Theme: Focus on Networking

1) Bori Prasavanh ofKforce Professional Staffing will tells us the recruiter's view

2) Networking: Best practices and pitfalls

This is an open event for Portland job hunters. We share our our techniques and ways to improve our job hunting success. Each week has a theme and time for networking.

Theme: Lessons from a Customer of Outplacement Professionals

1) David Stannard will explain how these organizations work and best practices that he has gleaned from his experience

2) Networking time

This is an open event for Portland job hunters. We share our our techniques and ways to improve our job hunting success. Each week has a theme and time for networking.

Theme: Health Care

1) Health care options for the unemployed. Our guest intends to present on a variety of health care topics, COBRA, etc

2) Networking time

This is an open event for Portland job hunters. We share our our techniques and ways to improve our job hunting success. Each week has a theme and time for networking.

Monday July 27th: 12:00 to 1:30 PM Beaverton Public Library Meeting Room A 12375 SW 5th Street Beaverton, Oregon 97005

Theme: Leveraging Sales Skills in Your Job Search 1) Adding Sales Skills to Your Personal Job Search Toolkit Another in a series of education on tools that can be leveraged in your career. Learn how sales people use techniques that are directly applicable to career changes. 2) Networking time

This is an open event for Portland job hunters. Each meeting provides practical tools and a forum for networking to make your job search more effective. We share our techniques and ways to improve our job hunting success. Each week has a theme and time for networking.

Theme: Revealing the mysteries of successful blogs

1)John Goalby will explain the mysteries and benefits of blogging All you ever wanted to know about Blogging. Another in a series of education on tools that can be leveraged in your career. Learn the basics of blogging.

2) Networking time

This is an open event for Portland job hunters. Each meeting provides practical tools and a forum for networking to make your job search more effective. We share our techniques and ways to improve our job hunting success. Each week has a theme and time for networking.

Theme: Leveraging Sales Skills in Your Job Search

1) Adding Sales Skills to Your Personal Job Search Toolkit Another in a series of education on tools that can be leveraged in your career. Learn how sales people use techniques that are directly applicable to career changes.

2) Networking time

This is an open event for Portland job hunters. Each meeting provides practical tools and a forum for networking to make your job search more effective. We share our techniques and ways to improve our job hunting success. Each week has a theme and time for networking.

Theme: Skills and abilities to enter Renewable Energy

1) Employment in the Renewable Energy Sector Another in a series of education on tools that can be leveraged in your career. Learn what transferable skills are valued by the Renewable Energy sector. Discover the sought after skills and certifications.

2) Networking time

This is an open event for Portland job hunters. Each meeting provides practical tools and a forum for networking to make your job search more effective. We share our techniques and ways to improve our job hunting success. Each week has a theme and time for networking.

Theme: The D.A.T.A. Approach

1) D.A.T.A. – what is it and how does it apply to your career? Continuing education series: Marsha Warner, Director Career Services at Dorrigan & Associates will talk about how the D.A.T.A. approach applies to moving your job search forward purposefully.

2) Networking time

This is an open event for Portland job hunters. Each meeting provides practical tools and a forum for networking to make your job search more effective. We share our techniques and ways to improve our job hunting success. Each week has a theme and time for networking.

Theme: Gaining Control over Your Environment

1) Gaining Control over Your Environment Continuing education series: Kenneth Cone, CPA and Principal at Management Business Advisors will talk about how we can react to situations in response to external factors that we don’t control.

2) Networking time

This is an open event for Portland job hunters. Each meeting provides practical tools and a forum for networking to make your job search more effective. We share our techniques and ways to improve our job hunting success. Each week has a theme and time for networking.

Theme: Eliminating Stress in the New Millenium

1) Eliminating Stress in the New Millenium Continuing education series: "Coping” with stress just isn’t enough during these chaotic times. While learning to negotiate so many changes in your professional and personal lives you’re realizing that the time has come to live life, be in the workplace and do business in new ways.

Linda Russek at Harvard, has demonstrated that all physical systems exchange influential energy. And because this energy is influential, it contains information that creates an effect. We are all connected and effected by others.

Learn how you are energetically effecting others and learn a quick and easy way to eliminate stress throughout your day: mulch, recharge and stay charged.

2) Networking time

This is an open event for Portland job hunters. Each meeting provides practical tools and a forum for networking to make your job search more effective. We share our techniques and ways to improve our job hunting success. Each week has a theme and time for networking.

Theme: The secrets of successfully working with recruiters

1) The secrets of successfully working with recruiters Continuing education series: Connie Dorrigan of Dorrigan & Associates and author of the “Don’t Interview – Audition” will reveal how to work with recruiters as part of your career transition.

2) Networking time

This is an open event for Portland job hunters. Each meeting provides practical tools and a forum for networking to make your job search more effective. We share our techniques and ways to improve our job hunting success. Each week has a theme and time for networking.

Theme: TBA

1) TBA

2) Networking time

This is an open event for Portland job hunters. Each meeting provides practical tools and a forum for networking to make your job search more effective. We share our techniques and ways to improve our job hunting success. Each week has a theme and time for networking.

All professionals in Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Sourcing and HR are invited to attend!

Join us to learn and share sourcing and recruiting best practices, tools, and challenges. Leverage the group to socialize challenges and ideas to help advance our skills and profession.

SourceCon Portland - Tuesday, March 5th 2019!

5:00 - 5:30 Meet & Greet

5:30 - 6:30 Guest Speaker: Blake Thiess, Director Talent Acquisition @ Prestige Care

6:30 - 7:00 Q&A, General Announcements

Guest Speaker:

Blake Thiess, Director, Talent Acquisition at Prestige Care

https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakethiess/

Blake Thiess is a business leader with a focus and specialty in Talent Acquisition/Recruiting and Human Resources. Blake’s focused degree in Human Resource Management, Professional in Human Resources (PHR), and SHRM-CP show his understanding and strong commitment to the field of Human Resources and Talent Acquisition.

Blake has spent the majority of his almost 10 year Talent Acquisition and Human Resources career in the senior living space, notably with Holiday Retirement and most recently with Prestige Care.

Blake is a trusted internal and external consultant on all things recruiting for Prestige Care, and is known for his unmatched energy level and work ethic, ability to build relationships with internal stakeholders and external candidates, happy-go-lucky mindset, innovative orientation, and strong drive for success. He can be found on social media, (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram) using the handle, @BlakeInThePNW

Blake will share several things regarding:

Inbound Recruitment Marketing

Using Text to Engage with Candidates

Sourcing using Images

Grit to Success

Favorite Books

What he is preparing to do in 2020

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