Learn how to make maximum use of the powerful tools available through the internet, with the understanding that the goal is to get you hired.  Among other things, you will:

• Understand how internet tools fit into each phase of SJN’s Curriculum for the Job Search Process.
• Discover free resources that help you reach hiring decision makers.
• Learn how to tap into the power of LinkedIn to further your job search.

This Intermediate-level seminar is best for those with basic understanding of and familiarity with LinkedIn and other tools such as Google.  SJN representatives are not certified or accredited LinkedIn trainers and are not associated with LinkedIn.  LinkedIn is a registered trademark of LinkedIn Corporation.

Registration & Details (after 10/31) – CLICK HERE

Date/Time: Thursday, November 12^th, 2009, 3:00PM – 7:00PM

Location: Mesa Community College

Building: Building 35, Kirk Student Center, Navajo Room

Mock Interviewing

Research shows that the more you practice and rehearse your content, the better your delivery. Take advantage of this opportunity to practice your interviewing technique in a safe and supportive environment. This workshop will give you the opportunity to practice your interviewing repeatedly and get feedback.

Registration & Details:  CLICK HERE

Fees
Voluntary donations are appreciated to assist in funding ongoing operating costs for the Southwest Job Network.  Customary meeting donation is $5.

Volunteers of the Week: SJN Resume Reviewers

One of the most popular services offered through Southwest Job Network is resume review available at all locations preceding the regular meetings. A solid resume is a cornerstone of the job search process.  Hiring managers and human resource professionals alike agree that a poorly constructed resume can derail even the most talented individual’s search. Our volunteer team of resume reviewers consists of experienced hiring managers and HR professionals, eager to help guide you through the construction of that job winning resume.

THANK YOU to these professionals who have been regular reviewers at SJN meetings:

North: Mary Henry, Al Walsh, Martha Rockwell, Bill Markham, Diane Raml, Jessica Mattewson, Betty Davies, Paul Quinn

West: Holly Adkins, Carol Ross, Gina Nelson, Mary Henry, Michelle Keller, Rick Gould, Karen England

Southeast: Paul Quinn, Michelle Keller, Martha Rockwell, Sara Klug, Tony Darin, Kathi Wentzel

SJN welcomes volunteers who are willing to share their diverse experiences as resume reviewers. Interested volunteers should contact:

North:  Mary Henry  MGHenry44133@aol.com

West:  Al Walsh  alwalsh@aol.com

Southeast:  Dawn Nowatzki  dnowatzki@cox.net

. . . and best wishes from the SJN team of resume reviewers to our members searching for that next great position!

 

SJN Volunteer of the Week:   AL WALSH
Events Coordinator,  SJN Programs in the West Valley
alwalsh@aol.com

Meet Al Walsh, an affable guy who joined SJN as a recruiter-resource in 2007.  This year, Al partnered with SJN Board Members to lead the strategic planning to launch SJN in the West Valley.

To support this expansion, Al established a relationship and formed a partnership with the Glendale Community College Director of Career Services.  Working with college representatives, he coordinated room availability, equipment and other logistical tasks to execute successful events at the school.

To staff the expansion, Al recruited, trained and managed a team of 25 volunteers to provide support before, during and after events.  He cross-trained volunteers to fulfill complex assignments. This ensured consistent delivery and provided for succession planning.   He also coordinated with SJN Board members and other event coordinators to maintain consistent processes at all three SJN locations.

SJN is very proud of Al’s contribution—and throughout all our encounters with him he has been professional, upbeat, dedicated and committed to the success of the endeavors he undertakes and the members he serves.  Many thanks, Al.

Christine Vicari

Founder-Executive Director
SOUTHWEST JOB NETWORK

P.O. Box 25674 ~ Scottsdale, AZ 85255
(v) 480 513-1491 – (e) info@southwestjobnet.com
(w) http://www.southwestjobnet.com/

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Members,

Have you ever wanted to share your talents as a speaker or trainer with others from Southwest Job Network (SJN)? Want to lead the crowd? If so, then consider being a trainer on the SJN curriculum on the job search process.

SJN is planning Train-the-Trainer session to enable trainers to get the deep understanding to be able to co-lead one of the SJN Modules at one of our three valley-wide locations. This is a volunteer position and trainers are scheduled as their time permits.

Training sessions will be held at Temple Chai, 4645 E. Marilyn Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85032.

Monday, October 5 9 AM -12 N Emotions and Vision
1 PM -4 PM Marketing Plan and Tools

Thursday, October 8 9 AM -12 N Leads and Networking
1 AM – 4 PM Interviews and Offers

In addition to trainees, we are also looking for 2-3 people to lead the training sessions. If you have lead a module or been through the TTT for that module and want to help out by leading, please contact:

Daniel McCrobie
dan.mccrobie@gmail.com
480.335.0927

Please RSVP by Sept 30^th, 2009, to my email address, dan.mccrobie@gmail.com, so that I can finalize the details for each session.

