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REGISTER FOR CAREERCAMPSCV 2012 TODAY TO INSURE YOUR SPOT!

Our third CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) is happening on July 14th, 2012 and tickets are available starting today. We hope to see you there!

Unemployed? Underemployed? New college graduate? Considering new career options?

Join us for CareerCampSCV 2012!

When: Saturday, July 14, 2012 9AM to 3:30PM

Where: 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road Santa Clarita, CA 91355

FREE Admission • FREE Parking

Directions

College of the Canyons Career Center presents CareerCampSCV, a FREE hybrid conference/unconference dedicated to helping you build the career you deserve. The day will include scheduled speakers, ad hoc presentations and breakout ses- sions on all aspects of building your career. CareerCamp is FREE for all adults who want to build or improve their career. Space is Limited. Register for FREE today. For more information, a list of scheduled speakers and additional career content

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Showing people “what you do and how well you do it” is an important part of every career. You need to be visible so that people can seek you out for opportunities instead of always feeling you have to go begging for a job.

Visibility and Your Career was presented at LaidOffCampLA on May 1, 2009.

If you do not see the video above, please watch “Visibility and Your Career from LaidOffCampLA” on YouTube.

Come Celebrate!

Goodwill Southern California

Veterans’ Employment Program

1 Year Anniversary

and

Job Fair

Tuesday, April 17th

9am-11:00am

Goodwill Southern California

342 San Fernando Road

Los Angeles, CA 90031

All Veterans Welcome

RSVP Required: Yvette Cowans, USN (Ret.) ycowans@goodwillsocal.org

Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.

For more information, call (323) 539-2000. Goodwill Southern California provides, upon request, reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities.

The TTY/TTD phone number is (323) 539-2057 Please contact our staff 72 hours in advance. – Equal Opportunity Employer/Program

Thanks to @ilovegarick, I checked into this evening’s #TChat – “At the intersection of talent and culture”, as it says on their web page. There was lots of talk about communities of all sorts, but especially about talent communities — people of similar talents, jobs, work gathering together for mutual benefit. Here are a few things I had to say during the chat.

If you want to join in on the #TChat fun, it happens each Wednesday night at 7pm EDT/4 pm PST. You can use your own Twitter client or the TweetChat.com service to aid you in your participation.

Tonight’s topic was Talent Communities. I must admit, the term wasn’t familiar to me. Before the chat I headed over to Wikipedia for more information.

Link: Talent Community from Wikipedia.com

• As much as we might like to have “terms” we can hang our hats on, I wouldn’t get so tied up in the terminology.
• Communities require that you join them, not be a member by default. You have to engage.
• Sometimes your community isn’t enough. You need to go out and join the communities that have the people you are seeking to recruit
• i.e. If you are recruiting programmers, you better be on the programmer’s forums. That is where the talented people often are
• Important to remember too that you are never just a member of one community. We all have multiples in our lives and work
• For people, a community is yet another place to show people “what you do and how well you do it” which is so needed for all workers
• In some ways, you entire life is your community. Just as likely to meet candidates at Starbucks as in an office or job fair
• You need to be aware of talent no matter what you are or what you are doing. Your next placement could come from a fellow gym member
• The best communities are already, by default, showing you who has the best “chops/skills/energy” You just need to listen to them.
• Finding talent should be integrated into you life. Something you always do. Not limited to specific situations, times, communities
• You need to be careful that you don’t create too many “silos” in your life, all compartmentalized. Let things blend and bleed together
• I like to think I have one community — mine, but it has a lot of different neighborhoods, each with their own character
• I’ve never been able to draw lines between personal and professional life. They mush together waaaay to much for that. I am me, period
• So here is the rub, though. I don’t think you can form a talent community from the outside, I think those with the skills do it together
• As a recruiter, I think you need to be more focused on finding useful communities than trying to create/recreate your own
• You can’t force people to interact. That is for sure. It has to come naturally. They have to have something interesting to say.
• You create your own personal community every day. Bring in those people who are interesting/useful to you and enjoy.
• I would say that the manufacturing of a community can be very low key, though. Hey, come over to #tchat tonight and let’s talk for example. Give them a place to gather.
• Your communities are a collection of overlapping and intersecting bubbles. They all effect each other as you bring info from 1 to other
• I think I have come around to the fact that we should be joining other communities, not trying to create our own world. Go find them.
• Go where people are already discussing their work – telling others “what they do and how well they do it” Why need our own – Is it control?
• Smart folks treat every job as freelance/contract and shouldn’t stop networking, etc. More people need to do that.
• Companies can use Talent Communities to develop collection of talented people they can turn to when in need. Need a programmer? Here are 30+ to choose from.
• Companies shouldn’t wait for great candidates to send in a resume from an ad. They should be building a list continuously.
• There is never really a lack of talent. More likely the company doesn’t know where talent is. Needs to go find it.
• Major reason companies need to be reaching out/cultivating communities more, in fact

I have been invited by the folks at Sideskills.com to be part of their booth at the 17th Annual Community Job Fair sponsored by the LA Dodgers.

I will be doing career consulting for the people who stop by the booth as well as chatting up CareerCampLA which is only 6 weeks away. If you attend the event, stop by and say Hello!

(Watch for an announcement soon on some more career consulting work I will be doing for Sideskills.com, too)

Click picture for complete information on the job fair

Sideskills.com

“SideSkills is the one-stop-shop to find a full-time, part-time, or contract job, or make extra income. Market yourself, your services, or your products. Now over 1,000 skills to choose from.

Welcome to the easiest way to make extra money, received custom offers, and monetize your skills. No-fees for accepting payments through the site! It’s time to start making some extra income with your talents.”

We have just finalized the date and location for CareerCampLA 2012 — our 3rd CareerCamp for LA and out 6th CareerCamp overall.

CareerCampLA 2012

Friday, April 20, 2012

9am – Noon

Los Angeles Southwest College
1600 West Imperial Hwy
Los Angeles, CA 90044

Register Now!

SAVE THE DATE!

CareerCampSFV 2012

Saturday, October 13, 2012 9a-3p

Congregational Church of Northridge
9659 Balboa Blvd, Northridge, CA

Due to personal family issues with the scheduled speaker, I will be speaking at this weeks’s Tuesday’s with Transitioners meeting on the topic of “A Year of Action!”.

Action — any action — can help us to get our careers and lives moving forward. Douglas presents a few “action items” you might want to explore or use as jumpstart points for your own ideas.

Learn how action benefits you no matter what your job, current job status or career!

Please share this event with anyone you know who might be interested. All are welcome!

RSVP via Facebook

What: Douglas speaks on “A Year of Action” at Tuesdays with Transitioners

When: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 – Noon-2pm

Where: Congregational Church of Northridge, 9659 Balboa Blvd, Northridge, CA 91325-1902

CareerCampLA 2012 is in the planning stages.

For more information, visit the CareerCamp blogs CareerCampLA or CareerCamp International.

Are you interested in helping us organize CareerCampLA, speaking or attending? Watch these blogs for further information.

Join us for our next career unconference and Build the Career the You Deserve!