The MIT Sloan Alumni Career Development series is designed to serve our Alumni and those of partner organizations throughout their careers. This event series is produced in collaboration with Keystone Partners.

#1 Enhancing Your Job Search with LinkedIn — April 15, 2009

Description: www.LinkedIn.com is an online social networking community of over 36,000,000 professionals. Learn about the effective utilization of this powerful networking tool and how it can serve your career interests. The fundamentals of establishing a profile on the site and how to build and leverage the resource of your LinkedIn community to achieve your professional goals will be thoroughly explored

This session will be led by Colin Moor, Senior Vice President at Keystone Associates. Colin is a career consultant and coach with more than 20 years of business expertise and career transition, career management and executive coaching experience.

The MIT Sloan Alumni Career Development series is designed to serve our Alumni and those of partner organizations throughout their careers. This event series is produced in collaboration with Keystone Partners.

#2 Career Planning: Who Needs It? — May 12, 2009

Description: With the economic slowdown in 2009 and the prospect for many of changing positions, MIT Sloan Alumni and others are facing the most challenging labor market in decades. Please join us for a terrific panel that will explore the topic of career planning, as applied to their successful careers.

Speakers include:
Elaine Varelas, Keystone Partners, serving as moderator
Stever Robbins, SB ’86, Office of the President, Entrepreneurship Initiatives, Babson College
Trudi Haemmerli, VP, Head of Global Research Operations, Novartis
Eileen Gallagher Glovsky SM ’91, Deputy Treasurer, Commonwealth of MA

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Place: MIT Sloan, E51-335
Registration: CLOSED

#3 Managing Your Career Inside a Company (breakfast meeting) — June 18, 2009

Description: How do you manage your career inside your company in today's changing times? What do you need to know about yourself to be most effective at this? How do you get clear on where you want to go? Join Camden Consulting Senior Partner, Susan Miele in an interactive session to answer these questions and discuss primary drivers for career decisions, personal strengths and development opportunities and gain additional self-awareness to inform career decisions.

Time: 7:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Place: MIT Sloan, E51-145
Registration: CLOSED

#4 Marshall Goldsmith: What Got You Here Won't Get You There — June 23, 2009

Description:Your hard work is paying off, you're doing well in your field. But there is something standing between you and the next level. What's holding you back? Executive coach and best-selling author Marshall Goldsmith provides insights from his newest book, What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful.

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Place: MIT Sloan, E51-345
Registration: CLOSED

#5 Executive Presence — September 16, 2009

Description: Executive presence — What is it? Why is it so important? Why do we hear about it so often? We all seem to know it when we see it, but what exactly is it and how does one develop it? This interactive discussion will give participants the opportunity to explore: what defines executive presence; key components that determine this “elusive” concept; descriptions of the key components; tips to assess your own executive presence and that of others; recruiter survey data and insights.

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Place: MIT Sloan, E51-335
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#6 How to Work a Room — October 14, 2009

Description: We all need to work a room, so learn the role attitude plays in networking; Discover ways to prepare for networking events. Practice techniques to strike up conversations and discover how to remember names. Try out tips to break in and out of conversations in this highly interactive and enjoyable program.

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Place: MIT Sloan, E51-335
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#7 The First 90 Days — November 4, 2009

Description: Long gone are the days when a newly hired executive had time to “assimilate” to the new company. Today, a new hire is expected to hit the ground running and be able to contribute often before the official start date. This session covers the dynamics of ramping up to full effectiveness as quickly as possible.

Time: TBD
Place: TBD
Registration:  To Come