SJN volunteers are the best. Read about the contributions of two of them.

KAREN ZELLER offered to photograph SJN members and provide digital images for their profiles, blogs, etc for a $5 fee. Karen conducted the photo shoot this week at Temple Chai where we had our regular meeting.  This worked out very well—as Karen patiently took photos until each subject was satisfied with the results. She donated her time and talent and the money she collected to SJN, $130. Thanks, Karen!

Thanks also go to the team of administrative volunteers who managed the flow of people being photographed, took the money, etc. One volunteer offered his jacket and tie to another member who came unprepared for the shoot, but took advantage of it when there was time for Karen to photograph him. That’s the spirit that won the West–neighbors helping neighbors!  We love it.

The second volunteer I want to recognize is MARYANNA LEVENSON who approached Einstein Bros (where we’ve been purchasing bagels for some time) to see if they would donate the bagels to SJN.  Maryanna couldn’t get anyone to return her calls.

Maryanna took the further initiative to talk to Chompie’s. While the deal isn’t “signed,” it appears that Chompie’s is willing to consider this donation, and I have just sent the required evidence of our nonprofit status along with a letter explaining what SJN does in the communit. Fingers crossed!

These are two examples of members who offered to put energy behind their ideas—and each made a significant impact.

THANK YOU Karen and Maryanna.

I ask supporters and members of SJN to think about KAREN and MARYANNA when you have ideas of things that SJN could do or services SJN could provide. Remembering we operate entirely on donated services. Ask yourself, “Is there something I can do with my time, talent and ideas to make an impact on the organization and my job seeker peers?” I bet you can!

Blessings and good weekend,

Chris Vicari-SJN
Founder-Executive Director
Chris.Vicari@southwestjobnet.com

SJN meets in the Southeast at various Mesa and Chandler/Gilbert Community College campus locations.

This is a fun and personally rewarding job-I know, I’ve been filling the role for seven years in the SJN North location! And Dawn Nowatzki has been filling the role in the Southeast since the launch of that SJN location in April.

Serving as the Site Event Coordinator is a good opportunity to use leadership, communication and project management skills. The position will work directly with SJN’s leaders, community sponsors and volunteers who support our program in a critical volunteer role that could be added to a resume and LinkedIn profile.

There may be circumstances under which we may consider this Site Event Coordinator position in the Southeast as an opportunity for SJN volunteer job-sharing.  To be considered, please send resume and message of interest to Dawn Nowatzki at dnowatzki@cox.net

Thank you

Chris Vicari-SJN
Pres/Executive Director

Position Overview

This volunteer role at SJN is responsible for successfully planning, organizing, coordinating, controlling, promoting and executing all activities before, during and after an SJN event at assigned location. The Site Event Coordinator follows process guidelines and an event template, adding and removing tasks that are unique, or unnecessary, for the given event.

Essential Job Functions

• Strategic Event Planning:

~   Coordinate with associated SJN Board Member Program Director for assigned location on event content, schedule, presenters, communication and any other details.

~   Act as liaison between event partners and SJN including event scheduling, strategy, meeting space planning, communication strategy, etc.

• Relationship Management:

~   Establish and maintain a relationship with vendors and partners sponsoring SJN events (e.g. MCC, Temple Chai) at assigned event location.

~   Conduct regularly scheduled meetings with partners/vendors and SJN board members, as assigned.

• Volunteer Management:

~   Maintain volunteer list for assigned SJN location.

~   Recruit and manage volunteers to perform all event-related tasks at assigned location.

~   Assign volunteers to pre/post and on site meeting roles to ensure that all SJN event management objectives are met.

~   Track and submit all volunteer hours related to a particular event and also general responsibilities related to the particular SJN location.

~   Train and cross train volunteers on various event template tasks (e.g. EventBrite and SurveyShare processes).

• Communication Management:

~   Responsible for regular ongoing communications with MCC/Temple Chai point person concerning event schedule, room reservation, specific event logistics (e.g. seating arrangement, A/V equipment needs, tables, etc.), expected headcount, marketing on campus and in the community, post event results (e.g. survey results), etc.

~   Coordinate marketing and communication efforts with MarCom and Public Relations Innovation Council groups, providing them with event description and details, reviewing and approving news releases prior to publication.

~   Coordinate monthly event schedule with SJN web master and SJN Yahoo! Group web master.

~   Ensure event details are posted on various other websites (e.g. LinkedIn groups, other entity’s calendars and bulletin boards), and distributed to interested partners (e.g. email blast to SJN distribution list, MCC / Temple Chai (partner) point person, Workforce Connection point person).

~   Ensure the registration (EventBrite) and satisfaction survey (SurveyShare) processes are managed before during and after each event.

~   Communicate with board members and fellow SJN Event Coordinators regarding schedules, best practices, issues, etc.

~   Ensure all post event processes are complete (e.g. thank you notes to volunteers, speakers, and follow-up communications to SJN members/attendees).

