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Monday, February 17, PSGCNJ No meeting in observance of Presidents Day.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
“Social Media, AI & Job Searching” – Online Event
Time: 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (CST)
Dee Reinhardt, Social Media Consultant
Learn how to make effective social media posts, enhance your LinkedIn profile, and increase the odds of getting noticed by future employers.
Job Club is free and open to all.
*To Register*:
https://plainfieldpubliclibrary.librarymarket.com/event/virtual-job-club-77490
Wednesday, February 19, 7:30 – 9:00 PM. Job Seekers’ of Montclair Join us online when Tony Calabrese, a Certified Career Coach leads a workshop on Networking
Topics to be covered:
- What is it? How does it work?
- Techniques to manage an effective network
- The best way to network and what a productive networking conversation sounds like
- Overcoming networking fears
- Internet Networking
The event is online only. Click here to join the Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 869 6416 8449
Passcode: 005505
One tap mobile +13052241968,,86964168449#,,,,
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For phone only dial 929 436 2866 and enter ID + passcode.
Also, if you would like to give back to the community and add experience to your resume, volunteer for Job Seekers of Montclair. Reply to Rachael@jobseekersofmontclair.org for details.
Monday, February 24, at 10:00 AM, the Monday Financial Group presents: Top Ten Resume Tips with Charlotte A. Lee
For those who don’t know, Charlotte is an executive coach with decades of experience helping senior executives differentiate themselves for success in a job search. Prior to founding her own firm in 2022, she was the Managing Consultant at Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH) in New York. Now, she provides services through her own firm, Lee Work Wise, LLC. Every conversation with Charlotte is insightful, generous, and sometimes even challenging.
Join the session on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82968804958?pwd=ybSNKen00vkZFJBiTt1b7YkvcbJqan.1
Meeting ID: 829 6880 4958
Passcode: 203206
Monday, February 24 | 10:30 AM (Virtual Meeting)
Group: Professional Service Group of Central New Jersey (PSGCNJ)
Speaker: Marty Latman
Topic: “How to Develop a Powerful Elevator Pitch”
Registration: Visit psgcnj.biz and click “Zoom Meeting Registration Here” at the top of the page. PSGCNJ now requires pre-registration for Zoom meetings. Be sure to register by 11 PM on Friday before the Monday morning meeting. After registering, save the link emailed to you for access to Monday’s meeting.
You step into an elevator. After you, a well-dressed person also enters. You recognize the person as the President of the Company you always wanted to work at. The person hits the 7th floor elevator button and says “hello” to you. Can you tell the President who you are, what do you do and the benefits companies get from your work and leave a lasting impression before the elevator door opens on the 7th floor? With a well-crated and practiced elevator pitch you sure can.
Please join Marty Latman, FENG Co-Chairman, as he presents “How to Develop a Powerful and Rememberable Elevator Pitch”. During this presentation, Marty will discuss the following things you need to know about an elevator pitch:
1. What it really is and what is its purpose?
2. What are the basics of the pitch?
3. How you should construct and deliver it?
Marty Latman, called by many people, the “Best Networker” they know, is a People Helper and Match Maker. He is the Managing Partner of Latman Advisory Services LLC. In addition to providing business consulting services to organizations, he trains, teaches, advises and support individuals in different industries with various disciplines in techniques to help them successfully execute their job search campaign. Marty takes a collaborative approach as he works closely to meet the unique needs and goals of each client.
Marty has been a guest speaker at many networking groups where he has discussed various career development topics including networking, interviewing techniques and advance career planning strategies. He has spoken to numerous local and national organizations at their local and National meetings and conferences.
“Ask Maya” Q&A Segment:
Join us on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month from 12:00–12:30 PM for a 30-minute Q&A session with Maya Ollson, career consultant and founder of Kokopella High Touch Outplacement. A frequent PSGCNJ speaker, Maya will address your job search questions and provide valuable insights to support your career journey.
