November is so eventful! Check out the dates below:
November 3rd: Election Day
November 11th: Veterans Day
November 13th: World Kindness Day
November 16th-20: Career Development Week
November 18th: Career Development Day
November 20th: Transgender Remembrance Day
November 26th: Thanksgiving
Looking for more reasons to celebrate? Check out some other fun stuff happening this month here.
#YouCanBeABCs
Sam White and his father, Bobby White, 2020
"A" is for Awesome. "B" is for Bright. "C" is for Check out this video, it's sure to excite! Sam White, a 6 year old from Memphis, Tennessee, created a "career rap" with his father, Bobby White. The video, originally shared on Facebook, received more than 300,000 shares and is going viral around the country. Watching children become excited about careers gives us all the feels!
Grab a Coffee and Let's Chat!
Upcoming event alert!Our Professional Development committee is working hard to bring our members some quality content. This chat will feature Steve Dalton who is the author of "2-Hour Job Search". In his cutting edge book, he provides an ultra-specific process for using technology to find a job faster. Steve advocates conducting an advocacy-based, not application based, job search.
In 2012, Penguin Random House published Dalton’s debut book and Steve’s concepts are now taught at over a hundred universities worldwide. Dalton is a regular contributor at The Huffington Post and is regularly quoted in the media, including The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News, Fast Company, and Financial Times, among others.
Want to learn more about Steve Dalton? Check out his Twitter account @Dalton_Steve. You can also find his book here.
Not able to make this one? Don't worry! We have another chat coming up on Tuesday, December 8th from 1pm-2pm ET with Crime Victim Practitioner, Michele Sanz. Stay tuned for more information.
Workplace Emails We All Hate
Ugh, not this again...One thing we miss that we took for granted? Being able to walk to your coworker's office to ask a question. Now our inboxes are filled with emails that could have been quick, in person conversations. In this article, learn about the types of emails we all tend to dislike receiving and if you send these types of emails, how to change that.
"One major challenge: the continuous, non-stop, non-ending day where we're always 'kind of' at work." Prior to the pandemic, most of us had a clear distinction between work and home. We'd have a routine and an environment that separated the two. We'd wake up, get dressed and drive to the office to begin our day and turn the lights off, close our door and drive back home to signify the ending. Yet with work being at home, how do we separate the two? Stop checking your email from your phone and click here to learn how to end the day.
6 Tips for Making a Career Change
Most people spend a third of their lives (90,000 hours) at work. So why not work in a career that holds meaning and value to you? As we grow and develop, what we need from our careers may change yet oftentimes stepping out of that known career is difficult. It takes "an immense mind shift, planning and decision making that will affect you and the people around you." Learn the 6 Tips from NPR's Keisha Dutes on how to successfully make that career change.
Have you come across a topic that you've been doing a deep dive into lately? Or maybe something you've learned that you'd like to share with the rest of the association? Perhaps there's something that you want to know more about yet you're unsure of where to find it.
Here's your chance! We're looking for webinar and workshop ideas!
Drop an idea or a suggestion by clicking the box below!
Let us brag about you!We know you're great and you're off doing great things but does the rest of the FCDA family know? Let's fix that! It doesn't have to be a published book or article or an award that was won (although it could be!). It could be a program you were admitted into, graduation, accomplishing that one goal that you've been trying so hard to complete and finally crossed that finish line.
Whatever it is let us know! Fill out this quick survey and let us celebrate you!