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This is a “what’s going on” here at MN Headhunter. Blog posts of interest, event announcements and links to Be Your Own Headhunter seminars and presentations.

You can also scroll down past this to see posts in chronological order.

Blog Posts (recent/popular)

• How To Decipher The Meaning Of Interview Questions
• Social Media Breakfast Minneapolis & St. Paul Has The World’s Largest Event
• A Rebuttal To Peter Weddle And His Blog Post The Great SCAM in Recruiting
• Who To Follow In Minneapolis On Twitter
• TCF Bank Stadium: New Home For The University Of Minnesota Golden Gophers Football Team

Events

• July 16th 8 AM Future of Talent (attending)
• July 17th 8 AM Minnesota Recruiters (hosting)

Be Your Own Headhunter

• July 7th 3 PM & 7 PM CDT Online Seminar Job Search Toolkit - Be Your Own Headhunter
• July 8th 3 PM CDT Online Seminar LinkedIn A to Z - Use LinkedIn Like A Headhunter
• July 9th 3 PM CDT Online Seminar Using Social Media For Networking, Lead Generation And Job Search
• July 14th 3 PM CDT Online Seminar Job Search Toolkit - Be Your Own Headhunter

Have a question, comment or looking for some information? Leave a comment or send an email to paul@mnheadhunter.com

Paul DeBettignies
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Paul DeBettignies To Present At The Minnesota Chapter Of The Project Management Institute Job Fair

April 20th, 2009 from 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM the Minnesota Chapter of the Project Management Institute will be hosting a job fair for Project Managers and Business Analysts.

So far 20 companies are participating in the job fair.

This is an awesome opportunity to be proactive with your networking in meeting with Recruiters and should you be in a job search clearly this is an event to attend.

During the job fair I will be doing two mini presentations on doing an effective job search.

For more information on the PMI job fair (and the dinner meeting that follows) click 2009 Project Management Institute Minnesota Chapter Job Fair.

Paul DeBettignies A Panelist For Minnesota PRSA Event

Thursday April 16^th, 2009 I will be part of a two person panel for a Core Training class for the Public Relations Society of America - Minnesota or MNPRSA.

 

Information on the event from the MNPRSA web site:

Career and Building a Personal Brand

Guest Panelists:

• Mary Kloehn, Managing Partner, Navigate Forward
• Paul DeBettignies, Recruiter, Blogger, Founder of BeYourOwnHeadhunter.com

As a public relations professional, you’re likely an expert at building and managing brands for clients and companies—but what about developing your personal brand?

Join distinguished leadership and executive transition consultant Mary Kloehn, and social media maven and recruiter Paul DeBettignies as they talk about building and using personal brands online and off. As a consultant, Mary Kloehn draws from human resource and business leadership perspectives to package and present a personal brand. Paul DeBettignies brings a recruiter’s point of view, offering advice for using social media to enhance a personal brand and secure the perfect job.

Take away best practices for building your personal brand and using it to make your mark in your current position, while on the job hunt or when making a career transition. After all, your personal brand is what sets you apart from the rest.

Click Career and Building a Personal Brand for the registration page

Join MNPRSA group online:

• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• MinnesotaPRSA on Twitter

Info For KARE 11 Viewers

Many thanks to KARE 11 and Scott Goldberg for including me in their Extra: Social networking can help job hunt .

If you are seeking information on the free Job Search, LinkedIn and Social Media presentations go to:

Be Your Own Headhunter

This coming week there are three presentations:

- Job Search Toolkit (March 24th)
- Using Social Media For Networking And Social Media (March 25th)
- LinkedIn A-Z For Networking And Job Search (March 26th)

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If curious about the blog take a look around. Scroll down the middle column to "Categories" where you will find information by categories.

Thanks for stopping by.

Paul

Free Job Search Webinar | Trial Run | February 19, 2009 | 11 AM CST

For the past 6 or 7 years (I have lost track) I have been doing a job search presentation(s) to groups of all ages and skills sets called “I have a killer resume, now what? Tips on being your Headhunter.”

