On-Demand Podcast | Career Day

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This event was originally presented live at NYSSA on, July 14 , 2010. Presentations during the event were recorded and are available below as a service to NYSSA members and the investment community.

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Career Strategies for Seasoned Executives™
Learn:

• How to develop current and alternative career paths that further growth opportunities
• How to avoid or extricate yourself from traps such as a landlocked position, obsolete skills, and being overqualified for a position
• Seeing what’s next if you’re at the apex
• Best practices for looking internally/externally for the next opportunity and working with recruiters
• Making sure the next job fits: compensation and other important job changing conversations
• How to address transferable skill sets
  

Career Strategies for the Unemployed, Underemployed, and Those Changing Careers™
Learn:

• Best practices in defining the scope of the career or job search
• How to develop leads
• How to get an interview
• How to avoid interview pitfalls like employment gaps, job hopping, and other special situations
• How to have conversations about compensation
• What to do if offered the less than an ideal job or how to move your career forward if one already works in a less than ideal position
  

Career Strategies for Employed Career Climbers™
Learn:

• How to develop current career paths to further growth opportunities
• How to avoid/extricate yourself from traps such as political land mines, expropriation of your successes, and "too good to promote"
• Addressing "specialist" vs. "generalist": What is the best mixture?
• How to turbo-charge your advancement
• Best practices for looking internally/externally for the next opportunity and working with recruiters
• How to make sure the next job delivers: Compensation and other important job changing conversations

Kathleen A. Graham, principal of HQ Search and HQ Seminars, has been reading and rewriting resumes for over 15 years as an executive search recruiter. Now as a career strategist, she writes financial books and articles, conducts compensation studies, and delivers seminars on improving human capital performance in the financial services field. A frequently requested speaker, she has presented to the CFA Society of Chicago, the Boston Security Analyst Society, and the CFA Society of Washington, D.C.  She has an MBA in finance, analytic finance, and econometrics and statistics from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.