PRICE OEN Member Fee: $20.00 Non-member Fee: $30.00

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EVENT DESCRIPTION Early-stage business success is often determined by the DNA of the founding team. Minimize hiring regrets with pragmatic and strategic assessment of candidates.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

• Structure interview processes to deliver data necessary for clear decision-making, and
• Identify and assess critical experiences/skill sets in candidates that will work for the business today - and scale with the business in the future.

This webinar will be rich with examples of how other successful start-ups made critical hiring decisions.

Online registration for this event closes Monday, March 31st. Please contact the OEN office at 503-222-2270 if you wish to register after that date.

SPEAKER: Pamela Jones, JONES PARTNERS

Pamela is Managing Partner of JONES PARTNERS - a 23-year old retained executive search firm based in the Pacific Northwest and serving client companies (start-ups, public companies and joint-ventures) throughout the country. She has served as an executive with Claremont Technology, Lattice Semiconductor (both completed IPOs) and worked in the management consulting group of a major international CPA firm. Board roles have included OEF, SAO, AOI and the West Coast Chamber Orchestra. (See bio and www.jonespartners.biz)

With corporate layoffs, lawsuits and losses looming, what's a company to do when a crisis strikes? Recent bad actors like the Peanut Corporation of America, Heartland Payment Systems and Apple’s handling of Steve Jobs’ health crisis did not show best practices for crisis communications. It's a rare company that totally escapes the need to share bad news at least occasionally.

Hear about the Ten Fundamental Principles of Crisis Communications to prepare for releasing bad news before you need to.

Online registration for this event closes on Wednesday, April 1st. Please contact the OEN office at 503-222-2270 if you wish to register after that date.

Speaker: Jody Peake, OnPR

Jody Peake has announced both good and bad news for lots of clients -- from SAP to Victoria's Secret.com. She is the CEO of OnPR, a PR agency that specializes in providing experienced PR services for enterprise, consumer and wireless technology companies. OnPR has offices in Portland, Seattle and Munich. She was previously a founding partner at Waggener Edstrom.

Date and Time: April 2, 2009, 10:00 am - 11:00 am Location: Online Registration: OEN member $20, Non-member $30

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