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Friday January 27, 2006
Speaker Bios and Program Details
Topics and Speakers Subject to Change
Meet Your Next Employer Recruitment Roundtables
Join others as you meet a different employer every 30 minutes.
- 8:30 am:
- Registration Opens
- Coffee and networking
- Walk-ins permitted subject to availability
- 9:00 am: Conference Begins (Orientation and scheduling of employer roundtables.)
- 9:30 - 12:00 pm: Meet a different employer every half-hour.
- 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm: Hosted lunch and keynote presentation
- 1:30 - 4:30 pm: Meet a different employer every half-hour
How to Prepare for the Meet Your Next Employer Recruitment Roundtables
Friday Workshops
| 11:00 - 11:50 am |
Resume Building for Seasoned Professionals |
| 11:00 - 11:50 am |
Interviewing Skills for Seasoned Professionals |
| 2:30 - 3:20 pm |
Marketing Your Seasoned Experience (Panel)
A panel of career management experts from leading outplacement firms will discuss how to effectively communicate your skills, talents and abilities to prospective employers and recruiters. Specific emphasis will be placed on framing your experience and knowledge to your distinct advantage in achieving a successful transition to a new career opportunity. |
| 3:30 - 4:20 pm |
What Are Your Options? (Panel)
Listen in on a panel of some the world’s largest international staffing companies as they discuss current local labor market needs, transferable skills currently being sought after by local employers, and real world realities of your marketability. |
Personalized Career Coaching Sessions
9:30 am -
12:00 Noon
And
1:30 pm-4:20 pm |
• Limited availability. Please register early.
• You must first register for Friday's conference to
schedule your personalized coaching session
• Please click here to review backgrounds of career
coaches and to schedule and purchase your 40-minute
coaching session. |
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Hosted Lunch
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm |
Hosted Lunch and Keynote Speaker
How To Make Career Transition and Work-Life Decisions
Richard Bolles, Author - What Color Is Your Parachute? |
Synopsis:
College taught us many things, but not necessarily how to choose where we want to go, next, or ultimately, with our lives. Fortunately, in little-known research, brain experts have found out how the brain works when making decisions, and what are the three practical principles each of us can do to facilitate our making better decisions. Mr. Bolles will explain these three principles, and illustrate them with practical examples. Call this a brief forty-five minute seminar in Life 201. Richard Bolles Bio:
Richard Nelson Bolles is known the world over as the author of the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, "What Color Is Your Parachute?" (Revised annually, 8 million copies in print, in 12 languages). It was Business Week's #1 bestseller (in business paperbacks) just last January. He is known far and wide for his speaking skills. He lectures in the dark, with black light. He has been keynoter at hundreds of career conferences over the years. He has been acknowledged as "America's top career expert" by Modern Maturity Magazine, "the one responsible for the renaissance of the career counseling profession in the United States over the past decade" by Money Magazine, and "the most widely read and influential leader in the whole career planning field" by the U.S. Law Placement Assn. The Library of Congress (Center for the Book) has chosen his book as one of 25 books down through history that have shaped people's lives. He majored in chemical engineering at M.I.T., and holds a B.A. in physics (cum laude) from Harvard, as well as a Master's degree in theology from General (Episcopal) Seminary.
| 11 - 11:50 am |
Resume Building for "Seasoned" Professionals
Jim Dodgen – VP Consulting Services, Executive Career Services – a CPI Partner
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| 11 - 11:50 am |
Interviewing Skills for "Seasoned" Professionals
Co-Presenter: Julie Grass – Partner, The Momentum Group
Co-Presenter: Roberta Lachman – Partner, The Momentum Group
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Synopsis:
Stop feeling apologetic about your years and learn how to present them as an asset to potential employers! Understand the 5 key benefits of maturity and how to highlight them in fielding interview questions that employers are sure to ask ("What are your strengths and weaknesses?") as well as quelling employer concerns that will never be voiced ("Will she be too set in her ways?"). Understand issues from the employers’ point of view, positively adjust your maturity mindset and you will walk into interviews with the confidence and skills to get the job you want.
Co-Presenter: Julie Grass – Partner, The Momentum Group
Co-Presenter: Roberta Lachman – Partner, The Momentum Group
Imagine having unstoppable employees: the right people, equipped with the right tools and a burning desire to succeed. The Momentum Group specializes in creating that reality for companies through consulting, training, and coaching. In response to the universal cry for employees with an owners’ mentality, partners Roberta Lachman and Julie Grass have developed the program, "How To Create Employees Who Are Accountable When No One Is Looking."
Roberta and Julie also work the other side of the table, coaching professionals to make successful career transitions.
With backgrounds in human resources and organizational development, Roberta and Julie are faculty at UCLA Extension Department of Business and Management.
| 2:30 - 3:20 pm |
Marketing Your Seasoned Experience (Panel) |
Synopsis:
A panel of career management experts from leading outplacement firms will discuss how to effectively communicate your skills, talents and abilities to prospective employers and recruiters. Specific emphasis will be placed on framing your experience and knowledge to your distinct advantage in achieving a successful transition to a new career opportunity.
