Careers in Finance: Office Hours with Fidelity

Learn about careers in finance as this special, live event with Fidelity Investments. Interact with representatives, explore this industry, and learn what career opportunities exist for you at Fidelity Investments. Gain first-hand knowledge of how the current events on Wall Street translate to future opportunities.

Keynote Speaker: Karen R. Korn, Managing Director of Research, Fidelity Investments

For more information and registration click here.

*Dress for this event is business casual.

Note: Please bring a photo id, and if you wish, several copies of your resume and business cards.

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Moms Get LinkedIn

WEBINAR: Moms Get LinkedIn

If you’re a mom who’s decided to return to work, you need to know about LinkedIn and how to use it effectively.

If you’re not on LinkedIn, or not using it effectively, it’s like being left out of a big party, or missing out on all the best guests who show up.
In this webinar, you’ll discover:

What LinkedIn is, and how it can help you in a job

How to get yourself set up on LinkedIn

Multiple ways to use LinkedIn to make connections and get jobs

Hi, I’m Dr. Susan Bernstein, and I’ve created an information-packed webinar on Thursday, January 27, from 10:30 – 11:00 am Pacific that is designed especially to orient mothers who are returning to work to the power of LinkedIn.

LinkedIn is a great tool, but often, people don’t understand how to tap into all the rich features of this powerful networking tool. I’ll show you how to do that. And, many job seekers haven’t given a lot of thought to their own job search strategy, so they’re massively underutilizing LinkedIn in the overall picture. I hate to see that. Personally, I get 60% of my clients via LinkedIn. And I’ve helped my job search clients to make connections and get jobs through LinkedIn. They open up new avenues they didn’t even know existed.

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Chicago Job Search Bootcamp

JOB SEARCH BOOTCAMP for Re~entering moms
Coaching – Hands~on work – Buddy support – Momentum!

Four weekly 2-hour classes Beginning Tuesday January 27th
Week 1 : Defining yourself AND building confidence.
Week 2: Writing an effective resume. Creating your brand!
Week 3: Networking (where the jobs are!) and making it work for you.
Week 4: Completing your personal action plan and interview practice.

To learn more and register:
email CoachSharon@earthlink.net or call 847/441.0374

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Carol Bartz: Legend in the Making

Carol_Bartz.jpgBy Liz O’Donnell (Boston)

Carol Bartz has the makings of a legend. Recently plucked from software maker Autodesk to head the struggling Internet giant Yahoo, Bartz is one of a very, very small group of women who have ever led more than one large, public company. That she has broken through the glass ceiling, not once, but twice, is story enough. But her legend is more than that. It’s the breast cancer diagnosis the day she started at Autodesk; the months of chemotherapy while she worked. It’s her tough-talking, tell-it-like-it-is approach. According to Valleywag, a Gawker Media blog, she threatened to “dropkick to f*****g Mars” anyone at Yahoo who leaked company information to blogs. And then there is the time she opened a meeting at Autodesk by asking her direct reports, “Tell me why I shouldn’t fire the lot of you.” Whether the details are exact or not, they follow Bartz from job to job, from one media story to the next. It’s all part of the legend.

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Part-Time Partners: A Notable Trend in the Legal Profession

law21.jpgby Anna T. Collins, Esquire (Portland, Maine)

When it comes to statistics about part-time attorneys, it is impossible to deny two findings: working part-time is an option few take and the majority of those who do are women. According to the latest figures compiled by the National Association for Law Placement, 5.6 percent of U.S. attorneys work part-time, and about 74 percent of them are women. It is also hard to deny that traditionally, women attorneys who work part-time find themselves losing traction when it comes to their salaries and promotion. Yet, these statistics and assumptions tell only part of the story. Over the last decade some law firms have adopted more progressive policies which permit part-time women to not only retain respect for their work, but to make partner. The policies of these firms and the experiences of these part-time partners provide valuable insight into how work/life balance can be achieved despite dedication to profitability.

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Propel Your Business To New Heights in 2009!

Financial Advisors & Planners:

Would you like to fill your practice with higher-net-worth clients?

Are you purchasing list after list in hope of finding new clients?

The Prospect Finder will help you Find and Connect with your best prospects.

