Main Meeting Presentation Archive

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Say YES to yourself and destroy the NOISE!

Presentation Date: April 16, 2019


Presenter Website: Candy Barone International
Presentation Material: Pending Upload
Description: This week’s speaker, Candy Barone, has a question for you:

Are you playing at your highest and best level? Or, are you letting your excuses get in your way?

Do you wonder why that happens?

Do you realize that you might be self-sabotaging yourself from everything you want?

If you are, it's all due to your programming and mindset. Your monkey mind is getting best of you through the stories and beliefs you are carrying with you. Stories that aren't even yours and beliefs you don't even notice are creating massive roadblocks in your life.

Stress Overload Syndrome

Presentation Date: April 9, 2019
Presenter Website: Focused On You Chiropractic
Presentation Material:
Description: Stress kills. And it kills performance. It can wreck your life and stall your job search.

Stress overload syndrome is characterized by:

• low energy
• aches, pains, and tense muscles
• headaches
• chest pain and rapid heartbeat
• upset stomach, including diarrhea,
• constipation, and nausea
• insomnia
• frequent colds and infections

If you are living with these problems, you are not alone!

According to the American Psychological Association:

• 77% of us regularly experience physical symptoms of stress
• 73% regularly experience psychological symptoms of stress
• 33% feel we are living with extreme stress

Come to this week’s HIREDTexas main meeting on Tuesday and learn how you can reduce stress and enable yourself to sustain a better everyday life and a more productive job search.

Keep Breathing while Talking to Strangers

Presentation Date: April 2, 2019


Presenter Website: Everybody Up!
Presentation Material: Pending Upload
Description: There is power in making authentic connections with fellow humans.

Yet walking into a room of strangers can be difficult. Starting a first-time conversation with a complete stranger may be daunting. Some of us find networking to be intimidating, even paralyzing.

Let’s change that paradigm together. This interactive workshop approaches networking from a fun, informed perspective.

Melissa Love will share her tips to help you conquer your fear, book meaningful 1-on-1 meetings, and overcome obstacles that separate you from the people who can connect you to your next job.

Kinetic Leaders™ Own Great Jobs

Presentation Date: March 26, 2019


Presenter Website: Growth Dynamic
Presentation Material: Pending Upload
Description: Remember Galileo? Ninth grade physics? Rolling different sized marbles down ramps? The more massive the object, the harder it hits.

It turns out that applies to your job search, too, so long as you recognize all you have to offer and take rapid action to bring it to the attention of employers.

If you are afraid to take epic action on your ideas on your job search and in interviews, you will be an undervalued candidate.

Scott Carley is here at HIREDTexas this Tuesday to show us how important Mass and Velocity are in your job search. He will help you clarify your most valuable skillsets and use them to propel you into forward motion to land a fabulous job.
Kinetic Leaders™ Own Great Jobs is a powerful presentation about the importance of recognizing the Mass of your Expertise, Experience and Value coupled with Movement and Taking Action.

Tips and Tools for Job Hunters

Presentation Date: March 19, 2019


Presenter Website: N/A
Presentation Material: Tips for the Job Hunt
Description: Experience teaches courage. After you have tackled a frightening task once, twice, a handful of times, you know you can do it. The trick is getting started.

One way to borrow courage is to team up with others who are facing the same challenge. This week at HIREDTexas, Pam Otten is here to help us do just that.

As a fellow job seeker, Pam has hunted down some modern tools and gathered up some genius tips to share about how to be successful in the search for work. Pam's successes, happy mistakes, and epic failures in her job search have all rewarded her with nuggets of truth. At her interactive workshop, you will pick up some tools and tips, make new connections, and discover feelings of confidence.
You are guaranteed to leave believing – if this woman can get a job, so can I!

Solve the Interview Puzzle

Presentation Date: March 12, 2019


Presenter Website: The Employment Puzzle
Presentation Material: Interview Puzzle
Description: Last year at HIREDTexas, Chip Sampson led a workshop titled "The Employment Puzzle," a program designed to help job seekers effectively reach their desired employment goals through a systematic approach with networking at its core.

This Tuesday, Chip returns to help us master a key step in the job search process.

"The Interview Puzzle" is a system for looking at all the pieces that make up consistently successful interviews to move you toward the ultimate goal, the job offer. This workshop teaches you how to take control of the interview process and steer towards the result you are seeking.

Overcoming beliefs that limit your job search

Presentation Date: March 5, 2019


Presenter Website: True North Life Coach
Presentation Material: N/A
Presentation Handout: Coaching Questions
Description: Beliefs are powerful. What we "know that ain’t so" can keep us trapped. Unexamined thoughts sabotage us, stop us from moving forward, and keep us from seeing, pursuing, or landing jobs we really want.

In this Tuesday’s presentation at HIREDTexas, you’ll learn tools for tackling limiting beliefs to think more clearly and act more effectively in your job search.

STAR stories: 60 Seconds to Impress!

