This program communicates the importance of defining your short and long term personal, professional, and financial goals in the pursuit of career opportunities. Once defined, the recruiting team at Audigy Group, Stratus Dental Group, and Audigy Medical will provide strategies, tips, and best practices for landing your ideal opportunity. As organizations that provide business consulting and leadership coaching to highly successful entrepreneurs, we will be sharing what hiring managers want to see in candidates and unique insights to stand out in the process.

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How to Define and
Land Your Ideal Opportunity
Dan Fick, Director of Talent Acquisition

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Importance of Intentionality
• What are your personal, professional, and
financial goals?
• What experience and skills are needed to
achieve these goals?
• Does an opportunity move you closer or
further from your goals?

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Self-awareness in a career search
• What are your values?
• What culture and environment do
you do your best work in?
• What 3 things are you’re looking
for?

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Follow Companies, not Jobs
• Oregonian – Top 100
• Portland Business Journal
• Magazines
• Networking
• Twitter / Facebook
• Glassdoor
• Zappos

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Importance of Networking
• Practice, drill, and rehearse your
elevator pitch
• Interested vs. Interesting
• Volunteer
• Social networking sites
• Build and engage your audience
• Seek to selflessly add value

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Make it easy for Recruiters
• Cover letter explaining any limitations
or gaps
• Summary of accomplishments
• Summary of key skills
• Life of a recruiter
• Fast paced
• Less than a minute per resume

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Do your Homework
• Review company website
• Who do you know who works there?
• Glassdoor reviews
• Follow the company on twitter
• What are the company’s values?
• What is the culture?
• Complete a reference on the boss

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Preparing for the Interview
• Develop at least 10 questions
• Examples:
• How do you measure effectiveness in the
areas that add the most value?
• How many people have you developed to
achieve a higher level of success?
• What’s the biggest challenge of this position?
• Why is the position open?
• What qualities are needed to be successful?

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Preparing for the Interview
• Develop at least 5 examples of your
experience that highlight
• When you met and overcame resistance
• Problem solving
• Project Management
• Innovative thinking
• Where you stretched and grew

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Preparing for the Interview
• Practice:
• Research sample interview questions
• Role play

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Preparing for the Interview
• Review LinkedIn Profiles
• Who do you both know?
• What common interests do you share?
• What references have they provided and
• What did they most appreciate in
references?
• Tailor your social media sites

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Post Interview
• Thank you notes and emails
• Be specific
• What excites you? Show your
passion!
• Any questions that you wished you
answered better

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Importance of Belief
• When you live a life with a high level
of belief, you pour your energy and
passion into achieving the goal
• In that sense, the higher you believe,
the more you can achieve.
• Elevating your Belief