Posts Tagged ‘Career development’
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 25:28, 23.4 MB), Steve Weisgerber shares how he got a job as a Unix Administrator. A great resume and interview were keys to his getting the job, even after he’d thought the opportunity was no longer his to have.
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About Steve
Steve Weisgerber is a Senior Programmer, with experience in Unix and Linux environments. His strengths include the automation of daily procedures to make them more efficient. As a senior programmer, he has succeeded by mentoring, teaching follow employees and customers, and by being a team player who works well with cross-functional teams. His experience has been diverse, ranging in the medical field, oil refinery field and manufacturing fields.
He currently works in Unix Administration and Websphere Administration, responsible for maintaining security certificates, installing websphere on servers, adding and deleting of applications in Websphere.
He also enjoys scuba diving and underwater photography.
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 24:32, 22.9 MB), Tony Cipollone shares how he got a job as a Senior Organizational Development Consultant at InterPro Teambuilding Systems. He cites his existing relationships, a helpful attitude, and being receptive to different job possibilities as keys to his getting this job. In addition he found LinkedIn to be a valuable online tool and networking with other people in local job search groups like the Job Search Focus Group in Hyde Park to be helpful.
Website mentioned: Society for Human Resource Management
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About Tony
Tony Cipollone, PhD, SPHR – Senior Consultant, InterPro Teambuilding Systems, is an experienced business consultant and training professional focused on removing obstacles to peak performance in organizations. His collaborative approach and creative energy helps others find connections that lead to sustainable solutions to problems. His work with InterPro includes process improvement, training design & development, employee engagement, and organizational teambuilding.
Tony has held human resource and training management positions with several international companies, including Siemens Energy & Automation and Kendle International.
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Tags: Business, Career development, consulting, human resources, InterPro, Job hunting, Job Search, LinkedIn, management, Management consulting, organizational development, Tony Cipollone
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 30:37, 28.5 MB), Kevin Kimball shares how he got a job as Senior Director of Corporate Marketing and Communications. He shared how he valued the transparency of those whom he had interviewed with and also shared some perspectives of moving from large companies to a smaller company.
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About Kevin
Kevin Kimball is a communications executive who promotes and protects the reputations of companies by developing integrated, cost-effective communications programs.
He is currently senior director, corporate marketing and communications at Force10 Networks in San Jose, CA. There, he is responsible for all worldwide external and internal communications. He’s held similar corporate marketing and communications leadership positions in Hitachi, Cadence Design Systems, Philips Semiconductors, Siemens and GE.
Currently based in Los Altos, CA, he’s originally from Upstate New York and has worked in Boston, New York City, New Jersey and Munich, Germany. He’s also gained considerable on-the-ground experience in various parts of Asia Pacific.
In his spare time, he enjoys his family, playing and observing sports (Boston Red Sox and the New York Giants), reading fiction and non-fiction, movies, traveling and collecting contemporary art.
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Sunday, December 27th, 2009
In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 37:28, 34.4 MB), Jim Dailakis shares how he’s found work as a Comedian, Actor, and Writer. Sometimes you create your own opportunities.
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About Jim
Actor/writer/comedian and voiceover artist, Jim Dailakis, based in New York City, has been touring the USA for the last twelve years headlining in the major comedy clubs. He has worked with the likes of Jerry Seinfeld, Larry the Cable Guy, Kevin Nealon, The Temptations, Aretha Franklin and Weird Al Yankovic. Jim’s been featured on CMT, VH1, MTV, XM Satellite Radio as well as Sirius Satellite Radio where he’s a regular guest.
A New York trained actor, he recently played a vagrant in a movie called, THE A AND D PROJECT, the award-winning film, MONA, and a comical character suffering from ADD in a TV pilot called, WORST FIRST DATE. He’s portraying a witty, sarcastic British doorman in a movie called, MELVIN’S APARTMENT. He’s currently working on several feature films he’s written as vehicles for himself. A couple of them have some funding and a sales agent already in place. NOT UNTIL SHE SINGS and ALL MY FRIENDS ARE GETTING MARRIED.
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Tags: actor, Arts and Entertainment, Business, Career development, comedian, freelance, humor, Jim Dailakis, Job hunting, Job Search, Performing Arts, screenwriting, writer
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Sunday, December 20th, 2009
In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 23:45, 21.8 MB), Sonia Pressman Fuentes shares how she got a job as a Labor Law Attorney for the National Labor Relations Board over 50 years ago.
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About Sonia
Sonia Pressman Fuentes is a feminist activist, author, public speaker, and retired attorney. She has been involved in women’s rights since 1965, when she joined the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) as the first woman attorney in its Office of the General Counsel. Ms. Fuentes served as an attorney with the Federal government (Department of Justice, National Labor Relations Board, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development) for over 20 years and was an attorney and executive with multinational corporations (GTE and TRW) for over 10 years. She was the highest-paid woman at the headquarters of each of these corporations.
