LinkedIn is one the greatest tools available for professionals today. This webinar focused on how to maximize LinkedIn so that you move it from being a static resume repository to a career management tool – whether seeking advancement inside an organization or outside through a new job. This slide share illustrates some key features so you know more about how to successfully use LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is one the greatest tools available for professionals today. This webinar focused on how to maximize LinkedIn so that you move it from being a static resume repository to a career management tool – whether seeking advancement inside an organization or outside through a new job. This slide share illustrates some key features so you know more about how to successfully use LinkedIn.
Using Twitter can be confusing, let along job searching on it. This presentation will walk you through what you need to do to get started and be successful leveraging Twitter in your job search.
A Quincy College Career Week presentation for current students of Quincy College. We discussed how to create an effective linkedin profile, what do once you've built a profile, and how to leverage your profile to network as a student and prospective employee.
LinkedIn has established its staying power and proves to be one of the most useful tools for your business and career. In this year’s 7x7x7, hear from 7 experts who have leveraged LinkedIn’s tools, features, and groups to enhance their own profile, increase contacts, and grow their business. Tips will span from personal applications of LinkedIn to enterprise level features that can be used for your business.
Useful guidelines about how to manage and develop your personal reputation. Practical advice about how to create opportunities by generating value to the people in your professional network.
Managing your Reputation Gvahim WebinarHayim Makabee
Useful guidelines about how to manage and develop your personal reputation. Practical advice about how to create opportunities by generating value to the people in your professional network. Presented by Hayim Makabee as a Gvahim Webinar on June 2020.
Preparing for your Public Relations careerAbby Ecker
Presented to the PRSSA Chapter at the University of Delaware in April 2013, this presentation addresses six tangible ways to prepare for a career in public relations.
Marked up slide deck used in job search workshops, primarily with designated accountants and accounting students but also when facilitating guest presentations for job seekers.
Presentation sponsored by the Southern Marin Moms Club for those looking to create a compelling personal brand online and offline, learn best practices for networking, and develop a powerful and comprehensive LinkedIn profile.
Empower Your Jobsearch with a Social Resume - updated 2016 Steen.digital
The whole presentation:
How to build and brand your own search and selectable social media cv (social media resume) and social reputation:
Empower your job search and next career move with your personal go to market plan.
For jobseekers, freelancers and small business entrepreneurs.
For e newer version: Go to Your Social CV (4 parts) Intro, step1, step 2 and 3 and step 4 and 5
Networking is overrated! You must invest in your Reputation!
Speaker: Hayim Makabee, CTO at Dooiu
In this talk Hayim will share useful guidelines about how to manage and develop your personal reputation.
Hayim will focus on providing practical advice about how to create opportunities by generating value to the people in your professional network.
In general the goal of networking is to create new opportunities. These may be business opportunities, partnership opportunities or job opportunities. But what really creates new opportunities is our reputation.
Having a good reputation means that:
People will remember you. They will remember you for many years since they had the last interaction with you.
People will recommend you. They will introduce you to their own contacts whenever they think you may contribute.
People will constantly offer you new opportunities. They will invite you when they have a job opening, or when they need a partner or an adviser.
About the speaker:
Hayim Makabee is the CTO of Dooiu, an innovative Social Fintech. Hayim has over 25 years of experience in the Israeli high-tech industry, having held leadership roles as a Software Architect and Machine Learning specialist. He is also a mentor at Gvahim, where he helps new Olim to develop their professional careers in Israel. Hayim holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Technion and is the author of a book and several scientific publications.
About Dooiu:
Dooiu is a platform from which two or more people can make calls and exchange knowledge for money. Dooiu is a solution for communicating to each other and making payments in a simple and clear way. It allows those who sell their time as teachers, consultants, or experts to increase their income and grow professionally. Also, it enables any person who wants to consult on any topic to pay a fair price for the services received.
Using Twitter can be confusing, let along job searching on it. This presentation will walk you through what you need to do to get started and be successful leveraging Twitter in your job search.
A Quincy College Career Week presentation for current students of Quincy College. We discussed how to create an effective linkedin profile, what do once you've built a profile, and how to leverage your profile to network as a student and prospective employee.
