Career Fitness
How to Build Lasting Success at Work
Hosted by the New Professionals Section.
Category: Leadership & Management
Rapidly evolving market dynamics, technological innovations and customer needs are changing job requirements at warp speed. How do you survive, let alone prosper, in such an environment? Practice “Career Fitness.”
Developed by The Wall Street Journal columnist and author Peter Weddle, Career Fitness is an innovative system of principles and practices that can help you increase both the paycheck and the satisfaction you bring home from work. It provides a regimen of career-building activities that can be effectively used by young professionals to accelerate their advancement and lay the groundwork for sustained success.
In this program you will learn:
- How employers’ expectations of workers are changing and what that means for young professionals.
- The key principles for effective career self-management in today’s hyper-kinetic workplace.
- How to set goals that will keep your career moving forward, even in difficult economic times.
- The seven facets of a healthy career and the best activities for developing each of them.
How to recognize and record your career accomplishments so they work for you.
Instructor
Peter Weddle is the CEO of WEDDLE’s Research & Publications, which specializes in employment and workforce issues. WEDDLE’s guides to Internet employment sites are the gold standard of their genre, leading the American Staffing Association to call Weddle the “Zagat of the online employment industry.” His most recent books, “The Career Activist Republic” and “Work Strong: Your Personal Career Fitness System,” offer a frank, yet positive, assessment of the challenges and opportunities available to working men and women in 21st century America.
Participants earn 1.0 APR Maintenance Credits for a webinar. For more information on Accreditation maintenance, visit http://www.prsa.org/Learning/Accreditation.
