• Create your Ideal Life Vision Statement and Set Clear, Inspirational Goals (Desired Job Position)
• Walt Disney Strategy - Vision Statement Visualization Practice
• SMART Framework for setting relevant and motivational goals
• Assignment: Create an ideal life vision statement, set goals
• Understand different roles in IT and what they are looking for. Your relevant experience and your resume
• Roles of project, program, and product managers in different companies
• What these people do
• Most important skills and competencies
• It is your experience, not your timeline
• Highlighting relevant experience in resume
• Focus on your strengths

Assignment:

1. Describe a perfect job, define a set of skills and experiences required for that job
2. Write your relevant experience in chronological order
3. Write 3 stories from your relevant experience
4. Analyzing participants' cases and answering questions.

• Moving from Child (Weak Position) to Adult (Powerful Position)
• Transactional Analysis self-assessment (Which position do you often inhabit: Child, Parent, or Adult?)
• Take responsibility and stay rational in an adult position.
• Assignment: Observe your thoughts, feelings, and the positions they originate from.
• Writing an effective resume and cover letter: tips and tricks
• It is not just what you say, it is also how you say it
• Structure and focus.
• Tailor to a specific job

Assignment:

1. Find a job post you like, create resume and cover letter for that job post
2. Get feedback from 3 people
3. Analyzing participants' cases and answering questions.

• Embody a Proactive Position and a Positive Thinking Mindset
• The Four Life Positions - Victim, Self-Blame, Reactive, and Proactive
• Practical exercise for transitioning between positions and fostering a proactive mood
• Assignment: Observe your thoughts when something goes wrong and adjust your mindset
• LinkedIn profile, applying for jobs
• Online profile matters
• Where/How to apply
• The number game

Assignment:

1. Find 3 people on LinkedIn that has job that you want, review their profile, ask to connect
2. Update your linkedIn profile, get feedback
3. Is your linkedIn profile written from a proactive position?
4. Analyzing participants' cases and answering questions.

1. Prioritize Your Tasks and Wisely Plan Your Day

• Fundamental principles and tools of Time Management
• Eisenhower matrix for prioritizing tasks
• Assignment: Practice using the Prioritization Matrix

2. Interview: prep plan

• Plan: All you need to know, your stories
• Practice, practice, practice

Assignment

1. Identify what you need to know and prepare
2. Create prioritized plan for your interview prep
3. Create daily plan
4. Analyzing participants' cases and answering questions

A. Evaluate your Motivation Level

• Two Types of Motivation: Achiever and Avoider. Meta-program self-assessment
• Bekhard's Formula for Readiness for Change - Self-Assessment
• Assignment: Work on the formula’s components to boost motivation and reduce resistance

B. Interview: Common questions

• How to answer common questions such as ‘tell me about yourself’
• Common mistakes

A. Manage Stress - Accept Changes and Rejections to Move Forward.

• Acceptance and Resistance Stages Framework.
• Four-step algorithm for managing stress and embracing changes.
• Assignment: Monitor your emotions and practice the skill of acceptance.

B. Interview: Situational and hypothetical questions.

• How to prepare and answer situational questions.
• What are they really asking?

Assignment

• Use your stories to answer these questions:
• What was your biggest success?
• Tell us about a time when you overcame a difficult challenge
• Tell us about a time when you had to take a risk in a project
• Imagine that you have a disagreement between 2 key stakeholders on your project. What would you do?
• Analyzing participants' cases and answering questions.