The idea is after being a recruiter for 11+ years I know how I would do a job search. And essentially, it is what I do every day to market myself to potential clients. I am trying to find the same hiring managers, recruiters, decision makers and executives that job seekers are.

The presentation itself is very laid back as is my style. I do use the words “dude” and “sucks” a few times. It just happens.

The content is unique and many have called it aggressive. I see most job seekers reacting to an online job or newspaper ad. My belief is being reactionary in a job search and doing what everyone else is doing leads you to compete with a lot of people for that one job.

If you know about it before the masses you will have a much better chance of getting it.

Topics to be covered include:

• Networking, what it is, how to get started, and who to contact
• Using LinkedIn and Facebook as job search tools
• Effective ways of using email to introduce yourself
• Finding hiring manager contact names
• Creating your 10 second Sound Bite and the 30 second Elevator Pitch
• Tracking your job search

The presentation lasts between 50-75 minutes depending on the number of questions.

This is the first webinar I have ever done and I have been very anxious about it. I am used to speaking in front of group from 20-200 so doing one via phone and Internet is a bit odd to me. I like to see people and see how they react to what they are hearing.

So this is a trial run. Surely I will have a miss step along the way but I do promise to make it worth your time.

My plan is to be doing this and other job search and career related webinars as part of my new site Be Your Own Headhunter. Not much to look at yet but a few more sleepless nights and you will be pleased with waht you will find.

Here is the link for the webinar:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/207079110

 

***All attendees will receive a free PDF of “Dig Your Job”, written by G.L. Hoffman, Chairman of JobDig.***

A special note. Many thanks to the folks at JobDig for inviting me to their office and providing the space and support to do this presentation.

You may know of JobDig as a newspaper and online job board but they have many products including LinkUp, a job aggregator similar to Indeed and SimplyHired but LinkUp only uses corporate career pages, and for my recruiter friends JobDig Tracker, an Applicant Tracking System (ATS).

Looking forward to tomorrow and if you listen to the webinar please provide any feedback you have.

Job Search | LinkedIn | Social Media Job Search Presentations

The last three weeks I have done three different presentations and have inserted them below.

This morning I presented at the Social Media Breakfast – Twin Cities on “Using Social Media In Your Job Search.” Before going further I want to, need to say, in six or seven years of doing career related presentations I have NEVER had so much fun.

Thank you to those who attended and for participating in the conversation. Lots of really good questions were asked and this being my first time doing a presentation to this niche I learned quite a few things and will add a few slides in future similar presentations.

Announcements:

• Please pass on to friends, family, coworkers and anyone you know who is now or may in the future be doing a job search the following web site, Be Your Own Headhunter http://www.beyourownheadhunter.com
• As I type this (1-30-09) there is not much there but in the coming week it will be a good source of job search information. I will also be adding city pages that will have links of local information with Minneapolis and St. Paul being the first. (big shock, right?)
• In about two weeks I will be doing free job search webinars likely on a weekly basis.
• If you know of a group within short driving distance who would like to have a speaker on job search, networking, LinkedIn, etc please pass my name along. For local presentations I do not charge a fee.
• If you attended today’s event (or either of the previous two) and I missed a topic you had hoped would be covered please leave a comment below so I can see if/how to work it into a presentation.

That’s it for “announcements.”

OK, I lied...

NOTE: Today’s presentation was taken in part by the two below it as well as new content specific to today. You may/will want to look at the others to get more information on doing a job search and using LinkedIn as a tool.

Using Social Media In Your Job Search

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The following was presented at the Savage Chamber of Commerce 1-20-09:

LinkedIn to a New Year

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The following was presented at the StarTribune Career Fair 1-13-09 and is my standard job search presentation:

I have a "killer resume", now what? Tips on being your own Headhunter

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Job And Career Fair Presentation

I have had a lot of stuff running through my mind since the presentation at the StarTribune Career Expo which is why until today I have been a little quiet.

I said this when I started speaking, I was a bit unnerved with the number of folks wanting to hear the presentation. I had a few folks sitting on the floor, standing in the back and into the hallway. The hosts of the event estimated at around 130 people were in the room at the beginning.

