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About 15-Minute Career Change

Are you overworked, overscheduled, and underhappy? Do you desperately want a change? If only you could find the time to think it through?

What if I could show you how to change careers in just 15 minutes a day? Could you find a 15-minute window...
...to pursue your dream career?
...to change the rest of your life?

15-Minute Career Change is the course designed especially for busy, overscheduled people like you. It includes the same processes and exercises I have used with hundreds of private coaching clients, but in a self-paced, portable system that allows you to fit it neatly into your busy, overscheduled life.

This is the career solution you have been
hoping for.

Are you...
Losing your temper at home because you are so unhappy at work?
Fantasizing about disappearing from your life?
Tired of sacrificing your entire life for the promise of a 20-year vacation when you are 70 (or 75)?

Then this course was created especially
for you.

How do I know? Because I was once just like you.

Well over 15 years ago, I started the quest to figure out this thing we call career. I am an insatiable reader, so I devoured all of the leading books: What Color Is Your Parachute, Creating You & Co., Do What You Love, and so on.

But even though I exercised, assessed, mapped, and quizzed, I could not find the right answer for me. So, I continued to stumble through my own career forest, hoping that the right career would whack me in the face like an errant branch. However, along with my stumbling came stress-related jaw and neck problems, insomnia, stomach pain, and tension headaches. And a haunting sense that I was somehow a failure.

Meanwhile, I continued to read all of the career advice I could get my eyes on. And, as I am prone to do, I tried to help my friends with what I learned.

It wasn't until about ten years ago, when I began to research the changing criteria for success in the business world for my first book, that I realized the problem I (and so many others) had in thinking about career. I realized we were trying to fit an old model into a new world. And it wasn't working.

That realization started me on the path to creating this course.

It took me more than ten years -- studying, researching, working with hundreds of people, and testing out ideas in a lot of different circumstances -- but I finally perfected a process that works.

I think it was worth the wait.

This course is different. It is built on a whole new way of thinking about career.

It's different because it was created by someone (me) who experienced what you are feeling right now. It's not based on outdated career theory or what someone in an ivory tower thinks about career. It is based on actual work with adults (not students) who were looking for the right career, tested and refined with adults (not students) in many different fields and career situations.

This course is different because it starts with the assumption that you want and deserve to be happy in your working life. You want to feel that you are making a meaningful contribution, that you are using your unique talents, that your work is suited to YOU.

If you are unhappy in your current career, you're not crazy! Even if you are successful and unhappy, you're not crazy!

Crazy is working harder and harder so you can buy more and more stuff to fill the hole created because you are not happy in your working life.

Crazy is spending 50-80 hours a week for 40 years in a job or career that you hate.

Crazy is not yearning for a happy, fulfilling, work life. One that suits your unique talents.

You need to stop asking the wrong question and start asking the right ones (learn how in this course).

You need a framework for creating your dream career. Not only does this course provide the framework, but it does it in a system that works for your everyday reality. Commit just 15 minutes in your day, and you are on your way to your dream career.

How Does It Work?

Every 3 days you receive bite-sized insights and exercises in a format that will take just 15 minutes (or less) of your time per day. It will be delivered right to your e-mail inbox in a pdf file, so you don't have to go anywhere to get it.

The course is deliberately formatted with larger type and generous margins, so that you can read it in less-than-ideal circumstances, and jot notes to yourself along the way.

It's also portable. You can also print your daily lessons and take them to work with you to read during your lunch, on a commute, or even on the treadmill.

Some days you will read a few pages of information, and some days you will work on a short exercise that will draw out the elements of your desired career.

No appointments
No schedule
No hassle

Before you know it, you will have the knowledge and insights you need to create your new dream career.

It's like a workshop in a box. Like getting career coaching to go.

Why Shannon

As an experienced coach, I have worked with hundreds of people on a wide range of career issues, including career choice and change, job search and career planning.

I draw on over 25 years of professional experience and education. I hold a bachelor's and a master's degree in communication from Michigan State University, and am a member of the Association of Career Professionals International, Coachville.com, and the International Association of Coaches. Bucknell University, the select private university in Pennsylvania, relied on my career expertise to create a career program for their alumni, a program that was recently featured in USA Today.

In my own working life, I have changed careers several times. In addition to being an entrepreneur, I have worked in a fast-growing small business, in state government, for the global advertising agency, Saatchi & Saatchi, as well as for Bucknell.

In this course, I am sharing my business secrets. The same process that has been so successful for my private coaching clients. The same process they pay hundreds of dollars for.

You are probably wondering why I would give away my business secrets. If this system is so effective, why don't I keep it just for my clients?

My friends would tell you it is just like me. That I am a bit too idealistic, prone to giving away too much. It is true. I do want to help as many people as possible to create happier, more fulfilling working lives.

What You Will Get From This Course

Find out what prompted a burned-out IT executive to quit his job and launch a career as a freelance writer.

Hear how a woman made the decision to leave the big-city corporate grind to return to school, pursuing her dream of teaching healthy lifestyles.

Learn the process an entrepreneur used to combine his expertise, hobbies, and passions into his dream career.

Experience the questions that pushed a graphic designer to realize her dream of becoming a
fine artist.

Benefits Of This Course

Create your new career in just 15 minutes a day with a system that fits into your schedule and works for even really, busy people.
Exercises, quizzes and checklists to draw out the answers without you having to struggle.
Profiles of people who used the system to show you exactly how to use it for your own career change.

What You'll Gain From This Course

Get clarity about what you have to offer.
Understand your own unique talents, dreams, and career criteria and how you can create a career by blending them.
Feel confident about your goals, your decisions, and where you are headed.
Finally start on the journey to change.

A Peek at What You Will Learn

The characteristics of the new career and why the old model will send you down the wrong path.
The myths that keep people stuck in the wrong job and the realities that will set you free.
Why identifying your own unique career criteria is important now and for your future success.
How your childhood hobbies impact today's career.
The difference between a fantasy and a dream career and why it matters.
Are you meaning-deficient? Identify what is meaningful to you and how to integrate it into your new career.
Creating your own, personal definition of success.
Identify your unique talents and how they translate to a new career.
Three common mental walls that prevent change, and strategies and tools to break through them.
Your career core values and the impact they have on your choices.
Designing your ideal working life.
Your career ROI and how it affects your satisfaction on the job.
The questions to ask to determine if an organization is the right one for you.
Developing your unique primary and secondary career criteria.
What your interest pools can show you about your new career.
Developing a criteria matrix for making decisions.
Closing the gap on your new career.
Strategies for starting your new career, even if you can't leave your old one.
Search strategies and tools specifically for career changers.

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