Career search and placement dynamo, Dianne Gubin, known in Southern California professional circles as “The Suze Orman” of executive search, opens her uniquely successful, one-on-one interactive job search workshop, “The Job Hunting Game” to the general public for the first time.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 4, 2006 -- Few things rate higher on the “stressometer” in today’s competitive professional world than finding and winning a good job. Anyone who can search Google knows that there are umpteen career coaches and books purporting to teach the skills necessary to be hired among a sea of skilled job searchers. But books can’t offer personal feedback and good, respected career coaches (who normally have a waiting list and work with top tier executives) charge hefty fees. Most job-seekers need more help and can afford less.
Gubin, President of TechExecPartners, Inc., is a 15-year veteran of the executive search wars and she has seen the career industry from every possible angle. After searching for, coaching and placing countless top level executives for Fortune 2000 companies across the U.S., she has become a walking encyclopedic reference for the do’s and don’ts of getting noticed and getting hired.
Realizing that, in an increasingly competitive employment market, many more people could benefit from access to personal feedback and role-playing, Gubin created, “The Job Hunting Game — Learning to Play by the Rules,” the first interactive workshop of its kind. She explained, “So many people have the skills and desire to work in their chosen professions, but so few can objectively see how they present themselves both in their resumes and in person.
“The feedback I get from corporate clients — HR departments and managers — on why they have disqualified a candidate can be surprising, when we have carefully screened the candidate’s qualifications. They could have been put off by something as simple as lack of eye contact or a candidate who put her purse on the interviewer’s desk. Hard to believe, in our sophisticated age, that a job seeker wouldn’t know these things, but these are some of the popular reasons a person doesn’t make it to the second interview.”
One of the invaluable role-playing exercises in Gubin’s workshops is networking practice. Having run the most successful chapter of WITI/Women in Technology International for more than five years, few people know more on this subject of professional schmoozing. “You have to know your industry and know the companies you are approaching. If you know someone who can “walk” you into the job, that gives you a step up. Obviously in L.A., no matter what industry you work with, the entertainment business can play an important role in your networking. When I headed our chapter, bi-monthly WITI/LA meetings, which were often hosted on studio lots, routinely welcomed 500 attendees from a broad professional spectrum. Contacts made at networking events can be the key to your next job, but you have to know how to find the right events and what to do when you get there to be recognized as a valuable contact.”
If you’ve been job hunting or plan to in the near future, and think you’ve heard it all, think again. This is not your grandmother’s career workshop. Though Gubin stresses that the evening is definitely fun-filled and no participant will feel uncomfortable or embarrassed, she is a firm believer in the “take-no-prisoners” theory of learning by experience. “We purposely keep the workshop small – between 20 and 40 people, so that each person gets time on the ‘Job Hunting 20-Questions Hot Seat’. I like to roam the audience putting people on the spot, with subjects like current resume format (participants bring a resume to be critiqued), cold-calling techniques, how they network and with whom, as well as pointing out how they sit and present themselves to the group.”
Helping others get the job offer is not the only experience Gubin brings to the meeting room. “I’ve learned from every career move I’ve made, starting with corporate sales in New York and moving on to my first job in Executive Search after moving to LA. I absolutely know what it feels like to not get the job, but I have to admit, I never let a lesson go unlearned. As our ‘Job Hunting Game Workbook’ says, ‘You will leave knowing success is a learned skill, and that it is in your hands.’”
“The Job Hunting Game — Learning to Play by the Rules”
Monday, March 20, 2006, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m., Marriott Hotel, Woodland Hills. Registration: 818-222-0300
Contact:
Jeanne Feder
JFP Communications
310-498-5571
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