Career Development Offerings
Summer 2012
You can register through UVa's Integrated System.
Or email Holly Heilberg at hollyh@virginia.edu or by phone at 924.4343.
All inquiries will be kept confidential.
Courses are FREE to all UVa Employees and time attending any of these should be consider “time worked”. For additional information, click on the course name.
Professional Development with a Certified Life Coach
Resume Writing and JOBS@ application Clinic
Critique with a Resume Professional
The Art of Interviewing
How healthy is your career? Check out our CAREER FIT offerings
Creating a Strengths-Based Career
Career Fit: A 4-Week Nia Series
A Rejuvenate and Revitalize (R & R) Retreat
Professional Development with a Certified Life Coach
Join Victoria Carter Poindexter, Life Coach, and Holly Heilberg, Career Development Specialist, as we discuss issues relating to your career development. These conversations will be an informal opportunity to receive coaching and information and advice around your career. You’ll receive help in identifying ways to look at your career to ensure continued engagement and to be inspired to reach your professional goals.
You are encouraged to bring any career related questions to the conversation. It might be about how to find another job at UVa, how to hang in there while looking for another position, writing a professional resume, interviewing skills, networking, figuring out what kind of work you want to pursue, and other career development questions. We will limit the number attending (10-12) to provide a conversational, confidential and comfortable session. You can be an active participant or an observer (whatever is your preference!).
You can attend one or as many sessions as you’d like:
Thursday, May 24th - 8:30 –10:00 a.m. - 918 Emmet Street, Room 324
Thursday, June 14th – 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. – 918 Emmet Street, Room 324
Thursday, July 12th – 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. – 2400 Old Ivy Road, Room 189
Thursday, August 9th – 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. – 2400 Old Ivy Road, Room 189
Resume Writing and JOBS@ application Clinic (These sessions will be held in a computer lab to allow you to create and/or edit your resume or work on your JOBS@ application).
It’s always important to have an updated resume with a clear record of your work history and to be prepared if a new opportunity presents itself. Join Holly Heilberg, Career Development Specialist, as you develop and perfect your resume. You will learn some “Do’s and Taboo’s” regarding your resume and have the opportunity to design or update your resume in the computer lab. If you already have a resume that needs to be updated, please bring it on a thumb drive (or send it to your personal email address as an attachment). Individuals will work independently and have the opportunity to receive feedback and suggestions from the Career Specialist with the goal of creating a current and winning resume!
You can choose to attend any or all of the following sessions that occur once a month on a Tuesday (Sessions take place in a computer lab at 2400 Old Ivy Road in Room 324):
Dates:
Tuesday, June 19th – 9 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Tuesday, July 17th – 9 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Tuesday, August 21st – 9 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Location: 2400 Old Ivy Road, Room 134
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Schedule a Virtual Resume Critique with a Resume Professional!
After you create your own resume or attend one of our resume clinics (please see above) you can have a Professional Resume Specialist review it! Heather Rudd, an experienced Career Advisor with extensive experience helping individuals create winning resumes, will provide virtual individual resume critiques (no Skype feature, just one-on-one confidential critiques via email). You are able to email your resume and she will look it over and get it back to you with any suggestions and comments. To access this service, please email Holly Heilberg at hollyh@virginia.edu to be connected with Heather. This is a free, confidential service offered to U.Va. staff and faculty.
The Art of Interviewing
It’s not always the most qualified applicant who gets the job, but the individual who does a better job of marketing their skills, experience and abilities during the interview. AND, Supervisors who need to hire the person who best fits the skills and competencies needed to be successful is critical to a department. This session will be valuable to both employees who want to be successful at interviewing and Managers/Supervisors who want to develop skills to effectively select the best talent.
Anne Mercer, HR Consultant will provide information on:
• The various “types” of interviews
• Predictable stages of an effective interview
• The important research required to identify the key competencies needed for the position
• The P.A.R. method for describing your accomplishments in a powerful way
• *Handling “behavioral interviewing” questions with confidence and ease
Date: Thursday, July 26th – 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Location: 2400 Old Ivy Road, Room 189
NOTE: The University has initiated a new practice of interviewing applicants based on “behavioral competencies”. This process involves taking each job description and identifying the “competencies” that are needed to be successful in a position. Examples of behavioral interviewing questions might be “tell me about a time when you solved a problem”. OR, “describe a situation where you were able to successfully juggle multiple priorities”. This session will offer strategies for handling these questions and techniques for communicating in a powerful and convincing manner.
