40Plus of Greater Washington welcomes professional organizer Sandra Merrigan to speak at our July 14 Monday Morning Meeting. She will discuss strategies for getting you and your office de-cluttered, organized, and focused.
Monday morning professional networking meetings are free and open to the public.
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40Plus Executive Director Joel Sarfati forwarded links to two recent job-search related articles published in the Wall Street Journal online, WSJ.com. Both are available for free viewing for about a week.
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A member asked at today’s Monday Morning meeting if we could link from our blog to another blog (see the blogroll) that helps folks with their job-search issues. The Work Coach Cafe is one of the best we’ve come across. The writer is very responsive and supportive to the full range of queries that come in.
Whether or not you post, it’s a good read for all job seekers.
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40Plus Members: Keep checking the blogroll links on the lower right-hand column of this blog. We continue adding links to job-search resources from various specialty fields (updated just recently) and invite your suggestions for further additions.
Happy hunting and good luck to all in active job searches!
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40Plus of Greater Washington welcomes Marta Hayes-Trice to speak at our Monday Morning meeting May 5. Ms. Marta-Trice is Senior Manager, Career Services & Business Development, for the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE).
The ASAE career service center’s resources are available to both members and nonmembers, and include resources such as an online job board, resume critiques, and association salary data. This session will discuss association careers and the services provided by ASAE & The Center.
Monday morning professional networking meetings are free and open to the public.
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Our April 14 Monday Morning Meeting speaker, Tina Sung, co-founder & Managing Partner of Experience Matters: the Executive Transition Experts, touched on various topics including Self-Branding in her talk about ”18 Nuts and Bolts of Professional Job Search: Tips and Mistakes.”
She referred attendees to an article by Tom Peters, “The Brand Called You.” Here’s a link: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/10/brandyou.html. It’s worthwhile reading for any job seeker.
By the way, Ms. Sung’s presentation generated a lot of positive feedback, and we’re trying to schedule her for a more extended Saturday afternoon seminar sometime early summer. Stay tuned.
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Here’s an opportunity to meet recruiters from dozens of companies, including nonprofits, government, healthcare, retail, technology, and more. Organized by the Jewish Council for the Aging, the 50+ Employment Expo also offers a number of concurrent job-search seminars on interviewing skills, changing careers, job-hunting tips, and resume writing.
40Plus of Greater Washington is manning an information table at the Expo, so be sure to stop by and say hello.
The 50+ Employment Expo takes place Monday, May 12, 2008, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Road — easy access from White Flint Metro on the Red Line. Admission and parking are free.
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40Plus of Greater Washington welcomes Gordan Silcox to speak at our March 17 Monday Morning Meeting. Mr. Silcox, principal, Words on Purpose, LLC, will discuss the interview process and gearing your presentation to convince the employer to choose you for the job.
Monday morning professional networking meetings are free and open to the public.
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For those who couldn’t attend yesterday’s meeting on personal branding, speaker Robert Moment provided a copy of his handout to share with others. See: personal_branding_speaking_handouts_rmoment.doc, which includes some tips about developing your resume as well as useful links to websites for marketing your brand.
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Andy Goldman posted this noteworthy comment in the Open Discussion section:
I placed a bit of information on the Wikipedia about 40Plus. You can find it by going to wikipedia.com and entering 40plus in the box at the left or just click on this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40Plus
It is important that a few people edit the piece so that the people who work monitor wikipedia see that it is an organization of national interest. It is also important to cite as much of what is written in the wiki as possible or the whole entry could be removed.
So please log on and help edit the 40Plus entry, keeping in mind that it needs to appear unbiased and meet the following other standards of notability:
Organizations are usually notable if the scope of activities are national or international in scale and information can be verified by sources that are reliable and independent of the organization. In other words, they satisfy the primary criterion above. Other criteria are:
* Individual chapters of national and international organizations are usually not notable enough to warrant a separate article unless sufficient notability is established through reliable sources. However, chapter information may be included in list articles as long as only verifiable information is included.
* Organizations whose activities are local in scope are usually not notable unless verifiable information from reliable independent sources can be found.
* The organization’s longevity, size of membership, or major achievements, or other factors specific to the organization may be considered. This list is not exhaustive and not conclusive.
o Even though the parent organization may be notable, individual chapters of national and international organizations may not be notable enough to warrant a separate article.
o Local chapter articles should start as a section of the parent organization article. If the parent article grows to the point where it may be split to a new article, and notability can be demonstrated using the general notability guideline, then it can be split. This should occur as a top down process.
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