IN-PERSON ONLY:

at Grace Church in Eden Prairie

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Auditing Your Personal Brand

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with: Jennifer Radke

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Thursday Morning, February 6th

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7:30 - 9:00 am

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No Registration Necessary!  Just come and connect with others!

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You know it is important to be online and seen as a thought leader, contributor, and subject matter expert in your field, but where do you start? What do you post? Do your connections on LinkedIn really want to hear from you? 

 

Join us for this session and we will take a deeper dive into LinkedIn. Networking or job success is more than just building a complete profile.  Now it is time to act!  What is working for your personal brand? How can you maximize opportunities to shine? 

 

Leave this session with action items to put into place quickly and start standing out. 

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Jennifer Radke is an international speaker, author, and strategic business leader with over 15 years of experience in sales and leadership. The real-world solutions she brings to her training stem from her experience in coaching, developing and training employees and businesses of all sizes.

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As the CEO of the National Institute for Social Media she spends her time helping professionals strategically utilize social media in the business environment through training and certification. Jennifer has a BA from the University of Minnesota-Morris and an MS in Organizational Leadership in addition to being an NISM-certified Social Media Strategist (SMS) and instructor.

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...then stay after the presentation, at 9am for the Networking With Grace Meeting and our MICRO JOB FAIR and "Financial Considerations in Job Transition" Q&A at 10:45!

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IN-PERSON ONLY:

at Woodbury Lutheran Church

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Discover Your Best Fit for the Next Job Opportunity​

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with: Rich Braden

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Thursday Evening, February 13th​

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7:00 - 8:30 pm

No Registration Necessary!  Just come and connect with others!

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Learn how various self-assessment tools, personality tests, and employment screening instruments can be used to determine a proper fit with your future job opportunity.  

 

Knowing the key knowledge, skills, and abilities that you offer a future employer is critical to determining proper job fit. Few things are more critical to job sustainability than a close match between your talents and the needs of the future organization. This session will provide tools and strategies to connecting the dots between you and your future employment opportunity.   

 

Objectives for this session.

 

• Use SWOT as a tool to uncover critical skill development needs and know why it’s important to have a learning plan during your transition.

• Understand the importance of discovering your task “Superpowers” and how to use them to communicate strength and confidence in an interview.

• Compare and contrast the differences between self-development instruments, predictive indexing tools, and behavioral-based interview techniques and the importance of each in  determining job fit.

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Rich Braden has many years of experience in Global Leadership and VP level positions in Training & Development at Fortune 100 companies. He currently serves as the Senior Director of Technology Apprenticeships for CompTIA.

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He also volunteers extensively for MN Crossroads Career Network including facilitating classes, workshops, and coaching.

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ONLINE ONLY:

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Get Into the HABIT of Networking!​

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with: Cheri Anderson

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Thursday Morning, February 20th

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​7:30 - 9:00 am Central Time

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Pre-Register Here to Participate in This Webinar 

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Networking is hands down the most important thing you can do to create career opportunities. It's also overwhelming.

 

Getting in the habit of networking will give you networking best practices, the opportunity to get started on your own networking plan, and ground breaking info on creating new habits to help you stick to it.

 

Highly interactive, fast-paced and fun, you'll walk out with a game plan for your networking success.​

 

Cherie Anderson is a Learning and Development professional who has been designing and facilitating transformative learning experiences for longer than she’d like to admit.

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She’s worked at American Express, Ameriprise Financial, Cray and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, creating employment development programs that helped people achieve more than they thought possible. She was also in transition recently, and because of the grace and and guidance from a multitude of directions, she has the job of her dreams. Now, she’s honored to give some of it back.

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IN-PERSON ONLY:

at Grace Church in Eden Prairie

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Keys to Financial Success While Navigating Unemployment

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with: Brad Markwell

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Thursday Morning, March 6th

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7:30 - 9:00 am

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No Registration Necessary!  Just come and connect with others!

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Going through a job change often means dealing with emotional, financial and professional challenges.  But, through a little self-discipline, some creativity and a lot of planning – you can feel confident about your path forward.

This session will cover the key questions to help you cope with job loss, such as:

 

• How do you maintain your lifestyle while focusing on your job search?

 

• Can you fill the gaps of lost company benefits, which may have included health insurance and life insurance?

• What should you do with your old 401(k) or retirement plan from your previous employer?

 

• Do you have the potential to reduce your taxes?

No products will be sold. Thrivent and its financial professionals do not provide legal, accounting or tax advice. Consult your attorney or tax professional.

 

Brad Markwell has been a Financial Advisor with Thrivent for 23 years. He like most others has faced life changing transitions. These personal experiences ignited Brad’s passion for helping people in the job transition community navigate their unique financial situations. He understands that people going through job transitions don’t always pay attention to their assets when they’re so focused on finding their next job. From education on 401(k) rollovers and maximizing lower tax brackets, to tax-efficient accumulation and distribution strategies, he offers first-hand experience and expertise to help people prepare financially for a job change.

Brad started his career with Thrivent in 2002 and created the Focus Forward Financial Group to help bring hope, clarity and organization to the everchanging financial needs of the clients they serve.

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...then stay after the presentation, at 9am for the Networking With Grace Meeting and our MICRO JOB FAIR at 10:45!

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ONLINE ONLY:

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Ask a Recruiter!​

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with: Diane Steele

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Thursday Morning, March 20th

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​7:30 - 9:00 am Central Time

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Pre-Register Here to Participate in This Webinar 

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Who understands the job search and hiring process better than a Recruiter?!?

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Recruiters are immersed in the process everyday of their career. They engage with employers to understand the process, the decision points, the preferences, and why some are chosen over others.

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They also engage with job seekers and see the challenges, the successes, the failures, and hear stories of what has worked and what hasn't.

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Understanding this, advice and insight from a Recruiter can be invaluable.

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This webinar is YOUR opportunity to ask any question about your job search, and gain a recruiters' and employers perspective of the hiring process. 

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It will be an enlightening give-and-take that will help you improve your job search results!

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Diane Steele is the CEO and Founder of Steele Recruiting LLC, specializing in Executive Administrative Assistant and Chief of Staff Recruitment to CEOs and Presidents across the United States.

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She has worked in the area of Executive Assistant recruitment for nearly 20 years. Diane began her career with an international staffing agency, managing two busy, award-winning downtown offices in Minneapolis and St Paul. She has partnered with companies of various genres including Fortune 500, Non-Profit Organizations and start-ups.

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By working in both staffing recruitment, and internal HR departments, Diane has had the privilege to learn the intricacies of  business and the people necessary to have on the team. She is leveraging this information to now connect the top Executive Administrative Assistant and COS talent to great companies across the country.

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