Learn how to make Microsoft Word work for you!

In this session we will cover a variety of topics that will help you add pizzazz to your resumes and client forms, create standard forms such as bullets and sub-bullets, and learn how to streamline your resume review process.

Patricia will share time-shaving strategies for doing the same old things EASIER and QUICKER!

This webinar comes with a 36-page step-by-step guide to performing the processes she will teach during this 1-hour course. With it, you'll have the strategies for:

I. Resume Formatting Tricks

Learn how to jazz up your clients resumes with simple, clean formatting tricks:

• Borders and shading
• Setting Tab and Leaders
• Columns
• Tables
• Section Breaks
• Headers & Footers
• Bullets
• Applying repeating styles (shortcut).

II. Creating Professional Looking Forms

You work hard to project a professional appearance to your clients, but nothing takes away from a strong image faster than client forms which are clunky and sloppy. You’ll learn how to use Microsoft’s form field functions and control how your clients deliver their information:

• Drop Down Lists
• Check Boxes
• Open Fields
• Form Security

III. Working with Client Revisions

It’s happened to everyone at least once. A client returns their revisions to a draft but forgets to use a different color font or the TRACK CHANGES feature. Don’t spend a minute more comparing each document line-by-line; this shortcut will do the work for you.

IV. Mail Merge

Want to send your clients a customized electronic message (with graphics)? You’ll learn how to get Word’s MAIL MERGE feature to work seamlessly with MS Outlook without having to spend a penny more.

Don’t have Outlook? You’ll learn about an easy-to-use third party online service that accomplishes the same objective at a very low cost per mailing.

V. OPEN FORUM Q&A

Have a question about a topic we covered? Need to know how to do something that wasn’t covered? Time permitting, we’ll take questions from the class.

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In this session, Patricia shares even more tips, tricks, and techniques for maximizing MS Word! This session will also be accompanied by an instructional PDF guide.

In this webinar, Patricia will cover:

I. More Resume Formatting Tricks

Learn how to jazz up your clients resumes with simple, clean formatting tricks:

• Creating Style Sheets: Learn how to expedite your formatting by creating simple, one-click styles you can apply throughout your documents.

• Using the Drawing Toolbar: Add some pizzazz to your documents with clip art, standard, and customized shapes.

• Sorting lists within a MS Word Document: Need to alphabetize a list of values? This simple trick will make it a snap.

• Drop Caps: Add some elegance to your documents by inserting a drop cap.

• Using Text Boxes: Gain better control of your document layouts though text boxes.

• Inserting a Chart without using MS Excel: Looking to insert a chart showing your client's achievements? Look no further than to this little trick.

II. Writing a Book

Whether you’re writing your own book or want to offer book formatting services to your business writing clients, this segment will teach you how to do some of the basic elements of writing e-Books in MS Word such as:

• Creating a Table of Contents.

• Inserting /Updating Objects: Great for inserting charts and slides and other MS created objects created in other applications into your MS Word documents.

• Inserting bookmarks: Great for helping readers navigate throughout your longer documents.

• Inserting Pre-formatted MS Word Text: Save time with copying and pasting text and preserve the original formatting

• Using Clip Art: Inserting and manipulating system clip art and your own customized graphic files.

III. OPEN FORUM Q&A

Have a question about a topic we covered? Need to know how to do something that wasn’t covered? Time permitting, we’ll take questions from the class.

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Most of your clients are job-seekers, and a resume is only one tool they need on their journey to a new job. Could venturing into outplacement services be in your future?

This workshop will explore what traditional outplacement firms offer their clients, how they run, and who their clients are. In this introductory class we'll penetrate the different roles, challenges and rewards of a career helping displaced employees learn to find a new job.

We'll contrast outplacement versus the career coaching model of business, and the merits and drawbacks of both. Participants will evaluate whether their interest, skill base, and temperament are a match for the demands of providing outplacement services.

If outplacement looks like a viable answer for you and your business, we'll share tips, tricks and resources to strike out on your own, develop alliances, or work for an already-established outplacement firm.

This workshop includes a proprietary workbook with charts, checklists, examples and resources.

After taking this training session, participants will be able to:

• Explain the differences between resume writing, outplacement and career coaching service models
• Complete an assessment that helps them choose whether outplacement, career coaching or resume writing might be their preferred business model
• Evaluate options and plan specific steps to pursue outplacement as an income generator
• Enjoy increased confidence about their ability to choose whether outplacement services are a good business and personal fit.

Gail Frank is a career services professional who offers outplacement workshops, resume writing, and interview training for small companies and individuals. She is a doubly certified resume writer (NCRW & CPRW), as well as a Certified Job Coach (JCTC) and Certified Employment Interview Professional (CEIP). She is also certified as a Professional Teleclass Leader through Teleclass International.

Gail is a Harvard graduate with a degree in Economics, and has a 10-year corporate background in Brand Management, Marketing & Operations for Procter & Gamble and BIC Corporation. She holds a masters degree in Adult Education/Corporate Training and also works as a trainer and consultant for top outplacement firm DBM. In addition, she runs a marketing consulting firm helping small business owners with marketing, communications, and training solutions.

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Are you struggling with trying to use multiple marketing techniques for your business and feel overwhelmed because you think you should be doing it all? Would you like to embrace marketing with enthusiasm and simplicity? Attend this CDI teleseminar to:

• Learn how you can discover your marketing strengths based on your personality type*, personal branding, and motivated skills,

• Understand how these strengths can be capitalized on for maximum marketing efficiency and effectiveness,

• Hear about specific examples and recommended marketing tactics,

• Brainstorm together on innovative and classic marketing tactics which you can choose from, and

• Gain access to resources that will enable you to play to YOUR marketing strengths.

*BONUS: Take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) for only $15.95 to learn about your personality type. Offer good only for 30 days before and after the teleseminar. (NOTE: This is not required to participate in the class).

Known as the “Career Assessment Goddess”, Susan has a Master’s Degree in Counseling from The Johns Hopkins University plus 22 years of experience in career counseling and coaching thousands of professionals and executives. She has also assisted Fortune 500 companies, colleges, non-profits, and government agencies with management development, team building, career development consulting, training, and workforce development.

Susan is the only National Certified Career Counselor worldwide who is also certified as a Personal Branding Strategist and Online Identity Management Strategist. In addition, she has won recognition as a Master Resume Writer with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Author of “Master the Maze of Career Assessments” Program, an intensive career-assessments training “boot camp”, Susan is co-author of Job Search Bloopers (August, 2008, Career Press). Her current Board of Directors and leadership positions include Career Directors International, the Reach Branding Club, and the Wisconsin Career Development Association.

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