Preparing for Today's Global Job Market From the Lens of Color

Worldwide, people are being forced out of their respective job markets. New college graduates are entering a global job market that has dramatically changed its rules of engagement, and entrepreneurs are challenged to develop new mindsets. Yet, in all situations there is either a total lack of or inconsistency in communications regarding the call for new competencies and skills that frame these new rules of employment engagement.

Via a detailed interpersonal and intra-personal change model, Preparing for Today's Global Job Market identifies and delineates a methodology for effectively positioning and/or repositioning oneself in today's global job market that moves significantly beyond strategies associated with simply developing a resume, cover letter or business plan. Robinson-Easley also engages business executives, human resource professionals and training and development personnel in a conversation that suggests a different dialogue ensue between employers and their employees when organizations need to upgrade their workforce competencies and skills—a conversation that serves as a roadmap for better aligning organizational effectiveness and change to today's requisite core competencies and skills.

Christopher Anne Robinson-Easley is CEO of Enlightening Management Consultants, Inc. and Associate Professor of Management at Governors State University and a former seminarian at Chicago Theological Seminary. She received her Ph.D. in organization development from Benedictine University. Over the course of her twenty-one year consulting career, Dr. Easley has extensively worked with entrepreneurial firms, government agencies, non profits, social service and religious organizations and the corporate business sector.

Part One: The interpersonal and intra-personal dynamics organizations now require
Chapter One: The realities of a new organizational psychological contract—your career; your responsibility; your personal development strategy
Chapter Two The revised relationship between employer and employee: Why new rules of engagement and revised psychological contracts are globally required
Chapter Three: The realities of joblessness in today's global market: The impact upon the employee and employer
Chapter Four: Foundational praxes for personal re-engineering in today's global job market
Chapter Five: Stress Management Controls: Strategies for evoking a less stressful job entry and/or re-entry process
Chapter Six: The nuances of effective human capital performance strategies: Deconstructing the dynamics of inter and intra-personal change
Chapter Seven: Today's required competencies, skills and employment expectationsPart Two: Engaging the Next Steps of the Job Search Process
Chapter Eight: As corporations set forth a vision—so should an employee
Chapter Nine: The alignment of your personal vision to your mission and career strategy: Implementation now begins
Chapter Ten: Research and Analysis: Critically deconstruct the nuances of today's global market
Chapter Eleven: Developing an Effective Resume
Chapter Twelve: The Criticality of a Cover Letter: What strengths do you bring to an organization?
Chapter Thirteen: The foundations of effective interviewing
Chapter Fourteen: Follow-up and Persistence: The dynamics of effectively marketing what you can do to make an organizational difference
Chapter Fifteen: Exploring the landscape of options —the mindset of an entrepreneur
Chapter Sixteen: The global application of this book
Chapter Seventeen: Engaging in a conversation between both parties of today's working world: The need for a different dialogue between employers and the workforce
Chapter Eighteen Concluding thoughts