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by Liz O’Donnell (Boston)
One person “is paying it forward while seeking work.” Another is an MBA & Telecom Engineer who “seeks transition to a technology mgmt position – product planning/consulting.” Someone else has a “Controller Opportunity in Baton Rouge.” Yet another is “looking for a mentor in DC area, prefer female that works in marketing.”
Who are these people? They are the new job seekers and they have swapped Chamber of Commerce lunches and a rolodex of established contacts for Twitter and a network of complete strangers. Meet the job angels.
Job Angels is an organization that was started by Mark Stelzner, the founder of Inflexion Advisors, a consulting firm offering financial, operational, marketing, market development and organizational services to public and private companies.
An active networker, Mark had approximately 700 followers on the social media site Twitter, many of them in the human resources industry. One day this past January, Mark sent this tweet, “Was thinking that if each of us helped just 1 person find a job, we could start making a dent in unemployment. You game?” That was the beginning of Job Angels. Several months later, Job Angels has 4,667 followers on Twitter, 1,454 members on Facebook and 189 more on LinkedIn.
Job Angels’ mission is to help bring people together for a single goal: to help just one person find gainful employment. That person can be a friend, a family member, a colleague or a complete stranger. Individual job angels help by spreading the word among their network regarding other job seekers’ career interests, by offering advice, critiquing resumes and helping any other way they can.
Michelle* is a good example of how Job Angels works. Michelle found employment through Job Angels and then turned around and helped another user find a job in a law firm earlier this year.
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WEBCAST: Survival in a Distressed Market Legal and Business Issues Relating to Your Portfolio
NewsIn this challenging market, every venture capital investor is working over-time with its portfolio companies and struggling to keep their best companies growing and meeting important benchmarks. Join our veteran panel as they discuss the legal and business issues that are critical to ensuring that your best companies thrive despite the economic climate while, at the same time, minimizing liability when making tough decisions.This webcast will also cover the business issues that are vital to keeping alive an entrepreneurial culture within your portfolio companies. Issues to be discussed include:• Managing board risk during financial distress
• Dilutive financings and recapitalizations
• Employment issues upon insolvency
• Employee retention plans
Our Panel:
Robert Wadsworth, Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners
AL Waxman, Senior Managing Member, Psilos Group Managers
J. Sanford Miller, General Partner, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)
Mike Album, Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
Trevor Chaplick, Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP (moderator)
There is no charge to listen to this webcast for NVCA members. There is a $275 fee for non-members.
Click here to register.
Global Recession & Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for the Energy Industry
NewsPlease join WCEE in again welcoming Dr. Lawrence Jones a frequent lecturer on issues such as climate change, smart grid technologies, and other energy and water related topics both in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Jones will be discussing how the global recession will impact the energy industry in the U.S. ad around the world.
Global recession and climate change are perhaps, the two most discussed subjects in the world today. While both crises present us with major challenges, these should also be viewed as catalysts for industry transformation, new markets, business innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as the drivers for sustainable development. Governments around the world are working hard to simultaneously solve the financial crisis and to seriously begin addressing global climate change. Growing awareness of the faster pace of change occurring to the earth’s climate has resulted in consensus that bold and concerted actions are required now to abate this matter. However, there are legitimate concerns about the lack of clarity and consistency in the domestic and international legal frameworks for dealing with climate change and the impacts on different sectors. In their recent fiscal policies and efforts to promote economic recovery and begin to deal with climate change, the U.S, Canada, EU and several other countries included special provisions to support and spur investments in clean technologies, smart electricity grids, and renewable energy resources.
This presentation discusses how different ‘stimulus’ packages around the world impacts the energy industry. It will include a review of some of the trends and forecasts for the clean tech sector and highlight emerging ‘green’ jobs and required skills that may be attractive to women. Finally, the presentation will preview the various climate change initiatives that will take place leading up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, December 2009 and the potential implications for the energy sector long term.Speaker: Dr. Lawrence E. Jones, AREVA T&D Inc.
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Orangewood Children’s Foundation: One Lawyer’s Very Personal Contribution
Women and Philanthropy“I make it a point to spend part of each day volunteering my time,” says Lisa Hughes, founding partner of the Hughes & Sullivan family law practice. “Depending on what the needs are, that could mean either a few minutes or the entire day.”
That’s a lot of volunteering. Lisa’s particular interest is in supporting the Orangewood Children’s Foundation, where she serves on the board of directors. She has a personal reason for dedicating so much of her time to the Orangewood Home in California, which is Orange County’s only emergency shelter for neglected and sexually, physically or emotionally abused children. “As the only board member who grew up in the foster care system, this role has an intensely personal significance for me,” she says. “I am able to provide the board with a unique perspective through the lens of my early experiences, and this contribution empowers us to make decisions that are even more focused and effective.” Read more
Passion at Work: How to Lead a Legendary Life
NewsListen, laugh, lament, and learn as Lawler Kang presents highlights and takeaways from the best-seller, Passion at Work (Pearson Prentice Hall) and subsequent research and related insights.
• Feel like you are boxed in at work or are on the prowl and don’t want to make the same mistakes again?• Looking for ways to incorporate more of your life into your work?• Ever wanted to lead but something just wasn’t clicking? Drawing on personal stories and compelling data, Lawler will start by illustrating the power, need and benefits of bringing your passions to market and using them to lead.
He will then walk participants through some tools–Engagement Drivers–you can use to identify and dominate your personal niche.
He will also show how these drivers, when aligned, can have immense impacts on your individual, team and organizational performance, and will reveal your innate ability to lead.
REGISTRATION
Pre-registration necessary. No payment at the door.
To purchase tickets click here PURCHASE!
