Meeting - 3/6/2009

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.