Conducting a Job Search in a Tough Economy
Join Peter Jacobs and fellow Quakers for a lunchtime discussion to launch your new career in the right direction.
Finding work can be a daunting task in the best of times. Thousands of people may reply to a single job ad; the competition can be fierce. It’s easy to get frustrated when you’ve answered 200 job ads for which you feel eminently qualified and received little or no response whatsoever.
In today’s tough job market, the name of the game is to cultivate your own marketability, strategically target your search, have several pans in the fire at all times, and get your message out to the right audience: namely the people in a position to decide to hire you.
Peter Jacobs W'86, a Penn alumnus and career coach, will provide the tools to do just that. In this “Lunch and Learn” session, attendees will
- Learn about creative ways to increase your marketability and find work (whether as an employee, contractor, or independent consultant), BESIDES answering published job ads
- Discover the 10 questions YOU MUST answer to effectively and successfully market yourself
- Learn strategies to gather information necessary to make an informed decision and adapt your “pitch” to potential employers
- Learn how to appropriately “brand” yourself and communicate that brand to potential employers.
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain new skills and develop tools that will be useful in these tough times and throughout the rest of your career!
Location
Wharton West
101 Howard Street, Suite 450
San Francisco, CA
Date and Time
Thursday, March 19, 2009
12:00pm to 1:30pm
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Since 2001, Peter Jacobs has coached successful business professionals to build fulfilling and rewarding careers that fit their values, skills, interests, and needs. Peter’s clients achieve
- Desirable and sustainable changes in their career;
- More interviews and job offers;
- More fun and success in the workplace (in the form of better interpersonal relationships, promotions, and more interesting projects); and
- The satisfaction of knowing that they are being paid what they’re worth.
Thanks to 14 years cumulative business experience up to the manager and director level, combined with an INSEAD MBA and an MA in Career Development, Peter offers his clients a combination of the analytical, marketing-oriented approach of a consultant and the ability to coach people around the obstacles that make success difficult.
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