LinkedIn has established its staying power and proves to be one of the most useful tools for your business and career. In this year’s 7x7x7, hear from 7 experts who have leveraged LinkedIn’s tools, features, and groups to enhance their own profile, increase contacts, and grow their business. Tips will span from personal applications of LinkedIn to enterprise level features that can be used for your business.
Useful guidelines about how to manage and develop your personal reputation. Practical advice about how to create opportunities by generating value to the people in your professional network.
Managing your Reputation Gvahim WebinarHayim Makabee
Useful guidelines about how to manage and develop your personal reputation. Practical advice about how to create opportunities by generating value to the people in your professional network. Presented by Hayim Makabee as a Gvahim Webinar on June 2020.
Preparing for your Public Relations careerAbby Ecker
Presented to the PRSSA Chapter at the University of Delaware in April 2013, this presentation addresses six tangible ways to prepare for a career in public relations.
Marked up slide deck used in job search workshops, primarily with designated accountants and accounting students but also when facilitating guest presentations for job seekers.
Presentation sponsored by the Southern Marin Moms Club for those looking to create a compelling personal brand online and offline, learn best practices for networking, and develop a powerful and comprehensive LinkedIn profile.
Empower Your Jobsearch with a Social Resume - updated 2016 Steen.digital
The whole presentation:
How to build and brand your own search and selectable social media cv (social media resume) and social reputation:
Empower your job search and next career move with your personal go to market plan.
For jobseekers, freelancers and small business entrepreneurs.
For e newer version: Go to Your Social CV (4 parts) Intro, step1, step 2 and 3 and step 4 and 5
Networking is overrated! You must invest in your Reputation!
Speaker: Hayim Makabee, CTO at Dooiu
In this talk Hayim will share useful guidelines about how to manage and develop your personal reputation.
Hayim will focus on providing practical advice about how to create opportunities by generating value to the people in your professional network.
In general the goal of networking is to create new opportunities. These may be business opportunities, partnership opportunities or job opportunities. But what really creates new opportunities is our reputation.
Having a good reputation means that:
People will remember you. They will remember you for many years since they had the last interaction with you.
People will recommend you. They will introduce you to their own contacts whenever they think you may contribute.
People will constantly offer you new opportunities. They will invite you when they have a job opening, or when they need a partner or an adviser.
About the speaker:
Hayim Makabee is the CTO of Dooiu, an innovative Social Fintech. Hayim has over 25 years of experience in the Israeli high-tech industry, having held leadership roles as a Software Architect and Machine Learning specialist. He is also a mentor at Gvahim, where he helps new Olim to develop their professional careers in Israel. Hayim holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Technion and is the author of a book and several scientific publications.
About Dooiu:
Dooiu is a platform from which two or more people can make calls and exchange knowledge for money. Dooiu is a solution for communicating to each other and making payments in a simple and clear way. It allows those who sell their time as teachers, consultants, or experts to increase their income and grow professionally. Also, it enables any person who wants to consult on any topic to pay a fair price for the services received.
The Power of LinkedIn: Building Your Profile & Leveraging ConnectionsGary Wood
Slides from an NMITE Springboard webinar held, 17 January 2023.
Learn how to create a strong, effective profile on LinkedIn, use it to build and engage a network, and to find and make opportunities.
Using LinkedIn Answers, the introduction function, who's viewed my profile, benefits of joining Groups, LinkedIn Etiquette, how to manage your network in 5 minutes a day.
Finding qualified professionals to contribute as volunteers can be a challenge. This webinar provides leaders of non-profit organizations and social purpose businesses with tips and logistical steps to successfully engage professional volunteers, access new relationships, and build board membership.
The presentation is part of Job hunting skills training program, focused on personal branding and job hunting tips, it gives the reader information on how to develop and maintain a good personal brand, how it helps him in finding a deserving job and further talks on techniques and tips on how to find a suitable job.
Presentation for women returning to the workforce on how to develop and navigate your personal brand. Includes personal branding exercises to develop a compelling and memorable personal brand; comprehensive LinkedIn profile strategies; social media profile tips; tips for interviewing success.
