Claim Your Voice | Communicate with Candor | Event Recap

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December 16th 2023 @ 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (JST) (Lounge opens at 9:45 am)

What we did:

FEW’s December Peer to Peer session was facilitated by Rachel Ferguson, a Communications Coach who founded The Communications Concierge. In this workshop, we learned to harness the power of our hidden resumes. First, we reviewed our professional resumes and acknowledged our education, work experience, qualifications, and achievements. Then we focused on our second resumes and listed some of our life experiences, learnings, relationships, challenges, and motivations. Our professional resumes showcase our skills and talents, and what we can offer to a company or client. The second resume shows authenticity, honesty, and empathy for others and their experiences. Both resumes are true and the second can enhance the first.

Hidden Resume Process

  • List jobs and experiences that do not appear on your formal resume
  • List skills and qualities that were not featured on your CV before

Sample questions that you can ask yourself in the Hidden Resume process

  • What did I gain from these experiences?
  • When and where can I use personal elements of my hidden resume?
  • Can we be personal and even vulnerable while maintaining strength and professionalism? 

Key Takeaways

  • Reframe all our experiences to be sources of individual strength and unique insight
  • Acknowledge and embrace our past (even dodgy) experiences to enhance our present gifts
  • Weave our history to our present and draw out the consistency across our life’s work
Rachel Ferguson

Facilitator: Rachel Ferguson – Communication Coach 
Co-hosts: Membership Directors – Shizuka Suzuki and Christine Brown

Rachel Ferguson has an 18-year career in Japan. In 2023, she founded The Communication Concierge to assist Japanese companies in enhancing their performance through English language and cultural communication upskilling.

She co-founded Kosodate Village, a non-profit organization that focuses on advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in Japan. The organization emphasizes empowering young men and women and creating spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals to connect. She is also a co-founder of Ryozan Park, a co-working-and-living community located in northern Tokyo, with a dedicated mission to promote diversity and foster work-life balance. They were awarded the “Entrepreneur of the Year” honour from the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan in 2019.

Before venturing into entrepreneurship, Rachel served as a news and weather announcer for NHK World TV. She holds master’s degrees in creative writing and Japanese gender studies and has published a children’s book and a volume of poetry.

Learn more about Rachel Ferguson:
https://rachelferguson.net/

https://commconcierge.devi.page/#hero1

https://www.instagram.com/rachelfergusonpoet/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-ferguson-7335b927/

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