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How can Basics 4
Hope
build career growth?
This is how The Basics 4 Hope System helps you to build a path to career growth.
1.Embrace who you are. B4H places a focus on the unique abilities and skills of the individual.
2.Workplace possibilities open through a focus on abilities.
3.The power of job choice returns with the discovery of new paths to turn abilities into job skills.
4.The power of job choice wrestles fear of being stuck in a career rut.
5.Fear diminishes as hope returns igniting new job possibilities.
What makes Basics
4 Hope different from
other career
building programs?
Basics 4 Hope is different from other career building programs because it’s a guide through a system that uses abilities you have to build skills to use to take charge of the how and when and what of ending a career rut and creating career growth.
There are:
No demands.
No must haves.
No have to do’s.
No buttons to press for a quick fix.
It’s a program that involves the work of thinking.
It's a self-reflective program that builds work skills that honor who you are.
It's a self-paced program that builds a foundation of skills for continual career growth.
What makes B4H a
trustworthy source for information about how to get out of a career rut and build career growth?
Here’s a brief story about me, Andrea G. Shenkman,
-also known as Babci-
the author of Career Growth Basics and Basics 4 Hope.
It highlights my work experiences and personal experiences which are the roots of CGB and B4H.
I think its appropriate to use my favorite writing opener - "Once Upon A Time"
So, here goes.
A Tale of How Hope and Determination Created
a Lifelong Passion for Career Growth.
Once upon a time there was a young girl who suddenly became an orphan.
Money was scarce.
She needed a job.
Babysitting brought in money during the early teen years.
When she turned 16 she heard about a job at a small dress job.
One day after school, she entered the store full of hope.
Determined to get hired, she introduced herself to the owner.
No fear – just hope.
Determination to make her life better steeled her spine as she asked for a job and listed her qualifications:
1.Seamstress – able to do quick alterations.
2.Skilled at pressing clothes – her Mother taught her this skill to meet her Father’s exacting specifications for his shirts and the crease in his trousers.
3.Good with details – able to turn a messy room into an organized room.
At the end of my speech, he asked me to follow him to his office in the basement.
There were about 20 women in the store so she felt safe doing this.
Halfway down the stairs he stopped.
He asked if I had the ability to organize the mess that was the office/basement/storage room.
It was wall to wall stacked boxes with clothes spilling out creating piles on the floor..
She laughed and confidently said “Sure. You want them classified according to size or style.”
He hired her - pending a reference check.
She did not have a resume but did come prepared.
She handed him a piece of paper with her name and phone number along with the name and phone number of the following people:
1.Her sister who worked with a friend of his wife – which is how she heard about the job.
2.A well-known accountant in our town who was a family friend.
3.Her aunt who was in a book club with his aunt.
The owner was impressed that she had done her “homework” and researched him and his business.
She worked for two years at the store.
She watched. She asked questions.
She learned:
1.how to sell clothes – communication skills
2.how to display clothes – marketing skills
3.how to keep track of payment receipts – business finance skills
4.how to keep track of inventory – inventory management skills.
She took these skills with her along with her networking skills when she moved to the big city after high school graduation.
Her business skills helped tame fear during her first rent negotiation.
Her first job was in fashion, her passion.
After a year it fizzled because she was stuck in a job rut.
She hated to admit it but the reality of long hours and low pay forced her to move on from her passion for fashion.
She heard about a job at a Fortune 500 company as secretary in the office of the President of one of the six divisions of the company.
Heady stuff for a kid from a small, upstate city where the Fortune 500 company had a manufacturing facility where family members and friends worked.
Once again, the power of networking was a source of:
- information about a job.
- details about company culture.
- references.
Her career growth continued throughout her 20’s.
Two major career ruts got in her way during that time.
Hope and determination and networking helped her find solutions to get back on her career growth path.
In her 30’s, she became a widow.
She retired from the business world for a bit to take care of children – herself.
To rebuild her family – her life.
Eventually she pursued a dream to see if she could earn a degree.
Never too late.
Never too old.
She earned a B. A. in history and an M. S. in marriage and family therapy.
She became a systemic psychotherapist,
She used her degree and her personal and professional experiences to re-build, again.
An economic downturn stalled the start of this new phase of her career growth.
Fear did not take hold.
Hope and determination helped her face this change and turn it to her advantage by:
1.Downsizing to cut costs.
2.Leaning on the comfort of reliable networking skills to find jobs.
Possibilities were slim.
3.She asked about jobs at every place she went.
4.She followed-up possibilities by going to the job site and introducing herself and asking for a job.
That first job experience as a teenager gave her the knowledge that hope is the fuel of action that fights fear.
She picked-up part-time work to pay the bills.
In time she secured a full-time position at a clinic.
Eventually, she realized she liked the diversity of the part-time work.
She quit the full-time clinic.
Contracted with a couple clinics as a part-time therapist while building a full-time psychotherapy practice.
She had created her new career growth path.
She loved it.
Then networking, again, offered new opportunities,
A colleague called asking for help.
Due to a family emergency, the colleague had to back-out of a teaching position at the local community college two weeks before the start of the semester.
The colleague asked her if she could teach the class for the fall semester.
Of course, she took the challenge which she was able to do because of her flexible work schedule.
She met with the Dean and was immediately onboarded as a college professor at the community college.
She loved teaching and turned it into another career growth path.
Eventually, physical limitations curtailed in-class teaching and she turned to online teaching which led to creating an online website where she shares career growth basics and basics for hope to help others get out of a career rut and get and stay on a path to career growth.
Go HERE for more details.
What is The B4H System
and
What are the benefits of using
Basics 4 Hope?
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The B4H System Basics 4 Hope has four parts.
Each part is presented in a soon to be published workbook. SO - STAY IN TOUCH! |
Benefits Learn to build abilities into career growth skills. Create a career growth foundation based on career growth skills to fit your wants and needs. Create the habit of remembering hope to wrestle fear and take action. Learn to view change as an opportunity for career growth. |
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Remember.
Hope wrestles fear.
Live in the possibilities.
Andrea
aka Babci