Courtesy of gwul.org
Courtesy of gwul.org

The Greater Washington Urban League is offering a class for people looking to make a shift in their current job or a career change but donโ€™t know where to start.

The class, โ€œMap Your New Beginningโ€ will be offered by the organizationโ€™s Center for Financial Inclusion and the Financial Empowerment Center as a part of its โ€œSpark Seriesโ€ classes. 

The career change class will offer a coach who will walk participants through the important questions one should ask themselves during the process. Also, participants will learn how to develop a skills inventory as well as map current skills, passions, and curiosities to new opportunities. Plus, the workshop will introduce participants to assessment tools that identify talents and strengths to help start mapping a new beginning.

The โ€œMap Your Beginningโ€ class will be held online via webinar on Sept. 18 at 1 p.m. Other classes in the โ€œSpark Series” include:  โ€œItโ€™s Stressful But Itโ€™s Not All You, Part 1โ€ on Sept. 19; โ€œItโ€™s Stressful But Itโ€™s Not All You, Part 2โ€ on Sept. 20; โ€œPackage Your Brillianceโ€ on Sept.21; โ€œPlaying Chess not Checkersโ€ on Sept. 25; and Employment Law on Sept. 26.

The highly interactive classes are designed to include any learner at any level. There is no charge to take the class, which is online. Upon the completion of the โ€œSpark Seriesโ€, participants will be eligible to take advantage of our career coaching sessions at no cost.

For more information, call 202-265-8200.

James Wright Jr. is the D.C. political reporter for the Washington Informer Newspaper. He has worked for the Washington AFRO-American Newspaper as a reporter, city editor and freelance writer and The Washington...

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