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Job Search/Career Networking - The Breakfast Club NJ Meeting

Start your new year off right with a networking event. Mark your calendars now – Jean E. Baur, Career Coach & Author will be our featured speaker at the next meeting of The Breakfast Club NJ on Saturday January 8, 2011. This Month’s Topic: Why People Get Stuck When Hit with Job Loss “Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.” Goethe About the Speaker: Jean Baur, a Senior Consultant with Lee Hecht Harrison and more than 16 years as a career counselor, will discuss why people often get stuck when experiencing job loss and how to move forward in this complicated and important process. She'll share case studies that illustrate what others have done to succeed, talk about the most frequent obstacles and what you need to have in order to run an effective job search campaign. Lastly she'll give tips for moving forward, whether you're in the first days of transition or have been searching for months. She'll have copies of her newly released book, "Eliminated! Now What? Finding Your Way from Job-Loss Crisis to Career Resilience" and will also give participants copies of some of her key materials. For more information on either Jean's background or her book, please visit www.JeanBaur.com As the author of numerous career transition articles, Jean Baur has a new book titled, Eliminated! Now What? Finding Your Way from Job-Loss Crisis to Career Resilience, coming out in November of 2010 (JIST Publishing). In this empowering guide, she helps people experiencing job loss understand what to do in the first, mind-numbing days of unemployment, how to put together a strong foundation for job search success, and develop winning strategies to achieve their goals. Full of case studies that reveal the ups and downs of this critical process, Eliminated! Now What? acts as a coach or a good friend guiding you along your journey. Jean is a Senior Consultant with Lee Hecht Harrison, a leading outplacement firm, and has also worked extensively as a writer, coach and corporate trainer. Jean partners with clients of all functions and levels to help them identify and leverage their strengths, develop structure for the search process, create effective implementation plans and identify measurable success factors. Jean’s trademark is her energy and creativity. She likes nothing more than helping clients realize their full potential. For more information and to view a sample chapter of her new book, visit her website at www.JeanBaur.com. Networking begins at 7:30 am, meeting starts promptly at 8:00 am. Be sure to tell your friends and bring them along. Be a part of our growing network of Job Seekers, Hiring Managers, Recruiters, Career Coaches, and people who want to be able to help themselves and each other. Event Location: Days Hotel Conference Center 195 Rt. 18 South, East Brunswick, NJ 08816 732-828-6900 Information on The Breakfast Club NJ: (www.thebreakfastclubnj.com) There is information below on the location, other information, etc. There is a meeting fee of $10 to help us cover the cost of the hotel conference room for the meeting. Go to http://www.thebreakfastclubnj.com for more information and how to join the Yahoo group. You can join the yahoo group at anytime; you do not need to have attended a meeting. You can also attend meetings at anytime without having joined the yahoo group. If you have any questions, please let me know (brian.mecca@yahoo.com) or send an email to Info@thebreakfastclubnj.com We look forward to seeing everyone let's make this a great meeting for our members that are in transition and welcome those that have landed Meeting Format: 7:30 to 8:00 - Open Networking 8:00 to 8:15 - Welcome and housekeeping 8:15 to 9:30 – Presentation by the guest speaker 9:30 to 11:00 - Elevator Pitch - 30 Seconds about yourself, who you are, what you are looking for, target companies (3-4), how we can help you, how you can help others. 11:00 until you choose to leave - Open Networking, follow up with people you are interested in meeting following their elevator pitch, exchange business cards, peruse the library, arrange follow up meetings, etc. 1 - Make sure you come with the 30 second elevator pitch - honed - including your targeted companies, your value proposition, etc. 2 - If you are not already a member of our linked in and Facebook groups please join 3 - Once linked to our groups - link to each other - a strong network is a vital component to a successful job search 4 - If you are a member and new to transition send a brief message to the group (from the email you joined the breakfast club from) thebreakfastclubnj@yahoogroups.com introducing yourself - and what companies you are targeting - we have 2500+ members that will respond with help where they can

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