"Career Planning On A Napkin" -- One-Day Seminar For CT Job Seekers - Thursday, May 19, 2011 8am - 3pm

Online, May 9, 2011 (Newswire.com) - My Executive Career Coach LLC and HireEffect LLC today announced "Career Planning on a Napkin", a special one-day seminar for Connecticut executives in transition featuring presentations by career experts, motivational speakers, recruiters, career coaches, financial planners and wellness specialists who discuss new techniques, technologies and strategies for approaching today's complex job market.

"Career Planning on a Napkin" - Thursday, May 19, 2011 8am - 3pm, lunch included.

Daymon Worldwide Headquarters (Rear Entrance), 700 Fairfield Avenue, Stamford, CT, 06902.

Cost is $40 per person. Register at http://planningonanapkin.com/ or call Linda Van Valkenburgh, 203-323-9977 or Jennifer Scott, 203-968-9969

"We all know that job searching today is difficult enough", said Linda Van Valkenburgh, owner and Chief Career Coach, My Executive Career Coach. "But there are a variety of resources, technologies and considerations in job searching that just didn't exist a couple of years ago. It's our aim to bring all these together for a day and give our attendees a condensed view of how to leverage these and shape their job search strategies to be as efficient and effective as possible."

"Career Planning on a Napkin" will include:

Michael Goldberg - Keynote Speaker, Author of Knock-Out Networking!; Networking Expert; Founder & President of Building Blocks Consulting, LLC - "How to land more prospects, more referrals, and more interviews!"

Jennifer Scott - Owner of HireEffect LLC -- "Beyond the Profile - The Job Search / Corporate Marketing Connection"

Jay Rovert - Barnum Financial Group, an office of MetLife -"Strategies for Job Changers - Financial Planning on a Napkin"

Stephanie Dalfonzo, Owner, StephanieDalfonzo.com and Danbury Hypnosis - "Overcoming Interview Fears and Job Search Stress - Keys to Lasting Changes"

Linda Van Valkenburgh, MS, CCMC, CJSS - Owner of My Executive Career Coach, LLC - "Value Propositions for Today's Focused Job Market"

Abby Kohut - AbsolutelyAbby.com - "Success for the Seasoned Search - The Benefit of Being Overqualified"

"We call it 'Career Planning on a Napkin' because in spite of how complicated the job search process may seem, it can be made simpler, "said Jennifer M. Scott, founder, HireEffect. "We're bringing the best experts together to provide insights on the essential actions to take, and presenting them in a way that is simple to follow. So simple in fact, you can plan it out on a napkin."

About My Executive Career Coach
Linda Van Valkenburgh is the owner and Certified Executive Career Coach of My Executive Career Coach LLC. My Executive Career Coach has one mission -- to help secure new executive career positions for its clients in today's challenging job market; no matter the industry, location, or executive title. The company uniquely provides one-on-one strategic career coaching and job search strategies based on its clients' professional ambitions -- designing customized, highly-focused, and disciplined search campaigns that deliver results.

Linda has over twenty years of business experience in a broad range of corporate environments including marketing, advertising, engineering, entrepreneurial partnerships, industrial manufacturing and full time career development work experience. Recognized by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Linda's credentials include Certified Career Management Coach (CCMC) and Certified Job Search Strategist (CJSS). She has also been trained in multiple social media platforms and holds a Twitter Certified Career Strategist credential from the Job Search Academy in Fresno, California. Linda is a member and invited speaker for the Society for Human Resource Management; has been a past speaker at the Yale School of Management lecturing on Interview Techniques and Strategies for over 300 MBA students; and has spoken at many networking groups across the region.

Linda is a regular contributor for ExecuNet, providing lectures, downloadable content, and teleconferences. In addition, Linda organizes and facilitates two monthly networking meetings for the
$ 100k+ and $ 200k+ executive. She is a guest speaker for the New Jersey Department of Labor and is a regular contributor to the Money section of the NewJerseyNewsRoom.com, an online newsroom, where she writes about issues in the forefront of career search. Linda is a resident of Danbury, CT. For more information visit http://MyExecutiveCareerCoach.com.

About HireEffect LLC
Jennifer Scott is the Owner of HireEffect, LLC and Principal in Workforce Engine, which together bridge the Knowledge Gap between Recruiters and Job Seekers. Jennifer is a recruiter, talent acquisition strategist and coach with over 17 years of recruiting experience and a passion for networking and social media.

As a strategist she creates innovative recruitment processes which support the ever-evolving needs of her clients, and acts as a trusted consultant to help them achieve their recruitment and retention goals. She has proven success sourcing across multiple functions at any level in an organization, developing a consistent candidate pipeline, creating a positive candidate experience, and increasing employee engagement through inspiring orientation and onboarding programs.

With the experts at Workforce Engine, Jennifer assists clients in identifying needs, drafting competency-based position descriptions, developing a recruitment strategy and action plan, and facilitating candidate communication to enhance an organization's capabilities. Services include full-cycle talent acquisition strategy design and implementation, social media marketing and social networking training and consulting for in-house recruiters.

As a social media job search coach Jennifer offers tactical approaches to the job search process in all of her one-to-one sessions and workshops, leveraging social media. With the ability to reverse-engineer the recruiting process for those in transition, she inspires people to take action in their career campaign through the services offered by HireEffect.

In addition to continuously building Workforce Engine and HireEffect, Jennifer serves on the Board of Directors for the Brookfield Education Foundation, and is the Strategic Networking Advisor for Whine and Dine LLC, a professional networking group for HR practitioners. Jennifer is also the senior business advisor for CT-Moms, the largest and most active networking group for mothers in Fairfield County, CT.
For more information visit: http://www.HireEffect.com or http://workforceengine.com