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Job Competency & Developing Your Personal Career Stories

Friday, November 14, 2008
10:00 to 11:30

North Dallas/Plano Career Focus Group
Christ United Methodist Church, Plano
Coit and Parker, Room N156
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High Impact Interviewing

November, 2008
Date: TBA
10:00 am to 12:00 noon

Drake/Beam/Morin (DBM)
Oxy Building, LBJ and the tollroad
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You're Hired: How to Beat out Your Competition

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Evening presentation, Time DBA

Jewish Family Service
5402 Arapaho Road at Montfort
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How to have a good job interview

Hiring Tips: Selecting the right performance predictors

by Mitch Byers :: Friday, July 11, 2008 :: posted in Selection & Hiring

Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Blink, was the first speaker at the May 2008 New Yorker Conference. “Stories from the near future” was the theme of the two-day conference. Albeit condensed, here are his words and my comments from his talk regarding the “challenge of hiring in the modern world.”

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Job Interview Tips #51: Incorporate the Law of Six to Get Hired

by Mitch Byers :: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 :: posted in Interviewing to Win

In a recent job interview seminar, a participant asked the following question: “Should I send an email or a thank you note?” My response was, “Send both.”

The reason for sending both correspondences is based on the Law of Six, an effective sales conversion model. The goal of the Law of Six is to convert an influential buyer into a client. In the job interview process, you can personalize the Law of Six to convert your influential buyer (the hiring manager) into a client (your boss). [More…]

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Announcement: Upcoming 4 week seminar

by Mitch Byers :: Thursday, July 3, 2008 :: posted in News & Events

Today, I met with Katheryn Smith from Career Jump-Start and agreed to provide a series of talks to their members. Their mission is assist job seekers through the entire hiring process. Generally when I give talks, I focus on strategies to deliver powerful career stores based on job-specific competencies. New material will be added for the upcoming 4-week session. [More…]

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