparing one's personal marketing program, in which the person is the product/service to be marketed. The design touches on the steps in the typical marketing program, starting with market research and internal product-service analysis, then proceeds to target marketing anaysis and sales activities.

The essential purpose is to empower the unemployed professional, who perhaps has never been in this position, or hasn't been in many years. The tools and activities described in the program give the person an easily do-able way to build and use the skills that will lead to -- not just another job -- but a successful career relaunch.

Information about the Unemployed Professionals and about the Career Center programs is available at http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=CCEvents&id=13220&v=cc-article

Organizations need frequent tune-ups to maintain effective workflow amid change. Jim has long experience – plus creative tools -- to help executives analyze their organizations, then design and implement better ways.

Project Management is the 21st-century model for managing complex, risky innovations to on-time outcomes within budget. Jim Milliken offers workplace-tested designs in customized formats for onsite implementation and classroom training.

Communication is the lifeblood of human organization, in small partnerships and large corporations – and the pipeline to their markets. Jim provides practical approaches to all the oral and written forms.

Personal Productivity is fundamental, and it consists of skills that can be examined, practiced and perfected. Likewise Leadership and Supervision. Jim has common-sense training designs for dozens of these essentials.

There is no obligation, financial or otherwise, arising from a preliminary discussion of consultation or training solutions.