Own Your Career with Rod Colon

Own Your Career Segment Guide: 9:00PM: 5 Steps to Use When Experiencing Re-Entry Anxiety (Host: Elena Zaklis)9:15PM: I've Been Furloughed ... Now What? (Host: Rod Colon)9:30PM: Canceled Your Vacation Plans :-) Tips on Developing a Plan B (Host: Wanda Sharif-Rodriguez) Hosts: Rodrigo “Rod” Colon:  Motivational Speaker, Career Strategist, Diversity and Inclusion Specialist and Master NetworkerWanda Sharif-Rodriguez: Research ScientistElena M Zaklis BCBA, LBA: Board Certified Behavioral Analyst *** All times Eastern Time Zone ***

Author of "Need a New Job? START HERE!", by Bob Hoberman is Rod's Guest this evening ... In a long and varied career, Bob's retained executive search placements have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of new revenues to property & casualty, financial services, real estate and not-for-profit companies. He helped establish two entrepreneurial firms. One offered multinational, multicultural leadership and communication training. The other helped military veterans transition to relevant civilian jobs. He also led a federal program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology recruiting, training, counseling and placing veterans and displaced IT professionals. A graduate of Defense Department and U.S. Army Intelligence Schools, Bob was an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency and the U.S. Army Reserve. He is a Journalism graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University with an Executive MBA in Management from Pace University.  He has written for nearly all types of print and online media and has authored three books. He has spoken at local, regional and national conferences.  Bob's professional services to companies and individuals include outplacement counseling and talent management strategies, and research-based job searches. His writing services include articles, proposals, reports, white papers, sales materials and books.  "Need a New Job? START HERE!", published in August by Amazon, reflects career-long insights, observations and advice. 

Tonight on Own Your Career Radio (9pm ET) Topic “The Three Phases of the In-Person Interview” Listen-In at www.BlogTalkRadio.com/OwnYourCareer Call-In at 347-857-3320       Own Your Career and Keep Networking alive, Rod Colón

Our Guest: Dr. Mary Bemker is a recognized scholar and practitioner, a dynamic and forward – thinking nurse educator/administrator, and an individual with a deep commitment to nursing and mental health. She taught in various learning environments, and her evaluations from students and administrators have been exemplary. As an administrator, Dr. Bemker oversaw the development and operation of RN to BSN, MSN and DNP programs, growing these programs from a startup of seven students to over 1000 within a three year period. She led the effort to get all three programs CCNE accredited within a two year span, which was accomplished. In addition, Dr. Bemker was a part of three additional, successful accreditation efforts. Over the last five years, Dr. Bemker concentrated on academic leadership in such roles as coordinator, chair and director where she oversaw 25+ faculty. She served as a nurse leader in a joint effort between her organization and a national nursing association/webinars, oversaw recruiting and addressed community in the online environment. In addition to publishing/editing articles and presenting in multiple platforms, Dr. Bemker is currently under contract to edit a nursing text and write chapters for DNP texts -scheduled release date of 2016.   

Guest Jesus Rivera: Jesús is an accomplished business professional with extensive high-level experience in drug development as well as financial services with a focus on how to gain an edge by learning and developing faster than the competition. He has worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies and has developed and delivered hundreds of workshops and online courses on a wide range of topics and skills. His passion is developing and growing individuals and teams towards achieving "epic” goals by changing the stories that they tell about themselves and others. 

9:00 PM:      How to Best Leverage an Agency Recruiter: John Cronin started his recruiting career in 1987. Since that time he and has been involved with placing over 800 people in positions within the Auditing profession. The industry has changed dramatically over the last two plus decades. And it's an ever changing landscape. Candidates have much more control over their careers  these days. This can create its own challenges, for the candidates and the recruiters they are working with. Businesses have changed the way they find people and interact or not interact with outside agencies. There is no doubt the years that follow will bring even greater changes to the relationship with outside recruiters and candidates looking for new opportunities. 9:45 PM:      Navigating the Corporate Highway of Success with Wanda Sharif-Rodriguez 9:55 PM:      Personal Branding Segment with Chip Hartman

When asked about my salary requirements, I never know what to say. If I say a low figure, they have no reason to offer more money. If I give a figure that’s too high, they may disregard me as a candidate. What’s the right response? In this episode of Own Your Career, Rod tackles the question that seems to create great anxiety - The COMPENSATION question. Own Your Career host Rod Colón has a unique perspective on what it takes to succeed in today's global economy.  Rod shares his 25 years of experience as a corporate HR management insider, outside agency recruiter, professional networker and career coach through an unusual yet common sense approach to networking and career management.  His in-depth knowledge of international staffing, recruiting and networking gives Rod a unique ability to both coach and consult today’s professionals and executives around the world.

