"The Social Media: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn (with emphasis on LinkedIn) and the Career Center."

Hello Everyone,

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The agenda for this Friday's Hopkinton Networkers Group (HNG) meeting will be featured by speaker Jaclyn Jarmulowicz from the Framingham Workforce Central Career Center. The facilitator for this week will be Emilia Gordon. We will devote the first 45 minutes, from 10 to 10:45 AM to the following agenda: Welcome, Landings, Announcements, New Member Intros, and Needs & Leads. Important Note: Please make a serious, concerted effort to arrive before 10:00 AM. We are going to start the meeting on time at 10:00 AM. In the second hour and 15 minutes, Jaclyn will talk about "The Social Media: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn (with emphasis on LinkedIn) and the Career Center."

The Social Media: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

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She will be presenting on how to use social media communications (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn) as it pertains to the job search with an emphasis on LinkedIn. She will also review the advantages and disadvantages for each site and what medium is best for certain positions and industries.


Workforce Central Career Center

She will present the resources and tools Massachusetts’ One-Stop Career Centers offer including free workshops, education and training options and special workforce grants from the State and Federal government.

Jaclyn Jarmulowicz
Jaclyn Jarmulowicz is a program coordinator and workshop facilitator at Employment and Training Resources. Employment and Training Resources is the local one-stop career center for the Metro South/West region of Massachusetts. Employment and Training Resources is a joint venture of Metro South/West employment and training administration and Massachusetts Department of Labor and
Workforce Development. ETR provides a wide array of services for job seekers and businesses alike. Jaclyn is a former Division 1 scholarship Javelin thrower and has her Bachelors in communication and media studies from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is a certified professional résumé writer, facilitates seminars and workshops, and works with recently dislocated professionals under the REA program.

Recap of HNG Meeting of May 16, 2014:

Our 122nd meeting had 33 people, this is 7 more than the previous meeting; 5 signed the New Member list. Laura Startzenbach was our facilitator. There were no introduction speeches to allow maximum time for the recruiters.

We had a Panel of Recruiters that consisted of:
Mark Carlson of The Suburban Group
Jeffrey Long of Adecco
Paul Rojee of Micro Tech Staffing
Luis Bedoya of Micro Tech Staffing

We did not follow the regular agenda, but instead focused the entire meeting on the Panel of Recruiters addressing the following agenda schedule:

* Welcome and Panel Introductions
* Recruiting 101 - the basics
a. Types of recruiters
b. How recruiters work with hiring companies and with job seekers
c. How recruiters are compensated (high level, not details)
* Market trends in hiring
* Top 10 things recruiters look for in a candidate
* Q and A from the HNG members
* Closing remarks

Schedule for HNG Meetings:

June 6, 2014 Jaclyn Jarmulowicz Social Media and Workforce Central Career Center
June 20, 2014 Robert Dandrade and Panel Job Search Advice for People Over 50

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:

Sheri Ablaza sheriablaza@gmail.com
Grace Carcich gracec814@gmail.com
Emilia Gordon emiliagne@gmail.com
Gil Krispien g.krispien@verizon.net
William Lam wmlam508@yahoo.com
Laura Startzenbach laura.startzenbach@gmail.com