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HBS Virtual Learning Series-Job Search Strategy
Discussion with Mike Jeans on "Your Job Search Strategy -- How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor"
New! Listen to the call recording here. (Club Members Only!)
HBS Virtual Learning Series
Discussion with Mike Jeans, President of New Directions, "Your Job Search Strategy -- How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor"
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Where: Dial-in information to be provided to members who reserve their space by noon on Saturday, March 21st. (See below.)
Free! Open to HBS Club of Jacksonville members only - Registration will be handled through the Club. Please make your reservation below and you will be provided the conference call login information shortly before the event date.
Synopsis: Executive job seekers are being challenged by massive corporate layoffs that create a crowded field of job candidates, widespread hiring freezes and long protracted series of interviews (when an opportunity has been identified). How do you tilt the odds in your favor?
Setting realistic expectations and then executing well on a thoughtful and strategic plan is very important. Also, being open to transitioning your skills to more than one type of job or industry expands your options. This starts with knowing yourself well and crafting a strong personal brand - a brand that is distinctive, memorable and seeks to be a solution to the market that you are targeting. You will set yourself apart from your competition and in times when companies are cutting expenses, you can position yourself as an investment that pays back.
Traditional networking is not effective, particularly in a tight market. You will need to take a different approach in identifying and cultivating worthwhile relationships with decision-makers and influencers. Develop conversations and relationships . . . not just contacts and leads. Companies hire even as they lay off employees. Specific experience and skills will be needed. Staying optimistic with a plan that you apply with focus and discipline will be critical.
About Mike Jeans
Mike Jeans, President of New Directions
Guest Presenter on behalf of HBS Alumni Career Services
Michael D. Jeans, President, has 25-plus years of management, marketing and sales experience, including CEO and Director of Roxy.com, Inc., CEO of Nashua Corporation’s Photo Division, and president of Wesson/Peter Pan Foods, a Conagra company. He earlier held senior marketing positions at Hunt Wesson, H. P. Hood and Chesebrough-Ponds. Mike has a B.A. from Holy Cross and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School at Dartmouth. He is a Director of AMICA Mutual Insurance Co. and also serves on the boards of The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Nashua, Habitat for Humanity of North Central Massachusetts, the Boston Minuteman Council of the Boy Scouts, and the Concord Housing Development Corporation.
About VLS: Each month (summer months excluded), HBS offers a one-hour audio-only conference call to HBS alumni who are paid members of all registered alumni clubs throughout the world. This unique series of events produced by HBS will feature business topics of exceptional importance and significant current interest to HBS alumni, with a selected HBS professor making a brief presentation. A Q&A session, with questions submitted to the moderator in real time (via email), will follow.
We supply the conference call number and professor, and you listen in! All you have to do is put your phone on "mute" and listen to the most up-to-date comments and insights regarding the topic at hand. Questions can be submitted via e-mail, either before-hand or in real time during the call. VLS events are exclusively available to paid members of the HBS Clubs only.
Please reserve your spot before 12:00 noon on Saturday, March 21st, by clicking on the link below:
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