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 ·
Weaknesses ·
Opportunities ·
Threats ·
NOTE: This summary is also posted to the Career Jump-Start Yahoo! Group at http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CJS-HPUMC/message/15372.
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 ·
- What three strengths can you cite that are appropriate for this position? ·
- What is a strength that could turn a negative situation around? ·
- Talk about an accomplishment that is relevant to this position and explain why it is relevant. ·
- Tell me about a strength that is not on your resume. ·
- What strengths would be most commonly cited by your coworkers or your neighbors?
Weaknesses ·
- What do you believe your weaknesses are? ·
- Tell me about how you handled a problem; what the problem was, and how you solved it. ·
- Tell me about a time when you had a problem with a supervisor. ·
- Have you had a disagreement with a coworker; if so, how did you deal with it? ·
- Have you ever been late to work? ·
- Do you have reliable transportation? ·
- Are you flexible? ·
- What computer programs are you skilled with? ·
- Why did you leave your last position?
Opportunities ·
- Are you interviewing with competitors? ·
- In your own words what do you bring to this position? ·
- Where do you see yourself in 3 – 5 years? ·
- Why did you apply for this position? ·
- How could your strengths benefit the company? ·
- With regard to how you fit the culture of this company, describe your management style or how you like to be managed? ·
- Describe training opportunity.
Threats ·
- How would you deal with stress? ·
- A company would do due diligence, (i.e. check Facebook, LinkedIn for any negative postings). ·
- What type of management style do you like best? ·
- Do you like micro managers? ·
- What team building events do you like?
NOTE: This summary is also posted to the Career Jump-Start Yahoo! Group at http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CJS-HPUMC/message/15372.
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