Hopkinton Networkers Group (HNG) Oct 21 meeting will feature "The Job Ready List" with Hari Narayanan

Hello Everyone, 

The agenda for this Friday's Hopkinton Networkers Group (HNG) meeting will be featured by our speaker, Hari Narayanan. The facilitator for this week will be Jim Lane. We will devote the first hour, from 10 to 11 AM to the following agenda: Welcome, Landings, Announcements, New Member Intros, and Needs & Leads. Please arrive early, so we can make every effort to start on time. In the second hour, strating at 11AM, Hari will speak about "The Job Ready List” and have dialog and answer our questions.

Speaker Topic: “The Job Ready List” 

With the rush to land the right job, we at times fail or become disorganized in being truly “job ready”. Hari is an expert at coaching and teaching how to be “job ready”. 
In this workshop, you will learn or just be “refreshed” on goal setting, all your KSA’s, finding the right job, re-identifying your own skills, being aware of key or winning words, talk about effective resumes and cover letters, your networking, your elevator speech, right ways to interview and how thank you letters can be effective.

 
About Hari Narayanan 

Hari is the Career Coach and Business Service representative at the Milford, MA Workforce Central Career Center. Born in India, has a graduate degree in chemical engineering from Clarkson University NY. Worked in Polaroid for 16 years spanning R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, Customer focused product research & development until the company closed. Moved on to the other end of the spectrum to work with a private marketing company to create and establish eleven international markets for basic commodities companies. Moved on to work with a German Instrumentation company to expand their market in North America. Got laid off, again which gave him the motivation to start his own company while searching for his next career move. He is now working in Business Services for the State of Mass in the Division of Career Services. Married with two children in High School. 

 
Schedule for HNG Meetings:

 
October 7, 2011 Joellyn Schwerdlin "Network Your Way Into a Hidden Job Market" 
October 21, 2011 Hari Narayanan "Check List for Being JOB READY" 
November 4, 2011 Anne Crawford "Is Your Elevator Speech Getting You to the Next Level" 
November 18, 2011 
December 2, 2011 
December 16, 2011 
*** HAPPY NEW YEAR **** 
January 20, 2012 Clare Harlow " People Reading with DiSC" 

 
General Information: 
The networking group meets in Hopkinton, at St. John the Evangelist Church parish hall. The meeting occurs, from 10 to 12 noon, and will meet the first and third Friday of the month. The parish hall has a capacity for 250 people and there is plenty of parking spaces in the parking lot and on the street. Around the perimeter of the parish hall are rooms to allow us to have focused network groups or for any other purpose we need. We chose the first and third Friday to allow everyone to attend the Acton Networking Group or any other networking group, if they wanted, on the Friday we do not meet. 

We will maintain our close affiliation with Acton Networkers by using the same list-server to share information between the groups. Any e-mails specific to the Hopkinton Networking Group (HNG) will be indicated in the subject line either by "Hopkinton Networking Group" or "HNG"; this way anyone attending these meetings will know the e-mail is intended for them. 

We will follow the following Agenda items: 
Welcome 
Landings (with doughnuts) 
Announcements 
New member introductions 
Needs and Leads 
Speaker(s), Workshop, or Focus Group 
Cleanup 
For those new members who give their introductions, this is what we would like to know: 
Name 
Skills and Value Statement 
Where have you been? 
Where are you going? 
Your title 
Your target companies 
Geography of search 
Name and e-mail address 
If anyone wants to join our team, please let one of us know; we could always use the extra help and input for ideas. 

 
Directions: 
Take Rt. 495 North/South and get off Exit 21A. Go through three traffic lights. Colella's Supermarket is on the right at the third traffic light. The first street after the third traffic light is Church Street, take a right turn. The church is on the right. Go around to the left of the parking lot and go into the side entrance of the parish hall. 
Depending upon where you live, perhaps you may want to use Mapquest for a more direct route. The address of the church is: 
St. John the Evangelist 
20 Church Street 
Hopkinton, MA 01748 

 
Regards, 
Hopkinton Networkers Group (HNG) Coordinators: 
Jim Lane JDlane58@hotmail.com
Sandra Cipriani sandraopps@comcast.net 
Steven Hakar hakar4@hotmail.comm 
Gil Krispien g.krispien@verizon.net 
Sandra Lowther sandy_lowther@charter.net 
Barbara McKee barb6635@comcast.net 
Ralph Sabatino ralphsabatino@ymail.com 
Salpi Sarafian ssarafian@rcn.com 
Marilyn Johnson

 
Employed:
Daren Canfield (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now) 
Patricia Centola (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now) 
Marjorie Cernigliaro (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now) 
Andrea Haber (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now) 
Christine Hurley (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now) 
Marilyn Johnson (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now) 
William Lam (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; he is employed now) 
Madeliene Moore (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now) 
Laura Nelson (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now) 
Del Richmond (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; he is employed now) 
Diane Shelley (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now) 
Steve Sherlock (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; he is employed now) 
Nancy Spadorcia (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now) 
Jack Speranza (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; he is employed now) 
Mario Tardif (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; he is employed now) 
Qing Ye (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now) 
Denise Zazzera (HNG Coordinator Emeritus; she is employed now) 

See you, Friday, October 21, 2001 to network, introduce new members, check for opportunities and participate in Hari's “Job Ready” workshop.

Thanks,
Jim Lane