8:00 am Registration Opens
Networking and Coffee.

8:45 am Conference Opening
Opening Remarks - Richard Katz, Founder and CEO, seasonedPRO

Following a successful corporate career as Director of Human Resources for Bullock's Department Stores, and Management Consultant with Ernst & Young, Mr. Katz founded Human Resource Marketing Services, Inc. Under his leadership, HRMS created many innovative, technology-driven employment and recruiting services. In the early 80’s, HRMS created Video Resumes as an employment screening tool, followed by the airing of a series of half-hour, regularly scheduled, broadcast recruitment TV programs, Meet Your Next Employer. For his pioneering work in using broadcast television as a recruitment advertising tool, Richard won the SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management) Pericles Award for outstanding contribution to the human resources field. In 1993, HRMS launched its government services division, designing and managing job training programs funded by over 100 city, county, state and federal agencies. In 1998, HRMS created Dot.com Job Search, an online and classroom course on Internet job searching. In 2004, HRMS launched www.seasonedpro.com, an online and offline service focused on strengthening the connection between alumni and their alma maters through unique and effective alumni career advancement programming. Mr. Katz holds a B.S. in Business Administration from UCLA and an M.A. in Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota.

9:00 am to 9:15 am
What’s Happening at the University -

It’s your University, and it’s producing more and more of the brightest minds and accomplished professionals in the world. Find out the latest in who’s who of the University alumni, representing a variety of fields of work.

9:15 am to 9:30 am
Local Employment Market Conditions
Ok. So you read the Wall Street Journal, LA Times and Barrons—maybe sometimes. It is critical that you know current and future labor demand in your industry and field of work. If you are truly thinking strategically about advancing your career, you can’t make prudent decisions about your next RIGHT career move unless you have some hard data to back it up. In fifteen minutes we will cover the local situation by industry and fields, and give some predictions about the future.

10:15 am to 11:15 am: Breakout Session #1 Using Online, Web 2.0 Communities for Maintaining Job Search Readiness

My Space; Facebook; Linked-In; and others not even invented yet. How will these online Web 2.0 communities impact your ability to know your career options, and the way employers will find you when it’s time to fill a job vacancy? Learn from a leading Web 2.0 recruitment guru how employers are using these online communities to build life-long relationships with professionals.

10:15 am to 11:15 am: Breakout Session #2 Just in Case: Maintaining Job Search Readiness –

Staying career fit means recognizing the signals of change and being well prepared to move in new directions. These are basic survival skills for today’s work world. We will explore the changing work environment, and how to effectively manage career progression and transitions. This includes discovering what really goes on in an organization or department as senior management considers downsizing, acquisition, reorganization-- and determining if you are fit and prepared if you need to make a change.

10:15 am to 11:15 am: Breakout Sessions #3 and #4
These sessions are Interactive Town Hall meetings where seasoned professionals share their wisdom with alumni on how to advance in the fields and industries indicated below. Panelists may include hiring line executives, internal and external executive recruiters, executive coaches, management consultants and representatives from professional associations

10:15 am to 11:15 am: Breakout Session #3
Career Advancement Strategies for Finance and Accounting

10:15 am to 11:15 am: Breakout Session #4
Career Advancement Strategies for
Marketing/Business Development and Sales

11:30 am to 12:30 pm: Breakout Session #1
Personal Branding as a Career Advancement Tool –Sasha Strauss

Your skills, aptitudes and work experience: all valuable attributes that make you unique. We pay premiums for quality brands everyday… you too can be worth a premium to your current or future employer if positioned correctly. Learn why and how to brand yourself - for success in your professional life.

11:30 am to 12:30 pm: Breakout Sessions #2 through #4
These sessions are Interactive Town Hall meetings where seasoned professionals share their wisdom with alumni on how to advance in the fields and industries indicated below. Panelists may include hiring line executives, internal and external executive recruiters, executive coaches, management consultants and representatives from professional associations

11:30 am to 12:30 pm: Breakout Sessions #2 Career Advancement Strategies for IT Professionals

11:30 am to 12:30 pm: Breakout Sessions #3 Career Advancement Strategies for Engineer/Life Sciences/Environmental Career
Panelists:

12:30 pm to 2:00 pm: View from the Top: Senior Executive Career
Success Stories
Do you aspire to become a senior executive with an industry leader, organization or government agency? Highly successful CEOs and senior executives from a variety of industries will share their Career IQ practices. Find answers to the following questions, or ask your own:

• What leadership and management skills helped you move up the career ladder?
• What was your career path that led you to where you are now?
• What disciplines and bodies of knowledge were important to master in your industry and field or work?
• What mistakes did you make that provided the most learning?
• What advice have mentors shared with you that led to your promotions?
• What did you see others doing that prevented them from being promoted?
• How did you demonstrate leadership before being given the position?
• How did you grow your business?

