Beaverton Resource Center

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.

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: 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: 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.

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: 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.

Questions & Answers + the next steps following the successful June 1st Twitter introduction

Here is the agenda for Monday May 25th.

12:00 - 12:30 - Round table:

1) Introductions
2) Successes of the past week
3) Events in coming week(s)
4) Job postings

12:30 - 13:15 - Theme of the week - TBD 13:15 - 13:30 - Networking

This is a weekly event and is open to all. We try to keep a similar format each week but change the key topic.

There is a PDX Job Search Group on LinkedIn too.

Here is the agenda for Monday May 18th.

12:00 - 12:30 - Round table:

1) Introductions
2) Successes of the past week
3) Events in coming week(s)
4) Job postings

12:30 - 13:15 - Theme of the week - Recruiters

- Who is using whom?
- Opinions & comments

13:15 - 13:30 - Networking

This is a weekly event and is open to all. We try to keep a similar format each week but change the key topic.

There is a PDX Job Search Group on LinkedIn too.