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Monday, January 24, 2011 After helping schoolkids turn their lives around, she gets a lesson on boosting her job hunt School's out for aide of luck there's no provision in parent coordinators' contracts about finding new jobs for them if their school closes. Seven months later, she's still unemployed. She sent her resume to the Daily News and asked to be included in Your Money's Hire Me series, which connects job-hunting New Yorkers with career coaches who provide free advice. Haywood arrived at her job-counseling session in career coach Donna Sweidan's mid-town office carrying BY LORE CROGHAN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER athleen Haywood knew when she took the job of parent coordinator at Brooklyn's South Shore High School that it would be closing in two years. But the position gave her a chance to do the kind of work she believes in she could be an advocate for teens.

It was also a refuge, though short-term, since the place where she had iT3 been working as a parent coordinator, Brooklyn Comprehensive Night School, was being closed. 'The new job search is about a binder. It was filled with recommendation letters from past bosses, photos of school trips she chaperoned and inspirational sayings she'd used to shape up the teens she'd worked with since The evening -Career coach high school, Donna Sweidan geared to classes on Saturdays. Later, she earned a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from City College. She went to school at night and processed court orders during the day at a company that did contract work for the city Office of Child Support Enforcement.

Haywood, who's now a U.S. citizen, taught young people at the Brooklyn Job Corps Center the four D's when she was a case manager there, before she became a high school parent coordinator. She's especially proud of her work at the Jobs Corps. "It was about turning kids' lives Continued on page 2 ing site has a how-to section learn.linkedin.com with tips on writing an effective job-hunter's profile and making contact with people at organizations where she'd like to work. And there are YouTube videos that show how to put Linkedln to good use.

ouTube videos can also provide quick tutorials on how to use Twitter to find job openings that aren't advertised anywhere else, and on how to further build her online presence. Along with her binder of professional memorabilia, Haywood brought a Christmas card from a former student. "I practice the four D's every day," he wrote on it. The Four D's are a maxim for success she devised years ago to motivate athletes on her husband's public school track teams. Desire comes first, then discipline.

Determination is third, dedication fourth. Haywood, who came to the U.S. from her native Grenada in 1970, practices what she preaches as far as the four D's are concerned. She was the first person in her family to go to college. She got an associate's degree from Borough of Manhattan Community College while working 12-hour days, five days a week, as a nanny.

She took the 1980s. "The problem is, it's in your book and you're the only one who can see it," said Sweidan, who told her to scan some of the pages and post them on visualcv.com, a website for creating show-and-tell alternatives to conventional resumes. Haywood should pull out all the stops to create a strong online presence, said Sweidan, who also advised her to create a Linkedln profile ASAP. The professional network- was in the same Canarsie building as South Shore, so Haywood simply moved from one floor to another. For two years, while working at South Shore, she looked for another job.

"The principal gave me permission to job-hunt and take another job if I found one," explained Haywood, who's 61 and lives in nearby Flatbush. But when South Shore closed its doors last June, she hadn't landed a new gig. She was out.