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Night Owl Companion Publishing was founded to fill an urgent, unmet need for practical, timely information and resources to help you manage through “the stuff that keeps you up at night.”
We focus on self-help and informed decision-making - solutions for people in transition. Our original booklets, workbooks, ebooks and audio materials offer insight and perspective in the areas of work, career, learning, growth, wellness and other important life topics.
We save you time and energy. Because we’ve done the research! We distill our findings and recommendations into succinct, practical, easy to digest materials.
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Barbara Chan, Executive Coach, Barbara Chan Consulting
If you are looking for help to find work or re-enter the workplace during these challenging times, look no further. Marty Silberstein, who has years of marketing services experience, launched Night Owl Companion Publishing to provide practical tools and resources in booklets and workbooks that will guide you in your quest.
"Finding the Work You Want" is a workbook that connects you to your strongest work values, current trends, and helps you assess and map your skills in preparation for marketing yourself to prospective employers.
"Re-entering the Workplace: Seven Questions You Must First Ask and Answer" by award-winning journalist Beth Witrogen, takes you through seven key questions to create your re-entry plan.
"Your Work Search Companion," provides important contemporary resources for mapping and conducting your search. Like Witrogen's booklet, the "Companion" comes in a compact size so you can carry it with you from library to wifi cafe to recruiters and more. With Night Owl Companion, you'll get more sleep knowing that these publications will accompany you on the path to a new or renewed career.
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FIND THE WORK YOU WANT, New Resource Guides Job Seekers to Self-Discovery
OAKLAND, CALIF.-Growing numbers of people are actively pursuing jobs but are experiencing long periods of unemployment. The U.S. Department of Labor’s January 2009 news release reports the average duration of unemployment at 19.7 weeks. Twenty-three percent of unemployed persons report they have been out of work 27 weeks or longer.
As a consequence of the economic downturn, many people are taking this opportunity to take stock of their working lives. Whether they are currently in the job-search market - by choice or by circumstance - or they see an employment change in the near future, many are revisiting their personal world of work and are now asking, “What do I really want to do next?”
“Because this question can feel too big to tackle, many people hesitate and get stuck as they look for new jobs,” says Marty Silberstein, author of Finding the Work You Want: A Practical Guide to Help You Discover Your Values, Skills, and Marketability (Night Owl Companion Publishing). “The key to solving what seems a perplexing puzzle is to first understand your values, skills and preferences and then to evaluate potential workplaces using this yardstick. Greater self-knowledge paired with an understanding of the current marketplace will lead to better-informed decisions and to a higher probability of success.” Silberstein, founder of Night Owl Companion Publishing in Oakland, Calif., says that “the new world of work calls for managing your career differently. Self-understanding, flexibility, and continual preparation and reinvestment in yourself mean ongoing marketability.”
While self-assessment may feel like a daunting task, it need not be painful. Finding the Work You Want: A Practical Guide to Help You Discover Your Values, Skills, and Marketability leads you through easy-to-follow exercises. Topics include 12 guiding principles that help focus the job search, seven key workplace trends, how to acid-test your marketability, and how to identify and prioritize values, preferences and skill sets. With this accessible workbook you will create a values map and translate those values into workplace requirements. A personal “decision maker” worksheet will help you evaluate prospective job opportunities. “Working wisely” tips are sprinkled throughout. How to take your talent to the marketplace and an excellent resources list complete this timely, practical workbook.
About the Author
Marty Silberstein founded Night Owl Companion Publishing to fill what she recognized as an urgent need for the high-quality practical, timely information, insight and resources for people in transition. Her background in communications, marketing services and HR now blend to serve this deep passion. Night Owl Companion offers practical, timely resources to help with “the stuff that keeps you up at night.” We focus on informed decision-making and self-help in the areas of work, career, personal growth, and other important life topics. Selected titles include Your Work Search Companion: A Toolkit for Finding Your Best Place to Work by Marty Silberstein and Re-entering the Workplace: Seven Questions You Must First Ask and Answer by Beth Witrogen, a double Pulitzer Prize nominee for her writing about family caregiving.
Finding the Work You Want: A Practical Guide to Help You Discover Your Values, Skills, and Marketability (ISBN 978-0-9817294-1-1) 47 pages, 8.5 x 11, January 2009, $16.95, is available through the publisher, Night Owl Companion Publishing. Order online at www.NightOwlCompanion.com.
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FOR LOVE OR MONEY - MORE ARE RE-ENTERING THE JOB MARKET
A New Resource Helps You Manage the Transition
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA-Increasing numbers of people are heading back into the job market after long absences - some by choice, others out of necessity. Having stopped because of childbirth, illness, divorce, eldercare, premature retirement or business difficulties, many had vanished from the employment radar. Now they are looking for work, the most common reasons being money, healthcare benefits, mental stimulation, and staying productive. But they are returning with a host of questions and insecurities.
