Workshops
 


Career Development Workshops

Pathways Career Success Strategies, LLC, offers the following workshops live. They can be customized to suit the needs of companies, conferences, association meetings, job transition groups, etc.

Workshop Topics:

  • Recession-Proof Your Career

  • Jump-Start Your Job Search

  • The Two-Minute Pitch: The Keystone of Your Job Search

  • Salary Negotiation: Getting Paid What You’re Worth

  • Hit the Ground Running: Your First 90 Days

  • Women in Leadership: What it Takes to Lead & Succeed

  • Take Charge of Your Career! Plan today for your best tomorrow

  • Resumes that Work: How to Create a Resume that Gets Results

  • Networking 2.0: Taking it to the Next Level

For more information or to schedule a workshop or presentation, call Joan at 715.808.0344 or email joan@pathwayscareer.com.
 

Nontraditional Careers Workshops

Pathways Career Success Strategies, LLC, offers workshops, breakout sessions, and keynotes designed to offer strategies to increase and/or retain enrollment in CTE classes/programs that prepare students for nontraditional careers.

Workshop Topics:

Gender Tune-Up: Shifting Nontraditional Enrollments into High Gear
This unique workshop is designed for secondary and postsecondary CTE educators, counselors, advisors, support services staff, and career center staff. Participants are involved with a highly-interactive format, utilizing presentations, self-assessments, case studies, and other small and large group activities.

  • Examine how gender equity issues relate to career decision-making - and what you can do to even the balance

  • Use self-studies to assess yourself, your classroom, and your school for gender equity - and learn some easy “fixes."

  • Take away strategies to immediately increase enrollments and retention in nontraditional classes and programs in accordance with Perkins IV guidelines.


This workshop can be customized and delivered as a half-day, full-day, keynote, or breakout session.

Got Nontraditional Students? How to Turn Recruits into Completers

This unique workshop is designed for secondary and postsecondary CTE educators, counselors, administrators, and other staff. Participants are engaged and involved with a highly-interactive format, utilizing presentations, self-assessments, and other small and large group activities to:
  • Examine reasons why students drop out of non-traditional classes/programs.
  • Assess yourself, your classroom, and your school for gender equity - and learn some easy "fixes."
  • Discover how you can help your program's future, help meet the needs of local employers, and help your school and state meet Perkins IV requirements.

This workshop can be customized and delivered as a half-day, full-day, keynote, or breakout session.

Technical Assistance

At Pathways Career Success Strategies, LLC, we also offer technical assistance to help you meet your Perkins IV goals. This assistance may include: a review of your school or college's promotional materials; an environmental review of your classrooms/labs/work areas; help with developing a special event to promote nontraditional careers.

For pricing and to learn more, email joan@pathwayscareer.com or call 715.808.0344.

Nontraditional Bio for Joan Runnheim Olson

Joan Runnheim Olson is an internationally certified career coach, workshop presenter, and owner of Pathways Career Success Strategies, LLC. For the past 10 years, Joan has worked in various venues to encourage nontraditional career paths for males and females.

Joan was a project coordinator on a U.S. Dept. of Labor grant designed to help move more women into the auto service industry, where she met or exceeded set goals. As an assessment/placement specialist for a pre-apprenticeship training program for women, she helped women break into and succeed in nontraditional careers. For 7+ years, Joan served as a career and leadership expert for Monster.com, a leading global careers network. She is an invited expert blogger on nontraditional careers for Career Thought Leaders Consortium, a think tank of career industry leaders.

Joan has presented workshops across the country sharing strategies on recruiting and retaining students in classes and programs preparing them for nontraditional careers.

Contact

For a proposal outlining pricing, etc., call Joan at 715.808.0344 or email: joan@pathwayscareer.com.

We offer an informative, no-cost e-Newsletter, Strategies for Nontraditional Career Success: Getting & Keeping Students in Nontraditional Classes/Programs. If you’re not meeting your Perkins goals, subscribe today by emailing Joan at joan@pathwayscareer.com.