Next Gen: Critical Conversations Slide DeckGovLoop
How many times have you run into conflict with a colleague? In a one-on-one meeting with your supervisor? Working as a team with your peers? Or even publicly questioned? No matter what we do, there are going to be moments of discontent.
There are really only three ways to deal with a difficult conversation — deal with it well, face it head–on and fail, or avoid it altogether. But there is no need to run away from conflict, it’s time to learn how to deal with it well.
Join this on-demand training to enhance your conflict management skills. We will discuss:
How to handle difficult conversations and conflict.
Tips to better communicate with peers, subordinates and supervisors.
Ways to gain confidence and overcoming a defensive nature.
Once you’ve grasped new conflict management skills, you’ll be on your way to resolving issues and increasing productivity.
Speakers:
Steve Ressler, Founder and CEO, GovLoop
Nate Mercer, HR Specialist – Development, Employee Services|The Learning Center, OPM
Building Powerful Outreach - Executive Research BriefGovLoop
You’ve done the research. You’ve gotten leadership buy-in. Your government program is set to start helping people. But if nobody knows about it, your program will never make a difference. It’s like if a public health department had prepared thousands of flu shots, but no patients showed up to get them. In this brief, we will tell you how to empower your outreach.
NoSQL is not only SQL, so it’s structured and unstructured data AND much of it is very important data, data that requires enterprise-grade features. I’m referring to all the features of Relational databases that large enterprises expect
In today's fast paced and digital world, many in government are looking to the cloud as a means to transform their agency. The cloud allows us to easily collaborate, share resources, receive on demand computing power, and change the way we deliver services to citizens. With the cloud, this all can be done faster and more efficiently than ever before.
Build Better Virtual Events & Training for your AgencyGovLoop
Build Better Virtual Events and Training for Your Agency
Meet In-Person to Learn How to Thrive Online
Conferences are being canceled, and training budgets have been trimmed, but government personnel still need to learn the latest developments in their areas of expertise. That's the crux of the problem facing agency leaders and human resources professionals that want to sustain a top-notch government workforce. Moving in-person events and training to an online forum is one solution, but it's not always easy to do it well.
A successful virtual training program has 3 key ingredients:
An interactive technology platform
Just-in-time, relevant content
Active facilitation by a skilled moderator
Guide to Managing the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Application Proce...GovLoop
If you plan to apply for the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program to make the Class of 2014, this guide is your core resource. We interviewed dozens of current and former PMFs, career advisors and agency PMF coordinators to provide both information and insight to help you navigate the process.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a button
Advancing Your Government Career With Social Media
1. Accelerating Your Professional
Elevation with Social Media
Andrew Krzmarzick
GovLoop Community Manager
andrew@govloop.com
@krazykriz
GovLoop.com/profile/andrewkrzmarzick
2. Overview
• Imagine you could make powerful, professional,
network-building connections every day…
▫ You can!
• This session will help you:
▫ capitalize on social media tools like Facebook,
GovLoop, LinkedIn and Twitter
▫ accelerate the velocity with which you meet new people
▫ establish yourself as a go-to (gotta-hire) resource.
3. Objectives
1. Cast a vision for your future career destination.
2. Identify the types of people that will help you get there.
3. Leverage social media to accelerate your professional
connections.
4. Exercise 1: Where Are You and Where
Are You Going?
• In 7 words or less, explain your professional role
RIGHT NOW.
• In 7 words or less, state your vision for your
professional role IN 2020.
6. Get Organized
• You will be doing a lot of outreach, visits,
emailing, and following up with people. Get a
system to track the details, using Excel, Act!,
JibberJobber.com or whatever works for you
• Check out an infographic of this process at
http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/7-
steps-to-social-networking
7. Step 2: Identify Your Network
Identify your existing “inner circle” and
peripheral contacts.
• Inner Circle contacts are
people who know you • Tip: Consider the level of
personally and might be able connectedness your contacts
to recommend you. have—are they well connected
in general? Do many people
owe them favors? Do you
• Peripheral contacts know
know any “super-connectors”?
someone who knows you, are
people who “know of” you but
don’t know you well…yet.