“Returning to the workplace after an extended absence can feel intimidating and overwhelming,“ said Beth Witrogen, author of Re-entering the Workplace: Seven Questions You Must First Ask and Answer. She explained, “People typically don’t know where to start an effective job search. Today the world of work and its technologies have changed. In addition, this challenged economy has created added competition. Those re-entering the marketplace, whether to look for a sustaining job or to resume a career, must have a keen sense of themselves and their goals. They must now use more creative work search strategies.”
The U.S. Department of Labor shows that one-third of highly qualified women take time out of the workforce. While 93% of them want to return to work, only 74% actually do. Some may abandon their efforts out of discouragement, because they are unfamiliar with the tools and resources needed to look for a new job effectively in this competitive market.
Witrogen suggests that re-entrants can become fully prepared and confident by first understanding their motivations, fears, and preferences. Re-entering the Workplace: Seven Questions You Must First Ask and Answer poses critical questions that help structure thinking, lower resistances, and clarify direction. Practical next steps for an action plan, helpful tips and an excellent resources list round out this timely, practical resource.
About the Author
Beth Witrogen is a writer, speaker, and consultant on spirituality, caregiving, and renewal at midlife. She is a double Pulitzer Prize nominee, one for her book Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal (Wiley) and one for her groundbreaking newspaper series (“The Caregivers”) at The San Francisco Examiner. She has been published and interviewed widely by national media for her insights into healing and growth at midlife. She gives keynotes and workshops on conscious aging, wellness for caregivers, and women’s issues. Beth is also a professional photographer specializing in wildlife; her images often accompany her talks. Reach her through www.witrogen.com.
About the Publisher
Night Owl Companion offers practical, timely resources to help with “the stuff that keeps you up at night.” Our print and audio materials present insight, perspective and solutions for people in transition. We focus on informed decision-making and self-help in the areas of work, career, personal growth, health and wellness and other important life topics. Selected titles include, Your Work Search Companion: A Toolkit for Finding Your Best Place to Work, and Finding the Work You Want: A Practical Guide to Help You Discover Your Values, Skills, and Marketability.
Re-entering the Workplace: Seven Questions You Must First Ask and Answer
(ISBN 978-0-9817294-2-8) 34 pages, January 2009, $13.95, is available through the publisher, Night Owl Companion Publishing. Order online at www.NightOwlCompanion.com
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HOW TO FIND THE BEST PLACES TO WORK IN LESS TIME WITH LESS STRESS
New Resource Helps Jump-Start a Successful Job Search
OAKLAND, CALIF.—Growing numbers of people now find themselves in the job market - whether by choice or by circumstance. Many have enjoyed long tenures at stable companies, until now, and have not had to look for a new job in years. Feeling overwhelmed - mentally, emotionally, physically and financially - job seekers are in a quandary about how to begin their search. And though Internet technologies provide powerful new tools, thoughtful and creative search strategies are more essential than ever.
“Endlessly trolling the online job boards is not a sound work search strategy,“ said Marty Silberstein, author of Your Work Search Companion. “While job boards should be one tool in the search, job seekers who rely on them exclusively miss most opportunities by using this passive approach,” says Silberstein, founder of Night Owl Companion Publishing in Oakland. “Most positions are not advertised. Particularly in this business climate, employers who post openings on large job sites are deluged instantaneously with hundreds of both qualified and unqualified applicants. From the recruiter’s point of view, this selection process is unwieldy and costly. Their objective is to source qualified candidates as efficiently as possible.”
Your Work Search Companion helps people jump-start their job search. It presents a sound strategy and guides job seekers to the best online and traditional resources, saving them valuable time and effort.
Well-researched and accessible, Your Work Search Companion distills massive amounts of information into quality recommendations. Topics include tips for a successful job search, how to use proven strategies, tapping the most credible online and offline information, using online groups and social networks to your advantage, networking by design, maximizing professional associations, discovering the library, working with recruiters, work style options, and how to approach prospective employers for best results. An excellent resources list completes this timely, easy-to-follow practical resource.
About the Author
Marty Silberstein founded Night Owl Companion Publishing to fill what she recognized as an urgent need for the high-quality practical, timely information, insight and resources for people in transition. Her background in communications, marketing services and HR now blend to serve this deep passion. Night Owl Companion offers practical, timely resources to help with “the stuff that keeps you up at night.” We focus on informed decision-making and self-help in the areas of work, career, personal growth, learning, wellness and other important life topics. Selected titles include Finding the Work You Want: A Practical Guide to Help You Discover Your Values, Skills, and Marketability by Marty Silberstein and Re-entering the Workplace: Seven Questions You Must First Ask and Answer by Beth Witrogen, a double Pulitzer Prize nominee for her writing about family caregiving.
Your Work Search Companion: A Toolkit for Finding Your Best Place to Work (ISBN 978-0-9817294-0-4) 58 pages, 2009, $16.95, is available through the publisher, Night Owl Companion Publishing. Order online at www.NightOwlCompanion.com.
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Marty Silberstein, Founder
