A free, four-part Webinar series every Wednesday, from April 22 through May 13, at noon Eastern time.

Presented by Barbara Reinhold, EdD, best-selling author, nationally known career counselor, and former director of the Smith Career Development Office and Executive Education.

Explore the challenging issues facing alumnae in the workforce today, learn how to overcome them, and how to prepare for future opportunities.

1. What’s it really like out there now?
2. When is a problem not really a problem?
3. Jobs are out, work is in. What does that mean for you?
4. Staying strategic in tough times.
5. Strategizing and marketing yourself to get what you want.
   

To Register
You must register separately for each Webinar you wish to attend:

• April 22 - Click here to view the archived resources for this webinar
  Finding the Opportunities in the Problems
  With the economy in a tailspin and tens of thousands of talented, well-qualified people looking for work, what’s it like searching for a job right now? During this session, you’ll discover that there might actually be more opportunities in today’s market than people realize. First, you need to figure out what you truly want to do. And remember, jobs are out—work is in.
  
  
• April 29
  Managing Your Own Employability for Whatever Moves You Want to Make Whenever You Want to Make Them - Click here to view the archived resources for this webinar
  In this session, we’ll conduct a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) and explore exactly how to use it. Having a strategy is important at all points in your working life, but it’s never more crucial than when times are tough. We’ll work on planning strategies, including how to assess who needs what in troubled economic times and beyond.
  
  
• May 6
  Presenting Yourself: Be the Choreographer of Your Own Career -
  Click here to view the archived resources for this webinar
  In planning your career, there’s one thing you have to remember: You gotta have a gang! This session will demonstrate how doing research both online and in person—or high tech combined with high touch—will produce the best results. Arrange to be “discovered” by strategizing and marketing yourself to get what you want!
  
  
• May 13
  Spiraling Up: Shifting Gears Across the Lifespan - Click here to register - Click here for pre-webinar resources
  As women evolve and age they get smarter, wiser, and more confident—that is, unless someone or something comes between them and their goals. In this session we’ll discuss creating and getting to know a new you—a transformation that can happen many times in a woman’s life—and how to manage the new person you’ve become. Included will be an exploration of neural plasticity: how career and life changes start and end with our brains.