August 2019 EARN Meeting
Date and time
Location
St. Patrick's Parish Center (Education Center)
Moseman Rd & Hanover St Yorktown Heights, NY 10598Description
Topic: "Job Search in an Agile World"
Key points presented by Chris Hanson
1. Background: why do this?
2. What are the steps?
3. Some Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for job search
4. What's changed with CSFs in an agile world?
A former and current EARN Job Search Work Team member, Chris has given this presentation or its predecessor to several networking groups in the area. As a fellow job-seeker, he's an advocate for making your search as effective and efficient as possible. This presentation also covers the changes he's seen in job search to a much more agile environment.
Currently, Chris has a leadership position in information, technology and data risk management, logical extensions of his IT process improvement/quality management days at previous positions within financial services in the NYC area for the last twenty-two years and a military career before that.
Chris has a Bachelor's degree from Penn State, and Master's and Engineer degrees from the US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, all in electrical engineering. An active duty, career officer in the US Navy's submarine service and at challenging shore assignments, he received his commission as an Ensign through the NROTC Scholarship program and retired his commission as a Commander 21 years later.
As a volunteer, he led the Westchester chapter of the Project Managers Institute's (PMI's) Job Club in 2009-2010. He lives in Somers, NY, and is an Assistant Scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 228.
Organized by
is one of Westchester County's perennial faith-based groups specifically designed to assist the unemployed, underemployed and others in a state of career transition. EARN been holding monthly meetings since 1989.
The program was established by a small group of parishioners with human resources backgrounds with the intent of educating attendees about the job search process and by providing them opportunities to develop their networking skills. Essentially, EARN's coordinators help individuals to learn what it takes to uncover job leads and to increase their number of potential contacts. Not an employment agency, EARN provides valuable resources to connect attendees to work, but does not provide job placement.
The monthly meeting has four phases. Initially, there is News You Can Use -- an update on events. This is usually followed by a knowledgeable guest speaker who delves into various aspects of the job search, such as resume preparation, networking, negotiating and interviewing. Third, a coordinator facilitates a formal networking process whereby each participant tells of his/her background, aspirations and job search successes/setbacks experienced over the last month. Finally, informal networking takes place. Attendees do a one-on-one or small group interactions, for example, depending upon what transpired in the earlier networking phase.
EARN also publishes a monthly newsletter entitled Employment Exchange which lists job openings and situations wanted.
Visit EARNatStPats.com for more information.