  Eric Di Monte is a Senior Corporate Recruiter and is a Talent Acquisition Manager at Univision within their HR organization. He has over 15 years’ experience in the recruitment field where he has worked on both corporate and agency environments focusing on technology and management placements. Prior to joining Univision, Eric worked for companies such as Verizon, PR Newswire, McGraw-Hill, and Gartner. Topics Being Discussed: Value PropositionEmployee ReferralsLeveraging Internal AdvocatesCold Calling Corporate Recruiters  

Your elevator pitch is great for networking. Many formal networking organizations limit members to 60-second presentations. It also works in social situations when you’re asked the usual icebreaker, “What do you do?” Tonight Rod takes you through his 5 point elevator pitch packet that is flexible enough to use in any situation.  An elevator pitch, elevator speech, or elevator statement is a short summary used to quickly and simply define a person, profession or service and its value proposition. The name "elevator pitch" reflects the idea that it should be possible to deliver the summary in the time span of an elevator ride, or approximately thirty seconds to two minutes.

Kelley Cornish will be Rod's guest on Own Your Career to discuss her new book, "It's Work! How Will You Show Up? Kelley Cornish: Author, HR expert, speaker, mother, confidante, mentor/mentee matchmaker, career advisor, panel of one — and so much more, too. A driven, experienced and successful HR leader with a proven track record working at some of the biggest names in healthcare across the country, Kelley’s had a career for the books. In fact, it is a book! "It's Work! How Will You Show Up?" (Amazon, iTunes, e-book) Kelley’s mission? To help you make the most of your career by sharing her personal and professional experiences, tried-and-true tips and expert opinions.   See you on the radio …

On this episode of Own Your Career, learn how successful leaders in all fields, from business to entertainment, consistently use the nine success strategies to achieve their career goals. These strategies focus on positive attitudes and actions. Throughout the world, Olympic sports psychologists coach competitors to achieve maximum performance by learning and applying these strategies. As the CEO of your career learn the nine strategies for your career success and make sure to pass it on to your Board of Directors (family)!

Persuasively discussing your strengths and how they can benefit the employer requires some preparation. Find out how to best deliver responses/answers that work best for business owners and will work great for you as the CEO of Me, Inc. On this episode of Own Your Career, Rod will address and answer difficult interview questions from the CEO of Me, Inc. perspective. You don’t want to miss this episode.   

Dr. Mary Bemker in her return appearance on "Own Your Career" tackles the topic of Social Intelligence. Social intelligence is the capacity to effectively negotiate complex social relationships and environments. Social intelligence, rather than quantitative intelligence defines humans. Social scientist believe social intelligence is an aggregated measure of self- and social-awareness, evolved social beliefs and attitudes, and a capacity and appetite to manage complex social change. "The ability to understand and manage men and women, boys and girls, to act wisely in human relations". It is equivalent to interpersonal intelligence, one of the types of intelligence identified and closely related to theory of mind. Social intelligence is a person’s competence to understand his or her environment optimally and react appropriately for socially successful conduct.

At-will employment is a term used in U.S. labor law for contractual relationships in which an employee can be dismissed by an employer for any reason (that is, without having to establish "just cause" for termination), and without warning. When an employee is acknowledged as being hired "at will", courts deny the employee any claim for loss resulting from the dismissal. The rule is justified by its proponents on the basis that an employee may be similarly entitled to leave his or her job without reason or warning. In contrast, the practice is seen as unjust by those who view the employment relationship as characterized by inequality of bargaining power. Learn how to leverage “At-Will” employment on this episode of Own Your Career.

Quickly researching a company, a department and members of the interviewing team is now a breeze. In this episode of Own Your Career, host Rod Colon will guide the listener in how to best gather quality information needed for the interview. Businesses do it all the time ... it is now time for the CEO of Me, Inc. to step-up and leverage the same techniques.

