HNG: "Interviewing with Confidence"

Hello Everyone,

The agenda for this Friday's Hopkinton Networkers Group (HNG) meeting will be featured by a speaker, Linda Waters. The facilitator for this week will be Vincent Rocheleau. We will devote the first hour 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, Linda will talk about "Interviewing with Confidence."

Interviewing With Confidence

* How to make sure it's the right job for you
* How to assess the company culture
* Tips to feel less nervous in the interview
* Interview follow- up tips
* How to stay positive during the interview process

Linda Waters

Linda Waters brings over 20 years of corporate sales and client management experience to her role as President and founder of Back to Business LLC. She is a career consultant, and has a passion for helping people develop the confidence, direction and strategy they need to be successful in their professional lives.

Linda speaks regularly to academic, professional and corporate audiences on career-related topics including networking strategies and professional image. She has enjoyed presenting at the Boston College Center for Work and Family, Ameriprise Financial, Momcorps University in Boston, the Massachusetts Conference for Women, the Back to Business women's workshop event at Gillette Stadium,The Women's Success Network, Leading Women of Central MA, Northeastern University, and Babson College, among others.

Linda is the recipient of the 2009 ATHENA award, given for business excellence, making an impact on women nationally and internationally, and helping women reach their full potential.

She resides in Franklin, MA with her husband and two children.

www.backtobusiness.org

Schedule for HNG Meetings:

October 16, 2015 Lee-Ann Johnson 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:
Sheri Ablaza sheriablaza@gmail.com
Emilia Gordon emiliagne@gmail.com
Gil Krispien g.krispien@verizon.net
William Lam wmlam508@yahoo.com
Ronaldo Lu ronaldo.lu@comcast.net
Vincent Rocheleau vrocheleau@hotmail.com

Time to Crtl-Alt-Delete Your Life

During the last practice interview question session, I found five new homes for some good books to read. One of them was Crtl-Alt-Delete Your Life by Mitch Joel. I just finished reading the book via Audible and had posted this recently on my own webpage. It is worth re-posting here.



During the course of this wonderful conversation, Match says:

"I don't get a world where people go to the gym everyday to fine tune their body and spend zero time on anything that happens above the neck."

That shows the passion for life long learning that drives Mitch. Any reader here should recognize I share that life long learning passion as well.

There are so many points to take off on this conversation between Jonathan Fields and Mitch Joel, I probably could do a series of posts to cover a month. However, it is not my takeaway that matters. It is up to you to do something. Start by spending about 45 minutes with Jonathan and Mitch here.




Listen to more of Jonathan's The Good Life Project  http://www.goodlifeproject.com/

Follow Mitch  on Twitter, or his Twist Image blog and podcast http://www.twistimage.com/en


You can find out more about Mitch's book here http://www.ctrlaltdeletebook.com/



You can find the original post on Steve's 2 Cents here
http://steves2cents.blogspot.com/2013/06/it-is-about-time-to-ctrl-alt-delete.html

Community Camp - RISD - Apr 23

There will be a Job Search Jam Sessions track at Community Camp, April 23!


Community Camp is an informal, participant-driven unconference that brings together small business owners, artisans, students, job seekers and other members of the community. We'll share what we have learned on reaching out to the local and global community. We'll have a conversation about how participating in groups is an effective tool to make our voices heard.


Sessions will be held in the following topics:

• Marketing - scaling your message, reaching an audience, developing a "personal brand", going viral
• Community - social media, networking resources, job search information
• Media - the hows, whys, whats, and wheres of creating new media
• Second Purpose - green, environmental-focused sessions; recycling, repurposing

As an unconference, Community Camp requires active participation from attendees, either in asking questions and engaging in discussion or in leading a breakout session. Sessions may be prepared and announced in advance, but they may also be organized on the fly at the event.


When:  Saturday, April 23, 2011 – 8:00 am to 1:30 pm
Where: RISD Auditorium, 17 Canal Street, Providence, RI 02903


What does it mean to have a 'track'?
Amongst the sessions during the day, there will be a series of them focused on the job search with an emphasis on social media.


What is a Community Camp?
Community Camp is an un-conference about social media and online networking. It is an open and collaborative event with discussions and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join. Some sessions will be planned ahead of the event, but plenty of spaces will be open for the topics YOU want to discuss and learn.


Why should I go?
Community Camp is all about social media/networking, and its relevance and usefulness to community, business and otherwise. 

What does it cost?

Tickets are $20 ($10 for students), but all are expected to participate and/or present. You can participate by giving a presentation, demo, or joining into another cooperative event, being on a panel/roundtable, or in other ways helping out on event day.

If you want to register, please do so here


Or save some money:
There is a special deal for those who want to go but are un-employed or under-employed! Steve Sherlock has arranged to provide four (4) tickets to help job seekers attend.


How do I get one of those tickets?
Send an email to Steve (shersteve at gmail dot com) and state your case:

Clearly and concisely, explain what you have been doing as part of your job search and how participating in Community Camp would help your effort.

Note: Your paragraph will be published here to help showcase you and your efforts in social media if you win one of the scholarships.

18 Ways to Build Confidence While Finding a Job

Tim Tyrell-Smith writes:

The process of finding a job can suck the life out of you. It can drain your best parts. When you need them most. Here are ways to get them back.

Of course to embark on the “getting them back” journey, you have to realize that you’ve lost them in the first place.

That’s the first hurdle. Because losing confidence doesn’t happen all in one day. And it doesn’t get reported on a computer screen as if you were playing a video game.

There’s no “confidence bar” that tells you when you’ve lost 25 or 50 percent of your strength after a piece of bad news or a bad interaction with someone in your network.

Tim goes on to list 17 ways to build your confidence during your job search:
http://timsstrategy.com/17-ways-to-build-confidence-while-finding-a-job/

I'll add one to Tim's listing - participate in the upcoming Job Search Jam Sessions, October 1. Sharing what you have learned, learning from others, and adding new connections to your network will help provide confidence to your next step on your job search!

Register here to take part: