Xtreme Career Makeover was a project that Kristin Frascella and I worked on in 2007 - 2008. It includes:
1. a service - career counseling for people wanting to change their lives - and
2. a "tool kit" - tools of the trade which included resume templates, self-discovery exercises, assessments, etc. Xtreme Career Makeover project was funded by a grant that Kristin and I wrote and won. The project documented the lives of five individuals returning to re-educate and change their careers. It was very successful.
Kristin and I presented Xtreme Career Makeover at three different conferences - the ICDC (International Career Development Conference), CCA (California Counselor Association) and the Career Counselors' Professional Career Symposium held at Westmont College and sponsored by UCSB. Xtreme Career Makeover won the "Rising Star" award with Santa Barbara Human Resources Association (SBHRA), a local chapter of Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), and was voted as one of the best new idea for Human Resources Professionals to use in 2008.
So much has happened since then! Our students graduated (some with honors) and secured amazing jobs. Kristin and her husband Giovanni gave birth to a brand new baby girl in August. My private business as a career counselor took off...and now I am teaching career psychology again - at the masters' level - as an adjunct professor at Antioch University. I have the most amazing and brilliant students. They are bright, eager, and hungry for knowledge. It is truly a blessing to be giving of your talent, living your dreams, and working in a career that you love. I thank God for these gifts every day.
