“Nobody impresses me for the first sixty days on the job.” This was a saying that all of those working with me in the corporate world would hear me say over and over. I wanted to express that there’s a difference between the impression a job seeker leaves initially—even as early as during the interview—and […]
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“Coping With the Strain of Your Search on Relationships”
A career search can be a stressful time. A primary source of income has dried up, you don’t know when you will land, and you experience the roller coaster of emotional ups and downs as opportunities arise, and then fall through.
Your spouse, partner and family are going through all of that with you, yet they feel they have no control over the process. You can go to more group networking events, schedule more networking meetings, take more courses, send out more resumes, etc., but what can they do?
An extended search can put a huge strain on marriages and relationships. Join us on Saturday, August 12 (and bring your spouse or partner, too) as Career Search Counselor John Hadley shows us strategies to safeguard those relationships, and actually put them to work to move your search forward!
John Hadley
John Hadley helps job seekers who are frustrated with their search. He also works with professionals struggling to achieve the visibility that leads to new opportunities at work.
After graduating from Stanford University, John worked as an actuary in the insurance industry for 20 years, ultimately as Chief Actuary of his company. He then opened a successful systems consulting practice, which generated over $2.5 million in revenues. 13 years ago he started his Career Search Counseling business, and has helped hundreds of clients land the job and pay they deserve.
John is a sought-after writer and speaker, publishing a monthly Career Tips Email newsletter to 9,500 subscribers, each month bringing advice on marketing yourself for a career search, or for accelerating your career. He is currently finishing his first book, “Cruising Through Executive Interviews to Land the 6 Figure Job You Deserve.” You can find a variety of career resources on his website at www.JHACareers.com.
Networking begins at 7:30 am, meeting starts promptly at 8:00 am.
There is a $10 fee at the door to cover the cost of the room.
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.
Days Hotel Conference Center
195 Rt. 18 South, East Brunswick, NJ 08816
732-828-6900
7:30 to 8:00 – Registration & Open Networking
8:00 to 8:15 – Welcome and housekeeping
8:15 to 9:15 – Presentation by the guest speaker – Limited to 60 minutes
9:15 to 10:15 – 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. Follow the rule of the Three B’s of Public Speaking: Be informative; Be brief; Be seated.
10:15 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) 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) Once you have received your invitation and joined our linked in group, connect to other members directly(questions see Gerry Peyton -gpeyton@ptd.net)
5) Join groups Facebook group, Google +, and connect to other members directly (questions see Adrienne Roman – adrienne1204@optonline.net)
6) Join groups twitter account (questions see George Pace – keeppace@gmail.com)
7) If you run across someone 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
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
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Your website is very important to the success of your business. The primary reason why you need a website is that your customers expect you to have one, just like they expect you to have a business card. Once you build a website you must give your clients a reason to visit. While primarily a passive form of marketing, here are some suggestions for driving more traffic to your website…
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Search Engine Optimization
While on-page and off-page SEO work together to improve your search engine rankings, On-page SEO is the one that you should initially spend time on. It’s the one where you have the full control to make updates and improvements.
Add a Blog Page
Search engines love fresh content. There’s no better way to provide fresh and frequent content than with blog posts. You will build trust and clout within your professional community by providing valuable, expert information via your blog posts. Over time, you will become a trusted resource for helpful, informative content, which can ultimately lead to a higher customer conversion rate. If you are already blogging, then post more frequently. This is a form of on-page SEO.
Join in a Blogging “Community”
Become a guest contributor on other related and relevant blog sites and online journals. Doing so, you can drive targeted traffic to your site by exposing you to a wider and established audience. In addition, you will demonstrate yourself as an expert in your field. Within your content, add a link to your website. That is a form of off-page SEO which you can easily drive and implement.
Get Social
It’s not enough to produce great content on your website and hope that people find it. You have to be proactive. One of the best ways to increase traffic to your website is to use social media channels to promote your content and drive traffic to your website. Twitter is ideal for short, snappy attention getters called “tweets”. LinkedIn is the number 1 social media platform for B2B* (business-to-business). Also, YouTube is tops for promoting video content. If you are a B2C (business-to-consumer) organization, you will get the most traction with Facebook*. Also use YouTube and Instagram if your content is largely images. Don’t forget to include your website link in your social media channels and activity.
Pay-Per-Click Marketing
Your entire PPC campaign is built around keywords. These are the words/phrases that people use to search in the search engines. When someone searches using the keywords that are in your campaign, your website ad will display in the search results. The most successful AdWords advertisers continuously refine their PPC keyword list.
