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Sat Mar 22, 2014 5:29 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Thomas Donohue" donohue83
Ramsey JSWT Members:
Listed below are next week'supcoming networking events. All meetings are open to the public, plus you arewelcome and strongly encouraged to attend. Try going to at least one or twomeetings a week, what you learn there will definitely help shorten your time intransition. Also, many of these groups convene in the evening, so it will nottake time away from your daily job search activities.
Think of these meetings asopportunities, sort of like going to school, to learn something that can reduceyour time in transition by gaining knowledge in job search and interviewingskills needed to excel and standout from your competition.
In traveling to these meetings,consider car pooling. Not only will it reduce the cost of driving there, butthe friendly conversation will make the ride seem to go much faster.
In the event of snow or inclementweather, please check with the meeting organizer if the presentation will becanceled or postponed before traveling there. Your safety is important! Pleaserely on your best judgment before venturing out on slippery roads.
Next Saturday, I will bedistributing the list of April Networking Events. If anyone is aware of an upcoming meetingthat you would like to share with the group, please let me know and I willgladly include it. Also, if any transition support group would like to startreceiving this list to share with your members, please let me know and it wouldbe my pleasure to add your group to the distribution list.
Thank you,
Tom Donohue
a83td@aol.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tcdonohue
Next Week's UpcomingNetworking Events
Sundays, from 8:00– 9:00 am. Every Sunday morning tune into Your Career is Calling on 107.7 FM, The Bronc, an on-campus radiostation at Rider University. Hosts Frank Kovacs and Wanda Ellet bring you the best career advice, no matter what stageyour career is in. Whether you are in transition, looking for a betteropportunity, or even a college student, Your Career is Calling has youcovered. Nearly every single week, theyare joined by a special guest to cover a unique topic. Don't forget to tune into 107.7 FM The Bronc,http://www.1077thebronc.com/ or 107.7 The Bronc's free Android and IPhoneApps. Listeners can reach the studiowith their questions at 1-877-900-1077. In addition, interesting previous episodes areavailable at: http://comm.rider.edu/thebronc/?page_id=356.
Mondays, from 9:00 – 10:00 pm. Call in yourjob search questions every Mondaynight to a live Radio Showtitled: Own Your Career hosted by Rod Colon, on Blogtalk Radio - http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ownyourcareer. Dial 1-347-857-3320 with yourquestions to get proven guidance from the # 1 career coach in the UnitedStates, specialized in the 7 Step JobSearch and author of the book Win The Race For 21st Century Jobs. Getfree coaching with challenges you encounter steering your career in the roughseas of the 21st century job market.
Monday, March 24th from 7:00 am - 9:30 am: The Mondays @ 7 Group willhost Ileana Kotulich, an IndependentSales Director at Mary Kay, who will give a presentation titled: Getting it Done. Ileana will discuss the strategy of planningyour work and working your plan. She will discuss taking action after creatinga plan, tracking your success and evaluating the results. Ileana will alsofocus on the power of positive thinking and having the right attitude to reachlife goals. So, if you are stuck in neutral, prepare yourself to discover waysto get back in gear on your job search. For further information, contact EdThomas at 203-981-4648 or via email at ejjthomasjr@gmail.com. The meeting is at the Westport United Methodist Church, 49 WestonRoad, Westport, CT 06880(Exit 42 off the Merritt Parkway).
Monday, March 24thfrom 10:00 am - 12:00 noon: Northern NJ Professionals in Transition willhost: will host Alex Freund, acareer and interviewing coach, who will give a presentation titled: Locatingand Penetrating the Hidden Job Market. Everyone gets to see the jobs posted on job boards or in advertisements.However, many experts estimate that now 80% to 90% of all openings do not makeit to public display. Alex will guide attendees on how to learn of thesepositions, and how to make the awareness and following of them part of yourregular search. For additionalinformation, please contact NNJ_PIT@yahoogroups.com. Aschedule of upcoming meeting dates is available at: www.bit.ly/prof-in-trans_2014. The meeting is at the Maplewood PublicLibrary, 51 Baker St, Maplewood, NJ 07040.
Monday, March 24thfrom 10:30 am - 1:00 pm: Professional Service Group of Central NJ will hostVictorManganaro, who will give apresentation titled: EffectiveCommunication through Imagination Workshop. Additional information is available at: www.psgcnj.org. The meeting will be at First United MethodistChurch of Somerville, 48 West High Street, Somerville, NJ 08876.
Monday, March 24th from7:00 – 9:00 pm:Temple Community Network (TCN) will host Lloyd Feinstein, a career coach, who will give a presentationtitled: Recruiters and HiringExecutives: How to Sell Them Successfully the First Time. For people in job transition, the HRdepartment is not the main gatekeeper limiting a candidate's ability togenerate interviews and job offers. It's not even the lack of industryexperience. Rather, it's the Executive Recruiter's and the Hiring Executive'sdesire for basic information at the beginning of the search process as well asquality "sales support" materials that make a difference during theinterviewing process. This program willdiscuss the two most common impediments preventing candidates from gettinginterviews and meaningful job offers, one of which is little known. Topicsinclude: the basics of the hiring process; who is your customer and whatmotivates them; how best to position yourself against the competition; how tocommunicate your value; and the 6 best strategies for closing the interview. The meeting is at BarnertTemple, 747 Route 208 South, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417.
