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
Free - Open to the public
November, 2008
Date: TBA
10:00 am to 12:00 noon
Drake/Beam/Morin (DBM)
Oxy Building, LBJ and the tollroad
Free - For DBM Clients and Limited guests
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Evening presentation, Time DBA
Jewish Family Service
5402 Arapaho Road at Montfort
Free - Open to the public, Limited Seating
by Mitch Byers :: Sunday, August 24, 2008 :: posted in News & Events
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.by Mitch Byers :: Thursday, July 24, 2008 :: 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.[More…]
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…]by Mitch Byers :: Monday, May 19, 2008 :: 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 [More…]by Mitch Byers :: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 :: posted in News & Events
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."by Mitch Byers :: Thursday, June 8, 2006 :: posted in News & Events
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!by Mitch Byers :: Thursday, June 8, 2006 :: 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: [More…]
by Mitch Byers :: Saturday, May 13, 2006 :: posted in News & Events
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.