Career and Job Search Preparation

This course can help you move forward in your career path, helping you redefine where you are now and where you want to be in the coming months and years. This is your chance to re-invent yourself and redefine yourself now. Ditch any downer thoughts and instead allow this course to help you transfer what you know into a new career or opportunity.

What you will learn:

• How to redefine and reinvent yourself
• Where to look for help toward a new career
• How to transfer old skills to new opportunities
• How to use skills when seeking entrepreneurship
• Process of upskilling and reskilling
• Top 15 Transferable skills sought by companies
• How to create an action plan

Josie Podesta Soto, CHT

Certified Hospitality Trainer, AHLA with over 35 years of experience. She specializes in corporate & staff development, strategic business development, and human resources services in the hospitality, property management, and service industries in both the domestic and international markets.

Passionate about sharing what I have learned is what MKt.2000 plus is all about. The vision started in 1996 and the mission continues in 2020. With a career that started in sales and marketing and then moved on to training and development the time has come to put it all together and help others reach new heights of success. I am the CEO of my company: a creator, innovator, and optimizer of new ideas that break old paradigms and help companies and individuals grow and move forward to success. My goal is to help you achieve your goals, increase productivity while having a little fun in the workplace.

It was a privilege for her to have won the ATD Champions of Learning Silver Award including the audience award for Most Replicable Best Practice at the South Florida ATD Champions of Learning Conference in 2018. Over the years she has been featured in various publications, including the South Florida Business Journal, and received various USA Today Jewel Awards for sales innovation as well as the USA Today Market of the Year Award. She spearheaded various creative campaigns that increased guest service scores that were featured in the Forbes Client newsletter. Mrs. Podesta-Soto supports her community by actively serving on the Advisory Board of the Academy of Hospitality and Tourism as Co-Chair of the Marketing Committee; as Program Chair for the South Florida HHRA Board (2017-19); Fashion for Charity Organization, Fabulous Women and the Miami Rescue Mission. Mrs. Soto is certified in the Behavioral Selection program P. I.; she completed the certification program for Human Resources presented by The Society of Human Resources Management at Barry University She received certification as a trainer/presenter/ facilitator from Dr. Sharon Crane, President of Crane & Associates and received additional training from The Women’s Center for Executive Development and Michael Sheehan of Sheehan & Associates, Washington, D.C. She attended The Fashion Institute of Technology, La Guardia Community College and Southern Methodist University Lifelong Learning Programs. Additional lifelong learning certificates and workshops include Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Communications, Microlearning, Hospitality Management: Leadership-AHLEI, Consultative Sales with Tony Alexandra; Steven Covey-First Things First, FORBES The essential enneagram Workshop & Disney Institute Guest Service Program.