Tuesday, March25th from 6:00 - 7:30 pm: The New York Science, Industry and BusinessLibrary will host Renee Rosenberg,who will give a presentation titled: SevenMost Common Mistakes Job Hunters Make. Renee will discuss how to eliminate actions that may be causing youproblems in your job search. The meeting is at the New York Science, Industryand Business Library, 188 Madison Avenue @ 34th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Tuesday, March25th from 6:00 - 8:00 pm: Rider University will host a special careerbuilding and networking event meeting titled: Three Effective Tools for Success: Guest Speakers include: Frank Wander, former CIO of GuardianInsurance and Founder of IT Excellence Institute, Paul Babicki, CEO of Tabula Rosa and author of Netiquette, and George Pace, leads Open Source atPrudential, who are your hosts for this extraordinary multi-session seminar on:1) Self-marketing and branding, 2) Raising your Netiquette IQ, and 3) Improvingyour corporate culture, followed by a special networking event. Together they will explain what is happeningwith Technology in organizations. Paulwill discuss how to leverage email, which covers over 90% of ourcommunications, to new levels, and George will show you how to take all thesenew social media and other technologies use them to brand yourself and takeadvantage of them for your own success. Foradditional information, contact the office of alumni relations at1-609-896-5340. To register, Click here. The meeting is at Rider University's BartLuedeke Center, in the Cavalla room, at 2083 Lawrenceville Road, LawrenceTownship, NJ 08648.
Tuesday, March25th from 6:30 - 8:00 pm: The Career Forum will host Marty Latman, chairman of the Bergen Chapter of Financial ExecutiveNetwork Group, who will give a presentation titled: Working the Room for Job Search. When you attend networking or business meetings are you successful inpromoting yourself? Are you unsure ofthe best ways to do this or would you like to improve your technique? Do you leave the meeting feeling that youreally accomplished something? If youwould like to improve your networking skills and to really get the most out ofworking the room, you should attend this presentation. For more information contact Sylvia Velez at1-908-630-3530 or email svelez@somersethillsymca.org. The meeting is at the Somerset Hills YMCA,140 Mt. Airy Rd, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920.
Tuesday, March 25thfrom 6:30 – 8:30 pm: Rockland Job Network (RJN) will host a special meetingon: Keywords and How to Use Them on YourResume. How do you find them and howdo you use them? Words, words, words. How are words seen on your resume? First they are seen by a computer and theApplicant Tracking System (ATS) Software. We choose our words carefully and so does the software we send it towhen we apply for a job. The softwarethat parses our words does not always get it right. So how do we circumvent the software? Or better yet how do we use the software toget us what we want, an interview? Nextit may be seen by someone in HR or a recruiter who has the task of eliminatingthose who do not stand out. Finally theyare seen by someone who may actually do some hiring. So how do you find the words for yourposition? How do you select which onesto use after you find them? Which areyour best choices to get the interview? Thismeeting we will be discussing all three stages of your KEYWORD strategy. If you have any questions or need moreinformation please call Philip Fanara at 1-845-352-0504. The meeting will be at the New City Library, 220North Main Street, New City, NY 10956.
Tuesday, March25th from 7:30 - 9:00 pm: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, in Doylestown, PA,will offer the 6th class of a 7 part workshop titled: Networking – Uncovering the Hidden JobMarket. Learn to research targetcompanies; gather information on how to best match your skills to theirneeds. For additional information or toregister, please contact: Norman Baseman at norman.baseman@gmail.comor Trish Jordan at trish5503@verizon.net. The meeting is at Our Lady of Mt. CarmelChruch, in Saint Mary's Hall across the street from the church, at 235 EastState Street, Doylestown, PA 18901.
Wednesday, March26th from 1:00 - 3:00 pm: The New York Science,Industry and Business Library will offer a program titled: WorkSearch Orientation. Areyou a 40+ job seeker? WorkSearch is anonline system which provides links to job openings, skills assessment tools,and training programs at no cost to individuals. After taking the orientation, WorkSearch is accessible toregistrants through the Internet, or through Library computers. Attendees will be shown how to download theinformation to a USB flash drive (Bring your own USB drive). The meeting is at the New York Science,Industry and Business Library, 188 Madison Avenue @ 34th Street, New York, NY10016.