8. Step 3: Research and Categorize Your Contacts
Categorize people by level of connection with you
• Innermost circle (references, family, friends)
• Inner circle (co-workers, classmates)
• Outer circle /peripheral (friends of friends,
people you’ve met briefly)
• Prospects (people you know of, but who don’t
know you)
9. Step 3: Research and Categorize Your Contacts
Categorize people by relevance to your job search
• Most relevant (currently in your • Tip: To help with research,
industry, job function, and geographic create a Linkedin and GovLoop
area, and/or in a position to hire or profile and connect with all of
refer you for jobs) your existing contacts, both
inner and peripheral. Identify
• Peripherally relevant (in related which contacts are best-
industries, job functions; same connected (sort by number of
industry, different geographic area) connections on Linkedin), and
identify which might be able to
• Less relevant (best friend in a help you in your specific search.
totally unrelated industry—still might
know people who can help you)
10. Step 4: Leverage Your Existing “Inner
Circle” Contacts
• Contact them via LinkedIn, email, or phone, with a
message reaching out to re-establish the relationship:
▫ ask them how things have been
▫ mention that you are soon launching a job search
• Be specific about your job target:
▫ specify the job title, type of organization (or specific
organizations), mission area, and geographic location you want.
11. Step 4: Leverage Your Existing “Inner
Circle” Contacts
Ask them to:
• Keep an eye out for relevant jobs, Tip: Don’t only ask
forwarding them to you for favors when you
• Introduce you to people in your area need a job -- ask
of interest / target organizations how they are doing
• Serve as an internal referral continuously!
(i.e. recommend you to hiring managers)
• Give tips on the hiring process for their
agency, revise your resume
• Recommend you on LinkedIn; and/or serve
as a reference
• Meet with you to chat and catch up.
12. Step 5: Reach Out to New Contacts
• Using the introductions from your inner circle of
contacts, as well as other connections /
professional associations / alumni networks and
attendance at networking events
13. Step 5: Reach out to New Contacts
Start reaching out strategically to new people who are:
• In organizations on your target list
• Have job titles you envy/admire
• Might be in a position to (a) hire you, (b) serve as an internal referral for
upcoming positions in their organization; or (c) are super-connectors
• Are accessible and likely to respond to your request
14. Ask People for Informational
Interviews
Etiquette for these meetings is:
• be on time,
• respect the allotted time,
• offer to pay for the other person’s coffee,
• have a list of questions, and
• do your homework so you don’t waste time
on basic questions
15. Ask People for Informational
Interviews
Your goal with these short meetings is:
• Research—learn about the organization’s culture, possible new
opportunities, the person’s career trajectory, job search advice, and
ways you could be helpful to this person
• Referrals—ask for introductions to people at other organizations
or resources to explore
• Resume feedback—ask (without asking for a job!) for them to
review your resume to make sure it fits your target field
• Be remembered positively and convert the
person into a contact in your inner circle.
16. Step 6: Feed Your Contacts
• Maintain the relationship you have established with your
new and existing contacts (and do this on an ongoing basis, not just
when you are job-seeking):
▫ Send a thank you note after every informational interview. Not
just an email, but a card. If you can’t do a card—you don’t have a mailing
address—write a LinkedIn recommendation about how helpful the
person was.
▫ Let them know when you follow up with someone they referred
▫ Keep them posted from time to time about your job hunt and
asking how they are.
17. Step 6: Feed Your Contacts
• Refer other people to them; help people they refer to you
• Send them job leads, grant / new business opportunities, timely and
relevant news articles, speaking engagements, or other ideas or
resources that will either help their organization or help them
personally whenever possible.
• Retweet their tweets, publicize their organization, etc.
• Send birthday greetings / holiday wishes if you know ‘em like that
• Go back to steps 4 through 6 until you land a job, then go to step 7.
18. Step 7: Thank Everyone!
• Thank everyone who helped you get a job!
19. Exercise 2: Who Can Help You Get
There?
• Identify 10 contacts:
▫ 5 people you know
▫ 5 prospects.
• Designate them as one
of these four categories
èèèèè
20. Discovering Connections On GovLoop
How do you find people you know and prospects
on GovLoop?
• Click on “Members” from the GovLoop home page.
