Meet YourOnRamp's Career Coaches
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Alexandra Jenkins, M.A., Career Counselor
Alexandra is a seasoned career counselor with over 10 years of work experience. Her focus is to facilitate each client's discovery of their unique passions and to coach them towards integrating a variety of these passions into a fulfilling career path.
Need Motivation?
I am still powerful…and raring to go…and the best is yet to come….Bring it ON!
Life is a journey where you can only move a couple of stones at at time crossing the river, so be bold, move with confidence and pride
It’s powerful to share your questions with many people and consider different perspectives
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Career
Life is about transitions. As women we've transitioned from hopscotch to spin-the-bottle, happy hour to the "bewitching hour" courtesy of our collicky babies. The only constant in our lives is change. YourOnRamp is here to guide you through your career transitions. Whether you are looking to reenter the workforce after time away, trying to find more balance in your current career or are considering "off-ramping" from a full-time career, we are here to help you chart your course.
We offer a roadmap designed to navigate your transition:
Ready to on-ramp? Follow our onramp plan.
Need to refresh your skills? Our partner, Learn It! offers the right courses
Is it time to off-ramp? See our off-ramp guide.
Need some career coaching? Our expert coach can help.
Get advice on staying current on business trends, building a career wardrobe, finding meaningful volunteer opportunities and much more.
The journey awaits you!
Featured YourOnRamp Interview
Interview with Meg Wolitzer, Author, The Ten Year Nap
Today I had the opportunity to interview Meg Wolitzer, Author, The Ten Year Nap. Thanks for taking the time to talk today. Can you tell us why you wrote The Ten Year Nap?
Meg
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Your Career On Ramp
If it were fun and easy, we’d already be doing it. Nothing inspires me to scrub my floors, clean the chandelier or bake pies from scratch as much as when I’m faced with an overwhelming task. Looking for a job, writing a resume, or even thinking about the next steps can be enough to propel me into a cleaning frenzy.
Dive In and You'll Make the Water Warm:
Tama's Musings
Are you waiting for something wonderful to happen? Forget waiting. Commitment to the life you desire changes absolutely everything. Lack of commitment changes absolutely everything, too. Commitment is the magic wand, the sorcerer behind the bush, the technical support of the Gods.
But let's keep it simple: If you're not watering you're garden, you're killing it.
Sing it like you mean it
Last weekend I had the good fortune to watch my middle school daughter in a lead role of the local "High School Musical" production. What amazed me most was seeing how resilient kids can be when faced with microphones the are on the fritz, missed cues and forgotten lines. They just kept on singing and dancing. Do adults lose some of that resiliency when it comes to our careers?
10 Little Known Careers...for when you OnRamp! Welder? Hum!
Thu, 04/24/2008 - 7:53am
10 Great Careers You've Probably Never Heard Of
by Jessica Santina (Yahoo.com)
Technology, demographic shifts, new legislation, and consumer preference changes have effectively eliminated many jobs. (Met any dodo trainers lately? Or FORTRAN pros, for that matter?) However, there's an upside to obsolescence: the creation of jobs that, until recently, no one had ever heard of--and perhaps you still haven't.
So here are the 10 hottest emerging careers that you might not know about, but probably should:
1. Nursing Informatics:
A Strategy to Help Job Seekers Keep Their Promises to Themselves
Conducting a job search can be tiring -- it takes a lot of effort.
Why?
Because you don't know exactly when you'll actually accept a job offer, or even what job you'll actually take. If you knew the "what" and the "when," then you'd just work backwards and plan out your job search, right? If you knew you'd have a job in 3 months, then you could predict that one week before that, you'd have a final interview. And two weeks before that, you'd have a first interview. And three weeks before that, you'd send in your resume.
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Ramp It Up Tip
Map Your Future
Not sure which career direction to take? Try writing down a list of 5-10 companies whose product or service you admire. Then think about which division(s) of these companies you'd want to work in, if you could. What might your role be? This brainstorming strategy can jump-start inspiring ideas of where your career path could lead.
-Alexandra Jenkins
Ramp It Down Tip
Write a Letter to Yourself
As you wrap up your paid gig for awhile, write yourself a quick note to be opened on a specific date a few months before you return to work. In the note, jot down at least 3 options of where you'd like to see yourself go, career-wise, upon your return. When the time comes, use this letter to yourself as a springboard towards choosing your next career step.
-Alexandra Jenkins
Your Question, Our Answer
40 Is The New 20!
Your Question, Ilene’s Answer…
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I just turned 40 and have been home with my three
children for the last 7 years. My youngest is now in
first grade and I am itching to get back to work. I
have always dreamed of starting a business, but now I
am wondering if my “dream” is a bit unrealistic at
this later phase of my life. Any thoughts?
If you won the "time lottery" how would you spend all