How healthy is your career? Check out our CAREER FIT offerings:
Creating a Strengths-Based Career
Marcus Buckingham, author of “Strengths Finders” states that:
“Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected.”
This session will allow you to:
Discuss the idea that a person’s greatest potential for growth is in the area of his or her greatest strength
Explore a list of 32 “core talents” and identify those that are unique and enduring
Learn how you can reach your maximum potential by focusing and using individual strengths as opposed to “fixing weaknesses”….because continually being in a self-improvement mode is usually an uphill and depleting battle
Identify opportunities and strategies for using your unique strengths and creating a stronger and much more satisfying career!
Date: Thursday, June 28th – 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Location: 2400 Old Ivy Road, Room. 189
Career Fit: A 4-Week Nia Series
The Power of Nia for becoming clearer, setting limits and becoming empowered with Kristy Harvey, Licensed Nia Instructor.
In this 4-week series, you will learn to listen to your body and let it guide you in making conscious decisions. We will combine gentle movements with music, imagery, and play for an experience that will help you reduce stress and increase JOY.
This is a four-week session. You are encouraged to attend all sessions.
(Exceptions should be communicated to the Instructor):
Class 1 – Nurturing ourselves
Class 2 - Identifying our desires
Class 3 – Developing our inner power & balance
Class 4 – Commitment to change!
The Nia Technique combines movements from the martial arts, the healing arts, and dance arts. Nia is adaptable to every fitness level, every age, and every body type. Nia is the first fitness program that advocates doing things the easy way instead of the hard way.
Kristy Harvey is the Administrative Director of the UVA Mindfulness Center. In addition to making sure everything at the Center runs smoothly, she is also a licensed Nia Instructor. She recently completed her Blue Belt Intensive, the second level of Nia training. She has been dancing Nia since 2006 and teaching since 2007. She has taught in several established studios in the Charlottesville area as well as special series classes for troubled teens, cancer survivors, and corporate work groups. Kristy offers Nia classes through the UVA Mindfulness Center as part of the Mindful Movement program. Her goal is to make all Nia students feel at home in their own bodies, regardless of age, fitness level, or body type. She especially enjoys teaching beginners.
Dates: Four sessions (on Thursdays) - July 12, 19, 26 and August 2
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Location: 2400 Old Ivy Road, Room 189
A Rejuvenate and Revitalize (R & R) Retreat!
“Wow. I am totally amazed at the great things coming out of UHR recently! Last week I attended their Revitalization Retreat and it was one of the best Career Development sessions I’ve experienced in nearly 18 years at UVA. A big “Thank you!” to UHR for making this possible!”
In our “Career Fit” series we are offering a day-long revitalization retreat that will allow you to explore, reflect and spend important time with other like-minded people who desire to be more engaged in their lives. You will be able to step outside your work world and consider ways to be more engaged through greater self awareness and personal choice and enjoy a restful day as you relax, meditate and quiet your mind to become more centered and clear. Start the morning with a light breakfast of breads/muffins, juice and coffee/tea. Then take in several choices of activities:
• An introduction to the power of “meditation” with an instructor from the The Mindfulness Center
• A mindful lunch and meditative walk (if you choose) in the beautiful surroundings that will offer an opportunity to gain greater clarity and inspiration
• A mind/body movement experience with Kristy Harvey that taps into the energy of Nia (all bodies are invited)
• A totally refreshing Laughter Yoga session with Leigh Meredith that will bring a much needed sense of perspective
• A yoga session with a certified Yoga teacher from A Place to Breathe
• A final “wrap-up” to transfer the essence of the day into your life
All this, PLUS a light breakfast of muffins, juice, coffee/tea and wonderful healthy lunch, afternoon tea and a final activity that will offer an opportunity to move into your life with greater clarity and engagement.
Date(s) - Due to the popularity of this offering we ask that you only schedule to attend one session from the following dates:
Wednesday, July 11th – 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
OR
Friday, August 10th - 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: The International Center
21 University Circle, Charlottesville, VA 22904
Cost: FREE!
(NOTE: This is an HR sponsored offering and hours spent at this session are considered “hours worked” with supervisory permission.)
Enrollment Instructions Or contact Holly Heilberg at hollyh@virginia.edu or by phone at 434-924-4343.