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1a.: Tomorrow - The Breakfast Club NJ January Meeting - Debra Wheatman € From: Brian Mecca

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1a.: Tomorrow - The Breakfast Club NJ January Meeting - Debra Wheatman €

Posted by: "Brian Mecca" Brian.Mecca@yahoo.com bd_mecca

Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:04 am (PST)

Start off the New Year right with a great presentation on improving your LinkedIn presence from Debra Wheatman!

The Breakfast Club NJ
Presents: Debra Wheatman € ¢â' '³ Linking in to Success

The meeting is Saturday, January
14 at 8:00 AM€ ¢Â
€ ¢Â
This month€ ¢â' '¹s Topic:€ ¢Â Linking in to Success
€ ¢Â
With the growing popularity of LinkedIn as a well-respected job
search tool, it has become a very important resource for job seekers to
maintain a presence on LinkedIn for personal and professional branding efforts.
In this session Debra Wheatman will provide some tips and tricks for maximizing
your presence on LinkedIn as a way to ensure you have a robust and successful
search.
Join us for an
exciting presentation to learn how to use LinkedIn to increase the
effectiveness of your network and making your presence on LinkedIn more
effective.€ ¢Â It€ ¢â' '¹s not only who you know,
but who knows you.
About the Speaker:Debra Wheatman has more than 18 years of
experience in human resource, working with leading employers.
Debra launched € ¢â' '¼Resumes Done Write€ ¢â' '½ to provide clients with
valuable career advisory and planning services.€ ¢Â
Debra is a blogger on numerous sites where she covers topics
related to career planning. She posts regularly on her own site and on other
well known sites, including€ ¢Â Vault.com,
The Corporate Toolbox in Australia ,
and Breakfast Club NJ. She has been featured on Fox Business News, WNYW with
Brian Lehrer, and quoted in leading online, print, and trade publications,
including€ ¢Â Forbes.com,
The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Debra is the featured career columnist for The Epoch Times, and is
a speaker, having delivered her message at Columbia University ,
The New York City Public Library, and others.
Presently Debra is working on a book to further educate people from
varied professional backgrounds to establish a roadmap for career planning and
success.
Networking begins at 7:30 am, meeting starts promptly at 8:00 am.
Be sure to tell your friends and bring them along.€ ¢Â Be a part
of our growing network of Job Seekers, Hiring Managers, Recruiters, Career
Coaches, and people who want to be able to help themselves and each other.
Event€ ¢Â Location:
DaysHotel Conference Center
195 Rt. 18 South, East Brunswick , NJ 08816
732-828-6900
€ ¢Â
The Breakfast Club NJ
10 Points for Good Member Citizenship

1) Attend meetings regularly to keep group strong and help pay back to others
(meeting logistics on our website€ ¢Â www.thebreakfastclubnj.com)

2) Keep anti virus on your machine up to date and run scan regularly

3) Review messages and if request for assistance please help whenever possible

4) Join groups linked in group and connect to other members directly
(questions see Gerry Peyton)

5) Join groups Facebook group and connect to other members directly (questions
see Adrienne Roman)

6) Join groups twitter account (questions see George Pace)

7) If you run across some one in transition invite them to join our group and
sponsor them through process (details on our website www.thebreakfastclubnj.com)

8)€ ¢Â Sunday mornings€ ¢Â listen to our radio show, "Your Career Is
Calling", at€ ¢Â 8am ET€ ¢Â either on radio at 107.7 or via internet
24/7 live or on demand at€ ¢Â www.1077thebronc.com€ ¢Â (as this is a call in show your
calls help make it successful)

9) If you are in transition put your elevator pitch in writing to group, ask
for help with job search issues or connecting to people at target companies,
regularly post job opportunities (from email you joined the group - send email
to€ ¢Â thebreakfastclubnj@yahoogroups.com)

10) Help fellow members whenever possible

Information on € ¢â' '¼The Breakfast Club NJ € ¢â' '½:€ ¢Â
(www.thebreakfastclubnj.com)
There is
information below on the location, other information, etc.€ ¢Â There is a
meeting fee of $10 to help us cover the cost of the hotel conference room for
the meeting.€ ¢Â
Go to http://www.thebreakfastclubnj.com for more information and how to join the Yahoo group.€ ¢Â You can join the
yahoo group at anytime; you do not need to have attended a meeting.€ ¢Â You
can also attend meetings at anytime without having joined the yahoo group.
If you have any
questions, please let me know (brian.mecca@yahoo.com)
or send an email to Info@thebreakfastclubnj.com
We look forward
to seeing everyone let's make this a great meeting for our members that are in
transition and welcome those that have landed
Meeting Format:
7:30 to 8:00 - Open Networking
8:00 to 8:15 - Welcome and housekeeping
8:15 to 9:30 € ¢â' '³ Presentation by the
guest speaker
9:30 to 11:00 - Elevator Pitch - 30
Seconds about yourself, who you are, what you are looking for, target companies
(3-4), how we can help you, how you can help others.
11:00 until€ ¢Â you choose to leave
€ ¢Â - € ¢Â Open Networking, follow up with people you are interested in
meeting following their elevator pitch, exchange business cards, peruse the
library, arrange follow up meetings, etc.
€ ¢Â 1 - Make sure you come with the
30 second elevator pitch - honed - including your targeted companies, your
value proposition, etc.
2 - If you are not already a member of
our linked in and Facebook groups please join
3 - Once linked to our groups - link to
each other - a strong network is a vital component to a successful job search
4 - If you are a member and new to
transition send a brief message to the group (from the email you joined the
breakfast club from) thebreakfastclubnj@yahoogroups.com € ¢Â introducing yourself - and what companies you are targeting - we have 2500+
members that will respond with help where they can
€ ¢Â
Brian Mecca
The Breakfast Club NJ
Director Member Services
€ ¢Â
Senior
Manager, Infrastructure and Technology
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianmecca/
€ ¢Â
Keep the faith, keep networking, never give up, never say die.€ ¢Â
That position you are looking for may be just around the corner, but
you have to go look for it, it is not going to come to you.

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