Tues Feb 25th, 6:00-8:30 pm CT In-Person Meeting on “HOW TO NETWORK TO YOUR NEXT JOB” plus a Round of Networking & access to a presentation recording. This event is limited to the first 75 registrants– our last event sold out within 2 weeks. If you have any problems with registering, just email mgilbert@nsenginc.com immediately.
Networking” plays a significant role in over 75% of the jobs that are acquired. Unfortunately, it’s also an activity that most job seekers don’t enjoy doing and, consequently, many individuals don’t network very well. Effective networking requires a combination of online research (to identify the individuals) and offline human interaction techniques that engage your audience and provide them with ways in which to help you. It’s a fact that when you are networked into a company, you have a 60% better chance of getting an interview. During this webinar I’ll discuss several techniques that you can apply immediately and I’ll share specific scripts that you can use to turn your network into a sales channel that accelerates your job search.
Here are a few of the topics that I will cover:
– Where most job seekers fail in their networking efforts and why
– How to prepare for networking opportunities
– How to find valuable networking contacts on LinkedIn
– How to make it easier for your network to help you with key introductions
– How to access the “hidden job market” through your network
– How to create advocates inside a company that’s of interest to you.
The presentation will be followed by a round of networking where you will have an opportunity to share your background with other attendees who may be in a position to make valuable introductions into companies that you are targeting. Please bring 10 copies of your handbill or resume with you for this exercise. Each registrant will also receive access to a previous recording of the presentation.
Click HERE to register. And if you can’t attend this live event, you can get access to a previous webinar recording of it by clicking HERE.
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Saturday March 8th, at 9:30 AM
Please share this with other groups you may be in. Join us on Meetup.com at: http://www.meetup.com/The-Breakfast-Club-NJ/ to RSVP for the meeting.
Presentation: Conquering Job Transition is the third book in trilogy that Mark Beal & Frank Kovacs have authored to help those in Job Search. In this book a unique approach of identifying TBCNJ members by gender, age, level, profession, industry & type of transitions faced was carefully selected to provide a breadth of experiences that are presented through inspirational stories that have insights & lessons learned that will help the reader while leaving them with hope that they too can successfully conquer job transitions. We will have authors from 3 of the chapters on a panel and discuss different aspects of their personal journeys.
About the Speakers:
Frank Kovacs has been a technology business executive for more than 30 years, leading and directing large, complex, global operations and transformations for some of the largest Fortune 100 firms and NASA.
Frank has been recognized as a recipient of the Gartner CIO Choice Award, the Visionary Award from Business Finance Magazine & Internet World, and the Ovation Award at Comnet. Frank was named a visionary for his 12 years of work at AT&T Bell Labs and has a patent for Smart Card Technology.
Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Frank wanted to help those who lost their jobs due to the tragedy and formed a group, The Breakfast Club NJ (TBCNJ). More than 24 years later, TBCNJ has grown to more than 6,000 members and is the premier job search and career networking group in the New York/New Jersey region. As TBCNJ extensively leverages social media, many of the job posts and career transition advice routinely go viral and TBCNJ has helped more than 9,000 individuals secure jobs all with a “pay-it-forward” volunteer approach.
Frank is very proud to capture many of the learnings from 24 years of leadingTBCNJ and share them through this book in hopes that even more people will be helped with their respective job search as we all work through the challenges of today’s digital disruption and reskilling.
For more than 25 years, Mark Beal served as a public relations practitioner and marketer for one of the nation’s leading consumer public relations agencies developing and executing marketing and public relations campaigns for leading companies and brands around such major sports and entertainment properties as the Olympic Games, Super Bowl, World Series, US Open Tennis and The Rolling Stones.
Today, he collaborates with Gen Z as a full-time professor of practice and communication at the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information. Mark’s ongoing research of Gen Z has led to keynote speeches to the American Marketing Association, Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
It was Mark’s Rutgers students who inspired him to author his first book in 2017, 101 Lessons They Never Taught You In College, which provides tips to college students preparing for their transition to a career. Media and readers nationwide responded so positively to the book that Mark authored, 101 Lessons They Never Taught You In High School About Going To College, which was published in 2018.