In this episode of Own Your Career, Rod discusses and answers questions on how to create the demand for the CEO of Me, Inc. in leveraging the "Informational Interview". An Informational Interview is a meeting in which a potential job seeker seeks advice on their career, the industry, and the corporate culture of a potential future workplace; while an employed professional learns about the job seeker and judges their professional potential and fit to the corporate culture, so building their candidate pool for future hires.  In an informational interview, job seekers can be unemployed, or else employed and considering new options. They use the interview to gather information on the field and on specific companies that they might want to work at. They can find employment leads, and expand their professional network. The employed professional from whom the potential candidate seeks advice and information also learns about a new potential colleague or hire and builds their own network through the conversation. This differs from a job interview because the conversation is not about hiring and not about a specific job. The potential candidate asks general questions about the nature of the company or the industry, and the "insider" learns his or her professional character at the same time. The information interview helps overcome a problem with most discussions in a recruiting/job-seeking process, where each side is hesitant to talk to the other because they are uncertain about whether they might be wasting their time with an unqualified candidate or unsuitable workplace. In contrast, "the informational interview provides an non-threatening forum" for discussion as the two sides learn about the other.

Is all stress bad? How do we tell the difference? What is one thing that we can do that will help minimize stress at work and at home? How does an individual's personality play a role in stress management and the jobs that they choose? Find the answers to these questions on this episode of Own Your Career with Rod Colon. Rod's guest Dr. Mary Bemker has been a practitioner and an educator for over 20 years.  During that time, she created and oversaw a counseling and development program for a Fortune 500 company and served as a consultant to businesses  in relation to employee management and productivity.  

Writers Markirah Shaw and Tara Sosa are Rod Colon's guests in this episode of Own Your Career and discuss their project on Harnessing the Power of becoming the CEO of Me, Inc. Today’s professional is faced with a potentially unnerving reality: That 20th century job search techniques are no longer adequate for landing a job. At the turn of the century, the job market was decidedly more straightforward than it is today in 2013. An unemployed individual could submit a crisp, well-formatted resume to an employment agency that would then send it to potential employers who were a good fit. A little over ten years ago, this strategy was sufficient for landing an interview because the demand for jobs was met by a healthy economy.

Mental Toughness is all about improving your mind so that it’s always on your side; not sometimes helping you nor working against you as we all know it’s quite capable of doing. Rod Colon will share in this episode of "Own Your Career" his techniques and tips on develooping the mental toughness within you as the CEO of Me, Inc.

As the CEO of Me, Inc. have a few excellent permanent and contract recruiting agencies in your professional network is important. Learning how to leverage these relationships is critical to running a powerful Me, Inc. enterprises. In this episode of Own Your Career Rod Colon will share his tips on how to identify and leverage agency recruiters. 

In this episode of Own Your Career, Rod will share his insight on the resume / proposal for the CEO of Me, Inc. As the CEO of Me, Inc. (Career Ownership) your resume is a proposal to a client that must impress, not just inform. Think of it as a marketing tool, not a historical record. It is valuable real estate – use it for your most impressive information. If you don’t list any accomplishments in your resume, chances are no one will call you. Visual presentation is an important as, if not more important than, resume content. No one is going to take the time to read a traditional resume that is poorly presented. What is a Resume? A resume is a well written proposal that details your qualifications & results for a particular job or job target. It is shared with the client's portal (blackhole), connectors and advocates.

In this episode of Own Your Career, Rod will address how to best work a Career/Job Fair.  You don't want to miss some of the secrets Rod has picked up over the years, especially the buddy system. The primary reason employers go to community, industry, or school-sponsored career or job fairs is to find new talent, so go; you have to be there to be discovered! Career fairs are good sources of job leads and employer information. They are beneficial to both employers and job seekers, allowing them to explore employment matches in a more relaxed, face-to-face format.

In this episode of "Own Your Career", Rod  will cover How to Master Phone Interview. Here are just a few tips that will be covered in our episode: • Be prepared to take an interview call at any time. Position your resume and "T" Cover Letter where you can refer to them easily. Also, have paper and a pen handy, so you can write down names and information and keep a log of your calls. If you need a moment to collect yourself, politely ask the interviewer to hold for a moment while you move to a quiet location. Eliminate all distractions and background noise. • Focus on why you are interested in working for the prospective employer (on the basis of your research and understanding of the employer’s products or services, current developments, philosophies, and so on).

