November Monthly Meeting
Monday Nov 5, 7-9pm
Wine Bar & Shop
2 Embarcadero (on Front St. between Sacramento and Clay)
Bart or MUNI to Embarcadero.
Everyone’s invited for networking, idea sharing, and event creation.
Past Events
October Monthly Meeting
We’re reinstating Monthly Meetings the first week of every month…
Everyone’s invited!
SFWoW Monthly Meeting for October
Monday, Oct. 1, 6:30 PM - 8 PM
Dalva (back room)
3121 16th St between Guerrero & Valencia
Bart to 16th street, 22 Fillmore, or 14 Mission. J-Church to 16th, or K,L,M or Castro Shuttle underground to Church Street station.
“Goodbye” Scrappy 8/30
Where: Cafe Royale
800 Post Street at Leavenworth Map
When: 6:30PM Thursday, August 30th, 2007
What: Happy Hour
Why: Goodbye to two volunteers: Anna Billstrom & Bethany Polentz
Salary Negotiation: How to Ask For What You’re Worth
The next workshop is a great opportunity if you:
- Have ever felt intimidated by salary discussions
- Are a job seeker or
- Are employed, but feel that you deserve more than what you’re making!
Join three panelists and SF WoW to participate in a discussion on basic “rules” of salary negotiation. The speakers will discuss guidelines of when to initiate salary talk, key things to say (and steer clear of!), and best practices for how to negotiate for a better compensation package by leveraging your skills for more money, flex-time, stock options or more!
Panel discussion is to be followed by a lengthy Q&A.
THE SPEAKERS
Suzanne O’Kelly is currently a User Experience writer with Hotwire, one of the top travel sites on the Internet, and has almost ten years of writing experience. Over the course of her career, she has successfully negotiated several times for a $10K increase in starting salary.
Bonnie Halford CPCC , as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and Spiritual Director, Bonnie provides Executive-level Coaching, Consulting, Workshop Facilitation and Spiritual Direction for clients wishing to create work that is more deeply fulfilling. Her unique approach explores career transition and expansion issues, coupled with looking at the client as a whole. She is committed to coaching clients toward more fulfilled and spiritual lives.
Roxane Williams has been a web developer for 12 years, during which she worked for Google, Digital Equipment Corp., The Internet Archive, and Zone Labs. She left Google to start Little Truck, a web design and development company in San Francisco, where her negotiating skills come into daily play. Roxane has a Bachelor of Arts in English.
DATE AND TIME: Thursday, June 28, 2007
6:00- 6:30 pm Registration & Networking
6:30- 7:30 pm Presentation
7:30- 8:30 pm Q&A
LOCATION
Craft Gym
1452 Bush St (b/t Van Ness & Polk)
San Francisco, CA 94104
COST
Pre-registration on Acteva: $15, click here to register
Pre-registration closes Thursday, 6/28 at 4 PM
At the door cost: $20
Get More Traffic to Your Website with SEO
SEO specialist Andreas Ramos, longtime SF WoW member, offers to share his wisdom with our group on increasing traffic to your site.
Date: March 21, 2007 6:30 PM - 8:30PM
Location: London Wine Bar
Neighborhood: Financial District
415 Sansome Street
(between Commercial St & Sacramento St)
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 788-4811
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Buy online here.
About the Speaker
Andreas Ramos is co-founder and a director of Position2.com, a SEM agency. He has agency-certification with Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. He wrote “Insider SEO & PPC”, a book about SEO and PPC. He has worked at more than twenty-five Silicon Valley companies, including SUN, SGI, Brio, and Dialpad.com. He was national chair of the NWU’s BizTech Division for more than ten years. Andreas earned his postgraduate degree at the Universität Heidelberg in Germany.
If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please email sponsor@sfwow.org
Interview Panel
A panel of experts will help you get the skills you need for a successful interview. Learn how to make an interviewer bump you to the top of the list, on the first impression.
Where: Craft Gym, 1452 Bush St. between Polk and Van Ness, San Francisco. Directions: here.
When: February 28th, 6:30 - 8:30
Speakers: Irene Marshall, Career Coach; Nancy Perlin, Career Coach; Sarah Kidder, Etiquette Trainer; Alicia Streight, IT Recruiter
Topics: Interviewing Strategically vs Instinctively; Ways to Follow up; and more!
