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I want to thank everyone who came to the session today. Hope these resources will help you prepare for what's coming soon to you!

Job Search Strategies

Here are 10 tips from experts to make your networking fruitful:

1. Prepare an "elevator speech." Write a summary of what you want people to know about you that can be delivered in less than 30 seconds. Make it upbeat and succinct: who you are, what you do, what you're looking for. More than that, and you risk turning off the listener, says Debra Condren, a career coach and business psychologist with offices in New York and San Francisco. Since you get only one chance to make a first impression, she recommends practicing your elevator speech in front of a mirror, and then on friends, before taking it to a networking event.

2. Use your existing ties. Start by tapping existing contacts, including friends, family and ex-colleagues. Spread the word that you're looking for a job and ask if anyone has a contact who might be able to offer advice. Then make sure to ask every person you meet for two or three more referrals. ("Do you know anyone else who might be helpful for me to meet?" can be an effective question.)

3. Target trade groups. Don't waste time at big events catering to people in many industries. Join the dominant trade or industry group in your area. Preferably, it should have a barrier to entry, at least a membership fee. Consider volunteering on one of the group's committees, to meet members.

4. Show interest in others. Career experts say the secret is to stop focusing on yourself and take an interest in the other person. Ask questions and get the contacts to talk about themselves and their business experience. This is easier than you might think.

5. Don't ask for a job. It may force the other person to say no to you. Instead, seek advice, says Dan Strakal, co-author of "Better Job Search in 3 Easy Steps" and owner of Success Positioning Systems, an Albuquerque, N.M., career-services firm. People are likelier to be generous with their time if you ask for their counsel. Don't worry. If you seem qualified for an opening, they'll refer you to the right person to set up an interview.

6. Build relationships. Strangers won't put their reputations on the line for you. Build ties with a new contact before asking for help. Consider dropping a personal note to any new contact you meet at an industry event. Then follow up, perhaps with a helpful article or introduction to someone you know.

7. Don't be selfish. No matter how desperate you are, remember networking is a two-way street. If you've met with a recruiter, you can always offer to introduce him to the smartest people you know in your industry, says Melanie Mulhall, a career coach and corporate consultant in Broomfield, Colo. If you are a young job seeker with little experience, you may not be able to help a finance chief land his next position -- but his daughter might be applying to colleges and want to hear your take on a school.

8. Don't abuse relationships. There's no rule here for how many phone calls are too many. Just try to gauge if you're coming across as always looking for a favor.

9. Follow through. Nothing can kill a budding relationship faster than not writing a proper thank-you note. In many cases, you can e-mail it, but don't assume the content is any less important than in snail mail. A three-line message with a smiley face won't cut it. Keep the other person abreast of how your meeting went with someone he or she referred you to.

10. Maintain your network. Cultivate ties even when you aren't job hunting. Remember, the majority of jobs go unpublished, so you may hear of an exciting opportunity.

(CareerJournal online)

Resume Sites

http://www.monster.com

http://www.careerbuilder.com/

http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/

http://www.jobsearchusa.org/

http://www.jobcentral.com/

Local Businesses

http://www.snagajob.com/

Internship Search

http://www.monstertrak.com/

http://www.collegegrad.com/internships/

http://www.internweb.com/

Ben Zander comes to the Tri-Cities

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Over the past couple of years, I've had the opportunity to work with some of most famous writers or speakers on leadership. This year, we brought in Ben Zander, who is one of the worlds greatest symphony conductors. http://www.benjaminzander.com

He was a delight!! I captured something that he said somewhere in a book or website regarding his book The Art of Possibility

"....In the other model of possibility, you're looking for completely different relationships, not dominating survival images, but Ben Zander and me rather images of what I call symphonia. The orchestra is the symphony, which is the sounding of all the voices. And so in the model of possibility, you want to make sure all the voices are heard so the symphony and the symphony conductor become an appropriate model for possibility organizations. And that's a shift in being so profound that it actually is a kind of molecular shift. And it manifests itself in even the way people walk and use their arms and the way their eyes look and the voices and everything else because when you're standing in the we of symphony, you're in a completely different relationship. You're not looking to see who is winning and whether you're better than the next person."

eBusiness

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One of my favorite topics these days is "eBusiness." In the course I teach called "eCommerce," we go disect the many components that makes eBusiness and eCommerce unique. It is driving our economy more than anything. The ability for an organizational eliminate the need for "physical space" and to be able to focus on their core business is driving innovation and new products. Through new marketing and communications channels, a business can spread the word about their product in matter of minutes compared to older methods such as TV or Radio.

Wikipedia defines eBusiness as:

Electronic Business, or "e-Business", may be defined broadly as any business process that relies on an automated information system. Today, this is mostly done with Web-based technologies. The term "e-Business" was coined by Lou Gerstner, CEO of IBM.

Electronic business methods enable companies to link their internal and external data processing systems more efficiently and flexibly, to work more closely with suppliers and partners, and to better satisfy the needs and expectations of their customers.

In practice, e-business is more than just e-commerce. While e-business refers to more strategic focus with an emphasis on the functions that occur using electronic capabilities, e-commerce is a subset of an overall e-business strategy. E-commerce seeks to add revenue streams using the World Wide Web or the Internet to build and enhance relationships with clients and partners and to improve efficiency using the Empty Vessel strategy. Often, e-commerce involves the application of knowledge management systems.

E-business involves business processes spanning the entire value chain: electronic purchasing and supply chain management, processing orders electronically, handling customer service, and cooperating with business partners. Special technical standards for e-business facilitate the exchange of data between companies. E-business software solutions allow the integration of intra and inter firm business processes. E-business can be conducted using the Web, the Internet, intranets, extranets, or some combination of these.

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