Elaine A. Kendell, Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch for Global Wealth Management spoke on maintaining financial security during a job transition. Elaine and a colleague answered questions about transitioning 401K funds after leaving an employer. Information from Elaine is posted on the Blog under Financial Resources.
The group shared progress on job searches after the presentation. Don Locke reviewed resumes at the end of the meeting.
The membership was polled for interest in a half-day seminar on effective networking techniques. The motion was accepted with 90% interest. The MCN leadership team will begin making plans for the seminar the second or third week in April. Volunteers will be needed to help: select a site for the seminar, plan sections of the presentations, and for speakers. More to come in the next few days.
Larry Podojil presented "Functional Networking through LinkedIn". The presentation focused on ways to use LinkedIn to identify networking contacts. The presentation was held in the Firehouse Sanctuary to take advantage of the large projection screen for the presentation, after which the group ajourned to the basement to share networking progress as small groups.
WNDU was on site for interviews on the formation of MCN and review job seeking progress with members. The interview will air on WNDU's evening broadcast Thursday April 2, 2009. WNDU has asked if members of MCN or PBJ are available to answer questions during the Thursday evening broadcast. Anyone interested in helping others understand how our local networking groups can help with their job search - please contact Eric Huggins at eric.huggins1@gmail.com or 574.850.7-31.
Read more...Greg Wilkerson met with Kari Huus, reporter and Robert Hood, multimedia director from MSNBC.com today at the Daily Grind in Elkhart for about 1 hour. MSNBC asked a lot of questions covering a range of topics for the area. Greg was able to include information about our networking group efforts at MCN, PBJ, PBJ II. Although the two reporters Greg spoke to are leaving to go back to Seattle, two more reporters will be coming back to the area soon. Kari, one of the MSNBC reporters, wanted to know if the MSNBC reporters could attend one of the PBJ or MCN meetings. Greg said they could as long as we have advance notice. 
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March 25, 2009
We moved to our new larger space in the basement of Clay Church's Firehouse Youth building this week. The new space allows more room for our expanding group and provides much better facilities for our guest speakers.
Mike Watson from Work One sent Kerry Laughman from United American Insurance to meet the group. Kerry is a Branch Manager looking to hire 20 new area representatives. Kerry spoke to several people in the group about setting up interviews next week. Kerry can be reached at 574.287.8519 or uasouthbend@yahoo.com.
Mary Roehmer spoke on depression, helping those in attendance to understand the causes and signs pointing to potential problems. She helped us to understand we can avoid problems by eating well, exercising regularly, getting out and meeting people - and seeking professional help and guidance when needed.
WSBT reporter, Darla Hernandez filmed a segment for WSBT's "Faces on the Unemployed". Several of our members had an opportunity to speak on the benefits received from attending MCN meetings. See a transcript of the story or view the video.
Larry Podojil and Eric Huggins announced a series of discussions on networking best practices to be held on weeks without speakers. The eight week series is designed to help MCN members practice effective networking processes for finding new jobs.
The series will cover:
We closed the meeting by sharing networking experiences in small groups.
Read more... Carolyn Anderson brought us up to date on upcoming speakers. Carolyn Anderson and Larry Podojil lead the group in job search discussions and personal sharing.
Friday's meeting represented our current high-water mark for attendance, with 23 people attending the meeting. The meeting started on a high note as we learned David Carr is leaving the leadership team to accept a position with WBND. David has been instrumental in helping craft our messages to the community.
Congratulations - Dave! Your presence will be missed. Two other members were out or were planning for interviews as well - one in Ft Wayne and the other at Notre Dame.
Friday's meeting focused on presentations from Pratik Royshoudry and Work One. Pratik, a local entrepreneur responsible for the Networking Web Site: MyLatch.com and member of the MCN leadership team, gave a presentation focused on building and communicating your personal brand in a Web 2.0 world. Pratik's presentation discussed ways in which resumes can be quickly modified to standout as recruiters rely more and more on search programs to sort through the many responses to open jobs. The presentation went on to highlight the common recruiter's practice of Googling potential candidates for additional background, and how new tools such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Personal Blogs can be used to ensure online searches find job seekers at their best.
Work One returned again Friday to highlight how Indiana Career Connect can be customized to act as a virtual recruiter for job seekers.
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