When I asked for hands of those unemployed 90%+ raised their hands.

I should restate this, I was not unnerved about speaking before a group that size but the first thing that goes through my mind is the collective emotion that everyone is feeling. Being without a job sucks. What sucks worse is when we have slow economic times.

The job search presentation went from 2 PM – 3 PM. Then about 20 minutes for the networking piece. Then a group Q & A and a few one on one questions. By the time I left it was around 5 PM.

It was a good day and feedback from the presentations has been very good.

Here is the presentation:

I have a "killer resume", now what? Tips on being your own Headhunter

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I do have the shell of Be Your Own Headhunter up and running. More content will be added the next three days along with a page specific for Minneapolis resources.

My original idea was to start doing online webinars in mid February but I have decided that rather than perfect everything and have the web site in high gear I am going to start before the end of January. It makes more sense to get this information to people than wait for everything to look pretty.

The first webinar is not yet schedules as I need to figure out the tech side of things and do a trial run.

If you know of a group in the Minneapolis | St. Paul area seeking a speaker on job search, networking, or using LinkedIn please forward my email on, paul@mnheadhunter.com

As long as it is local and I can keep my time away from the office to 90 minutes or less I am willing to do them for free.

MN Headhunter Gets Nice Guy Award

On January 7, 2009 Recruiting Animal gave his The Recruiting Animal Award Winners 2008 on his radio show.

I was awarded “Recruitosphere Nice Guy”:

Now for those not in the recruiting industry you may wonder what is a Recruiting Animal and why do you care.

The Recruiting Animal is a popular guy, a Recruiter, has the Recruiting Animal blog, and his own radio show The Recruiting Animal. That’s pretty good for anyone let alone an animal.

While the shows are not always very serious (this is not your suit and tie show) the content that is shared and the people who contribute (most days) are.

So to be mentioned with the folks he gave awards to is in all seriousness, very cool for me. When you go to his page you will see those listed is very much a “who’s who” of the recruiter’s who are online, who give back to the community, who teach and train.

It also means a lot to be known as a “Nice Guy” and this proves nice guys do not finish last.

Oh and I should say that if you are wondering more about his show you can click one of the following links to 2008 shows I was featured on.

Minnesota Headhunter, Your Buddy in Bad Times (October 29, 2008)

The Minnesota Headhunter (January 16, 2008)

Paul DeBettignies To Speak On Job Search And Networking Topics At Minneapolis StarTribune Career Fair

I should have posted this here earlier. I have been sending messages out on Twitter, Facebook and email and forgot about the blog. Yeah, sometimes I am not the brightest bulb on the tree.

Today, January 12^th 2009 I am presenting at a career fair sponsored by the Minneapolis StarTribune to be held at the Minneapolis Convention Center. I did all three events in 2008 and have been invited (and I accepted) to do them again in 2009.

Here is a link to the online event announcement StarTribune Career Expo.

During the event I will be briefly talk about a new site I am working on Be Your Own Headhunter where I will be posting career, job search and networking information, links to blog posts, information on Minneapolis and St. Paul career resources including networking groups, professional associations, etc.

From the site I will also be hosting webinars and later this spring launching a book.

Here is more information on what I will be speaking about:

2 PM – Room 102A
I have a “killer” resume, now what?
Tips On Being Your Own Headhunter
Paul DeBettignies, Managing Partner, Nerd Search

Paul has been an IT Headhunter for 11+ years; he is a frequent speaker on job search and networking topics and writes the popular business blog MNHeadhunter.com. Paul will share principles he has learned that are universal to a job search through is own business and throughout his years of interaction with candidates that will help speed up your job search process.

Areas to be covered include: networking, what it is, how to get started, and who to contact; using LinkedIn and Facebook as job search tools; effective ways of using email to introduce yourself; finding hiring manager contact names; creating your 10 second Sound Bite and the 30 second Elevator Pitch; tracking your job search.

3PM – Room 102A
Open Networking Opportunity With Fellow JobSeekers
Paul DeBettignies, Managing Partner, Nerd Search