From Stuck to Strategic: Rethinking Unemployment in the Age of Disruption

🧭 Half-Day Career Reframing Workshop
From Stuck to Strategic: Rethinking Unemployment in the Age of Disruption

 

🔎 Why This Workshop Matters
Unemployment today is no longer just an economic issue—it’s a clarity crisis. In an age of accelerating disruption driven by AI, green technologies, demographic shifts, and industry collapse or reinvention, traditional job-seeking methods are becoming irrelevant.

This workshop redefines unemployment as a transitional advantage. Rather than waiting for the economy or recruiters to respond, participants will be equipped with the foresight, tools, and mindset to navigate the evolving world of work—on their own terms.

Whether you're a fresh graduate, a career returnee, or recently retrenched, this workshop offers clarity, confidence, and a structured pathway to pivot from reactive to strategic.

 

📚 Workshop Overview
This 3-hour immersive workshop is designed to reframe unemployment as a powerful launchpad for reinvention. Participants will explore how to:

• Interpret emerging job market signals
• Reverse-engineer future career paths
• Combine skills across industries to build new opportunities
• Present themselves through compelling proof—not just paper CVs

The session includes practical tools, collaborative activities, and actionable templates to move from confusion to clarity.

 

🕒 Workshop Agenda

9:00 – 9:15 AM
🔓 Welcome & Reframing Unemployment

Discussion: “What surprising skill or insight have you gained while unemployed?”

Talk: Unemployment ≠ Uselessness

Key insight: “You’re not jobless—you’re temporarily income-less while repurposing your skills.”

 

9:15 – 9:45 AM
🚀 Entrepreneurial Job Seeking: Think Differently

• Why waiting for HR is a mistake
• Introduction to Effectual Reasoning (What you know, Who you know, What you can do now)
• Activity: Map your current assets and possible career experiments

 

9:45 – 10:15 AM
📡 Signal Reading & Future Mapping Exercise

• Learn to track signals from AI, climate tech, longevity economies, and geopolitics
• Activity: Write your “Future CV – Year 2035” and work backwards

 

10:15 – 10:45 AM
🔧 From Reskilling to Capacity Building

• Why reskilling isn’t enough anymore
• Understand how cross-sector knowledge builds agility (e.g., logistics + AI, healthcare + data)
• Activity: Design your Skill Stack for future roles

 

10:45 – 11:15 AM
🧠 The Mindset Shift: Designing Your Work Life

• Shift from permanent employment to project-based careers
• Real-life stories: How people built careers through side projects
• Planning tool: Your personal “30-day momentum builder”

 

11:15 – 12:00 PM
📂 Building a Portfolio of Proof

• Showcase your value through micro-projects
• Templates and tools for a digital portfolio
• Closing Q&A + Next steps

 

🎯 Key Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will:

• Reframe unemployment as a phase of strategy, not failure
• Understand how to scan the job market for real-time shifts
• Apply futures thinking to their personal career design
• Learn how to build “skill stacks” relevant to tomorrow’s jobs
• Begin developing a digital portfolio that reflects proof of value
• Leave with an action-oriented 30-day plan to move forward with clarity