Mark’s book, Decoding Gen Z: 101 Lessons Generation Z Will Teach Corporate America, Marketers & Media, was published in 2018 and captured the attention of media, marketers and employers nationwide as Gen Zers were starting to become a focus of corporations and brands. In 2020, Mark co-authored Engaging Gen Z with Harvard University student Michael Pankowski. In 2022, Mark authored Gen Z Graduates To Adulthood. Mark’s latest book, ZEO, was published in 2023 as more Gen Zers transitioned from college to their career. The Gen Z books have led to invitations from conferences, corporations, brands, agencies, universities, industry associations and pro sports leagues and teams for Mark to deliver keynote speeches featuring his Gen Z research and insights.
Mark has also co-authored a trilogy of job search/career transition books with Frank Kovacs, including Career In Transition, Win The Job & Thrive In A Multigenerational Workplace, and Conquering Job Transition, published in 2025.
To learn more, visit www.markbealspeaks.com.
About the Meeting:
- Meeting Date & Time: March 8, 2025, 9:30 – 11:30 AM (America/New York)
Presentation: 9:30 -10:30am – doors to facility open 9am come early to get settled in
Facilitated Networking: 10:30 – 11:30am
- Location: Conference Center of the East Brunswick Public Library
- Address: 2 Jean Walling Civic Center Drive, East Brunswick, NJ
- Fee: $10 cash will be collected at the door to pay for the cost of the room.
Note: Time & Location Change – our meetings will now begin promptly at 9:30am (doors open 9am please come early to enjoy some extra networking time and get settled in.
There is ample parking both in primary lot directly in front of library’s main entrance and a second lot to the side of the library facility, but you must enter through libraries front doors to gain access to the conference center which is to the left rear of the facility after entering.
Recurring Meetings
When: Weekly, Sundays from 9:00 – 9:30 am
What: Keeppace with George Pace – What you should know about the latest IT and AI
Where: Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/keeppace
More Information: Leading Technology speaker, Researcher / IT strategist /Enterprise Architecture / Cloud / Open Source / Kubernetes / Microservices / Docker / DevOps / Video / Social Networking / Application Rationalization
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keeppace
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/keeppace
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@keeppace
Do you find it hard to “Keep Pace” with the never-ending stream of AI articles you encounter daily? Wouldn’t it be nice to get professional insight into those topics, so you can be prepared for how AI will impact YOU and YOUR CAREER?
That is the driver behind my weekly LIVE Webinar (30 Minutes EVERY Sunday at 9AM EST), where George provides his insights to interesting AI advances AND the changes it will drive.
When: Weekly, Mondays from 9:00 – 10:30 am
What: The Ramsey Job Search
Where: Please contact Beth Berkenfeld at bberk2@optonline.net or 201-797-4342 if interested in joining the group.
More Information: Work Team meets every Monday morning. Networking starts from 9 to 9:30am and the meeting starts at 9:30 to 10:30 while virtual. Members hold each other accountable at weekly (virtual) meetings for conducting a job search in earnest. Historically, the team has enjoyed a very high rate of “landings” by those conducting an active and vigorous job search.
Based on the Lee-Hecht-Harrison model, it’s more of a project management team made up of people committed to helping each other in the job search. By attending regularly and staying focused on key tasks, meetings serve as an advisory panel that knows you and your search and can offer answers to the questions that come up in job hunting.
Help others to help you (especially for the first few meetings) by having a prepared “elevator pitch” to introduce yourself. Jobs open up because there’s a problem to solve or a need to fill.
When: 2nd Tuesday of every month at 6:00 p.m.- 7:30 p.m.
