Seminars in Collaboration with Leading Colleges and Universities

The Opportunity Knocks! Seminar
Branding Strategies for Returning Professionals
How to Host a Seminar at Your College or University
Upcoming Seminars
Work-Life Learning Alliance Partners

Our highly acclaimed Opportunity Knocks! seminar and our Branding Strategies seminars are held in collaboration with top colleges and universities nationwide. To date Women@Work has held programs in conjunction with Babson, Bates, Boston College, Colby, Connecticut College, Duke, Georgetown, Hamilton, MIT, Sarah Lawrence, Trinity College, Trinity University, Wesleyan University and Wheaton College(MA).

The Opportunity Knocks! Seminar

The four-hour Opportunity Knocks! seminar is geared to returning professional women who are in the initial thinking stages or actively searching for new work-life opportunities. Perhaps you're ready for a new intellectual challenge or seeking a new sense of purpose--and you want to move from volunteer back to professional work. You may feel that something is missing from your very full and busy life.  Or college expenses and an empty nest may be looming on the horizon--and you may want to pursue both psychic and financial rewards. If so, the Women@Work Opportunity Knocks! seminar is a great place to begin.
This interactive seminar gives you:

• New perspectives on how women are redefining work in many industries.
• Tips on how to translate your volunteer work into business terms and create a powerful skills and experience summary that will sell your strengths on your resume and during the networking and interviewing process.
• Valuable networking opportunities and tips on how to uncover influential contacts you may otherwise overlook.
• A clear vision of why and how you might want to work.
• Ideas on the kinds of opportunities that may be suitable for your personality and skill set (based on a pre-seminar "Myers-Briggs" survey).
• Thoughts on "ideal" work you might like to pursue and possible solutions to any obstacles that might stand in your way.
• A preliminary action plan for the next 90 days that gets you moving in a positive direction--and helps you decide if now is the time for you take the reentry plunge.

Once women have decided that they want to return to the workforce, they need to professionally “package” their skills and experience so that employers see that they have continued to develop their business skills through significant volunteer endeavors, part-time positions or occasional project work.

The concept of “branding”, once associated exclusively with consumer products, now applies to many more aspects of our lives—including job searches and career development. Women who package their skills and experience as carefully as advertising brand managers package consumer products have the greatest chance of returning to professional level positions.

This seminar takes women through the steps of the traditional branding process—helping them know their customers (companies they would like to work for), know the essence of their brands (who they are and what they have to offer employers), create a brand identity (how they communicate their brand in person and on paper), build their brands (promote themselves through networking) and practice brand discipline (be consistent in their job search efforts).

Upcoming Seminars

Programs are currently being scheduled for the fall of 2008. Please contact Valerie von Koschembahr for more information.

Work-Life Learning Alliance Partners

The following colleges and universities are Women@Work Alliance Partners. These are institutions that have sponsored a customized Women@Work Alumnae "Re-Connect” program for their alumnae, publicized Women@Work events or listed Women@Work as an alumnae resource on their web sites. Alumnae of Work-Life Learning Alliance Partner schools enjoy a 10% discount on all Women@Work products and services. If you would like your alma mater to be affiliated with Women@Work, or if you would like Women@Work to create a program for your alumni association or publicize events and services to alumni in your area please contact Valerie von Koschembahr.

Babson College
Bard College
Barnard College
Bates College
Boston College
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University
Carnegie Mellon University
Colby College
Colgate University
College of the Holy Cross
Columbia Business School
Columbia University
Connecticut College
Cornell University
Darden School, University of Virginia
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Dickinson College
Duke University
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Georgetown University
Gettysburg College
Hamilton College
Harvard Business School
Harvard University
Harvey Mudd College
Haverford College
Johnson School of Management, Cornell University
Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University
Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McCombs Business School, University of Texas-Austin
Middlebury College
Mount Holyoke College
New York University
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Pace University School of Law
Pomona College
Princeton University
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Sarah Lawrence College
Simmons College
Sloan School of Management, MIT
Smith College
Stanford University
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Stern School of Business, NYU
Syracuse University
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Trinity College
Trinity University
Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth
Tufts University
University of Chicago
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
University of Michigan
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
Vassar College
Washington and Lee University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania
Wheaton College (MA)
Williams College
Yale University
Yale University School of Management
Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College