I attended the Succeed on Purpose® – Find Your Purpose! workshop on Saturday, 18 May 2013 held in a conference room of a high rise office building in Las Colinas, Texas. The energetic and lively Terri Maxwell led this workshop with the help of three assistants. There were 12 participants in this workshop. Participants learned how passion and strength comprise purpose. We practiced identifying doors to knock on and learned the three Career Personas™: builder, solver, and doer. Fears that block us from doing what our soul longs to do were discussed. Five participants acted out how desire, belief, purposeful expectations, action, and results interact. Lunch was included in the workshop; each person selected a box lunch prepared by Jason’s Deli. I was fortunate to win a seat in this workshop when Terri Maxwell spoke to Career Jump-Start at First United Methodist Church of Richardson, Texas.
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Career Jump-Start met on Tuesday, 16 April 2013 at First United Methodist Church of Richardson, Texas and was led by Katherine Bradford and Robert Sage. There were 20 people who participated in this meeting.
The presentation by Terri Maxwell at the meeting last Tuesday and the book The New World of Work: From the Cube to the Cloud describes a shift in some jobs. However, other jobs have not made this shift. Similar shifts in employment opportunities occurred when the typewriter was invented and again with the availability of personal computers; however, neither of these inventions affected all jobs. McAfee is hiring and appears to have 12 openings. Check the McAfee web site http://www.mcafee.com/careers/. If you find a job description that might be a good fit, research the rest of the McAfee website’ Google McAfee to find news articles about the company; look up the company on Reference USA to learn about the executive team, who competes with the company, and who supplies the company; look for possible contacts on LinkedIn, and call these contacts. The two companies that have the contracts with HP are Kforce and Peek, they are both temp agency and you must go through them to get into HP. UPCOMING Career Jump-Start meetings: 23 April 2013 Elizabeth Lions 30 April 2013 Networking Round Table 07 May 2013 Stewart Rosenfield 14 May 2013 Jon Sotts Networking Round Table Some acronyms are well known while other acronyms might not be recognized at all. SWAT is typically recognized as being used by law enforcement agencies to mean Special Weapons And Tactical. Business managers recognize SWOT as an acronym meaning Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats. Businesses use SWOT to evaluate the marketplace where they do business. SWOT might also be used by hiring managers to evaluate candidates for positions they are trying to fill. Career Jump-Start attendees organized into four groups. Robert Sage assigned each group a word from SWOT, asked the groups to think like a hiring manager, and think of questions that job candidates can be asked to evaluate their assignment. Strengths ·
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NOTE: This summary is also posted to the Career Jump-Start Yahoo! Group at http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CJS-HPUMC/message/15372. |