Job Club, through Alumni Career Services, continues to line up some great speakers and presenters. Too bad you have to work!!

You might want to rethink your Friday options and consider playing hookey in order to spend time with us. How can you afford to miss speakers that tell it like it is—about the workplace, job searching, career re-invention, and critical things such as personal marketing, branding, unique selling propositions, and how to create a profit-proposal generator? Might you be missing vital pieces of knowledge and information by remaining at work?

Here is a recap of the speakers who have generously offered their time and expertise to provide some invaluable information, knowledge, and services to Job Club participants:

After 12 years as an executive recruiter, Marilyn McSweeney is now an energetic personal coach with McSweeney-Miller Executive Career Coaching. She brings extensive career experience and couples it with timely knowledge of the importance of utilizing social media, branding, and networking “to help clients cut through the clutter and focus on objectives and personal branding methods, assisting professionals with improving performance and increasing their impact.”  Marilyn spoke on “Differentiating Yourself to Success in Today’s Job Market.” Read more about Marilyn at www.McSweeney-Miller.com

Accompanying Marilyn were two other professionals, Jennifer Armitstead and Shauna Dansie. Jennifer, who owns her own recruiting firm, Moving Forward Employment Solutions, provided knowledgeable tips on how to work with recruiters and use them effectively as part of the job search process.

Shauna Dansie is a professional business writer and researcher who offered tips on writing effective résumés and compelling profiles for LinkedIn.  She also spoke on the importance of branding and how to differentiate yourself from others. She writes a blog at shaunadansie.wordpress.com

Larry Myler has an MBA from the David Eccles School of Business. He is an author, business strategist, and consultant for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. For much of his career he has revitalized companies with new, concrete methods for reducing expenses and increasing revenues.

Larry gave me an advance copy of his new book, Indispensable By Monday. It will be released in early February 2010 by Wiley Publishing. To gather information for this book, former VitalSmarts owner Myler asked 1,800 corporate leaders to identify the bottom-line behaviors that would make employees essential to their organizations. Indispensable By Monday outlines the profit-producing behaviors that distinguish workers who add value to a business from those who don’t, in reducing company costs, increasing income, improving key processes, bringing back lost customers, and more.

Myler showed the audience how to use a tool that he developed, the Profit Proposal Generator™. It is free on his Web site and, in today’s parlance, is very cool.  Visit www.moreorlessinc.com and click on “tools,” where you will be walked through the calculations that can make your résumé sizzle.

Troy Tate, a former U of U graduate, resides in California but recently gave a workshop for alumni at the University of Utah—The Missing Step. Troy was a trial lawyer for more than 15 years but felt that his career choice was no longer a good fit for him. His passion now is helping individuals connect to a deeper level within themselves in order to discover their “DNA” (drives, needs, aptitudes). According to Tate, a new kind of workplace engagement happens when one identifies and pursues one’s true niche in the marketplace.  The Missing Step workshop was a beta test, providing an interactive learning opportunity for the 29 individuals who attended.

Read more about Troy at http://www.themissingstep.com.

The bottom line to all of this? Life is too short to miss Job Club, a weekly support group for those who either want to find a job or change careers. Job Club meets each Friday in the Student Services Building, Room 380, from 2 to 4 pm. Even better—It’s free!

Join our group on LinkedIn called Job Club.  It is a sub-group of the University of Utah Alumni Association.

Need more information? Contact Julie Swaner, Program Manager, Alumni Career Services, (801) 585-5036 or jswaner@sa.utah.edu.

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