What: Northern Fairfield Professionals (NFP)
Where: Knights of Columbus building at Saint Rose Church (hybrid)
46 Church Hill Road
Newtown, CT 06470
The Northern Fairfield Professionals (NFP) is a free networking group that gathers monthly to foster connections and provide valuable resources for career growth. Open to professionals from all industries and career stages, our meetings are designed to help attendees expand their networks and gain the tools they need to advance in their careers. We focus on creating mutually beneficial relationships, where members can share ideas, exchange job leads and strengthen their networking abilities.
More Information: Join virtually on the. via Zoom for an informative and strategic approach to landing the job you want. We are pleased to launch a series of career workshops to help support you in your career search. Whether you’re in a current job search, considering a career transition or looking to take your career to the next level, these sessions are for you! Over the next 5 months, you’ll have an opportunity to learn the key elements of a job search strategy and a step-by-step approach to landing the job you want. We’ll take the guesswork out of the job search, so you will always know what to do next.
When: 4th Tuesday of every month at 6:00 p.m.
What: William Paterson University Alumni Association
Where: Contact Linda Kavan Senior Associate Director of Alumni Relations973.720.3625
EMAIL: kavanl@wpunj.edu
More Information: Join virtually on the. via Zoom for an informative and strategic approach to landing the job you want. We are pleased to launch a series of career workshops to help support you in your career search. Whether you’re in a current job search, considering a career transition or looking to take your career to the next level, these sessions are for you! Over the next 5 months, you’ll have an opportunity to learn the key elements of a job search strategy and a step-by-step approach to landing the job you want. We’ll take the guesswork out of the job search, so you will always know what to do next.
When:Every Wednesday at 9:30 am
What: PSGMC (Professional Services Group Morris County) Via Zoom Online
Where: email Dale at dfavia@optonline.net for Zoom Meeting ID and Password.
More Information: PSGMC presents a virtual meeting each week. They provide relevant speakers to help with your job search, as well as provide a forum to networks. If you would like to attend our meetings, please email Dale at dfavia@optonline.net for Zoom Meeting ID and Password.
When: Wednesdays at 7:30 PM
What: Job Seekers of Montclair is a free, job search training and support group open to all.
Where: We meet at the Assembly Hall of St. Luke‘s Church on 73 S. Fullerton Ave., Montclair, NJ and online.
More Information: We have professional speakers on a variety of job search topics including recognizing your accomplishments, developing your resume, networking, interview preparation, and dealing with road blocks.
Meetings and workshops are in person and on Zoom at 7:30 pm. Information about the upcoming meeting can be found on our website, https://jobseekersofmontclair.org. While you are there, you can join our weekly e-mail list where we send announcements of upcoming meetings or helpful information. Just click on Subscribe on the home page. You may also view our schedule and you have access to lots of resources. Our self-help group has been helping people in New Jersey and elsewhere get through the job search process and find new careers for the last forty years.
When:Every Friday morning at 10:00 am
What: Professional Service Group (PSG) of Mercer County
Where: Princeton Public Library
More Information: The Professional Service Group (PSG) of Mercer County is a community program providing enrichment seminars for professionals in transition who are seeking new employment opportunities or exploring new career paths. Meetings are always free, open to all, and do NOT require you to register in advance. Please check the PSG of Mercer County website Event Calendar for upcoming programs: https://www.psgofmercercounty.org/p/event-calendar.html.
All PSG of Mercer County meetings are in-person only without streaming or recording.
No Signup or Registration Required
When:meets virtually the first and third Saturday of each month at 8:30 AM EST
What: Careers in Transition
Where: Virtual
More Information: Each meeting offers: (1) various speakers and topics related to job search and career development (2) Resume Review.
Read more about us: https://www.christchurchshorthills.org/careers-in-transition/
M EST Friday before each meeting.
