SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 4, 2016

Wednesday, August 10, 2016 -- Career Negotiation Strategies. It pays to be persuasive — especially when it comes to your career. Before your next career move, join General Assembly and The Muse to learn key negotiation strategies you can take to the table with confidence. General Assembly. See https://generalassemb.ly/education/career-negotiation-strategies/los-angeles/27163.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2021

Don’t miss out on what may be the best opportunity you will have in your lifetime for a new career. Get some help from them if you need it. Just remember that problems are really often opportunities in disguise. Start up now. Marty Zwilling.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Wednesday, November 9, 2016 -- USC Veterans Career Fair. Then come to the USC Veterans Career Fair during Veterans Appreciation Week! See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/veterans-career-fair-tickets-28380927117.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Los Angeles-based Fuel50 , a startup developing career management and coaching tools, has raised $2.5M Fuel50's software is used within businesses to help their employees manage their career path. in a Series A funding, according to the company. The funding came from Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Having spent my career on both sides of the fence, I have found some important things that worked for me. A common complaint I hear in my business consulting is that your boss is the problem , and you could fix the business if you only had the opportunity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2020

At some point in your corporate career, you’ve likely had to create and manage a budget for a project, department, or division. These interests could be your ticket to a career of doing something that ignites a fire inside you every day, and makes money, versus a routine that you bores you to death. You’ve had practice managing money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2023

For example, I once had a business associate who loved to help his peers, which is a positive attribute, until he was unable to complete his own commitments on time, and his career was in jeopardy.

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

It is tough to lose your best employees wanting to advance their careers. But sometimes our corporate wants and needs conflict with what is best for an employee and his or her career development. Sometimes you can be the coach, helping them even if it means losing them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

No matter what your role or level as an employee, if you can keep the big picture in perspective, you will do better in your career, get more positive feedback, advance more rapidly, and get the pay raises you desire more often. This disconnect will kill your career. Treat your career like a business model open to pivots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2020

Having worked in my own career on both sides of the fence at various times, I recommend that everyone practice thinking like the boss in every role to prepare. You should be practicing both in every role, and there will be no surprises as your career evolves. You don’t have to be a boss to be a leader or a manager.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 10, 2012

This can be your most valuable career management tool so use it. Your career is best navigated though line managers. This WILL come in handy in your career but you have to manage this cautiously. You won’t really have a mentor unless lightening strikes. Don’t overly rely on HR. What advice do you have for employees?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2019

Image via Flickr by Lyncconf Games Based on my own business experience of many years on both sides of the owner-employee role, I believe that one of the quickest ways to improve your employee career is to think like an owner. For example, Howard Schultz was not the founder of Starbucks, but started his career in one of their first 60 shops.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

If you're an employee in a big company, sometimes it can feel like you're not sure when your career is going. com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Most young people who are completing their educational degree today think they will have learned all they need for their career ahead. I believe these insights can and must be extended to you and your career, in line with the following guiding principles: Make your interest in learning your competitive advantage.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

To help fix that, the startup has created a mobile app to guide people through their strengths, interests, key skills, and more to guide them along the way to a career they'll love. We sat down with Deborah to hear more about the app, why millenials and other youth are having such a hard time figuring out a career, and the company's solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Throughout a career lifetime, just think of the return on that investment. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Touch-Typing for Business. How many hours a day does the average professional and executive today spend hunched over a computer keyboard “hunting and pecking”? Business Dress for Success.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

There is a second set of career discussions I have even more frequently than my “angel yourself” advice but this type is almost never discussed publicly in blogs, which tend to emphasize only billion-dollar opportunities, 20-something technical founders and Silicon Valley elitism. Being a CEO begets the network to be a CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2021

I have always assumed that strong work relationships are the key to productivity, as well as you feeling good and having fun at work.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2017

Thursday, June 15, 2017 -- Tech Ladies LA: Clarify Your Next Career Move. If you are feeling uncertain or stuck, this workshop will help you will clearly define your life and career goals while understanding exactly what's preventing you from hitting your targets. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 26, 2011