Speakers
Irene Marshall, Career Coach
Irene Marshall has helped people get jobs for seven years. She started as a recruiter with Robert Half, doing direct-hire placement for people in finance and accounting. She left Robert Half in 2003 and established Tools for Transition, a company dedicated to helping people make good changes in their lives. Irene has three certifications for various aspects of career and job search support. She is a professional resume writer, interview coach and career coach. Her work is always done from the perspective of a former recruiter. Credentials include: CEIP (Certified Employment Interview Professional), CPRW (Certified Professional Resume Writer), CPCC (Certified Professional Career Coach). www.toolsfortransition.com
Nancy Perlin, Career Coach
Since 1989, Nancy Perlin has been working as an executive/technical recruiter, job search strategist, corporate consultant and career coach. Over the past couple of years, Nancy has become known as a leading expert on employment issues for the San Francisco Bay Area. Her unique success as a recruiter and her audio/video CD-ROM, “Winning The Job You Want” have been profiled on NBC/KNTV Network News, FOX/KTVU Network News, KPIX-TV, KRON-TV, The San Jose Mercury News, The San Jose Business Journal and Silicon Valley Business Ink. www.partnersconsultinggroup.com
Sarah Kidder, Etiquette Trainer
Sarah E. Kidder incorporates the areas in which she has both expertise and keen interest: events, marketing, business development and etiquette. Sarah spent over a decade designing, organizing, implementing and marketing events and businesses alike. The importance and influence of etiquette that had been a consistent part of her social and professional life became highlighted in her studies at UC Berkeley and grew into the development of etiquette training seminars. Her company, Sarah Kidder Designs, offers services in event work, marketing, PR and etiquette. www.sarahkidderdesigns
Alicia Streight, IT Recruiter
Alicia Streight is a technical recruiter for K-Force Technology Staffing, one of the leading professional staffing firms in the United States. She has been a Career Specialist for over three years, focusing mostly on the placement of recent graduates in the field of technology. She has taught classes about resume writing and interview technique as well as given seminars on the process of “job hunting” specifically in the area of Technology throughout the Bay Area.
- 6:30 - 6:45: Introductions
- 6:45 - 7:30: Best Practices Topics include: Four kinds of interviews (Recruiter, HR Manager, Hiring Manager, Panel); Interviewing Strategically vs Instinctively; Ways to Follow up; Basic Interview Etiquette; Body Language; Interviewing the Company; Illegal Questions and how to respond
- 7:30 - 8:30: Open Q&A This is your chance to ask the experts what they think about addressing gaps in your resume, how interviewing is going in the current marketplace, if you mention that you have children or tell them your age, and what’s the current standard for following up. Bring your questions!
Sponsors
Resume Roundtable
This event has occurred in the past. For a recap, see SF WoW Blog Recap of Resume Roundtable, by Bethany. We also took video interviews at the event, which are viewable here: Video Interviews. Contact us for the password: webmistress - at - sfwow.org.
Date: Wednesday, February 7th
Time: 6pm to 9pm
Location: Orbit Room, 1900 Market St, San Francisco
So, dust off your resume and come with questions.
Format:
-Quick Meet & Greet- say hi to fellow WoWsers
-”Top 10 Hints for Great Resumes,” presented by former SFWoW Director Susan Stearman
-Resume swap and editing
Sponsors
CANWOW – Career Advancement Networking for Women on the Web
SFWOW is hosting a social event for professional women in technology to network with recruiters and hiring managers in the technical industry. Invitees include SFWoW members and guests, HR managers, corporate sponsors, and the press.
When: Wednesday, March 7, 2007, 5:30pm – 8:30pm;
Toast at 6pm
Where: The Bubble Lounge, 714 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, 94111
Tickets:
- Members: Free with RSVP at rsvp@sfwow.org, $5 at the door.
- Hiring managers and Recruiters: For $25, receive a Hiring Manager Kit, access to the membership to post as an Approved Recruiter (without signing up for the list), and identification at the event as an Approved Recruiter.
More information about the CANWOW Series is available here: CANWOW Series
Sponsors
Holiday Potluck
To fete the holiday season, the Choybergs would like to invite YOU to a holiday potluck at their residence.
Date: Wednesday, December 6th
Time: 5:30 PM to 8 PM (hard end- it’s a school night!)
Location: Choyberg House, Bernal Heights, San Francisco (street address
to be sent to confirmed attendees)
What to bring: A dish to share and your happy self!
This potluck is for SF WoW members only, and you MUST RSVP is you plan to attend. Send your reply to sfwow-at-marychoy.com by this Thursday, November 30th, if you are planning to make it.