In this episode of Own Your Career we will look at the Negotiating a Job Offer as the CEO of Me, Inc. ...  Negotiations are unique to each individual and to each individual client engagement. For every negotiation you undertake, maintain a CEO's mind-set with clarity and purpose as your goals.  Ask yourself if this is a short-term gig or a long-term engagement. The answer is directly tied to the financial status of ME, Inc.  Remember that this is a critical matter to your Personal Board of Directors.  Depending on the situation (if you're currently unemployed your compensation is zero) you may have to settle for a client on a short-term basis while you continue to look for better, mid- and long-term opportunities.

Small Talk:  Getting to Know You  It all starts with the “small talk," the key to making those first connections! In this segment of "Own Your Career with Rod Colon", Rod will share with you his techniques to the What, Why and How to Small Talk. It’s surprising to discover how many people consider “small talk” irrelevant to networking.  I couldn’t disagree more.  When I think back on all my first-time encounters, not one of them would have been initiated without the use of small talk. The bottom line is there's nothing small about it. As the owner of your career, the CEO of Me, Inc. needs to understand the value of small talk.  Although that may not sound like a spectacular achievement on its own, the art of small talk determines how well you will form connections — and the relationships that result from them!  

There are many formats to choose from when drafting a cover letter.  Many people prefer a straightforward, paragraph based cover letter simply because they’re comfortable with it or possibly because they haven’t heard of other, possibly better formats. The T–Letter One style in particular that we in the ETP Network find exceptionally beneficial is the T–Letter. The express purpose of a T–Letter is to demonstrate — with strong visual impact — exactly why you are uniquely qualified for the position you seek.  If you’ve done your homework well and selected a position for which you are a dead–on match, a T–Letter gives you the chance to lay out your case for the job “point by point” using a chart in the middle of the letter. The chart compares each core requirement for the job on the left with a corresponding “qualification bullet” on the right demonstrating how you have proven experience for that requirement.  

This segment of Own Your Career will cover the Secrets to the Hidden Job Market. The Hidden Job Market is the name given to all the opportunities out there that are unadvertised, either because a company wants to find candidates through its employees' networks or because no such position currently exists. You must depend on your own ingenuity to identify potential opportunities at an intriguing company, do your homework to determine what that company truly needs, then figure out how to create an attractive, value-added position.  Finally, you need to “sell the concept.” Join Rod Colon in this segment of Own Your Career ...

This segment of Own Your Career will cover my 7-Step Job Search Methodology.   It is a procedure that’s been tweaked to near-perfection over the past five years but will undoubtedly be tweaked many more times whenever improvements are discovered, tested, and evaluated. As you step yourself through this process, we'll take the networking skills you learned, the powerful CEO mind set, and the magnetic attraction of your value proposition and weld them together for maximum impact.  To do this, your CEO business brain must think in four dimensions, i.e., remember that each component (networking, CEO mind-set, value proposition, and methodology) becomes supercharged when combined with the other three but has ample horsepower to stand on its own when the situation calls for it. This will be challenging work and at times you may become frustrated.  But the payoff is substantial:  You will cut yourself free from the grip of The Black Hole.  Instead of being dependent on people who don’t  know you to advance your career goals, you will learn to network your way to an interview, job or contract by leveraging the power of advocates — people who not only know you, but like you, trust you and will gladly help you to “connect the dots.”

Your brand is your personal identity. It's what people remember about you when they can't see you.  What's included in your brand?  For starters, there’s depth of knowledge, range of skills, willingness to make contributions, effective communication style, engaging personality, and physical appearance.  You can also positively brand yourself by focusing on quality, adding value, being punctual and providing quick turnaround time. To establish your personal brand and make it stick, you need to be both visible and memorable.  Your words must pack a punch.  Here are some strategies: ·         Emphasize benefits, not features ·         Be clear and concise ·         Be unique ·         Show your personality ·         Be consistent and persistent   Host: Rod Colon

Rod Colon shares the secrets learned in his 30 years as a Corporate HR Manager, Agency Recruiter, Master Networker, Motivational Speaker, Career Coach and Entrepreneur. From his extensive multi-faceted experience he has developed a unique methodology already used by thousands - to lands job and manage their careers  through managing one's career as a business, the CEO of Me. Inc. Tap the power of advocates to reach key decision-makers Explore the exciting opportunities of The Hidden Job Market Let your personal brand shine through using social media Learn a job search methodology that gets you an interview