HNG Meeting October 18, 2013; Agenda: Panel Discussion on "Finding a Job That Fits When You are Over 50"

Hello Everyone, 

The agenda for this Friday's Hopkinton Networkers Group (HNG) meeting will be a Panel Discussion led by Robert Dandrade. The facilitator for this week will be Laura Startzenbach. We will devote the first hour, from 10 to 11 AM to the following agenda: Welcome, Landings, Announcements, New Member Intros, and Needs & Leads. 

Important Note: We are going to start the meeting on time at 10:00 AM. In the second hour, Robert Dandrade will lead the Panel Discussion on "Finding a Job That Fits When You are Older Than 50 ."


Finding a Job That Fits When You are Older Than 50

A panel comprised of professionals who have a wide range of diverse experiences and knowledge in the job search and hiring. The panel consists of a Career Advisor, Recruitment Vice President, Human Resources Director, and a former Sales and Marketing Executive.


Recap of HNG Meeting of October 4, 2013:

Our 108th meeting of HNG had 26 people, this is 13 less than the previous meeting; 3 signed the New Member list. William Lam was our facilitator. There were 5 introduction speeches.

One landing:
Lisa Craycraft            Senior Technical Writer at A123 Systems in Westborough starting October 7th

We had an Interview Workshop which went extremely well. Each person was both an interviewee and interviewer. We started off by someone was selected to be interviewed and selected an interview question from the jar/can of interview questions. The person was asked the question by the interviewer and his / her response was analyzed by the group with possible suggestions for a better response. The person selected to be interviewed now became the interviewer and selected someone to be interviewed, and the process is continued until everyone had a chance to conduct both roles.

Schedule for HNG Meetings:

October 18, 2013      Panel Discussion         "Finding a Job That Fits When You are Older Than 50"
November 1, 2013     TBD


General Information

The networking group meets in Hopkinton, at St. John the Evangelist Church parish hall. The meeting occurs, from 10 to 12 noon, and will meet the first and third Friday of the month. The parish hall has a capacity for 250 people and there is plenty of parking spaces in the parking lot and on the street. Around the perimeter of the parish hall are rooms to allow us to have focused network groups or for any other purpose we need. We chose the first and third Friday to allow everyone to attend the Acton Networking Group or any other networking group, if they wanted, on the Friday we do not meet.

We will maintain our close affiliation with Acton Networkers by using the same list-server to share information between the groups. Any e-mails specific to the Hopkinton Networking Group (HNG) will be indicated in the subject line either by "Hopkinton Networking Group" or "HNG"; this way anyone attending these meetings will know the e-mail is intended for them.


We will follow the following agenda items:
* Welcome
* Landings (with doughnuts)
* Announcements
* New member introductions
* Needs and Leads
* Speaker(s), Workshop, or Focus Group
* Cleanup


For those new members who give their introductions, this is what we would like to know:
* Name
* Skills and Value Statement
* Where have you been?
* Where are you going?
* Your title
* Your target companies
* Geography of search
* Name and e-mail address


If anyone wants to join our team, please let one of us know; we could always use the extra help and input for ideas.


Directions:
Take Rt. 495 North/South and get off Exit 21A. Go through three traffic lights. Colella's Supermarket is on the right at the third traffic light. The first street after the third traffic light is Church Street, take a right turn. The church is on the right. Go around to the left of the parking lot and go into the side entrance of the parish hall.


Depending upon where you live, perhaps you may want to use Mapquest for a more direct route. The address of the church is:
St. John the Evangelist
20 Church Street
Hopkinton, MA 01748


Regards,
Hopkinton Networkers Group (HNG) Coordinators:
MaryLou Fish         marylouisefish@gmail.com  
Ed Haddad             ehaddadjr@verizon.net
Gil Krispien            g.krispien@verizon.net
William Lam           wmlam508@yahoo.com
Salpi Sarafian         ssarafian@rcn.com
Laura Startzenbach laura.startzenbach@gmail.com


Daren Canfield           (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now)
Patricia Centola         (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now)
Marjorie Cernigliaro    (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now)
Sandra Cipriani         (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now)
Andrea Haber            (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now)
Christine Hurley        (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now)
Marilyn Johnson        (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now)
Kathy McKenna        (HNGCoordinator Emeritus; she is employed now)
Madeliene Moore      (HNGCoordinator Emeritus; she is employed now)
Laura Nelson            (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now)
Del Richmond           (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; he is employed now)
Vincent Rocheleau    (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; he is employed now)
Ralph Sabatino         (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; he is employed now)
Diane Shelley           (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now)
Steve Sherlock         (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; he is employed now)
Nancy Spadorcia      (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now)
Jack Speranza         (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; he is employed now)
Mark Sullivan           (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; he is employed now)
Mario Tardif              (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; he is employed now)
Qing Ye                   (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now)
Denise Zazzera        (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now)