PMI Meeting
March 3, 2010

Hello Project Management Professionals,
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Our Meeting agenda is as follows:
 
5:00 to 6:30 PM  Informal Social/Networking - A cash bar will be available
6:30 to 7:45 PM  Dinner
7:45 to 8:00 PM  Announcements and Introductions
8:00 to 9:00 PM  Panel Discussion: Helpful Tips and Suggestions on How To Land Your Next Job Or Project
 

View the presentation on Job Searches by Catherine Jordan
View the presentation on Interviewing Tips
View the presentation on Project Acquisition Tips
 
Topic:  Helpful Tips and Suggestions on How To Land Your Next Job Or Project

Three members from our PMI Chapter will guide us in presentations aimed at giving helpful hints and ideas on how to get your next job or project. These suggestions will be useful both now while the job market is tight and also in the future when jobs and projects will bemore plentiful. After the presentations the panel of three will take questions and also encourage participation from the attendees to offer additional helpful hints and ideas. Areas covered will include what to put in your resumes, how to handle yourself in interviews, and how to get real job and project leads that you can apply to. This meeting will be helpful to everyone who attends since all projects come to an end at some point.

Panel: Catherine Jordan, PMP Laura Barnard, PMP and Lindsey Hoggle, PMP
 
 
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Please join us to get some helpful ideas and to interact with our panel on “Helpful Tips and Suggestions on How To Land Your Next Job Or Project”.
 
This dinner meeting presentation will be worth one (1) "category 3" PDU.
The following menu selections are being offered for dinner;

The cost for dinner is $30 for PMI Montgomery County, MD Chapter members and $40 for all others.  Payment by cash or check is expected at the door of the meeting (unless prepaid during registration).
 
Reservations are required.  Please RSVP no later than 5:00 PM Sunday, February 28, 2010. 
 
If you RSVP and then discover that you will be unable to attend then please send me an email at siegc@verizon.net telling me to cancel your registration.
 
Note: All tables will be considered "job tables" for this dinner meeting! Please feel free to discuss your ideas and suggestions with the others at your table. Please feel free to bring copies of resumes or job postings to share with others. We will continue to use the "two dot" system to indentify attendees who are looking for new opportunities (green dots) and those seeking to hire PMs (orange dots). We also will allow the "orange dot" attendees to briefly describe their open positions during the announcements just prior to the feature presentation.
 

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JOB SEEKERS - PLEASE NOTE:
 
We encourage all of our job seekers and those members who work for companies seeking to hire Project Managers to become a member of LinkedIn and then join the PMI Montgomery County, MD GROUP.
 
Please use the following link below (or search for the group by name):
 
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1824513&trk=anetsrch_name&goback=%2Egdr_1237139464172_1
 
You may also join the group to further interact with other members of our PMI chapter.
 
Any questions - please email vpcommunication@pmimontgomerycountymd.org
 

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Our mission is to provide a forum for Professional Project Managers to promote the principles of Project Management Institute (PMI) through networking with other Project Managers, sharing project experiences, providing and receiving training, and supporting Project Management Professionals in their certification efforts.  Our intent is to provide this forum in a place that is convenient to those who either live and/or work in Montgomery County, Maryland.
 
I hope you will preregister and attend our dinner meeting on Wednesday, March 3, 2010.