• On the following page, click “Advanced Search.”
• You can also go directly to
http://www.govloop.com/profiles/members/advancedSearch
• Search by Name, Title, Current Agency or Organization…or
even Educational Background.
• Once you find someone you know or that interests, send them
a Friend Request (private) or leave a note on their Comment
Wall (public).
• http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/
government-resume-makeover-jacob-hoots-edition
22. GovGigs
• GovGigs: Find, Land, Keep and Leap
• As part of its “GovGigs” initiatives, GovLoop
offers four key services and tools to accelerate
your career advancement:
▫ Rock Your Resume
▫ GovLoop Mentors
▫ YGL
▫ Free Online Training/Resources
23. Rock Your Resume
• Over 100 people have received resume reviews!
• Secured the expertise of two top-notch expert reviewers
• Conducting 10 resume reviews each month
• Free service offered exclusively to GovLoop members.
• Here’s how it works:
▫ Become a member of GovLoop (if you aren’t already)
▫ Join the “Rock Your Resume Group” -
http://www.govloop.com/group/rockyourresume
▫ Submit your resume with some context.
▫ Get a review; post your edited resume so other
members can learn from the process.
24. GovLoop Mentors Program
• First-of-its-kind, government-wide program
• 50 Mentor Matches began August 22
• Pilot runs through mid-November
• Sign up now and get ready for 2012!
• Here’s how you become a mentor or mentee:
• Go to http://mentors.govloop.com
• Determine if you want to be a mentor or mentee.
• Complete your profile.
25. Free Online Training / Resources
• Free, hour-long, online trainings every month
• Guides & infographics with easy-to-read career advice
Archives of Free Online Training
• “Find the Right Gov Gig For You”
http://www.govloop.com/group/rockyourresume/forum/topics/
rocking-resource-how-to-find
• “Get That Gov Gig: How To Network in a Tricky Job Environment”
http://www.govloop.com/group/rockyourresume/forum/topics/
rocking-resource-networking-archive-and-slides
• “How Stunning Storytelling Can Advance Your Government Career”
http://www.govloop.com/group/rockyourresume/forum/topics/
rocking-resource-storytelling
26. Links to Guides and Infographics
Guides and Infographs
• “Building Your Resume on USAJOBS”
http://www.govloop.com/group/rockyourresume/forum/topics/
rock-your-resume-usajobsstyle
• “4 Winning Tips for a Successful Job Interview”
http://www.govloop.com/group/rockyourresume/forum/topics/
rocking-resource-4-winning
• “10 Tips for Letting Federal Employers Know Your Worth”
http://www.govloop.com/group/rockyourresume/forum/topics/10-
tips-for-letting-federal
• “New Hire Handbook”
http://www.govloop.com/page/new-hire-handbook
27. Jobs.GovLoop.Com
• Launching next week
(your sneak peek!)
• Goal: make it easier for ▫ acquisition,
▫ budgeting
you to narrow down
▫ communications
potential job matches. ▫ generalist
• Every week: receive 10 ▫ human resources
new jobs in one of ▫ information technology
▫ $100K+ jobs
several areas èèèè
28.
29. On GovLoop: Learn from Experts and
Peers - Blogs
While there are scores of bloggers covering every issue
imaginable on GovLoop, these three people cover careers:
Dianne Floyd Sutton
President, Sutton Enterprises
Heather Krasna
Director, Career Services, Evans School of Public Affairs,
Univ. of Washington
Kathleen Smith
Chief Marketing Officer, ClearedJobs.net
View all of the top blog posts at:
http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blog/list?promoted=1
30. Candace’s Story
“Honestly,I was bored, unemployed, and
going through my morning ritual of
sending out about 25-30 resumes a day. I
did a Google search for something like
"Government Contract Administration"
and stumbled on a GovLoop blog post. I
dug through the site, including the job
board, and signed up!” – Candace
View all of the top blog posts at:
http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blog/list?promoted=1
31. GovLoop Forums
• Of course, one of the best ways for you to find
answers to your questions or position yourself
as an expert is to check out the Forum section
on GovLoop: TIP:
Be
sure
to
use
the
search
func/on
• Ask: in
the
blogs
and
www.govloop.com/forum/topic/new
forums
to
find
• Answer: content
most
www.govloop.com/forum/category/listByTitle relevant
to
you.