Join us for this one-day seminar event that will transform your practice:

Identify High Net Worth Prospects

Secure More Meetings with “A” Level Prospects

Create a Lasting First Impression

Develop a Rapport to Fast-Track New Client Relationships

Speakers:

Maria Semple, The Prospect Finder LLC

Caryn Kopp, Kopp Consulting LLC

Janet Cargill, J. Cargill Image Consulting

Jim Buro, Wall Street Speaking

Please be aware that the early bird rate of $99 will expire on January 9th.

For more information, or to register.

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Voice of Experience: Ana Duarte-McCarthy, Chief Diversity Officer, Citigroup Inc.

duarteMccarthy_1_.jpgby Paige Churchman (New York City)

One April morning in 1994, Ana Duarte-McCarthy put on a brand new suit, rode the train down to Wall Street and joined the flow of rushing pedestrians. She may have looked like any other commuter, but for Ana this was a banner day. She was on her way to her first day of corporate life – a new job at Kidder, Peabody & Co. A meringue band played in her head (who needs an iPod?), and headlines like “Dominican Makes It to Wall Street” flashed through her brain. It was clear and sunny, just another Monday morning for the other workers. They didn’t look up at the young woman in the snappy khaki suit with the navy pinstripes. (It still hangs in her closet.)

Ana was in for some major culture shock. Not too many art school deans end up in investment banking. Ana had been assistant dean at Parsons The New School for Design. There she had learned how to scrounge for even the smallest resources. At Kidder, Ana’s eyes grew big when the morning coffee came on elegant silver tea services. “I think I was at Kidder three weeks when they gave me $3000 to take eight minority interns to Yankee Stadium,” she laughed. “And then they asked what else I wanted.” Art students don’t wear suits, and neither do their deans. Art students and their deans wear black. Also, at Kidder, she was suddenly back in middle management – smaller office, no longer running the show – but she expected that. She was eager to learn.

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In Case You Missed It: News Round-Up

martin.jpgContributed by Martin Mitchell of the Corporate Training Group

In case you were too caught up in the pomp and circumstance surrounding the inauguration of the new U.S. president to have kept up with all the news, contributor Martin Mitchell has gathered some important market events from last week to help you start this week well informed:

Mergers and Acquisitions

  • BAA has received at least 6 indicative bids for London Gatwick airport. The price is likely to be around £1.7bn to £1.8bn. The confirmed bidders are:- A consortium of Canadian pension funds including Ontario Teachers and Canada Pension Plan plus 3i Infrastructure. The consortium is being advised by Rothschild and Macquarie.- Global Infrastructure Partners, being advised by Credit Suisse and JPMorgan.- Gatwick Future Partnership, led by Babcock and Brown European Infrastructure Fund and RREEF, the Deutsche Bank infrastructure fund.- Lysander Gatwick Investment, a consortium of Citi Infrastructure Investors, Canada’s Vancouver Airport Services and John Hancock Life Insurance of the US.- Hochtief AirPort, part of Germany’s largest construction group.- Manchester Airport Group along with Borealis, the Canadian infrastructure fund.
  • New Star Asset Management, the troubled fund management group controlled by its bankers after a debt for equity swap, is hoping to be able to announce a buyer this week. New Star’s bankers (HBOS, Lloyds TSB, HSBC, RBS and National Australia Bank) have been soliciting offers after they converted £260m of debt into £94m of preference shares and a 75% stake. Initially an indicative price was set at £115m, but that is in doubt given a current market capitalisation of just £10.45m.
  • Troubled US insurance group AIG started the sales process for its Asian life assurance unit (American International Assurance). AIG is hoping to raise up to $20bn, and sent out the sales memorandum to potential bidders including China Life, HSBC and Prudential. The unit is regarded as the jewel in AIG’s , with 20m policy holders across 13 countries, it made an operating profit of around $2bn last year. AIG is being advised by Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.
  • The UK’s Co-operative Financial Services group and Britannia, the UK’s 2nd largest building society, are set to merge, creating a ‘supermutual’. The deal will form a group with £70bn of assets, 9m customers and 300 branches. Britannia was advised by Citigroup and Allen and Overy, the CO-op by JPMorgan and Slaughter and May.
  • Alexander Lebedev, a Russian oligarch and former KGB officer has purchased the London Evening Standard from Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT). The Evening Standard is loss-making and has been sold for about £1 and DMGT is retaining a 24.9% stake.
  • A $5bn deal to sell the world’s 3rd largest shipbuilder, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, has collapsed after South Korea’s Hanwha Group failed to secure the required funds.
  • Irish airline Ryanair’s offer for Aer Lingus was dealt a fatal blow by the Irish government. The government holds a 25% stake in Aer Lingus and rejected Ryanair’s offer on the basis of it creating a ‘virtual monopoly’ in air transport on the island. Ryanair’s offer contained a 90% acceptance condition.
  • The planned merger between British Airways (BA) and Spain’s Iberia could face problems. The merger was due to be based on comparative market capitalisations – when it was first revealed, BA would have been 65% and Iberia 35% of the merged entity, now the relative market cap is 50.4% Iberia and 49.6% BA. BA Chief Exec Willie Walsh said the ‘present valuation was unacceptable – our shareholders would not accept it’.
  • US pharmaceuticals group Pfizer is in talks to acquire rival Wyeth in a deal that would create a group with a combined market value of about $60bn.
  • Japan’s Asahi Breweries is buying a 19.99% stake in China’s biggest beer company Tsingtao from Anheuser Busch InBev for $666.5m. The proceeds will help the newly created AB InBev in its efforts to pay back a $7bn bridge loan that has to be repaid by the end of the year.
  • Again in pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to purchase Belgium-based UCB’s portfolio of marketed medicines in emerging markets for £486m.

