At Hudson Job Search we not only pair job seekers up with Advisors, a one-on-one coach to help them through their job search, we also provide two meetings each month featuring a Monday Night Speaker. These meetings provide the job seekers with an opportunity to network with other job seekers, share ideas and learn from the expertise of our Monday Night Speaker.
If you have expertise in areas that would be helpful to job seekers, enjoy helping job seekers and would like to improve your reach, consider being a speaker for one of our Monday Night Speaker Meetings.
Speaker Meetings are on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month from 7:15-9:00 PM. A typical agenda is 7:15-7:30 networking, 7:30-7:45 introduction to HJS, 7:45-8:00 attendee introductions, 8:00-8:50 featured speaker content, 8:50-9:00 wrap-up.
Meetings during the winter months are online only (December – April). By May our meetings are a blend of online and in-person at Christ Church Episcopal in Hudson, OH. Speakers can present from either online or in-person locations.
Topics can be anything that a job seeker would find helpful. These have included resume writing, interviewing techniques, using LinkedIn, networking, salary negotiation, organizing a job search and the power of a positive attitude.
When you commit to being a Monday Night Speaker for Hudson Job Search we commit to helping you expand your reach by promoting the event. Although we discourage all Monday Night Speakers from “selling” their services, we will happily promote you as our speaker providing links to your LinkedIn profile, website and social accounts.
Our outreach to job seekers includes emails promoting your event to our database of job seekers and others active in the job seeker community (currently 627), as well as social media posts and a notification to the local newspaper, The Hudson Hub, for placement in their community events section.
When you decide to be a Monday Night Speaker you can expect between 20 – 30 attendees at the event plus thousands more impressions. Although our non-profit can not pay you professional speaker engagement fees, we are happy to promote your reputation as an expert in your industry.
If you are interested in sharing your expertise with our job seekers in the form of a Monday Night Speaker Meeting, we would love to speak with you. Tell us about your topic and we can get you on the schedule. We do NOT use this platform to give our job seekers a “sales pitch” so please promote your expertise while refraining from making the job seekers feel like the presentation is a sales pitch. See below for great examples of professionals that have been able to use these meetings to help job seekers while spreading the word about available resources and continuing to leverage speaking engagements to enhance their professional reputation.
Embark on a transformative journey in our upcoming session, “Create a Target Company List with Data Axle Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA),” led by Kelsey Logston, Emerging Technologies Librarian at the Hudson Library & Historical Society. Gain invaluable insights as Kelsey navigates this powerful tool, empowering you to refine your job search strategy.
Discover more about emotional intelligence – what it is, how you can improve it, and how to hone your emotional intelligence to enhance your job search. Kathy Sullivan has over 25 years of experience in business operations, strategic human resources leadership, coaching and management consulting experience. As Principal and Owner of Talent Principles LLC., Kathy is an executive coach, supporting clients to improve organizational performance by providing solutions at the individual, team and organizational levels.
Jeff Trattner is a Co-Founder of Generative AI Insights an advisory firm leveraging AI for real-world ROI. With multiple career transitions of his own, he knows the challenges of job search intimately. He credits ChatGPT with transforming his own journey, sparking creativity, preparation, and productivity. Join us as Jeff shares those insights with you. If you want your job search to be just 10% more creative and 10% more productive, then make 100% of an effort to attend.
Learn how to identify the opportunity hiding in plain sight and turn that rejection into a job offer. Mark Gonska, Founder of Career Accelerator Coaching, will share 5 ways to turn the pain of rejection into the satisfaction of a job offer. Mark Gonska, career coach to six-figure executives describes his life’s work as helping achievers to accelerate their careers and land better jobs faster. As an Executive Career Coach with over 20,000 hours of experience coaching senior executives Mark has helped thousands of professionals advance in their careers.
In this meeting Katherine Burik walks us through actionable techniques to use LinkedIn as an effective tool for research, preparation and communication. She will demonstrate (at least) 10 ways LinkedIn can help to get your next job. Katherine Burik is a Career and Job Search Coach and President of The Interview Doctor, Inc. She is a sought-after public speaker and the best-selling author of three books related to job search. She writes a regular blog about job search, interviews, resumes and using LinkedIn in your job search.
Kelly Gadzinski, resume writer, interview coach, career coach and owner of KG Career Services, presents techniques to craft a winning resume. A registered corporate coach, certified career management coach and Academy Certified Resume Writer, Kelly Gadzinski brings over 10 years of corporate human resources experience to her KG Career Services clientele. Throughout her corporate HR career, Kelly gained extensive experience with Fortune 500 companies recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates across all levels of the organization.