Crafting the Shape of Our Stories: Self-Centering Job Search Preparation

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Who
All job seekers

What

Join Yejin for an interactive workshop on how to translate your experiences into a radically self-centering and authentic narrative
About this event
March 1st Update: All 35 (free) community tickets have been secured! But worry not, you can sign up to join the waitlist. When people who experience greater financial ease/comfort purchase “Community Care” and “Community Abundance” tickets, they will enable folks on the waitlist to join the event.

February 27th Update: Yejin has postponed this event by one week so that she can center her health and be maximally present with participants. The workshop was originally going to take place on Sunday, March 6th from 2-4pm EST but will now be facilitated on Sunday, March 13th from 2-4pm EST.

Equity & Justice Practitioner Yejin Lee began her coaching practice after witnessing employers force introverted people of color to pretend to be someone else. So many hiring managers conflate certain personalities and demeanors with competency, and force folks who do not have those traits (particularly those of minoritized identities) to work around these thoughtless preferences. Rather than focus on supporting her coaching clients to continue to “fake it” (though sometimes this is a necessary strategy to secure a job in the short-term), Yejin supports individuals to feel confident in the way they express passion & purpose.

During this two-hour interactive workshop, Yejin will:

Help participants identify personal & professional goals for their next job (note that a personal goal could include something like emotional divestment from the next job to make space for healing & spaciousness);
Support participants in looking within and centering their unique combination of experiences, identities, positionalities, perspectives, areas of growth, and incredible strengths to craft the shape of their story;
Make space for small-group workshopping of these personal/professional narratives (only if registrants prefer this level of interactivity – Yejin will poll people in advance of the event)
Facilitate discussion & answer questions.
By linking our personal and professional narratives in past, present, and future (sometimes in nonlinear ways), it becomes easier to understand how to effectively link a prospective job with our very real journey. This helps us to understand how to talk about our experiences in our resumes, cover letters, and interviews.

This event may be useful for you if you:

Want support in centering your emotional, mental, physical, and ideological needs when identifying goals for your next job;
Struggle to make sense of your past job experiences into a cohesive story as you prepare to send applications;
Need strategies to account for potential negative perceptions of your resume (e.g. gap between jobs)
Seek to build more authentic resume & cover letter templates to minimize tailoring for each application;
Find job searching to be activating and triggering because of experiences of workplace hurt, harm, or trauma;
Want to utilize an equity/justice framework in your approach to job searching.
Registrants of this workshop will receive access to the meeting recording for 2 weeks following the event along with robust follow-up email with a workbook that contains additional prompts and reflection questions.

Community-Oriented Ticketing
Ticket ($50): for folks who experience a little financial ease
Community Care Ticket ($75): for folks who experience moderate financial ease – every $75 ticket purchased will allow 1 person on the waitlist for free tickets to attend
Community Abundance Ticket ($125): for folks who experience great financial ease – every $150 ticket purchased will allow 2 persons on the waitlist for free tickets to attend
Community Ticket (Free): Folks with minoritized identities to the front! These free tickets are meant for members of the community who would not otherwise be able to attend this event. We all like free things(!), but please take a moment to truly think about your power, privilege, positionality, and access before securing a community ticket. Yejin has made 35 community tickets available through Eventbrite. When there aren't any more community tickets remaining, you can fill out this form to join the waitlist!
Please note that Yejin is thoughtfully translating individual coaching work into a larger-scale event. People who experience great financial ease have paid $400 to do this work with her 1:1.

Full Series
This event is a part of a series called Equity-Informed Job Searching with Yejin. The full list of events is as follows:

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Strategic Considerations Before Quitting A Job | Sunday, February 20th from 2-4pm EST
Crafting the Shape of Our Stories: Self-Centering Job Search Preparation | Sunday, March 6th from 2-4pm EST
Let’s Be Real: A Practicum on Interview Prep that Isn’t About Faking It | Sunday, March 20th from 2-4pm EST
Job Search Considerations for People of Color Who Are Recovering From Workplace Racism | Sunday, April 3rd from 2-4pm EST
People who are attending more than one event may access a 25% discount. The promo code for this discount is PACKAGE2022. I am trusting people to be honest about usage of this promo code and will be very disappointed in folks who misuse it.

Crafting the Shape of Our Stories: Self-Centering Job Search Preparation image
Yejin Lee (she/her) is a New York-based Korean-American equity & justice coach and consultant with over 12 years of experience in the NYC nonprofit sector as an organizer, fundraiser, staff advocate, and organizational design aficionado. Her primary mission as a coach is to support the liberation of people of color by guiding them in finding values-driven pathways for their careers and lives, and by building their capacity to strategize around and survive inequitable experiences within institutions. Her secondary mission is to reduce the harm experienced by people of color within institutions, and she does this through her leadership coaching services & organizational consulting practice.

Yejin received her BA from Boston College in History, American Studies, and African Diaspora Studies, has been trained by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond in Undoing Racism, and has completed an equity-informed mediation basics training from Resolutions Northwest.

Where
Virtual event

When
Date: Sunday, March 13, 2022
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Timezone: UTC-4 (check your local time here)

How
Registration required? Yes

Cost: $0 – $125

Full event details: Crafting the Shape of Our Stories: Self-Centering Job Search Preparation

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• Job Application Process

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