• On-Site Event Management:

~   Perform on-site event management lead role.   Ensure all issues that occur before, during and after an event are addressed and rectified.

~   Facilitate/host events as needed.

~   Act as liaison between SJN board members, partner liaisons and representatives and event speakers, including speaker hosting, introductions, etc.

~   Act as liaison between sponsors/vendors/meeting hosts and SJN board members and meeting attendees.

~   Ensure all printed materials (e.g. training module materials, New Member Registration forms, and other information table handouts) are prepared prior to event.

~   Ensure required office supplies are present for SJN events (e.g. colored name tags, pens, markers, etc.).

~   Ensure all equipment is in place and presentation loaded prior to event.

~   Ensure all volunteers are in place and understand their assigned role(s).

~   Create an event pre-registration attendee roster for the event, and coordinate the check-in process of all attendees at the event.

~   Update the event pre-registration attendee roster for all attendees, to include pre-registration no-shows and attendees who did not pre-register.

~   Provide a final reconciled event attendee listing to the Accounting & Control Innovation Council upon the completion of each event.

• Administration:

~   Ensure SJN New Member Registration forms are processed; SJN membership listing and Yahoo Group updated with new members).

~   Control, process, track, deposit donations and submit completed donation-related forms per the documented process.

~   Maintain, perform recordkeeping, and replenish SJN location petty cash account per the documented process.

Other Job Functions:

• Perform ad hoc requests as needed.

Requirements, Other Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to plan, supervise and coordinate events, anticipate needs, identify potential problems and make necessary plans for corrective action
• Must be highly organized and able to establish and meet critical deadlines.
• Must be process oriented, detail oriented and task-sensitive in order to forecast needs for each event.
• Must possess follow-up skills
• Above average communication skills, to communicate effectively through various means (face-to-face, phone, email, etc.)
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with event attendees, SJN members and the general public
• Ability to build rapport with SJN members and partners.
• Ability to train, coach and lead volunteers
• Experience managing a matrix or remote organizations.
• Experience managing projects and events.
• Ability to be flexible and quickly adapt to change.
• Comfortable using MS Word, Excel and various other web based tools.
• Working email address and willing to share it with the SJN membership.

NOTE:  This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Site Event Coordinator may perform other related duties as assigned to meet the ongoing needs of the SJN organization and meeting location.

MODULE 2: YOUR MARKETING PLAN

Your Marketing Plan: Resume, LinkedIn and Other Tools

Build on your career vision and create a personal marketing plan. Assess your skills inventory, decide who you want to “dance” with and clarify the benefits you offer to potential employers and/or clients. You will develop a personal marketing strategy and a tactical plan for getting visibility. Learn how to communicate your value in spoken, written, and online media, with a consistent message across your elevator speech, resume, LinkedIn profile, business cards, and executive bio. Successfully communicating your value will help you during networking and in your interviews.

Date & Time:  September 15, 2009 8am – 1145am

Learning Objectives for Module 2

Prework for Module 2

Participant MiniWorkbook for Module 2: Your Marketing Plan

Registration & Details: Click Here

It is my pleasure to share the news that SJN Board Member DAWN NOWATZKI has taken on the duties of Corporate Treasurer for SJN.  Dawn will ensure that accounting/financial processes, procedures and controls are in place, and also that SJN fulfills all of the recordkeeping and reporting requirements of our 501c3 non profit status.

Dawn Nowatzki is the owner of a bookkeeping, accounting and tax service that provides profit and growth expertise to both start-up and existing small businesses.  Dawn has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services and payment processing industries, and most recently served in leadership roles at Concord EFS (First Data), Vital Processing and American Express.  Dawn holds a BS in Business Management, with an Accounting major, from Georgia State University, and an Executive MBA, with a Finance major, from the University of Delaware.

In her capacity as Corporate Treasurer, Dawn will oversee various Innovation Councils to include two newly created ICs: Accounting & Control IC and the Operational Policies & Procedures IC.  In addition, she will be re-launching several existing ICs related to Fundraising Strategy, Grant Writing Applications, Budget, and Non-Profit Resources/Discounts in the near future. Dawn is a dynamic and energetic board member who is responsible for the development and coordination of SJN programs in the Southeast.

Please help me in THANKING Dawn for her commitment to SJN and the excellent work she will do as our Corporate Treasurer.

If you want to be involved as an SJN volunteer in accounting/financial management, operational process controls or SJN bookkeeping, and/or you are interested in joining any of the six above-listed SJN ICs, please contact Dawn by email and let her know your area(s) of interest and availability at dnowatzki@cox.net

Christine Vicari
Founder-Executive Director
SOUTHWEST JOB NETWORK

P.O. Box 25674 ~ Scottsdale, AZ 85255
(v) 480 513-1491 – (e) info@southwestjobnet.com 
(w) http://www.southwestjobnet.com/

SJN benefits when you order business cards and printing from VistaPrint
online at our website http://www.southwestjobnet.com/business-cards/

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