Free In Person/Zoom Event: "Professional Critique" & "Leverage LinkedIn"

Create a customized strategy - expedite the transition to your next professional opportunity. Gain competitive advantage in your job search. 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.: "Professional Critique": This meeting will be in person only. Receive a personalized evaluation of your professional goals, and develop a customized strategy to expedite your transition into your next professional opportunity: Personalized Career Coaching: • Assess your professional strengths, and create customized strategies to optimize your strengths and manage areas of improvement • Evaluate and prioritize your professional goals, and create strategies and specific timelines to achieve each • Learn how to minimize the risk of being a "close second" for a job Personalized Interview Coaching: • Learn how to come to a job interview prepared • Learn how to convey technical skills, team skills, intelligence and attitude in an interview • Learn how to convey specific skills and knowledge during the interview • Learn how to convey the most appropriate answer, in an interview, to a specific interviewer • Learn how to convey current and relevant skills, while distinguishing them from past performance • Effectively communicate your professional skills during interview(s) of various time lengths • Learn how to compensate for technical inadequacies during a phone or Zoom interview • Learn how to avoid fatigue after traveling for an interview Personalized Resume Review: • Optimize your resume's keywords and formatting to maximize compatibility with current Applicant Tracking Systems • Align your resume to the correct style, layout, tone and formatting, including keywords, sentence structure, spelling and grammar • Learn how to include your latest experience, skill set, certifications and education, and how to numerically quantify your contributions • Learn how to ensure that your resume is the correct length, and that its content is being optimized for employers, including its most important and relevant information • Determine what should (and shouldn't) be included on your resume • Learn how to optimize keywords to align your resume with specific opportunities • Tailor your resume to affirmatively include career change(s) or gap(s) • Determine what name and contact information should be included, and what should be included in the summary or objective statement, to optimize job candidacy 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.: "Leveraging LinkedIn For Job Search": What are the most important parts of a LinkedIn profile to optimize? How do you follow and leverage business pages, use job search filters, explore and participate in groups, network on LinkedIn, find LinkedIn influencers to follow, comment to reach a greater audience, write LinkedIn newsletters, and post and schedule content on LinkedIn? This presentation will also include a live demonstration on LinkedIn. Diana Stephens, a career coach and Certified Personal Branding Specialist, works within global enterprise outplacement. She helps professionals navigate layoffs, job searches, careers pivots, resumes, LinkedIn, networking and interviews. In Person: Holy Archangels Parish Job & Networking Ministry 729 Grand Canyon Hoffman Estates, Illinois 60169 Please note, that by registering for this event, you will be added to our monthly email newsletter. Please feel free to send any questions to [email protected] or call (708) 232-6535. Join our Zoom meeting, or click on the following link to join our Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88359760676?pwd=Y2t4a2dVbjhqSlBmaDFFSEVaTTVaUT09 Meeting ID: 883 5976 0676 Passcode: 190359 To Join By Phone: +13126266799,,88359760676#,,,,,,0#,,190359# US (Chicago) +13017158592,,88359760676#,,,,,,0#,,190359# US (Germantown) Dial by your location +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 883 5976 0676 Passcode: 190359 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcSEHfMRKA Additional Resources: To contact the Holy Archangels Parish Job & Networking Ministry, send an email to [email protected], or call (708) 232-6535. For More Information: To receive information about more upcoming "virtual" events, "virtual" networking groups, job fairs and daily job listings in the Greater Chicago Area, join our free job board. Connect our Google Calendar to find out about our upcoming events. Attend Our Other Zoom Meetings: Click here for a complete list of our upcoming events, including our upcoming presentations. Have questions or need additional assistance with your job search? Send us a message.