Title of Presentation: 5 Steps to Hidden Opportunities - Organizing Your Search

Understanding how to find the Hidden Jobs that are a perfect fit for you is part science and part artfully “winging it”. Director and above searches are quite different from management searches. To start they have little to do with resumes and LinkedIn profiles. This interactive discussion will give you a step by step approach to organizing your search to cut the typical time from “looking to landed“ down to under 90 days. Industry standards from Lee Hecht and other outplacement firm stats is 6 to 12 months. That’s a saving of lost income of $75-125k based on your income. Let’s get to work!

Learning Objectives:

• Setting Your North Star Objectives
• Crafting a Personal Brand
• Getting Impactful Introductions
• Targeting the Influencers
• Sustaining your Strategy for Inbound Opportunities

Speakers Bio:
Recovering Engineer, digital marketing tech leader, serial entrepreneur known for crafting a Personal Branding platform that connects business leaders to their Top 100 influencers for mission driven opportunities.
Patrice Barber is CEO of Career Con-X, a SaaS startup delivering a Personal Branding Platform with a contact management app, personal branding services, and an accelerator program designed for Professional Service Executives looking to increase their inbound relationship based opportunities to 4 per week and Execs seeking mission driven opportunities as part of a transition.
Over 25 years’ experience in both corporate leadership for teams from 3 to 300 and building multiple startups with clients spanning five countries. Successfully sold three firms with one generating over $5M in gross revenue in 18 months. Keynote presenter, frequently sharing proven strategies and cutting-edge tactics for digital marketing, CRM implementations, entrepreneurship, and personal branding with people all over the world.
Board Chair for TiE Denver, Pitch coach and mentor for TechStars, Rockies Venture Club, Clean Tech Open State Director. Guest lecturer at Regis and Denver University’s MBA programs. Developed the entrepreneurship program selected by the U.S. government for the Transition Assistance Program (TAP) for veterans transitioning into the civilian work force.
I have climbed 10 of the 14ers in Colorado, grew up in 7 countries, enjoy single track biking and secluded beaches with scuba sites nearby to toast the sunset with my family and friends.