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Topic: “Lose the Resume, Land the Job”
Speaker: Bill Proctor, Career and Life Coach. NextStep Career Management
CPE credit: 1.0
Agenda:
- 8:00 am – 8:15 am: Chapter Announcements and Self-Introductions
- 8:15 am – 9:15 am: Speaker's Presentation
- 9:15 am – 9:30 am: Networking
Presentation:
“Lose the Resume, Land the Job” based on the book by Gary Burnison.
Almost everyone gets it wrong. This is how you can get it right. Ability to know and do “Your Act in Action.”
Top 10 things interviewers are looking for:
1. CULTURE FIT: The sense you would work well with others in the company, department or team.
2. MOTIVATION: What drives your need to succeed.
3. SKILLS: Mostly technical skills for junior positions; management and leadership skills for more experienced executives.
4. LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL: How you lead yourself and others; your ability to be groomed for a leadership position one day.
5. COMMUNICATION SKILLS: You are speaking and listening abilities.
6. POISE AND APPEARANCE: How you present yourself; how customers/clients will experience you.
7. PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS: How adept you are at finding a solution by looking beyond the obvious or what is already being done.
8. INTERPERSONAL SKILLS: How you interact with others, how you make them feel.
9. WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILILTY: How you respond when you’re tasked with tying to create the “new and different”, “falling fast” is to be expected.
10. WORKING WELL UNDER PRESSURE: Being able to handle workplace stress without losing your cool.
Interviewers are looking for your ability to be groomed for a leadership position one day.
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Field of Study:
Personal Development
Speaker's bio:
Bill Proctor is a Career & Life Coach to executives, professionals, managers, and their organizations. He successfully equips those in career transition with important skills and perspectives regarding life’s career events. See www.nextcareerstep.com.
Bill earned his undergraduate degree in Physiological Psychology from the University of California, Riverside and also engaged in postgraduate Biblical Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. He and his wife Juanita live in The Woodlands, Texas.