Meeting Time 12:30pm - 2:00pm 
Location Firehouse (Clay UM Church South)
Address 17646 Cleveland Road South Bend, IN
Link to Google Map
South Bend Meeting Moved to:
1st Presbyterian Church, Elkhart
200 Beardsley Ave, Elkhart, IN
The April 24th meeting was moved to Elkhart Presbyterian Church in support of the Job Search seminar being held by PBJ and MCN.
The meeting split into groups by function, sharing leads, backgrounds, and job search strategies within respective professions.
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. 
News from Greg Wilkerson @ PBJ
March 25, 2009
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