32. Top 7 Tips for LinkedIn
1. Make sure your profile is complete and up to date!
33. Tip 2: Search your Email Contacts to
Find Connections
38. Tip 7: Integrate Your Other Social
Media Accounts
• Blog
• Reading List
• Slideshare
• Twitter
39. Jeffrey’s Story
• Started the Chief Learning Officers Network in
late November 2008.
• Goal was to get 20-30 folks over a period of a
year or so.
• I started the group because nothing was in
existence in LinkedIn and thought our
community needed something – a place, a
forum, something to communicate around
ideas.
• Today, 400+ members in the group
40. 5 Quick Lessons from Jeffrey’s
LinkedIn Success
1. Focused, active engagement leads to the greatest returns.
2. As with any endeavor, the more you give, the more you
receive.
3. Although the hallmarks of social media are openness,
transparency and participation, it is okay to limit access
to your network if that ties back to your ultimate goal.
4. Establish a clear set of outcomes and a vision for the
future.
5. Bigger is not always better.
41. Facebook
• Not Professional?
• Facebook is not usually seen as a professional
networking site. Yet few social networks can
cause more trouble for your career than
Facebook. You all know how to use Facebook to
connect with friends and family…so this section
focuses more on the fine line between fun and
infamy.
42. Facebook App: Branch Out
• Helps you expand your career
network to include everyone you
know on Facebook.
• You can expand your career network
through all of your friends on
Facebook.
• Key feature: Branchout syncs with
LinkedIn – a pretty sweet feature if
you don’t mind mixing business
44. Exercise 3: What Can Stall Your
Journey?
• Form a small group with 4-5 people around you.
• Select a scenario from the next two pages.
• Assign a spokesperson and a note-taker.
• Using the worksheet, take 10 minutes to address the
scenario assigned to your group.
• Be ready to share with the large group!
• We’ll address each scenario for 5-10 minutes.
45. Scenario 1 – To Friend or Not To Friend?
When Eva hears the news she has earned a spot at the prestigious State
Department International Fellow program, she is ecstatic as she prepares
to leave Latvia and travel to the US for one year. Her fellow students in the
program are from all over the world and want to know all about her -
where she is from, what languages she speaks, what her hometown looks
like. “Are you on Facebook?” they ask.
After much convincing, Eva decides to join Facebook and begins accepting
friend requests from everyone in the program. Since DC has a great
nightlife, she starts posting lots of pictures from outings with her new
friends. One afternoon, she gets a friend request from her supervisor. This
supervisor was the one who originally accepted her application into the
program, and will be on the panel to decide if she will be placed
in a select group of students to intern with a US company
when the program ends.
46. Scenario 1 – To Friend or Not To Friend?
Questions:
• Should Eva accept the friend request from her
supervisor?
• How can Eva ensure that she doesn’t miss out on
valuable connections while maintaining a comfortable
level of privacy and maintain her reputation?
• Should a supervisor send a friend request to direct
reports?
47. Scenario 2: The Office Offense
Dan and Jeff are like oil and water in the office. Despite sharing a
common mission, they can't seem to get along. They're always taking
not-so-subtle digs at one another in meetings and small camps of
sympathetic colleagues have formed around each of them.
The problem: they are both excellent performers overall, meeting
deadlines and accomplishing team goals. However, things really
seemed to have gone too far when Dan found an unflattering
personal photo of Jeff on Flickr, posted it on his Facebook page and
used it as his screen saver at the office.
Jeff spoke with Dan's supervisor and reported the incident to HR.
Dan was forced to take the image off his work computer but refused
to remove it from his Facebook page, stating that he could do what he
wanted with his personal account.
48. Scenario 2: The Office Offense
Questions:
• How would you handle this type of situation
from the perspective of Dan's supervisor?
• How about from the vantage point of HR?
• As a colleague?