Space is limited and will fill up quickly. NOTES
Light reception included
Event begins at 6:30 sharp
I.O.U.S.A. – One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt.
NewsPlease join 100 Women in Hedge Funds and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation for a vivid and alarming profile of America’s current economic situation.
We will show highlights from the critically acclaimed documentary “I.O.U.S.A.”, which drives home the message that the time to begin addressing America’s financial future is now.
After the DVD we will host a question and answer session with key leaders of the film’s sponsor, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Directed by Sundance veteran Patrick Creadon, the renowned film follows former U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker and Robert Bixby of the Concord Coalition as they crisscross the country explaining America’s unsustainable fiscal policies to its citizens as part of the Fiscal Wake-up Tour.
The film also features candid interviews with noted experts such as Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan, Paul O’Neill, Robert Rubin, and Paul Volcker, as well as with everyday citizens.
It made the short list of fifteen for an Oscar nomination in the Best Documentary Feature category.
Participants:
Elizabeth Wilner, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Susan Tanaka, Peter G.Peterson Foundation RSVP here
Space is limited. No walk-ins will be permitted.
Job Hunting 2.0
Managing ChangeOne person “is paying it forward while seeking work.” Another is an MBA & Telecom Engineer who “seeks transition to a technology mgmt position – product planning/consulting.” Someone else has a “Controller Opportunity in Baton Rouge.” Yet another is “looking for a mentor in DC area, prefer female that works in marketing.”
Who are these people? They are the new job seekers and they have swapped Chamber of Commerce lunches and a rolodex of established contacts for Twitter and a network of complete strangers. Meet the job angels.
Job Angels is an organization that was started by Mark Stelzner, the founder of Inflexion Advisors, a consulting firm offering financial, operational, marketing, market development and organizational services to public and private companies.
An active networker, Mark had approximately 700 followers on the social media site Twitter, many of them in the human resources industry. One day this past January, Mark sent this tweet, “Was thinking that if each of us helped just 1 person find a job, we could start making a dent in unemployment. You game?” That was the beginning of Job Angels. Several months later, Job Angels has 4,667 followers on Twitter, 1,454 members on Facebook and 189 more on LinkedIn.
Job Angels’ mission is to help bring people together for a single goal: to help just one person find gainful employment. That person can be a friend, a family member, a colleague or a complete stranger. Individual job angels help by spreading the word among their network regarding other job seekers’ career interests, by offering advice, critiquing resumes and helping any other way they can.
Michelle* is a good example of how Job Angels works. Michelle found employment through Job Angels and then turned around and helped another user find a job in a law firm earlier this year.
Read more
NYSBA: Women on the Move 2009 – In the Driver’s Seat
NewsWhat is a leader? What role does leadership play in driving success and bringing about change? Are you a leader?
As managers, counselors, advisors, employees and employers, lawyers wear multiple hats. Each role requires leadership in some capacity. Often the role is that of “driver” and rarely one of “passenger.” Exploring leadership styles and what makes leaders successful, the 2009 Women on the Move CLE program, Leaders: In the Driver’s Seat, features sessions on leadership skills, ethics, and labor and employment law.
Presented for the second time in Albany, this year’s program includes a networking luncheon. Registration for this program is limited and early registration is essential. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from renowned panelists.
The last day to pre-register online is April 1, 2009. Register online now
CLE: 2.0 credit hours in skills; 1.0 credit hour in ethics; 1.5 credit hours of professional practice
Hedge Fund Boot Camp: Raising Assets from the Middle East
NewsHF Boot Camp is a series of marketing workshops designed to coach alternative investment managers on how to refine & improve their asset raising skills & strategies. “Effectively Raising Assets from the Middle East ” is an adavanced level workshop that is limited to managers that have the size and scale to effectively raise capital from ME based investors.
To Register:
Sean Drake
Hedge Fund Boot Camp
203 247 2479
Breaking the Gender Bias Cycle
Office PoliticsPerformance reviews are rarely pleasant. Even when the feedback is positive, the whole process always feels forced and awkward. Most managers are inadequately trained on how best to deliver a review, never mind how to mentor and monitor professional development.
Then there are those horrible forms to fill out. Three pages of multiple choice questions or sliding scale assessments followed by two blank lines for providing comments, does not help facilitate meaningful dialogue between the reviewer and the reviewee.
Now there is another reason for employees, particularly female employees, to dread the performance review, or talent management assessment, as it is referred to by human resource types. Catalyst, the organization that provides research, information, and advice about women at work, recently released a study “Cascading Gender Biases, Compounding Effects: An Assessment of Talent Management Systems.”
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How to Remove Your Foot from Your Mouth
Expert AnswersPresident Obama ran one of the most well-executed, thoughtful campaigns in history. Aside from a quick news cycle covering his unfortunate “sweetie” comment, he almost always said the right thing – on message, positive and inspiring. But less than 100 days into his presidency, Obama made a gaffe on the well-watched Jay Leno show when he mentioned The Special Olympics in reference to his campaign bowling excursion.
“We all put our foot in our mouth,” says Lee McEnany Caraher, president of Double Forte, a marketing and communications firm. “Sometimes we know right away, and sometimes other people bring it to our attention.”Genevieve Haldeman, vice president, Corporate Communications, for Symantec, agrees. “As much as we try to be careful, I think we’ve all said something that we immediately regretted. I think how I have handled it has depended on each situation. I may make a statement to apologize or clarify my intent immediately, or may follow up after the fact to make a more personal apology. It depends on each situation and whether or not a public apology is the best way to go. “
Most professional women concur that everybody’s done it — said something that alienated others without meaning too. So why are some people able to apologize and move on while others are haunted by their inappropriateness?
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