Career Coaching Collective: Find Where You Thrive
The Career Coaching Collective is a 3-month program offered quarterly and designed to create a structured, supportive space for JETs to focus on career growth. Each cohort is led by a JET alum professional career coach who understands the uniqueness JET experience and helps translate that experience along with the rest of your career into your next professional step, whether you are early in your career or more established.
Each quarter, a cohort of JETs move through a themed workshop series in a supportive space that promotes reflection, accountability and personalized feedback under the guidance of a professional JET alum career coach. At the end of each workshop series, registrants have the opportunity to meet with one of our partner recruiting companies.
For our third quarterly installment, the theme is Find Where You Thrive, led by JET alum Aaron Miller (Ehime, 2002-2004).
Career transitions require more than resume updates and networking. They also require understanding the kinds of organizational cultures where you thrive. This three-part series introduces the “intentional outsider” framework to help JETs leverage their cross-cultural experience, better evaluate workplace environments, identify new opportunities, and move from simply job searching to building a career with intention.
Dates & Workshop Details
*please note: all times are in Pacific Time
Becoming an Intentional Outsider
Discovering your “ikigai” and articulating core values to define who you want to become.
🗓️ July 15, 6:30 PM PT
Touchpoint: July 29, 6:30 PM PT
The Culture-Driven Career Search
Using active observation and “cultural due diligence” to evaluate potential employers.
🗓️ August 12, 6:30 PM PT
Touchpoint: August 26, 6:30 PM PT
Find Where You Thrive
Matching the core of you to the organizations where you belong.
🗓️ September 9, 6:30 PM PT
Touchpoint: September 23, 6:30 PM PT
Member Pricing
USJETAA Member Price: $100 (market value: $600). Registration includes all three workshop sessions, along with the follow-up touchpoints and the option to meet with a recruiter at the end of the workshop series.
The Career Coaching Collective is available only to JETs and alumni with USJETAA membership. Please register for this workshop series after signing into your USJETAA membership account.
Space is very limited. Once registration fills, you will be placed on a waitlist.
About Aaron Miller (Ehime, 2002-2004)
Aaron L. Miller, MSc, PhD, CPCC, ACC channels his passion for helping people grow as a certified professional coach, cultural consultant, author, and educator. Currently, Aaron works as a leadership coach for DPR Construction, and serves as the Founder and CEO of Amplify Coaching & Consulting, LLC.
Aaron began his career as a member of the JET Program, as an Assistant Language Teacher, in a rural town on the island of Shikoku, Japan. During graduate school, he studied advanced Japanese at the Inter-University Center in Yokohama, Japan, and worked in research, teaching, and translation for various Japanese universities, including Tokyo University, Waseda University, Sophia University and Kyoto University, where he held a five-year Hakubi Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Since that time, Aaron has consulted on Japanese business culture matters for the Fortune 500 clients of Japan Intercultural Consulting, advised on talent acquisition strategies for Major League Baseball teams, directed research reports for the Japanese government on education/youth sports, and helped source, secure, and smooth relationships among Japanese- and English speaking employees at Tesla, Inc. Aaron has also lectured at California State University, East Bay, St. Mary’s College of California, and San Jose State University.
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