49. Scenario 3: Venting in the Wrong Venue
Karla is a Program Analyst at an agency. After a
particularly difficult day, Karla is frustrated after an
interaction with a colleague in another agency and makes
the following comment on her Facebook page: “Had to
deal with difficult [insert position here] at [insert agency
here]. Typical bureaucracy! I’m sure glad I don’t work at
that agency…and especially not with her.” She makes the
comment after work hours from a home computer.
50. Scenario 3: Venting in the Wrong Venue
Questions
• What if this really happened? Would / should Karla lose
her job?
• What would be a fair policy in terms of how agency
employees should use social media during their personal
time?
51. Scenario 4: Digging Up Dirt
Vanessa is a hiring manager for your agency. She has discovered
that Google, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn are all effective tools for
rounding out the qualifications and determining the cultural fit of
potential candidates for position vacancies. One candidate is highly
qualified for an opening, but Vanessa discovers in her web search
that the individual belongs to a special interest group with which she
strongly disagrees. For that reason, Vanessa does not forward the
candidate's information to the supervisor for review and
consideration. Another member of the HR team learns about
Vanessa's decision and elevates the issue to the Office of the Chief
Human Capital Officer.
52. Scenario 4: Digging Up Dirt
Questions
• What kind of policy would you develop to protect
potential candidates from experiencing this kind of
discrimination?
• What if the person truly would not have been a solid
culture fit (i.e. could create significant tension among
team members) based on their affiliation?
• What if you learned that this happened to you in
applying for a job? How would you react?
53. Twitter Advice
12 COMMANDMENTS
FOR GOV on TWITTER
1. Thou Shalt Not Spam
2. Thou shalt not leave my profile
info blank
3. Thou shalt not forget the rules
4. Thou shalt not bite the hand that
feeds
5. Thou shalt not hide my affiliations
6. Thou shalt not Bait and switch
7. Thou shalt Tweet regularly
8. Thou shalt contribute to the
conversation
9. Thou shalt be selective about who I
follow
10. Thou shalt use lists
11. Thou shalt grow my followers
the right way
12. Thou shalt seek the greater Good
54. Twitter Links and Resources
• 6 Suggestions for Taking Twitter to Another Level
• Follow lists
• Don’t follow these people!
• Don’t do it this way!
Use listening tools (i.e. apps)
• http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/17-best-twitter-
apps-for-2011-930383
• http://tweeparties.com/blog/2011/08/08/best-twitter-apps-
for-your-mobile-phone/
• Follow hashtags.
55. Twitter Resources
“How to Win Friends and Twinfluence People”
Advice from Dr. Mark Drapeau (@cheeky_geeky)
WIN FRIENDS TWINFLUENCE PEOPLE
1. Be unique, but be yourself 6. Find the influencers
2. Participate in conversation 7. Become an authority
3. Provide value to a 8. Be creative
community 9. Reward with shout-outs
4. Attract loyal followers 10. Always have fun
5. Mix microsharing with
other outlets
56.
57.
58. Stephanie & Sonny’s Story
“I'm job hunting right now, and I've found social
media to be extremely helpful for networking
purposes. LinkedIn and Twitter in particular
have helped me connect with a bunch of
potential future employers.”
“I first heard about my current job vacancy via
Twitter :) So I can say without any reservation
that social media has helped my career in a
significant way.”
63. Find Your Voice
• Got something to say and need a place to say it?
▫ Blogging gives your voice a written outlet.
▫ If speaking’s your thing, try podcasting.
64.
65.
66. Chris’ Story
“Social media allows me to network with
like-minded people in the areas I wish to
advance my career. This is huge. When
trying to look for that next step in my
professional career, it allows me to
integrate with companies, people in the
TIP:
Be
sure
careers I'm interested in, best practices,
to
review
this
etc. It has also given me a location to
infograph
showcase my talents and create portfolios
online
of my work.”
67. Exercise 4: So What Will You Do Next
to Hit the Gas?
• What are 3 actions you will take in the
next week?
• What are 3 additional actions you will
take by the end of September?
68. My 3 Actions for YOU!
1. Join GovLoop:
www.govloop.com/main/authorization/signUp
2. Friend Me:
www. govloop.com/profile/AndrewKrzmarzick
3. Find Me on LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/andrewkrzmarzick