Tuesday, February 1, 2011 -- CleanTech Career Night. Cleantech Career Night is a collaboration between Caltech, UCLA, USC, and CleanTech LA with the goal of connecting LA´s brightest business and engineering students with leading clean technology companies. Cleantech LA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2019

Based on my own career with small companies as well as large ones, I assure you that it’s a lot more satisfying for everyone, as well as productive, working in a happy business environment. Yet your creativity in solving customer concerns may have far more potential in boosting your career. Put time in your schedule for improving you.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 21, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011 -- AITP-LA Panel on Career Development. Whats going to matter most in 2011? Knowing what skills are needed to add value to projects  and have management see you as a keeper  is vital in todays IT landscape.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2019

In fact, I found some excellent guidance on how to capitalize on your strengths, as well as areas that you may need to focus, in a new book, “ The Introvert’s Complete Career Guide ,” by Jane Finkle, also one of us, who has been a successful career coach for more than two decades.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 20, 2017

Thursday, January 26, 2017 -- Technology Trends, Fast Growth Areas – How to Leverage Trends for Career Advancement. AITP – Los Angeles Presents: A panel of IT Hiring Professionals will discuss trends they see, and how these affect current and future demand for jobs in the marketplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2013

The days when you locked and loaded your career in school, and then blasted away down that same narrow path the rest of your life, are gone, never to return. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, and grow more in our lives and careers. Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

In working with many entrepreneurs and career professionals over the years, I have collected my own strategies which I offer to all of you as a place to start, and a focus on getting real value for your efforts: You make the first move – don’t wait for someone to pick you.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Online job and career sites still seem to be in another decade, when it comes to both design--and user friendliness. Can a startup gain a foothold in the competitive market by designing the right UX and user experience to make a job and career site for everyone? Los Angeles-based Workpop (www.workpop.com) thinks so.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

To me, that means treating your career more like a business than a job – with a continual and global focus on keeping up with competition, finding customers, preparing for changes ahead, and taking responsibility for your own finances. The simple answer is that we all have to start thinking like entrepreneurs, rather than entitled employees.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 15, 2012

Answer: Now’s the time to lock down a mentor, even if you haven’t locked down your exact major or career goal. More than that, how do you even know that this is the career you want to spend the rest of your working days doing? If you decide that this career is in fact your ideal, then your mentor, in a way, has already vetted you.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Thursday, February 19, 2009 -- Grow Your Career Even In This Economy. Make sure that your career in marketing continues growing ? even when the economy isn't. There are still new opportunities available, even in this challenging business climate.

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Berkonomics

MAY 7, 2011

But sometimes our corporate wants and needs conflict with what is best for an employee and his or her career development. We’d all like to retain our best managers and employees forever or at least for as long as possible.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 26, 2021

Others want to know that they are signing on to a career, not a job, and expect to move up within the ranks or on to a larger company that can accommodate their goals. The average new college graduate today will work thirteen jobs in his or her career, in an average of five different fields. A recent statistic I saw surprised me.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2021

Myers, a noted career coach, and author of the classic book, “ Get The Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring ,” many job seekers and career changers make the mistake of halting all their efforts as summer approaches, believing that nobody will be hiring until early fall. Perform an internal career audit. According to Ford R.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 17, 2011

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 -- In this presentation, Dr. Hanna will discuss the need for test professionals to plan and develop their career through education-based certifications. He will show how to evaluate a certification program and how to get the most out of certifications.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 -- Career Journey to CIO. Our Speaker is Jennifer Sepull, Vice President and Chief Information Officer for American Honda Motor Co., See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2016

Career growth in today’s fast moving environment requires all the skills that we normally ascribe only to entrepreneurs -- ability to adapt, change, be innovative, resilient and stay in constant learning mode. Conforming to the way things have always been done in a company is a career killer as well as a company killer.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 9, 2021

Kristofer Sommestad has worked with freelance creators throughout his career in technology.

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