While wanting more customers is the primary desire for business owners, then next desired item is increased website traffic. Implementing any of the above strategies can help increase traffic to your website. While some of these strategies won’t be a quick fix, you may be surprised how quickly some of them start to generate results for you.
* 2016 B2B Content Marketing Trends – North America: Content Marketing Institute/MarketingProfs
2016 B2C Content Marketing Trends – North America: Content Marketing Institute/MarketingProfs
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“The Tech Megatrends ”
In this lively session, Christina “CK” Kerley showcases the megatrends moving us from smartphones to smart things, apps to algorithms, screens to sensors, and devices to data. Where mobile made our phones smart, IoT is turning all things smart. While software increased the productivity of our workforces, the rise of the “Co-Bots” will improve each worker’s performance. Just as computers ushered in the Information Age of the 20th Century, Artificial Intelligence is powering the Intelligence Era of the 21st. And the Next-Gen Web is breaking out of the box—and outside of the screen!—into an exciting new ecosystem of connected objects, products, and places. Don’t miss this fast-paced, highly interactive tour of the digital transformation that is revolutionizing all of our companies. . . and reshaping our roles within them.
Christina “CK” Kerley
Innovation speaker and futurist Christina “CK” Kerley pushes Fortune 500s ahead of the curve by guiding them through the 10+ emerging technologies that will disrupt and dominate the next 10 years.
Through her boundless energy and signature “edu-taining” style, CK engages executives around the next-gen tech, trends, and topics that enable them to future-proof their companies—and leapfrog their competitors.
She has been featured at Fortune 500s, including: Johnson & Johnson, Cisco, Microsoft, Verizon Wireless, Janssen, Sony, Prudential, The United Nations, The Ad Council, Neutrogena, Verisign, Bristol-Myers Squibb, The ANA, and The IAB.
A part-time faculty member at Rutgers Business School for Exec. Education, her portfolio spans: Mobile, Wearables, The Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics, Big Data, Health Tech, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the suite of Immersive Technologies (AR, VR, MR).
Based in New York City, for CK’s video clips, media, and more, go to: http://allthingsCK.com
Networking begins at 7:30 am, meeting starts promptly at 8:00 am.
There is a $10 fee at the door to cover the cost of the room.
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.
Days Hotel Conference Center
195 Rt. 18 South, East Brunswick, NJ 08816
732-828-6900
7:30 to 8:00 – Registration & Open Networking
8:00 to 8:15 – Welcome and housekeeping
8:15 to 9:15 – Presentation by the guest speaker – Limited to 60 minutes
9:15 to 10:15 – 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. Follow the rule of the Three B’s of Public Speaking: Be informative; Be brief; Be seated.
10:15 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) 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) Once you have received your invitation and joined our linked in group, connect to other members directly(questions see Gerry Peyton -gpeyton@ptd.net)
5) Join groups Facebook group, Google +, and connect to other members directly (questions see Adrienne Roman – adrienne1204@optonline.net)
6) Join groups twitter account (questions see George Pace – keeppace@gmail.com)
7) If you run across someone 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
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
During my work with job seekers or those contemplating a job/career change, I evaluate the amount of fear that drives—or paralyzes—my clients. To some extent, all of them exhibit fear originated by some threat—or so they perceive. For a person out of a job, that feeling is not only a perception but also, unfortunately, a […]
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The adage “What you don’t know won’t hurt you” is very misleading, especially for people in transition or otherwise contemplating a career change. Not only is the contention untrue, but also it in fact hinders the ability to get what you want. Furthermore, it conveys a false sense of positive feeling. For example, those in […]
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CBS News recently published a story about a U.S. government study on May 4, 2017 reported that 50.8 percent of homes and apartments had only cell phone service in the latter half of 2016. It is the first time such households had the majority in the survey. And, more than 39 percent of U.S. households have both landline and cell phone service. So, what’s going to happen to yesterday’s telecommunications technology?
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Andrew D. Manns, Jr., ESQ., MPA
Senior Consultant, Manns Associates
Brian Mecca,
Global Director, Infrastructure and Technology, Phone I Animal Health
Jeremy Rosenberg,
PMP, Six Sigma Green Belt, Senior Solution Architect, AT&T
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“Creating a better Executive Presence and Personal Brand for IT and other professionals”
YOU’VE GOT 30 SECONDS TO MAKE A GREAT AND MEMORABLE FIRST IMPRESSION…GO!!