Presentation Date: February 26, 2019

Presenter Website: Career Passion Coach
Presentation Material: 60 Seconds to Impress
Description: Whether you are networking or going into a job interview, you want to have prepared stories about your past performance. These “STAR” stories become the content for your job interviews. They can also serve you very well for that all-important “Elevator Speech.” You might have feared this process in the past. It begins with those dreaded questions: “Tell me about a time when you….” Or, “Hi, what do you do?”

The purpose of this session is to help you prepare several STAR stories that impress the listener in 60 seconds or less and give you confidence. We’ll also provide questions that help you discover your best career stories. You might want to bring your current resume for inspiration!

In this session, Catherine Jewel will help you learn:

• How to think about your performance as recruiters do
• The “Top 20” STAR stories to tell
• How to create an elevator pitch for your next networking event
• The ONE item most people miss in telling a STAR story

What Does Your Headshot Say About You?

Presentation Date: February 19, 2019

Presenter Website: Freeman Photo
Presentation Material: N/A
Description: Every photograph tells a story. What does your headshot say about you?

Does your headshot:

• Make a good first impression?
• Engage your intended viewer?
• Tell the right story?
• Say what you mean to say?
• Send the message you want your audience to take away?

This week at HIREDTexas, Bill Freeman will teach us what the ingredients of a good headshot are. You will learn to see how well a photograph helps make the case for connecting with you, recommending you, and hiring you.

Working with Recruiters

Presentation Date: February 12, 2019


Presenter Website: N/A
Presentation Material: Pending Upload
Description: When a recruiter contacts you, what do say? How do you follow up? Are those calls and emails a mystery, an apparent waste of time? Or do you use them to your advantage?

Executive search expert Al Dampier can help.

Attend his talk at HIREDTexas this Tuesday to:

• Understand the different types of recruiters
• Understand internal and external recruiter processes
• Clarify myths of working with recruiters
• Learn how to approach recruiters.

Al will also answer your questions.

Resumes that Work

Presentation Date: February 5, 2019


Presenter Website: InSync Resources
Presentation Material: Resumes that Work
Description: Is your resume is doing its job? How do you know? Have you heard conflicting advice about how to present information about yourself in your resume? This week’s presenter at HIREDTexas will clear up the confusion.

Angela Loeb has reviewed hundreds of thousands of resumes during her time spent as a professional recruiter, resume writer, and career consultant. She’s helped write many more. She says there are a few fundamental principles to follow to make your resume go from average to memorable.

Attend this talk to learn:

• How recruiters read your resume
• The importance of capturing your uniqueness and other fundamental information to stand out
• The effective use of the three main format styles
• What you need to know about two of the most important components of your resume – your summary and accomplishments
• How to target or re-target your resume

Angela will also answer your questions about resume challenges you might be facing, such as handling employment gaps, writing your resume for a major career change, whether to include volunteer experience and how, etc.

Connect Quickly

Presentation Date: January 29, 2019


Presenter Website: Dale Carnegie Training Central Texas
Presentation Material: Connect Quickly
Description: Do you make new acquaintances easily? Do you remember their names? Do you make a good first impression? Does that first conversation go easily? Do you gain a good sense of who your new contact is, and how you might help each other?

Is your answer to any of those questions "No" or "with difficulty"? Come to this week’s workshop at HIREDTexas and practice making better connections with less stress.

This week, Chris Wright presents "Connect Quickly," a fun Dale Carnegie networking workshop. Come learn tools that will help you:

• Focus on people as individuals
• Create a positive first impression
• Remember names
• Talk and listen more easily and effectively

Money Talk & Salary Negotiations: From First Hurdle to the Finish Line

Presentation Date: January 22, 2019


Presenter Website: Austin Career Connections
Presentation Material: Money Talk
Description: How comfortable are you at talking money? When they ask you how much you expect in compensation, how do you answer? When they inform you they must know your previous salary before the interview can continue, what do you say? Are you asking for too much? Are you leaving money on the table?

This workshop covers:

• The 3 Phases of Money Talk
• Desired Salary vs. Market Value
• Responses to the Dreaded Salary Question
• Negotiation Strategies: Sealing the Deal

Unemployment Insurance 101

Presentation Date: January 15, 2019


Presenter Website: Texas Workforce Commission Unemployment Benefits
Presenter Handouts: Unemployment Benefits Handbook
Presentation Material: N/A - Verbal Presentation
Description: If you're collecting unemployment there are requirements you need to meet. And plenty of conflicting information on how to do that. John is an Unemployment Insurance Field Specialist with TWC, and he has answers to your questions about how it all works.

Stop Making Resolutions! Start Taking Action!

Presentation Date: January 8, 2019


Presenter Website: Candy Barone International
Presentation Material: Stop Making Resolutions! Start Taking Action!
Description: Candy Barone has a question for you: Do you know someone who makes New Year's resolutions every year, only to give up on them within a few short weeks?

Do you wonder why that happens?

It’s because resolutions alone don't work! You need focus, clarity and structured intention to set the goals that will make you most successful.

Jumpstart 2019 with clarity by identifying your goals and milestones for the upcoming year. Candy Barone shows you how to effectively prioritize your 3 big rocks, create the necessary discipline and action to maximize your success, and leverage your ideal calendar to align with what you want most.