9/9 Evening TLA Meeting

TLA “Evening” Meeting – Thursday, September 9th 6:30 – 9:00pm
College of DuPage 425 Fawell Blvd. Glen Ellyn, IL See directions below
and information on registering at http://www.techleaders.net

AGENDA:
6:30pm – 7:00pm Check-in / Casual networking
7:00pm – 8:00pm Structured Networking – Two Table Rounds
8:00pm – 8:10pm Announcements
8:10pm – 8:55pm Speaker: David C. Krull
Dealing with Project Based Work in an Uncertain Market
8:55pm – 9:00pm Adjourn promptly

Dealing with Project based Work in an Uncertain Market
As the market expands and contracts it’s anything but predictable, especially in the past decade and recently the downturn in 2008 to current uncertain recovery. Whether you’re pursuing a Full Time Job or wanting to engage in opportunities as either a W2 Contractor or 1099 Consultant, you need to know the playing field, your odds and manner you choose to land.

Speaker: David C. Krull
David is a long time TLA Member and Facilitator for the TLA Evening Meetings. He is an accomplished and award winning IT Infrastructure Project Management/Document Management Leader and Process Improvement Specialist. Since the stock market fall of 2000/2002 David has been involved in various W2 and 1099 short and long term engagements. In January 2010, David had given a presentation to over 250 in attendance at Harper College titled “The Life Cycle and Tools of Today’s Job Search” and was the keynote speaker. The guest speaker that shared the stage with David was Illinois Representative Mark Walker, who spoke on the state of the economy and jobs in Illinois.

David will show his progression through the job market and how he landed opportunities. Should you wait for a full time job, or try contracting? Especially if you are not seeing any full time jobs that you may like or be a fit for. David will walk you through some of the commonly used processes and tools, whether you’re a contractor under a (W2) or a consultant under a (1099), or even engaged in a corp to corp. During this presentation he will also provide some free give away MS Excel Workbook/Worksheets to help you through your own job search. Wherever you’re at in your career and job search, these tools and reference materials can help to save you time and aggravation.

Topics covered:
• Choosing to work with staff augmentation companies, or dealing direct with companies
• The life cycle and timing on how select the contract/consulting opportunities that are right for you
• Example time sheets, invoices and other deliverables for you to use on any contracting/consulting engagements
• Which events to attend to learn, speak and network at to stimulate business development for ongoing opportunities
• Considerations for additional streams of income, which shouldn’t conflict with your primary engagement

Check out David’s Social Media Web 2.0 web site that shows places to network at and get information that can help your during and after your search, visit – http://pifnetworkinggroup.ning.comn David is planning on releasing a series of articles; Becoming a Change Agent in a Changing Job Market, The Life of a Contractor-Living on the Edge, Contractors are People too and Ground Hog Day Job Search and will be just some of the articles to start out with, in a new blog he’s planning on releasing.

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Where: College of DuPage – see directions below

Cost: No charge

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Our Host, College of DuPage for hosting us this month and CoD CIO and TLA member Chuck Currier.
TLA Member & Facilitator David Krull for organizing the TLA evening events.

For reservations,
(1) Please sign up online on the TLA website (www.techleaders.net) under ‘Events’ – or,
if you don’t have access to the website,
(2) Please reply to Patrick.Moroney@gmail.com with your name and telephone number.

Reservations must be made before Noon on Thursday, September 9th
with the first 30 reservations accepted. No walk-ins please.
For location information: Contact Jim Anfield at jdanfield@illinoisalumni.org.

2010 TLA Evening Meeting Schedule at College of DuPage
UPDATED DATES!
3rd Thursday of October through December 10/21, 11/18 and 12/16 (New Location on West Campus)
2nd Thursday of the month for 2011 from January to June (Back to OCC 106 room)
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DIRECTIONS:
College of DuPage 425 Fawell Blvd. Glen Ellyn IL 60137 (630) 942-2800)
is located approx 1 mile West of the intersection of I-355 and 56(Butterfield Rd.) in Downers Grove.

Meetings will be held on west campus in the Open Campus Center (OCC), room 106.
-TLA attendees should park in Lot A and proceed down the sidewalk and into the breezeway.
-OCC is the building to your left inside the breezeway.
-Once inside the building, take a right and go to the end and turn left.
-OCC 106 is down the hall on the left hand side.

Technology Leaders Association (TLA) was established to help senior level IT executives develop and manage their careers. As part of this effort, we hold monthly meetings to network, share ideas, and learn from featured guest speakers in the career management field.

STRUCTURED NETWORKING:
Structured networking is a technique used at most major executive transition groups. It is meant to be a powerful method of generating ideas that might help each of our searches.

During this process, we will quickly brainstorm potential job lead ideas, gain networking contacts at desired companies, and generate advice from the members by sharing our backgrounds as well as our career objectives.

It is designed to generate ideas, but given the time constraints, not get into immediate detailed discussions. You should plan on following up with anybody who may have had an interesting idea or a good contact.

Please bring business cards, handbills (career overview) or resumes (plain paper is fine) to pass around if you have them. Figure on about 20 copies of the resumes/handbills and 50 business cards.

We will run our networking, dividing the room into small tables of a maximum of6 people and doing 2 table rotations before our speaker begins.

At each rotation, you will have 90 seconds for your pitch and about 90 seconds for Q&A.

SPEND NO MORE THAN 1/3
-summarizing your past (this is not the time to rehash your resume),
-what you are looking for, and
-what we can do to help (such as target contacts) or ask for advice on an issue.