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More Than a Fashion Icon: What We Can Learn About Work/Life Balance From Michelle Obama

inauguration.jpgby Anna T. Collins, Esquire (Portland, Maine)

What will Michelle Obama wear on inauguration day? Who designed her ball gown? These have been the questions de jour, on our mental menus for weeks. Americans are now bombarded by coverage of Michelle Obama’s style from all mediums, perhaps most intensely on-line at Mrs. O, where up-to-the-minute coverage includes analysis of Michelle Obama’s dresses, jewelry, shoes, and hair. The site lets Americans hone their voyeuristic skills, as visitors contribute their best photos detailing every aspect of the person some believe will be as legendary in her fashion choices as the first Mrs. O, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Now, fashion certainly deserves some attention due to its pivotal place in the heart of American pop culture. Michelle Obama has also not spoken publically since becoming First Lady, which inevitably shifts the public lens on the only aspect of her persona the media can currently access: her style. Yet, there is so much more to Michelle Obama than her appreciation of American immigrant designers, unique antique jewelry, or practical flat shoes.

When asked to describe the meaning of Michelle Obama to women, Catherine Wright-Dilbert of the National Association of Mothers’ Centers explains that as the embodiment of a three dimensional presidential spouse, whose role is “not purely derivative, secondary, nor supportive,” Michelle Obama can be the catalyst for a national dialogue “on the multiple societal roles women play, and how our laws, institutions, and policies can support and facilitate them.”

In the spirit of such dialogue, we turned to experts for an analysis of Michelle Obama beyond the purely aesthetic. The experts highlighted the significance of Michelle Obama’s education and professional accomplishments, as well as the meaning of our First Lady to the cultural and sociopolitical ascent of all women. They also acknowledged Michelle Obama’s unique approach to work and marriage, both vital to analyze because of Michelle Obama’s experience with work/life balance.

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Mari Kuraishi and The Global Giving Foundation

mari.jpgby Caroline Shannon (Dayton, Ohio)

Take this image for a spin: A Kenyan nurse gets notice that a particular patient needs help. She packs up her tools, straps them over her shoulder and quickly makes her way out to . . . her motorcycle.

And then, visualize Washington D.C.-based philanthropist Mari Kuraishi grinning when she pictures one of her favorite projects coming to life.

It might seem absurd, but, perhaps, thatʼs why one of Kuraishiʼs terms for success includes being “unreasonable about your dreams and aspirations.”

The Kenyan nurses straddling “gnarly” bikes, as Kuraishi likes to put it, is just one of the many projects she has had the pleasure helping to make possible as president of the GlobalGiving Foundation. She doesnʼt get to be picky about projects — and, truthfully, she enjoys them all — but thatʼs one “girl power” image that puts a smile on her face.

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