Workshop Topics - Producing long-term career results while integrating your career, faith and life - Activities for immediate success "if the phone rings today and it is..."
- How to practically balance yours skills, mission and income requirements - Identifying your core competencies for success - Developing your message - qualifiers, differentiators and elevators - Do-Able networking approaches that produce job offers - Resumes - professional strategies for getting "out of the stack" - Cover letters - how to be exactly on target - Creating results without relying on the Internet - How to work with others to create mutually beneficial alliances
All CTF Workshops Are Open to the Public
Six-Week Evening Workshop This is our most in-depth career transition workshop with topics ranging from career discernment to incorporating what you clarify about yourself into a resume that sells you and your skill set. Learn how to authentically describe what you bring to the workplace and how to turn interviews into job offers. The workshop meets Thursday evenings from 7:00 to 9:30 PM. See the testimonials section below for what prior participants have said about this high-impact program that combines faith with discernment and tips on how to navigate the realities of today's competitive marketplace. Participation is open to the public with first priority seating reserved for members of sponsoring organizations. To register, or if you would like to sponsor such a program at your church, please call Cathy Synko, CTF Coordinator at 734.332.8800 x 228 ______________ One-Day Seminar This one-day workshop, from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM, is presented by Nick Synko, Careers Through Faith Founder, author of Future At Work and Principal Partner, Synko Associates, LLC a career-coaching firm. Learn practical career-transition steps and down-to-earth ideas you can use to move from fear to hope and begin achieving your career goals. See the testimonials section below for what prior participants have said about this high-impact program that combines faith with discernment and tips on how to navigate the realities of today's competitive marketplace. To register call Cathy Synko, CTF Coordinator at 734.332.8800 x 228 Registration is now open, call the CTF office at 734.332.8800 x 228 _______________ Free Evening Workshop Considering a career transition? Interested in integrating your career, faith and life? This concise presentation delivers: 1) a proven process for career discernment, and 2) key career-transition insights on how to move from "What's next?" to "What's best?" Program presenter, Nick Synko, is the Principal Partner of Synko Associates, LLC a professional career coaching and outplacement firm located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Nick is also the featured workplace columnist for Faith magazine. See www.SynkoAssociates.com for further information on Nick's background. To register, or if you would like to sponsor such a program at your church, please call Cathy Synko, CTF Coordinator at 734.332.8800 x 228
Comments from Past CTF Participants ______________________ Thank you for all your help in starting me on the journey of self-discovery and change. I remember you telling me that it was worth the time and effort. Your words were prophetic! I pray that you are able to help many others on their journeys. I look forward to crossing paths again in the future.God bless you, your family and your ministry to those seeking to grow through integration of their faith and careers. -- Dennis Wingfield - From Ford to a Fruitful Future based on Faith ______________________
Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to share your ideas on incorporating your faith into your career. Your presentation was outstanding. I particularly liked the idea of adding "Purpose" to the SAINT and Income diagram. I am certain that all came away with some new food for thought, food for a life changing idea to come to them. Without the unselfish support of people like you, our group would flounder. Thanks. -- Ed Walton, Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Career Networking Group ______________________
I got the job! Key 100+ Tips I used were like-ability first, focused qualifiers and differentiators... I was empowered and invigorated!I am still in a bit of awe that some low-key networking led me to this opportunity. Be sure to tell others that having the basics in place and on a flip chart on the wall during a phone interview is both empowering and energizing. Bill is back! Thanks. -- Bill Bartely ______________________ Thanks! I am greatly relieved to again be employed. Careers through Faith gave me the opportunity to freely discuss my faith and find a job that used my God-given gifts in a way pleasing to God. Your Career Transition Tips were well organized and helped me to put my thoughts in order and to really assess my skills and abilities. I strongly believe that it was through these Tips and your help in revising my resume and cover letter that I was invited to interview. -- Margaret Klammer
What Others Are Saying About Their CTF Experience _________________________
If you think things will never change for you, you should know I spent 20 years of frustration wandering in the career desert. Then Nick provided the guidance, support, and encouragement I needed to discover God's plan for me. Thanks to Nick, I have found the courage, commitment, and inner resources to cross into the Promised Land. Thank God I am free at last! All I can say is that if you reach out, God provides the rest. -- Hugh Costello, President, Mighty Mech LLC, Fairmont, West Virginia _________________________
Nick and Cathy bring people together in a workshop that inspires participants to understand themselves, their world, and their careers through the lenses of community, oneness, and spirituality. It's a refreshing, invigorating, and vital part of anyone's career management. -- Robert Hindinger, Robert@Hindinger.com _________________________
I am happy to serve as a reference for Careers Through Faith (CTF). The very best thing about CTF, and absolutely unique to that organization is Nick Synko and his wife Cathy. They have a depth of understanding because of their own life lived, the depth of communication they have with many, many people and because of their faith. They are thinkers, doers and encouragers; knowledgeable, wise and honest. For Nick this is a vocation about which he is passionate. He wants the very best for you.
The seminars are designed to motivate the participant to take responsibility for the life and gifts God has given us. They do just that. It is great to be in a forum with people with similar motivations, wherever you are in life, whatever the circumstances you are in, and find a kind of communion with them. The group becomes very supportive.
CTF is a spring board to get you on your way and the people you meet will motivate, facilitate, inform and support.
The overall effect of being in the seminars was to mark a watershed in my life, to really show myself that I was at the stage to do something definite about my direction in life; this is IT! And so it was. It gave me the impetus I needed, the accountability (I have stayed in touch with Cathy and Nick ever since), the belief that it was possible to find the answers and the courage to persist until I knew the what, the where, the how and all the other answers I needed. So here I am 3.5 years later... and finishing up pre-requisites for nursing (and doing exceedingly well in school).
If someone had told me that a few years back I would have not believed all this could fall into place or that I had what it took with God's help - a significant part of which was Careers Through Faith.
God bless you, guide you and give you peace.
-- Elizabeth Chewter
Nick, Here are a few of the universally positive testimonials we received about your recent presentations at St. Francis. -- Marty Lucas, Director Adult Faith Formation St. Francis of Assisi Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan _________
Nick Synko's session was thought-provoking and engaging surrounded by a backdrop of spirituality.The concepts presented continue to challenge me today as I discover more about my dreams and the dreams of those most dearest to me. - Elizabeth Herness Peters _________ Nick's session was very enlightening.He provided clear exercises on beginning your search for your calling, and provided uplifting encouragement and hope. - Mark Gawronski _________ Nick suggested that ideally our careers will reflect our spiritual values and that we should first reflect on those values in order to find the way to an ideal career.Not only did I find this a worthwhile train of thought to pursue, I justplain enjoyed Nick because he inspired confidence in his listeners. I believe that he not only has developed a great set of tools for his clients but that his own spirit inspires his clients to believe they can identify and achieve their career goals. - Cathy Sheets _________
To Cathy O'Donnell:
I just wanted to thank you for the Ann Arbor News article on Careers Through Faith. I called Cathy Synko that day and learned there was a new class starting that Saturday. I joined the class and can't tell you how helpful and encouraging it has been... The best part about this program is that it integrates a faith aspect. This has been the missing element in other career programs. If it hadn't been for your article, I would have missed out on a wonderful life-changing opportunity.
