Reinvent Your Job Search

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Reinvent Your Job Search
Welcome to the first DIGIMENTORS learning event:

REINVENT YOUR JOB SEARCH:
TIPS FOR FINDING AND LANDING YOUR NEXT GIG


DURING THIS TWO HOUR WORKSHOP YOU WILL MEET:
  • Career and communications specialists who can help you take your job search to the next level
DURING THIS TWO HOUR WORKSHOP YOU WILL LEARN
  • New strategies to make your job application pop
  • Ways to make your story unique
  • Recommendations for coping with a job search in the time of COVID-19
  • Secrets for finding the best listings . . . 
  • And other tactics that will get results 
AFTER THIS TWO HOUR WORKSHOP YOU WILL RECEIVE
  • An exclusive, specially curated list of 100 jobs from career specialist Marc Oppenheim, @MEOjobs
  • A Digimentors career tip sheet for easy referral
AND THERE'S EVEN MORE! 
  • You will become part of a private career-focused community in a closed Facebook group.
  • Meet people with whom you can share your experience.
  • Join the conversation and ask for advice.
  • This Facebook group will be open to attendees 24/7.
All ticket holders who attend in real-time can ask questions during the workshop via Facebook Live.
People who purchase their tickets at least 5 days before the event will be able to post questions to the Facebook group before the workshop. 

Ticket holders who cannot attend in real time can enjoy all the benefits of group membership plus the exclusive extras — and have access-on-demand to a recording of the workshop.


SPEAKERS:

Marc E. Oppenheim, Founder & Editor, MEOjobs (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcoppenheim/)

Lutisha S. Vickerie, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Academic Director, Center for Entrepreneurship, Hofstra University (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lutisha-s-vickerie-453b1841/)

Brittany Forgione, Director, Global Communications, Verizon Media (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanyforgione/)

Shasta Gomez, Director, Talent Strategy & Recruitment, Spectrum Networks (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sgomez5/)

 


HOST: 

Sree Sreenivasan, Digimentors Co-Founder and CEO (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sreenivasan/). 


TICKETS:

Price for general admission: $10
Watch on October 2, 2020, at 3-5 p.m. ET in the exclusive Facebook Group. (You will receive an invite to join.)
And in case you missed anything important —
Watch again anytime you want!
If you can't be there live, come virtually later on.

Your ticket can be uses after the initial presentation, and over and over again.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: After purchasing your ticket, you will be invited to the private Facebook group.

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About Sree Sreenivasan

Sree Sreenivasan is the inaugural Marshall Loeb Visiting Professor of Digital Innovation at Stony Brook University's School of Journalism. Sree is a leading social and digital media consultant and trainer, working with nonprofits, startups, companies and executives around the world. He has served as Chief Digital Officer of New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University (where he was a full-time professor of journalism for 20+ years). He has also been a paid on-air tech expert for the three largest news stations in NYC. He taught a course on entrepreneurship at Columbia for four years with Ken Lerer, the co-founder of Huffington Post, chairman of BuzzFeed and co-founder of venture firm Lerer Hippeau.



About Marc E. Oppenheim

Marc E. Oppenheim is the founder and editor of the job-search resource MEOjobs, an independent website that aggregates career opportunities in media and communications. During the day, he is Dean of Hofstra University's Center for University Advising, which provides strategic leadership, program development, and administration of a comprehensive general advising center serving undergraduate and pre-professional students. Dean Oppenheim is also an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Writing Studies and Rhetoric at Hofstra University.



About Brittany Forgione

Brittany Forgione is Director of Global Communications at Verizon Media, where she's responsible for the development and execution of public relations and strategic communications plans for innovative product launches, platforms and live events across entertainment, sports and tech properties within the company's portfolio, which include: Yahoo, HuffPost, RYOT, MAKERS, TechCrunch and Engadget,among others. Most recently, she led PR and marketing efforts at The Paley Center for Media, after holding communications roles at Conde Nast's woman's active lifestyle brand SELF, PR agency Nicholas & Lence Communications, Emmy-winning morning television show "LIVE! with Regis and Kelly" and Sony Music Entertainment. She graduated in 2008 with a B.A. in Audio/Radio Broadcasting from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.


About Shasta Gomez

Shasta Gomez is the Director of Talent Strategy & Recruitment for Spectrum Networks. As a Senior Recruiter and Talent Program Manager, she built both her expertise and the company’s cachet by identifying opportunities to implement creative sourcing strategy, invigorating the pipeline and revamping recruiting plans. She now leads a nationwide effort to identify and acquire world-class talent, providing guidance and support to a team of talented recruitment specialists who support over 30 local news and regional sports networks in 12 states around the country. Shasta attended Angelo State University where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Marketing and has received a Professional Certification in Human Resources.

 

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