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Enhance your job search!
 
The National Society if Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) is offering a professional webinar series to assist Hispanic professionals. Each session is designed to be dynamic, interactive and offer support through substantive resources and online tools to support professionals.
The professional webinar series is also a vital part of NSHMBA's PRO-SEED program, which offers Hispanic business professionals, who might not otherwise be able to, the opportunity to attend NSHMBA's successful and highly-attended Annual Conference & Career Expo.
 
Job Search Resume Networking / Interview / Career Advancement
 

Job Search      
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The Successful Job Search for Latino Professionals in an Economic Downturn
Mapquest™ your job search using proven strategies, tools and techniques Latino jobseekers can use to secure their position of choice. This one-stop session reviews key search components including resumes, targeting job openings, maximizing Hispanic-specific resources, networking into companies, navigating the selection process and securing a position.
 
Presented by:
Rose Mary Bombela-Tobias
Principal of Global Diversity Solutions Group. LLC, is a nationally recognized executive, management consultant, journalist and public speaker. Rose Mary was listed in Today's Chicago Woman Magazine as one of "100 Women to Watch" and received recognition awards from the National Network of Hispanic Women and the Midwest Women's Center.
 
Murray A. Mann
Principal of Global Diversity Solutions. LLC, has more than 25 years of human resources management stewardship in the private, public and educational sectors. He was a founding board member of the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE) and has held leadership roles with numerous Latino and other multicultural.
 

Resume    
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Write Compelling Resumes and Career Documents that Generate Interviews
In today's tough job market, your resume must be screened-in for each position by applicant databases, pass an employer's 30 second read test, set you apart from the competition and persuade a hiring manager to invite you to an interview. This session will demystify the process for crafting winning career-marketing documents.
 
Presented by:
Barbara Safani
Owner of Career Solvers, has over twelve years of experience in career management, recruiting, executive coaching, and organizational development. Ms. Safani partners with both Fortune 100 companies and individuals to deliver targeted programs focusing on resume development, job search strategies, online identity, networking, interviewing, and salary negotiation skills.
 
Claudine Vainrub
Known for her knowledge and high ethical standards in providing career, educational and corporate consulting services for over 15 years. She is recognized as an expert by CNN, the Wall Street Journal, and the Miami Herald's CareerBuilder, among other media. She is the careers and educational expert in Eli Bravo's weekly radio show.
 

Networking      
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Leveraging Personal, Professional and Online Networks in Your Job Search
More than 70% of the people find their jobs through networking. This session presents strategic, tactical and authentic approaches to building relationships that result in employment opportunities. You will learn to develop true job search contacts, maximize your personal brand and expand your networking comfort zone.
 
Presented by
Jason Alba
CEO of JibberJobber.com and author of I'm on LinkedIn - Now What??? is widely acknowledged as a leading career management evangelist, he continues to spread the word to job seekers through his blog, JibberJobber.com/blog. He is co-author of I'm on Facebook - Now What??? and creator of LinkedIn for Job Seekers, the DVD.
Maria Elena Duron

CEO of Buzz2Buck, is skilled in making networks "work" and harnessing the power of the word of mouth. As featured columnist in the Personal Branding Magazine and the National NetWorker, she focuses on connecting your brand to your critical connections.

 

Interview      
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Strategies to Ace the Job Interview
You have the power to influence the direction of an interview by how you present yourself, answer questions, prove you can do the job and connect with the employer's hiring motivators. This session will cover all stages of the interview process from preparation through securing a job offer.
 
Presented by:
Gerard Borda
Principal at 542 Consulting Inc., has served in leadership roles at IBM and Deloitte. He directed the development of the diversity and inclusion recruiting and retention strategy for Deloitte's Human Capital practice and is recognized for his expertise in the case interview model.
Pat Criscito
President and founder of ProType, LTD., an international writing, editing, typesetting, and personal branding service established in 1980. Pat has written more than 15,000 resumes and speaks nationally on career and entrepreneurial subjects, making regular television, radio, bookstore, university, and speaking appearances across the United States.

Career Advancement
 

Thriving Not Surviving in Corporate America
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 Learn Action Steps To:

  • Optimize your performance
  • Better understand the importance of your supervisor       
  • Gain tools to create an improved alignment with your supervisor
  • Evaluate yourself on the quality of your work product

Presented by:

Dwain Celistan, The Career Acceleration Coach
Author,
You’re Hired!  Actions to Get and Keep the Job You Love

Dwain Celistan is a retained executive recruiter and coach.  Prior to recruiting, he held senior Marketing, Sales and General Management positions in the US and UK, for: Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Coors Brewing, Alcoa and Sears Holdings.  His experience includes roles of VP Marketing and Sales with a staff of nearly 100 professionals and budget of $100MM, and as a SVP of Marketing for a $1B division. Dwain's clients span a range from a global executive who leads a team of over 200,000 employees to a senior manager at a large non-profit organization.

 

The Executive Coaching Advantage
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In today's fast-paced and ever-changing business climate, Hispanic executives need to not only keep up with the pace of the market, but also remain proactive in developing their own abilities.  This informative seminar will address coaching by:

  • Dispelling the myths
  • Discussing why you should care
  • Disclosing how it works

Presented by:

Stephanie McCray, Executive Material

Stephanie McCray's President of Executive Material, a boutique coaching and consulting firm that specializes in individual and organizational change. Stephanie is a seasoned leader who provides executive coaching as well as leadership, team and organization development services to clients in the health care, pharmaceutical, insurance, finance, academic and non-profit sectors.

 

Donna Maria Blancero, National Society of Hispanic MBAs

Donna Maria Blancero is the Senior Vice President of Research & Intellectual Development for the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) and the founding editor of The Business Journal of Hispanic Research.  With more than 40 publications and dozens of national presentations, Donna's expertise focuses on Latinos in Corporate America, in particular with their experiences with regard to mentoring, developmental networks, gender differences, fair treatment and psychological contracts.

 

Michael Negrón, NEGRON Consulting

Michael J. Negrón focuses on leadership development, executive coaching, diversity initiatives and workshop facilitation, and select services to the nonprofit sector.  Past projects have included work with Verizon, Procter & Gamble, Aetna, Priceline.com, McGraw-Hill, Cendant, Otis Elevator, The Travelers, Hispanics in Philanthropy, the Latino Endowment Fund and NSHMBA.

 

Our thanks for the generous work of JobSearchforLatinos.com, a division of Global Diversity Solutions Group, LLC, in organizing the NSHMBA Job Search Webinar Series. 

For questions regarding the program or webinars please contact us at proseed@nshmba.org
Register online today for the NSHMBA 2009 Conference & Career Expo