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1a.: Next Saturday - February Meeting of The Breakfast Club NJ - 3/10/201 From: Brian Mecca

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1a.: Next Saturday - February Meeting of The Breakfast Club NJ - 3/10/201

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

Sun Mar 4, 2012 8:20 am (PST)

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The
Breakfast Club NJ Presents
John
Seber
"Today's
Job Market - Expectations, Perspectives and Effectiveness"
The
meeting is Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 8:00 AM
Mark
your calendars now!

This month's Topic: Today's Job Market - Expectations, Perspectives
and Effectiveness.

If you respectfully follow the
"standard process" in pursuing job opportunities, you may be experiencing
inadequate responses. You may not like all of what you hear, but this
presentation attempts to explain why you may be experiencing limited results
when responding to job postings, and how you might achieve a more competitive
edge in today's job market. By learning about the realities of job
opportunities, the processes and your competition, your perspective and
expectations of job boards and company career sites will change. You may be
more motivated to pursue a Strategic (vs. reactive) approach.

In
order to improve your effectiveness, we will discuss:
-                Your Marketing focus
-                Tips on resume
preparation and posting
-                The personal perspectives
of a hiring manager
-                Tips on the mindset of
corporate HR/campus and staffing recruiters
-                Strategic networking
techniques.
-                The Managed Service
Provider model, used by corporations to manage consulting vendors
-                Other behind the scenes
issues of the consulting business.
-                Some intangible factors
for consideration

Most importantly, real-life examples
of more effective methods will be provided, to help you apply these theories.

About the Speaker:John Seber
began his technical career after completing his BA in Mathematics at Montclair State University .
A computer programming graduate of the Chubb Institute of Computer Technology,
he subsequently earned a Masters of Management Science from Stevens Institute
of Technology.

John joined Velankani Information Systems
in 2001, and is responsible for all day-to-day operations of the company's
staffing business. Previously he enjoyed a 20+ year career in directing
financial systems development at AT&T/Lucent Technologies. Prior to this he
supported numerous applications at Allied-Signal (Honeywell) and Chubb
Insurance.

He has previously provided this
presentation to numerous networking groups, outplacement firms, NJ DOL's PSGs,
and technical schools in order to facilitate the effectiveness of the job
search process.

In more recent endeavors John
established his own firm, Simple
Consulting Solutions LLC www.simplecsllc.com,
and organized a grass-roots all-volunteer initiative, The CareerConnections Co-op www.viscoop.com to assist job
seekers in achieving relevant work experience in support of training.

Meeting
Information:
Networking begins at 7:30 am, meeting starts promptly at 8:00 am.
Be sure to tell your friends and bring them along. 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 Location:
DaysHotel Conference Center
195 Rt. 18 South, East Brunswick , NJ 08816
732-828-6900

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 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) Sunday mornings listen to our radio show, "Your Career Is
Calling", at 8am ET either on radio at 107.7 or via internet
24/7 live or on demand at www.1077thebronc.com (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 thebreakfastclubnj@yahoogroups.com)

10) Help fellow members whenever possible
Information on "The Breakfast Club NJ ":
(www.thebreakfastclubnj.com)
There is
information below on the location, other information, etc. There is a
meeting fee of $10 to help us cover the cost of the hotel conference room for
the meeting.
Go to http://www.thebreakfastclubnj.com for more information and how to join the Yahoo group. You can join the
yahoo group at anytime; you do not need to have attended a meeting. 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 – 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 you choose to leave
- 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.
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 introducing yourself - and what companies you are targeting - we have
2500+ members that will respond with help where they can

Brian Mecca
The Breakfast Club NJ
Director Member Services

Senior
Manager, Infrastructure and Technology
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianmecca/

Keep the faith, keep networking, never give up, never say die.
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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