Wednesday, March26th from 6:00 - 7:30 pm: The New York Science, Industry and BusinessLibrary will host John Crant, whowill give a presentation titled: ResumeRenovation. John will discuss howmaking the cuts necessary to be seen as a stand-out during your job searchactually increases the value of the items on your resume. The discussion includes: 1) Resume:"New" Definition, 2) Resume Goals, 3) Understanding Stacks ofIncoming Resumes, 4) 3 Second" Test, 5) One Page Resume, Unless It's Two,6) Value, Value Everywhere, but Nowhere to be Seen, 7) Degrees of Degrees, and8) The Headless Horseman: Don't Send a Word. The meeting is at the New York Science, Industry and Business Library,188 Madison Avenue @ 34th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Wednesday, March 26th from 7:00 - 9:00 pm, TheBronxville Career Network will host Rich Spitz, of Spitz ConsultingSystems, who will give a presentation titled: Hands-on Interviewing Workshop. There is a specific structure to an interviewand everything you say and do counts. You can never have too much practice so,after the presentation, all the participants will have the opportunity topractice by interviewing each other. For further information, e-mail SheilaLarkin at larkin5@optonline.netor www.reformedchurch.org. The meeting is at The Reformed Church ofBronxville, in the Edwards Room, 180 Pondfield Road, at the corner of MidlandAve, Bronxville, NY 10708.
Wednesday, March26th from 7:30 - 9:15 pm. Job Seekers of Montclair, will host a programtitled: Managing YourInterviews. The following topics will bediscussed: 1) The typesof Interviews, 2) Interview Preparation, and 3) Answering: Why Should I HireYou? The second half of this meeting includes a practice workshop. Additionalinformation is available at: http://www.jobseekersofmontclair.org/, or by calling 1-973-783-3442. Themeeting is at St. Luke's Church Hall, 73 South Fullerton Avenue (cornerof Union Street), Montclair, NJ 07042.
Thursday, March 27thfrom 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm: Webinar – LisaRangel, founder and Managing Director of Chameleon Resumes, will give apresentation titled: How To Double, AndEven Triple, Your Job Leads Using LinkedIn. In today's economy, it's the proverbial kissof death to sit and wait for job leads to come to you. Just being on LinkedInis like casting a hook with no bait into the ocean and hoping you will catch afish. On this Webinar you will learn: 1)Why the profile you currently have is costing you thousands, if not tens of thousandsof dollars, in income and what you need to do to fix it, 2) Four little knownand often misunderstood ways to find leads and opportunity using LinkedIn, 3)Nine proven techniques for making your LinkedIn profile attract the exact typeof job you want, 4) Seven actions you must take if you want to be found by yourtarget audience or hiring manager, 5) How to create your own custom target listof the exact people you want to hire you, 6) The one feature of LinkedIneveryone should use to manage their career, but hardly anyone knows about, andmuch more. Click here to register now!
Thursday,March 27th from 3:15 - 4:30 pm: The New York Science, Industry and Business Library willhost a special meeting for Job Seekers titled: Download a Customized Company List for Contacts. Find Companies and Executive contacts for yournext job. Search by industry as well as location, size, and sales. Themeeting is at the New York Science, Industry and Business Library, 188 MadisonAvenue @ 34th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Thursday,March 27th from 6:00 - 7:30 pm: The New York Science, Industry andBusiness Library will host a special StartUP!2014 Business Plan Competition Workshop 3: Developing Financial Statements. This is the third training workshop for theNew York StartUP! 2014Business Plan Competition. Learn how to develop financial statements for yourbusiness. This session will be offered three times in March. The meeting is at the New York Science,Industry and Business Library, 188 Madison Avenue @ 34th Street, New York, NY10016.
Thursday,March 27th from 6:30 - 8:30 pm: The Park Avenue United Methodist willhost Win Sheffield, a career coach,who will facilitate a meeting titled: Speed Networking. Thesingle most important thing you can do to manage your career and for most, thebiggest challenge is to develop a network. How do you meet people and how doyou tell them what they need to hear so you can meet with them, find newcontacts and move your career forward? Coach Win Sheffield willbegin the evening with tips on how to present yourself comfortably in a fewshort sentences (an elevator pitch) to engage your listeners. You will thenhave the opportunity to meet with others and practice your pitch. It is useful to come prepared with businesscards or index cards with your contact information. The meeting is at the Park Avenue UnitedMethodist, 106 E 86th Street (at Park Avenue). Take the 4 or 5 subway to 86th Street.
Friday, March 28thfrom 10:00 am - 12:00 Noon: The Princeton Public Library and theProfessional Service Group of Mercer will co-host David Schuchman, who will give a presentation titled: Interview Questions and Answers. This is a follow up, companion presentationto last week's Interview Preparation and Tips program. Come participate in thisfun interactive question and answer program. You will have the opportunity toanswer challenging interview questions in a very safe place! Your peers in theaudience will critique your answers. Not feeling so brave? Then simply join usto watch, listen and learn! The meetingis at the Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 08542.
Friday, March 28thfrom 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm: The New York Science, Industry and BusinessLibrary will host Theodore Henderson,who will give a presentation titled: Understandingthe Levels of Leadership for Career Success. Theodore will share techniques for becoming abetter team member, supervisor, or business owner by recognizing the fivedifferent levels of leadership. The meetingis at the New York Science, Industry and Business Library, 188 Madison Avenue @34th Street, New York, NY 10016.
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