2:15 pm to 2:45 pm: Advanced Networking Training
Effective communication is one of the most important skills determining the quality of our lives. In this interactive presentation, you’ll learn proven, easy-to-use techniques on how to communicate effectively, tools that you can put to use immediately. You’ll learn how to: eliminate miscommunication, set goals, reframe rejection into reality, replace negative forms of expression with positive alternatives, and increase your persuasiveness. Whether it’s a job interview, promoting a product, or making a speech, these methods will improve your results, now!

2:45 pm to 3:00 pm Roundtable Preparation: More Information
Our emcee will review how you can get the most from the time you spend at these recruitment roundtables. Choose to use this time as an opportunity to meet with a variety of employers in a direct, accessible executive roundtable setting. Up to nine people may be at the table at the same time.

Employers will be at the recruitment roundtable to:

• Meet you in a relaxed context
• Present their company profile and employment opportunities.
• Answer your questions about employment opportunities with their company.
• Gain a quick read on your level of interest and qualifications.
• Conduct more in-depth interviews onsite if it appears that you and the employer have a mutual interest.
• Gather resumes and/or exchange business cards.

3:00 pm to 8:00 pm: Speed Recruitment Roundtables
Join others as you meet a different employer every 30 minutes. Register prior to the conference to ensure access to employers and interview times of your choice. Upon conference registration you will have the option of posting your resume and the opportunity to view participating employers' priority job openings.

5:30 pm to 6:45 pm: Dinner Buffet and Networking
Purchasing a full conference registration will include a dinner meal ticket that gives you access to informal networking with employers and other attendees.

7:00 pm to 8:00 pm: Breakout Sessions #1
When the Headhunter Calls: How to Work Effectively With Executive Recruiters

To truly understand what to say and what to do when you get the call, you need to know the basics of the executive search business and a recruiter’s motivation. Learn the difference between retained and contingency search firms and how they operate; contract recruiters versus in-house recruiters; what each of these types of recruiters can and can’t do for you; who they work for; and how to locate and select the best recruiter for your particular situation. Learn the specific strategies for getting the most out of working with a search consultant at every step of the job search process, even if you aren’t interested in making a change.

7:00 pm to 8:00 pm: Breakout Sessions #2
What Are You Worth and How Do You Get It?

Although research consistently shows that recognition, opportunities for advancement and working relationships consistently rank as the top three determinants of job satisfaction, compensation still ranks in the top five---and maybe even higher as younger professionals find out how difficult it is to pay off student loans, buy a house and raise a family. How do you know what you are really worth in the labor market? What industries and fields of work pay the most and how likely are you to achieve top compensation? How do you go about negotiating your compensation? This interactive workshop includes how companies create and administer compensation plans, sources of Internet-based compensation information, when to approach your boss (or boss’s boss!) about compensation concerns, discussing salary during the interviewing process, and what constitutes “all in” compensation packages.

7:00 pm to 8:00 pm: Breakout Sessions #3
Working Effectively with Intergenerational Differences

In no other time in history have so many different generations with so much diversity been asked to work side-by-side to achieve success. What must you do to succeed working with four different generations represented in today’s workplace?” Come learn how by attending Working Effectively with Intergenerational Differences:

• For recently graduated alumni: Seeking the thrills while you pay the bills - How to find new opportunities while staying with your current employer. Perfectly professional pitches that relate to the older folk - Presenting your ideas to those that can deal.
• The Tiger’s Dilemma – Challenges facing Gen X managers Mid-career professionals seeking team-building and managerial skill building without risking their autonomy Overwhelmed Generation X workers caught in the middle of two generational swells--(Baby Boomers and Millennials.
• Changing jobs at 50 means your boss might be the age of your kids. How to work with the younger generation when they use the word awesome in every other sentence, they refuse to use the phone to communicate, and you feel like a den mother.

7:00 pm to 8:00 pm: Breakout Sessions #4
Entrepreneurship: Is Self Employment Right for You?

This workshop features an exploration of the most important strategies you need to consider when exploring self-employment, and for those brave enough to start their own business. Hard research data will be used to paint a picture of what temperaments, aptitudes and skills predict entrepreneurial success. This highly practical session will also cover resources you can access to support your entrepreneurial aspirations after the conference.

10:00 am to 8:00 pm: 50-Minute, Career and Executive Coaching Session

Here is your opportunity to get answers to your specific career advancement goals and challenges. Career and executive coaching bios are available by going to this link: Private Career and Executive Coaching Session. There are a limited number of coaching sessions for each time listed below:

• 10:00 am
• 11:00 am
• 2:00 pm
• 3:00 pm
• 4:00 pm
• 5:00 pm
• 7:00 pm

10:00 am to 8:00 pm: Online Job Search Cyber Café
(Lab Instructor Supervised)

• Job Interview Training
• Resume Critiquing
• Transferable Skills Assessment
• Advanced Internet Job Search Training