by Mitch Byers
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
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To help publicize the various career-centric topics I have presented, I
have join a great local group call
SpeakersCoop.com. The site is billed
as a one-stop resource for speaker coordinators.
The website connects speaker coordinators with dozens of speakers from North Texas.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
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posted in Interviewing to Win, News & Events
InterviewRX was featured in
Carnival of Careers #7 this week, hosted by
Eric Folgate.
Carnival of Careers
presents the "best and brightest articles and blog posts from some of
the most talent career and small business blog authors." Thanks to Eric
for choosing my "Law of Six" post for this week's Carnival.
If you are in job transition, this is a GREAT place to visit.
Every week you can expect a dozen or more tips, tactics and tidbits
that will help you tackle the interview and put you over the top. In
the most recent edition, there were three posts that caught my
interest.
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by Mitch Byers
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
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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.
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by Mitch Byers
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Monday, May 19, 2008
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posted in Interviewing to Win, Selection & Hiring, News & Events, Enhancing Your Career
A recent article from Dr. John Sullivan discusses up an emerging trend –
speed interviewing.
Speed Interviewing takes its name from the once popular, Speed Dating.
Speed Interviewing severely compresses the interviewing process.
Compare cooking popcorn the old fashion way - heating up oil in a deep
pan and adding a shallow layer of popcorn to today’s fast and easy
microwave popcorn. The popcorn today is ready in jiffy with no mess or
cleanup. Speed interviewing hopes to achieve the same results: faster
and easier without all the messy protocols of a traditional interview.
The slimmed down version is making inroads because
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by Mitch Byers
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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Last fall, Katherine Smith, invited me to speak to her
Career Jump Start job transition support group. At the time, she was going through her own job transition. Through persistent networking, she landed a position with
Visible Technologies, headquartered in Seattle. They help companies "advance and protect their brands online."
Katherine continues her passion for helping others in defining or redefining themselves as they move forward in their career. Being that we share common ground, we got our heads together to explore the idea of providing an interview boot-camp. The forum will be a three week mini-series.
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Thursday, June 8, 2006
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Today, 20 copies of the new version of INTERVIEW RX arrived from the publisher,
Nearline Publishers, Inc. These 20 copies will be sent to other published authors in the career and self-help space for comments. Their comments will grace the back cover and inside first page. Look for the latest version of INTERVIEW RX later this summer!
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Thursday, June 8, 2006
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posted in News & Events, Enhancing Your Career
At today's
DFWTRN.
meeting, Leroy Hamm, provided an insightful overview of the DiSC assessment. Hamm is the founder of
IHDCorp,
a leader in pre-screening and personnel development.
The DiSC assessment measures one's bias in the four temperaments:
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
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I met with my publisher today,
Nearline Publishers, Inc, to finalize details for the third edition of my book. We're shooting for a release date of June 1.
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