Josephine Hanan - Your Transition Specialist

Josephine Hanan is a dynamic speaker, who consistently inspires audiences to be their best. She continually encourages people to find their next level of excellence and make a real contribution to their teams, organizations, and customers throughout their career.

Josephine has been actively involved in two Toastmaster International clubs. She was awarded Toastmaster of the Year and has held the following offices: Webmaster, Secretary, Vice President of Membership, President, and Past President. Josephine has earned her Advanced Communicator Bronze and Advanced Leader Bronze and has won Humorous, International, Table Topics and Evaluation speaking contests.  

On this page, you can navigate to any of the following:

• Speaking topics:
  • Making the Best of Your Transition: Marketing Yourself and Making a Difference 
  • Deciding What’s Next: The Ins and Outs of Career Exploration and Planning
  • Finding a Job Faster: How to Streamline Your Job Search
  • Mastering Interviewing: Sounding Great and Showcasing Your Skills
  • Your 1st 90 Days on the Job: How to Impress from Day One 
  • Creating a Lifetime of Career Success: Leaving Your Leadership Legacy
• Bonuses
• Scheduling   

 

 Speaking Topics:

Making the Best of Your Transition: Marketing Yourself and Making a Difference 

Being in career transition can be downright scary, frustrating, and confusing whether it’s your first time or your tenth time.  The question then becomes how do you make the best of it? Better yet, how do you make being in transition one of the best times of your life? 

In this interactive presentation, focused on understanding what matters most to you now, takeaways will include the following:

• The secret to embracing your transition as a clean slate
• The trickle-down effect  being in transition has on your relationships
• Assessment tools which will help you to holistically determine what’s important to you
• Techniques to continually grow yourself as a professional and to make a difference in the meantime
• The #1 tool to transform each day of your transition into an accomplishment
• A transition accountability plan that will drive your success 

 

Deciding What’s Next: The Ins and Outs of Career Exploration and Planning 

How will you make the most of your career? Is it time to map out a strategy to move up in your organization or a strategy to move on? 

The reality is that the only person looking out for your career is you, so knowing what is important to you is critical.  As many people have found out the hard way, you can’t assume that your company knows what’s best for you or that you are even in a job that has a future. It’s up to you to always know what your options are and where you can go based on the skills and interests you have.   

It’s also important to realize that you can make your career dreams come true no matter where you are in your life … but only if you know what your dreams are and if you are 100% committed to succeeding at a specific plan.   

So when is the best time to participate in Career Exploration? The answer is always NOW. In this hands-on presentation, takeaways will include the following:

• The #1 Tool for assessing if it’s up or out for your job
• A methodology for assessing where to go from here in your career
• Resources to move from your career ideal to realization
• Techniques for making the most of current job before transitioning
• Strategies for navigating the career ladder within your organization and becoming a rising star
• Answers to FAQ’s about how to have the career of your dreams 
• The secrets to overcoming the biggest barriers to making your next career move
• A “taking your career by the horns” management system

 

Finding a Job Faster: How to Streamline Your Job Search 

With skyrocketing national unemployment rates and competition galore, job seekers across the board seem to be asking the same two questions: Who are getting jobs in this economy? What is the fastest way to find a job?

 This dynamic, interactive presentation – founded in discussions with employers and recruiters across professions and industries — will have the following takeaways:

• The truth about resumes and cover letters
• The secret to making the most of daily job search tasks (e.g., how to best utilize your time)  
• The #1 Tool for devising a proactive job search strategy (via social networking, old fashion networking, and informational interviews)
• The need-to-know factors when seeking out additional support
• Critically thinking about finding a job now versus finding a career
• Ideas for making money in transition, as part-time income, or as eventual full-time income
• Overcoming common barriers to employment (aka: How to avoid being weeded out during the hiring process)
• What employers and recruiters have to say about who are getting jobs in an employer’s market
• How to stand out from a crowd of equally-qualified candidates
• The “find-a-job-fast” management system 

 

Mastering Interviewing: Sounding Great and Showcasing Your Skills

Unfortunately, how people act in a job and how people act in a job interview can be two completely different things.  If only there was a way for potential employers to get to know the “real you”, as opposed to the “nervous you”, who fidgets in your chair and stumbles over your answers. If only potential employers could see the “real you”, who is even better in-person than on paper and whose accomplishments speak for themselves.  

The good news is that you can come across 100% more polished than you currently are just by practicing, observing yourself, and making corrections until the “real you” becomes your default behavior even when you’re nervous!

This customized presentation – tailored to bringing out your strengths, mitigating your weaknesses, and increasing your comfort with answering whatever question comes your way – will have the following takeaways:

• The secret to answering the toughest interviewing questions
• Techniques to showcase your strengths and accomplishments
• The STAR method to answering behavioral interviewing questions
• Mock interviewing video footage, which will allow you to distinguish the “real you” from the “nervous you” and overcome unflattering habits
• Personal coaching to help you triumph in face of your biggest barriers to employment and communicate extremely effectively
• Tips to take your communication skills to the next level
• Answers to FAQ’s about illegal interviewing questions
• The #1 Tool for leaving a great impression with potential employers  

 

Your 1st 90 Days on the Job: How to Impress from Day One

The time to start thinking about your first 90 days – or what organizations commonly think of as the “probationary” period –is BEFORE you get the job. This time period often determines how people perceive you, the future work you’ll be given and if you’ll be promoted, so it is critical that you make a great impression and sustain it.

In this practical, interactive presentation, your takeaways will include the following:

• Creating a strategic, pre-work check list
• The biggest challenges to success assessment
• Answers to FAQ’s about probationary periods
• The “What your boss may really think about probation” report
• The #1 Tool for making a great impression from Day One
•  Secrets about how star performers have continual success 

 

Creating a Lifetime of Career Success: Leaving Your Leadership Legacy

You are not your job; you are not your title; and you certainly are not your salary. Then, who are you? Who is the real person behind each job you take and each organization you significantly contribute to?  What is your personal brand?  How will you differentiate yourself throughout your career and more so, how will you leave a leadership legacy for being you?

In today’s job market, employers have their choice of highly qualified – and even over-qualified – candidates across industries and professions.  So, why should employers pick you?  Are you just another person who does their job or are you someone who is much more than that?  Moreover, how do you prove yourself beyond what you did on your past job? 

 In this power-packed, interactive presentation, takeaways will include the following:

• The who-you-are now assessment
• Painting a picture of career success
• The first impression assessment
• What star performers have in common
• Techniques to leverage the most critical career skills
• What employers and recruiters have to say about who are getting jobs in an employer’s market
• The #1 Tool for differentiating yourself and becoming a personal brand
• How to protect brand you!
• The secret to leaving a leadership legacy

 

Bonuses:

When you book Josephine, you get more than just another speech…

• Customization:  You will receive a no cost consultation to discuss your needs and create a customized training accordingly.
• Interactivity: Josephine will ensure that attendees will not only be engaged in the interactive training, but they will also have heightened retention of the material, as the training methodology is catered to all learning styles.  
• Ongoing support: You will be provided resources to deepen attendees’ understanding of the material, as well as opportunities for continued support to reinforce what was learned and sustain attendees’ commitment to it.    

Scheduling:

You can book Josephine Hanan to speak at your next event by contacting her directly. Also, feel free to review testimonials from Josephine’s previous speaking engagements.