Northern New Jersey Chapter of Learning and Performance Professionals

Career Transition Special Interest Group

Program Agenda:
6:30-7:00 Registration/Check-in

7:00-7:15 NNJ ASTD Organization

7:15-7:30 Introductions
7:30–8:45 Program Presentation
8:45–9:00 Networking

Thursday, May 12, 2011

7-9 p.m.
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Registration is required:

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This meeting is free.

Location
Cedar Hill Christian Reformed Church

422 Cedar Hill Ave, Wyckoff, NJ 07481-2219, (201) 652-3245
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Park in the back, entrance on the right.

Contact:
Alicja Lisnow (SIG Chair): a_lisnow@yahoo.com
201-519-0545

Maintaining a Positive Attitude During  Job Search

How do you handle the frustrations and ups and downs of a job search? It’s easy to have a positive attitude when you are getting responses to your resume and your networking efforts are yielding results.

The real challenge is to maintain a positive attitude when things aren’t going the way you want them to. You’ll learn simple things you can do to keep you attitude positive and stay motivated during the frustrating times of a job search.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to learn some tips to weather job search frustrations.

Don't miss an evening where you can expand your network, make new friends, share knowledge with your peers, and hear highly relevant and beneficial insights and perspectives from experts in the marketplace.

Career Transition SIG:

Speaker:Debbie DeVries Bio

Career Coach, Outplacement Counselor and Training Consultant

Everyone is welcome to attend.

The Northern NJ ASTD Career Transition SIG provides a professional forum for participants seeking new career opportunities in various professions.  Many members of the SIG group are professionals in Training and Development.

The SIG’s goal is to provide space for networking, exchange of resources, contacts, information, mutual support and learning, and job leads for those seeking new career opportunities.

Membership information and benefits about NNJ ASTD is posted on www.nnjastd.org.

Resume Review or Mock Interviews:
Time permitting Workshop may include Peer Resume Reviews, or Mock Interview Questions.

30 Second Introduction:
My name is xxx, I am a xxx professional - looking for xxx, my target companies are xxx, or my target industry or location is xxx

Debbie is a career coach, trainer and outplacement counselor. In addition to having her own career coaching and training business, CTCR Resumes, she is an outplacement counselor with DBM. She has worked with hundreds of clients helping them navigate through their job search. She designs and delivers workshop on writing resumes, interviewing, networking and other job search skills. As a trainer and career coach she has developed and taught sales training seminars, presentation skills workshops, coaching classes, business writing, customer service seminars and many other soft skills programs.

http://www.sites.google.com/site/ctcrresumes/home