When:2nd Saturday of the month, except we skip December and August
What: Penn State Great Valley Presents My Career Transitions My Career Transitions
Where: Penn State Great Valley campus in Malvern, PA
More Information:2nd Saturday of the month, except we skip December and August. Penn State Great Valley Presents My Career Transitions My Career Transitions has returned to in-person meetings at the Penn State Great Valley campus in Malvern, PA. Attending in-person allows you to get the most from the meeting by interacting with the speaker My Career Transitions is presented by Penn State Great Valley and our events are sponsored by the Penn State Great Valley Alumni Society. You do not need to have any affiliation with Penn State to attend and benefit from our meetings and speaker. We welcome everyone. * For those outside the greater Philadelphia region or otherwise not able to attend in-person, you will be able to join by Zoom, starting with virtual networking before joining the classroom live. We do not record the meetings for viewing later.All events now start promptly at 10:00 AM and end by 12:15 PM. Please arrive by 10:00 when doors open. We start with the MCT networking session – a fun way to meet people and grow your network by 2-3 people – even before the speaker starts.Note: Registration for all events closes at 12 noon the day prior to the event.
Dress Code: We suggest dressy casual. No one wears suits or ties. The norm is slacks and a collared shirt for men and the equivalent for women.
When: 2nd Saturday of each month
What: The Breakfast Club NJ. In Person Meetings
Where: Conference Center of the East Brunswick Public Library, 2 Jean Walling Civic Center Drive, East Brunswick, NJ
Fee: $10 cash only will be collected at the door to pay for the cost of the room
Why: Join one of the premier and longest running networking groups in New Jersey, founded in 2001 to help you with your career search
Website: https://thebreakfastclubnj.com/
Register at: https://www.meetup.com/the-breakfast-club-nj/events/297707709/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events
More Information:Please share this with other groups you may be in. Join us on Meetup.com at: https://www.meetup.com/The-Breakfast-Club-NJ/ to RSVP for the meeting.
Join The Breakfast Club NJ where people of all disciplines: IT, Finance & Accounting, Communications, Human Resources get together with a common focus to assist each other in pursuing new employment opportunities, tackling the challenges of their current positions, and providing a support network to and networking with the volunteers and other attendees that may be able to help you.
The Breakfast Club NJ (TBCNJ) has returned to in person meetings!!! Our meetings will now begin promptly at 9:30am & end 11:30am (The Library doors open 9am please come early to enjoy some extra networking time and get settled in). The presentation will be 930-1030am then facilitated networking 1030-1130am then meeting will conclude but you can follow up on leads in room until noon. The new location is the Conference Center of the East Brunswick Public Library – address is 2 Jean Walling Civic Center Drive, East Brunswick, NJ and Directions can be found at https://ilove.ebpl.org at bottom of home page under hours & directions: https://maps.app.goo.gl/JAudegdMQJX1ktbh8
There is ample parking both in primary lot directly in front of library’s main entrance and a second lot to the side of the library facility, but you must enter through libraries front doors to gain access to the conference center which is to the left rear of the facility after entering
Please help us by extending invites to anyone you know who is in transition. We will be collecting $10 Cash per attendee at door as we must pay to rent the room and are required to have insurance to use the facility. Looking forward to seeing everyone and welcoming you and the new members. No food or drink is allowed in the library as per library rules.
RSVP via Meetup – https://www.meetup.com/home/ By RSVPing on Meetup, we can plan to have appropriate seating, and you will be able to contact other meeting attendees, and they will be able to contact you, as well. Additionally, any meeting changes will be sent out to members who register on Meetup. To receive our job listings, and timely job search and career updates, JOIN our pay it forward group at www.thebreakfastclubnj.com.
When: On Demand – see below
What: Neighbors-helping-Neighbors (NhN)
Where: Go to: www.nhnusa.org
More Information: The has now changed its operating model from virtual meetings, face-to-face meeting to a one-on-one mentor/coach model. Our leaders and others who volunteer and are vetted by founder will offer one on one sessions with our membership information and a large amount of resources for NhNUSA may be found at www.nhnusa.org. There is both a registration for members needing help, along with a registration for applying to be a coach/mentor. Please feel free to use the free career resources on this site and join their Linked-In group.
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