If you are a transgendered person seeking work or facing job insecurity, you already know the inner fear, uncertainity and doubt when you sit across the table from the interviewer.
You need the right set of job searching tools to successfully achieve your employment goals.
The good news is that if you have dealt with the discrimination, faced your true gender identity, and even begun the process of the real life test and transistioning to a new life, then the skillset you have acquired along the way is a huge asset already to any employer - or to you yourself, if you go the self-employment route. You know yourself better than most people, your strengths and weaknesses, and what motivates you to achieve your goals.
What you need now is to apply this awareness effectively, using the correct strategy - to help identify your best personal route to a secure income.
You can learn to target the best employers and clients, and to find the unadvertised opportunities in your area and line of work. The fact that you have engineered a major shift in your personal reality is something you can genuinely leverage to find your new professional role.
You owe it to yourself to seize any advantage you can to give yourself that crucial edge, whether your aim is to launch a new business, secure a long-term professional position. You know you deserve to find work that fulfils and motivates you, that will give you financial security, or to fund your surgical and medical priorities.
The Transgender Employment: Basic Tips, Strategies and Resources for the Successful Job Search DVD is the toolkit that will help you to draw all the strands of your income-seeking tactics together, and tackle the unique challenges faced by the transgender jobseeker.
Reframing your concept of work as something you do rather than a place that you go, will put you in the driving seat - and help you avoid the traps of under-employment and dangerous/fringe industries so many transgendered people fall prey to.
This DVD helps you to…
- Identify trans-friendly employers and organizations in your area
- Research and find out what their flowery diversity policy boils down to in practice in the workplace
- Network and connect with the 75%+ positions that will never go through a job ad in the newspaper or posted on a job board
- Repackage and transfer your existing skills, experiences and personal qualities most effectively and positively
- Cope with the practicalities of presenting yourself for interview, a work record that might include a different name, and the issues around disclosure of your transgender status
- Work from home effectively and diligently, either for yourself or for an employer
- Conceptulize, plan and launch your own online business, doing something you already know how to to do while taking advantage of social media to expand your customer list from local to global.
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