Get Organized to Get a Job

Our Program

What does your job search paper trail look like? Do you have Post-its curling with age attached to the bottom of the screen on your home computer, lots of unheeded action stars and abandoned names in your daybook, and stacks of business cards sitting on the action shelf in your den? Are you a 20th century job seeker in a 21st century world?

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/9/5/d/0/event_53858352.jpeg Let Jason Alba introduce you to an essential tool for today's job seeker and professional career manager, the Contact Relationship Manager or CRM for short. Jason is the nationally known author of " I'm on LinkedIn, Now What??? " and founder of JibberJobber (http://www.jibberjobber.com/), a CRM.

What does Jason know about the challenges of coordinating the job search process? In 2006 Jason experienced the pain of organizing his own job search and consequently discovered the power of databases to build the capacity to manage the contacts to get jobs.

Jason will tell you the story of his job search and why he created JibberJobber. He will walk you through the concept of CRM, talk about your CRM options, and introduce you to JibberJobber.

When you attend this program, you will find answers to these questions:

Why would you use a CRM? What is the best CRM for you? What will JibberJobber do for you to get a job? And, Jason will answer your questions about LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter during the Q and A that follows his presentation.

Jason is an accomplished knowledge worker adept at managing his own career as envisioned by Peter Drucker in his article titled Managing Oneself (http://files.meetup.com/1406489/ManagingOneselfPeterDrucker.pdf). You can learn a lot by talking with Jason.

Jason Alba in his own words

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/9/1/c/0/event_53857312.jpeg My new career started sometime in 2006. Prior to that I was an IT manager for Varsity Contractors, which did around $200M in revenue cleaning toilets and fixing buildings. I was their first IT Manager, and had a great time while there. That lead me to my next role, which evolved into General Manager of a small IT company, which was a subsidiary of Varsity. I was involved in that subsidiary from the beginning, and found it to be a very important learning experience. All the way up to getting laid off, in January 2006.

I started my first job search then, after having had a few professional roles, and found the job search experience to … suck. I didn’t know what I was doing, but thought I knew what I was doing. My job search was a mess, and I got nowhere (except frustrated). During my job search I realized there was a huge gap in what job seekers had at their fingertips, … there are plenty of job boards (40k+), and plenty of books and articles, but there was not a TOOL to do what we needed to do. JibberJobber is that tool, and you can learn more about it at JibberJobber.com.

I wrote a book, I’m on LinkedIn — Now What??? in September 2007. This book has sold thousands of copies and has been a significant factor in becoming a “professional speaker.” In fact, all of the speaking opportunities I’ve had have been a result of people finding or reading this book. I coauthored I’m on Facebook — Now What??? which came out early 2008, which helped unbrand me as just a LinkedIn or job search expert, and more of a social media/network guy. Of course I speak to job search and networking groups, to unemployed or employed people. I also speak to associations, universities, marketing groups or clubs, etc.

Currently I am working on I’m on Twitter — Now What???, and a few other book projects. While I do spend a lot of time writing (I have 4 blogs that I keep updated), my main role is CEO of JibberJobber.com.

Program Schedule

The doors open at 9:00 a.m. and the program begins at 9:30 a.m. sharp and will run 1.5 hours.

$1.00 donation requested.

Mass Transit/ Parking

Please note that Valencia Gardens' parking is restricted to its residents. Parking within its lot by non-residents will result in your vehicle being towed at your own expense.

The 16th & Mission Street BART stop is two blocks from our location, while the Market & Church Street MUNI stop is four blocks away. Inexpensive parking can be found at the Hoff Street Garage (http://www.yelp.com/biz/hoff-street-garage-san-francisco), 42 Hoff Street, San Francisco.

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