The career climate is constantly changing. Competition for positions are intense. So how will you stand out as an IT professional? How are you presenting yourself so that others notice you and want to know more about you? What tools are you using as an IT professional to change how you see yourself? What are your unique experience, expertise, training and insight?
This panel discussion is designed to help you:
1. Craft a more effective personal brand by exploring your story
2. Identify principles and the value of executive presence that complements your personal brand
3. Master the 2 essential skills for consistent long term success.
George Pace
George Pace is an IT technology leader, focusing on how to extract business value from the latest technologies. His is currently working to “Keep Pace” with Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things (IoT) Digital Assistants as well as a dash of Social Media for good measure.
George is now sharing his thoughts and insights on technology on a regular basis on his Youtube channel (www.youtube.com/keeppace) – so stop by (and subscribe) George holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Seton Hall University and an MBA from the Rutgers Business School.
Andrew D. Manns, Jr. Esq. is a Senior Consultant with Manns Associates, a multi-service leadership development firm in New Jersey. Mr. Manns specializes in helping non-profit executives transform American cities one child, one family, one neighborhood at a time Currently, Mr. Manns is the Chairman of the Board of Director of the Greater Life Community Outreach Center in Newark, N.J. Mr. Manns was recently appointed to the Executive Management Team of a well-established professionals career networking group that provides latest training seminars in executive career development and job search strategies for IT professionals in transition. Mr. Manns is also the social media content provider for several career networking groups.Mr. Manns received his Bachelors of Arts Degree from Syracuse University. He is a graduate of the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with a Master’s Degree in Public Administration.Mr. Manns went on to earn his Juris Doctorate degree from Rutgers School of Law Newark, N.J. He is the father of 6 adult children and 2 grandchildren. He is an avid fan of great jazz music and Chicago Style Steppin’
Brian Mecca is the Global Director of Network & Computing Services for Phibro Animal Health Corporation. For 40 years he was a volunteer firefighter in his home town of Scotch Plains where he served as Battalion Chief, Captain, and Firefighter. He is currently the Secretary of the Union County Fire Chief’s Association.
Brian is also an avid networker & volunteer with over 6,500 LinkedIn connections. Brian is the Director of Members Services for The Breakfast Club NJ where he has been a member since 2006; VP of Membership for SIM NJ; President of the Garden State Chapter of AITP. He can frequently be found sending out announcements for meetings, posting some interesting tidbits on LinkedIn or Twitter, or sending out job openings. Brian is always open to helping someone in transition or just looking to improve their skills.
Jeremy Rosenberg,
PMP, Six Sigma Green Belt, Senior Solution Architect, AT&T
Networking begins at 7:30 am, meeting starts promptly at 8:00 am. There is a $10 fee at the door to cover the cost of the room. 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.
Days Hotel Conference Center 195 Rt. 18 South, East Brunswick, NJ 08816 732-828-6900
7:30 to 8:00 – Registration & Open Networking 8:00 to 8:15 – Welcome and housekeeping 8:15 to 9:15 – Presentation by the guest speaker – Limited to 60 minutes 9:15 to 10:15 – 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. Follow the rule of the Three B’s of Public Speaking: Be informative; Be brief; Be seated. 10:15 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) 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) Once you have received your invitation and joined our linked in group, connect to other members directly(questions see Gerry Peyton -gpeyton@ptd.net) 5) Join groups Facebook group, Google +, and connect to other members directly (questions see Adrienne Roman – adrienne1204@optonline.net) 6) Join groups twitter account (questions see George Pace – keeppace@gmail.com) 7) If you run across someone 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
RSVP 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
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Those of us whose job involves a lot of travelling, work with remote clients or work in an organization with many remote staff, know that conference calling is very beneficial. One issue which doesn’t appear to have caught up with the growth of this practice is the establishment of its security to prevent unauthorized access to a conference, and the ability to host calls. So, here are a few things to keep in mind regarding the security of your conference calls.
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Do not Share your Chairperson’s Pass Code with Others
Limit Recurring Meetings
If you host recurring meetings, anyone with those meeting details and knowledge of the time of the meeting will be able to join even if they are no longer supposed to be involved.
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“Nobody impresses me for the first sixty days on the job.” This was a saying that all of those working with me in the corporate world would hear me say over and over. I wanted to express that there’s a difference between the impression a job seeker leaves initially—even as early as during the interview—and […]
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