Career Development Workshop: Standing Out from the Masses - Resume Workshop
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| 17 Jul 2010 |
08:30 AM |
5:00 PM |
Network Meeting Center at Techmart
5201 Great America Pkwy
Santa Clara, CA 95054
USA
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Career Development Workshop
Workshop I: Creating Compelling Resumes and Cover Letters
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Event Sponsor
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Last date for Registration: 07/14/2010 10:00pm PST
Event dates: Part 1 - July/17/2010
Description:
This workshop provides a hands-on opportunity to transform your resume and cover letter, based on the latest industry trends, so you can take your career to the next level, successfully navigate a career change, or land your dream job.
Sign up for this workshop if you are:
- Wondering what happened to the slew of resumes you sent into cyberspace
- Concerned about gaps in your employment history or age discrimination
- Reinventing yourself for a new industry or job type
- Ready to recreate your resume to get yourself noticed and dominate your competitors
- Interested in exploring ways to move up in your career
Objective:
This workshop empowers you to become your own employment specialist. Rather than paying an outside consultant to design your resume for you, you will become your own guru. By taking this seminar you will learn how to make effective strategic decisions about the content and design of your resume and cover letter, and how to tailor these documents to your unique needs and to the specific requirements of each position. You will also be empowered to maintain and update that resume according to changing industry trends and additional work experience acquired. You will walk out of this workshop with a cover letter and resume that are completely reborn to help you obliterate the competition and win your next job!
What You Will Learn:
- The purpose of a cover letter
- Cover letter do’s and dont’s
- Types of resumes
- Resume do’s and dont’s
- Tips to get your electronic resume noticed
- Techniques for designing paper resumes
A Hands-On Approach:
While this seminar includes traditional lecture and Q&A sessions, a significant amount of time will be devoted to transforming your cover letter and resume in real time during the course of the workshop. Be sure to bring your laptop with files of your current resume and cover letter (as well as a printout of each) so you can revise them according to the principles you are taught in class, formatting exercises, and peer reviews.
Testimonials:
"Marrietta's one-on-one coaching has benefited me immensely. She was quick to point out all the improvement areas with steps to overcome those. This coaching immensely helped me in increasing my confidence to face those nail-biting interview sessions. I whole heartedly recommend it for all job seekers."
- D. P., A Bay Area Product Manager
"Marrietta is a great resource when you need to stand out from the crowd. I've benefited from her career coaching services in both a large group and also in the one-on-one format. In both instances, what impressed me was the combination of Marrietta's own extensive professional resume, and the resulting broad range of high level professional skills and practical experience she has at her disposal. Add that to her ability to zone in, in a very genuine yet objective manner, to whatever challenge the client is facing, be that using white space to maximum effect like a graphic designer would, right up to creating a comprehensive job search campaign. All delivered with her customary diplomacy and good humor."
- P. Mudd, A Bay Area Project Manager
About the Instructor:
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Marrietta Reber is the Chair of the Technical Writing Department at De Anza College where she teaches courses on resume writing, project management, business and proposal writing, and technical publications. She has a proven track record of assisting Bay Area professionals to gain employment and win promotions.
Prior to teaching at De Anza, Marrietta worked in industry in a number of capacities. In Boston, New York City, and Washington D.C., she functioned as a marketing and strategic planning consultant, National Training Manager, and professional trainer/writer for clients such as American Express, AT&T, General Motors, and Princeton University. She also worked at Franklin Covey as a developer of curriculum for personal and professional effectiveness workshops and time management seminars. In addition, she created documentation for library automation software at Ameritech Library Services. |
Marrietta received an American Express Special Recognition Award for the Membership Rewards Program Re-Launch and The Society for Technical Communicators Excellence in User’s Guides Award. She has presented papers at several conferences and been published in technical marketing magazines and academic journals.
Marrietta Reber graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Humanities from Brigham Young University. She completed doctoral coursework in English at The George Washington University in D.C. She also studied International Business in Spain, participated in a Fulbright program to Jordan where she studied Arabic and human rights, and worked as an Education Consultant in Guatemala. |
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Professional Development Programs are designed to provide opportunities for members and non-members to maintain their certifications and work towards PMP certification. The events are also a great opportunity to network with peers and stay abreast of the latest in the Project Management discipline.
The offered Professional Development Programs when combined with the other PMI Silicon Valley events and activities provide a comprehensive approach to professional and career development, networking, and personal achievement
Host:
Name: Anup Deshpande, PMP, CSM
Kuntal Thakore, PMP, CSM
Email: Contact Event Host
PDU Info:
Part1 - 7.0 Category 3
Part2 - 7.0 Category 3
Part1&2 - 14.0 Category 3
Program Agenda:
8:30 AM - Sign In and Networking
9:00 AM - Workshop Begins
12:00 PM - Lunch Break
1:00 PM - Workshop Resumes
5:00 PM - Adjourn
Food:
Coffee and Continental Breakfast will be provided.
On-line Registration:
(Before Registration Cutoff)
Early Bird: (ends 7/05/2010)
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Part 1 |
Part 2 |
Part 1 & 2 |
| PMISV member |
$139 |
$139 |
$268 |
| Non-PMISV memer |
$169 |
$169 |
$328 |
Regular:
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Part 1 |
Part 2 |
Part 1 & 2 |
| PMISV member |
$149 |
$149 |
$288 |
| Non-PMISV memer |
$179 |
$179 |
$348 |
Chapter Guest (by invitation only) $0.00
At-the-Door Registration:
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Part 1 |
Part 2 |
Part 1 & 2 |
| PMISV member |
$179 |
$179 |
$348 |
| Non-PMISV memer |
$199 |
$199 |
$388 |
(Only Check or Cash accepted)
Checks are payable to "PMI Silicon Valley"
Cancellation Policy
This event is a professional society Professional Development Seminar for the benefit of its members. The Plan Ahead registration fee paid is based on the registrant's ability to commit to attendance, ahead of time. The Plan Ahead registration fee will not be refunded if called less than five normal working days prior to the event (5:00 PM, Pacific). The PMI - Silicon Valley Chapter reserves the right to make last minute changes to program content and speakers, as circumstances dictate.
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