Rob Roberts – Managing Director, Lee Hecht Harrison
Rob serves as the Director of Professional Services and Senior Career Services Consultant for the Los Angeles office of Lee Hecht Harrison, the quality leader in career development and services. He’s known for being dynamic, responsive and client-focused, far surpassing expectations, whether interfacing one-on-one or with a group. His past consulting clients include Toyota, Honeywell, BellSouth, Fidelity, CNN, The Gap, MGM, e-toys and Warner Bros. He has consistently been named the “consultant-of-choice” on numerous projects, finding great enjoyment in providing his clients the necessary tools to move forward in their respective careers, including numerous C-level executives. Most recently, he was ranked in the top 5% of consultants nationwide and has led the LA office to be rated #1 nationally in client satisfaction. He received his Bachelor’s degree in business and communications from Wheaton College in Illinois. Additionally, he’s done graduate studies at Georgia State University in Human Resource Development.
Steve Shipley – Sr. Vice President, Right Management Consultants
Carleen MacKay – Director, Spherion HCC
Carleen has contributed to the development and delivery of numerous career transition and career management services on behalf of Spherion and, previously, for another internationally recognized career management firm. She has configured services for employers seeking customized programs to meet their unique business needs, authored career-related training materials for worldwide clients for use on 5 continents and in over 200 locations, and served global clients where her fluency in conversational Spanish proved to be an asset to various stages of service delivery. Her earlier career, as an executive in the technology and manufacturing sectors, as well as her business ownership of an early Human Resources outsourcing company, prepared her to contribute to small or mid-sized companies as well as to an array of Spherion clients in Fortune 100 to Fortune 1000 firms.
| 3:30 - 4:20 pm |
What Are Your Options? (Panel) |
Synopsis:
Listen in on a panel of some the world’s largest international staffing companies as they discuss current local labor market needs, transferable skills currently being sought after by local employers, and real world realities of your marketability.
Letty Stuard - Adecco Financial Staffing
Letty Stuard brings more than 15 years of staffing experience to her position as Branch Manager with Adecco Financial Staffing in Torrance, CA. In previous positions, with both national and regional recruitment firms, Letty has served as Senior Consultant, Division Manager and Branch Supervisor. She teaches classes and seminars on interviewing techniques and “How to Get the Job Offer in a competitive job market”. Her extensive knowledge and experience in the staffing industry makes Letty an authority on today’s topic of discussion. Letty receive her B.A. in Speech Communications at the California State University, Chico.
Yindra Cotman – Ajilon Solutions
Yindra Cotman is currently Practice Director for the Los Angeles office of Ajilon Solutions, a consulting services division of Ajilon. Miss Cotman has been a part of the staffing community in Los Angeles for the past three years joining the industry in 2002. Prior to moving to California, she was an Assistant Vice President for Pershing providing back office project management solutions to her parent company Credit Suisse First Boston. She has also done recruiting for both of her alma maters, Carnegie Mellon University and New York University, from where she received a Bachelor's in Engineering and an MBA in Finance respectively. Her work experience includes corporate finance, treasury and accounting for start up, non-profit and Fortune 100 organizations.
Patricia Murphy – Kelly Services
Patricia Murphy
Patricia Murphy has over 25 years experience working in the Financial Services and Staffing industries. Patt has been employed by Kelly Financial Resources for the previous 3 ½ years and with Kelly Services for over 8 years. Her office provides temporary, temporary to hire, and direct placement services to clients and candidates in South Los Angeles, Orange County, and Inland Empire.
In addition to her business experience, Ms. Murphy is a community activist which includes serving on many Boards of Directors. Just to mention a few of her affiliations:
• Financial Women International
• Long Beach Grand Prix Foundation
• Jaguar Academy of Finance
• Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce
• City of Long Beach Economic Development Commission
• Industry Education Council
• Committee of 300
Ms. Murphy is a graduate of California School of Banking, San Diego and attended Long Beach Community College, Royal Oaks Community College and is a Certified Leader Trainer for Financial Women International.
Brandi Britton – RHI
Brandi Britton
Brandi Britton is a regional vice president for Robert Half International, the world's first and largest specialized staffing firm. Britton oversees operations for the company's Los Angeles County region, including offices in Torrance, Westwood, Downtown Los Angeles and LAX. Britton has over six years' experience in the staffing industry.
Robert Half International has more than 330 offices in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and offers online job search services at www.rhi.com.
Bob Thompson – Spherion
I began my career as an Accountant upon earning an accounting degree from Michigan Technological University, a renowned Engineering school in Michigan. After 5 productive years, I realized that my style and personality appeared to be more "people centric" than strictly finance centric. As one result of this realization, I leveraged my core business knowledge with my personal traits and, since then, I have been a highly successful recruiter helping accountants, financial professionals and IT professionals to manage their careers by working to place them in the right jobs with the companies that could make the most effective use of their talent and interests.
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