Ms. Fuentes is a founder of the second wave of the women’s movement. She has lectured extensively in this country and abroad on women’s rights and has written numerous articles on that subject in law reviews and other publications both in the U.S. and abroad. Her memoir, Eat First–You Don’t Know What They’ll Give You – The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter (affiliate link), has been required reading at Cornell University and American University. Ms. Fuentes resides in Sarasota, FL.
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Tags: attorney, Business, Career development, communications, EEOC, Job hunting, Job Search, labor law, NLRB, Sonia Pressman Fuentes
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 38:53, 35.8 MB), Elliot Campbell shares how he got a job as a Communications Specialist. He cited many examples of networking and being prepared for interviews as keys to his getting this job.
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About Elliot
Elliot Campbell is a customer-centric communications and public relations professional, currently working in corporate communications. He also writes a blog, Successful Marketing Communications: A Conversation with Customers. He is originally from Toronto.
Elliot graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Simon Fraser University, outside of Vancouver, BC and earned a Master of Science in integrated marketing communications from Northwestern University. While earning these degrees, he worked as an intern and on several client projects for organizations such as Genetech, Coca-Cola, Advertising Age Group and several departments of the Canadian Government.
Prior to landing, Elliot did freelance work for organizations such as the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati and Job Search Focus Group. Previously, he lived in New Jersey, working as a public relations specialist for a PR consultancy working exclusively for life-sciences clients.
You can connect with Elliot on LinkedIn and on Twitter.
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Tags: Advertising and Marketing, Business, Career development, Coca-Cola, communications, Elliot Campbell, Job hunting, Job Search, New Jersey, Northwestern University, public relations, Simon Fraser University, writing jobs
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 38:39, 35.6 MB), Karen Blocksom shares how she got a job as a Research Statistician. Her story is another combination of great personal branding and authenticity, as well as being well-connected.
Website mentioned: www.usajobs.com
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About Karen
Karen Blocksom is a statistician for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Although her dual training in ecology and statistics was not focused on environmental science, a bit of luck brought her to her current career 11 years ago. She has spent the last decade building a reputation in her field on a national scale. However, a recent move across the country for her spouse’s job has opened up the possibility of a major career change, about which she has mixed feelings.
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Tags: Business and Economy, Career development, Environmental science, got that job, government jobs, how I got my job, job hunt, Job hunting, Job Search, Karen Blocksom, podcast success stories, research jobs, statistician
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 37:36, 34.4 MB), Marc Hopkins shares how he got a job as a college professor. Among many things, he talked about the value of having an established network and trying out jobs you might be interested in. It was also interesting to hear him talk from the perspective as a hiring manager and as someone looking to be hired.
Website mentioned: www.youronedegree.com
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About Marc
J. Marc Hopkins is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based veteran of small business technology leadership in a variety of industries, including education, healthcare and media. He specializes in infrastructure design and consolidation, staff development, business intelligence, and business process improvement for non-profit and mission-focused businesses.
He holds degrees from the State University of New York, Gannon University, and Indiana Wesleyan University. Currently he teaches Information Technology at DeVry University, writes for CIO magazine, and serves as a contracted CIO for multiple small businesses. Follow Marc on his CIO blog, LinkedIn, and on Twitter.
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Tags: authenticity, Business and Economy, Career development, CIO, college professor, faculty, how I got my job, J Marc Hopkins, job hunt, Job hunting, Job Search, networking, podcast success stories, your one degree
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 23:48, 21.8 MB) , Jeremy Anderson shares how he got a job as Director of Client Services for FlexJobs.com, a website focusing on telecommuting jobs. Interesting perspective on telecommuting across multiple time zones and how they make it work.
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About Jeremy
Jeremy Anderson is a graduate of Colorado State University with a degree in Technical Journalism. He is currently the Director of Client Services for FlexJobs.com (www.flexjobs.com). He also has over 15 years of marketing experience working for corporations in Denver, CO and Portland, OR. Jeremy is committed to the mission of FlexJobs and helping people find the flexible employment that they desire. Jeremy lives in Colorado with his wife, two kids and trusty beagle.
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
In this episode of How I Got My Job (mp3, 31:50, 29.6 MB) , Ron Harper shares how he got a job as a Radio Support Technician for a major broadcasting company he had some previous experience with.
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About Ron
Ron Harper’s introduction to radio began at a very early age – his Mom was on a quiz show in Chicago when she was pregnant with him. He graduated from Texas Tech with a degree in Communications. Over the course of his career, he’s been on the air and behind the scenes across the country from Texas to New Orleans to Charlotte. He has broadcasted live from Disneyland and the Barcelona Olympics. He was a finalist for Billboard’s Air Personality of the Year and was also named Best Independent Producer by the National Association of Broadcasters.
He is also a freelance voice talent working with clients around the world (for example, he is the signature voice for internet radio station channel27.net in London, and for the Victory Christian Church national cable broadcasts.) Early in 2009, he started a new venture: Videos On Your Website, working with small businesses to produce multimedia marketing pieces.
Ron and his wife and live in the Greater Cincinnati area with their two cats, Hoomie and Gizmo.
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