Career Fair

17 Apr - 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Virtual using Zoom

P 2.0, B 1.5, W 0.75

Abstract

PMINJ followers who are in transition or considering a job or career change will have an excellent opportunity to:

• Hear a lively keynote speaker that will kick-start your career goals.
• Hear career coaches and a lively panel discussion.
• Interview with recruiters and company hiring managers

Features:

• 4.25 PDUs
• Personalized resume review free with registration. The first 20 to submit their resume will have a 1 on 1 virtual session with one of the coaches.  Instructions will be provided in the registration confirmation.

Resume Reviews will be scheduled after the event

Veterans should self identify when submitting their resume for individualized assistance.
Instructions to submit your resume will be included in the registration receipt.
A maximum of 20 resumes will be reviewed, first received - first reviewed.
Reviewer: Tony Calabrese

Fees

PMINJ Members	$5
Non-members	$10

Cancellation Policy

No refund if canceled after 01 Apr

To cancel a registration send the PMINJ receipt to

Recruiters / Hiring Managers

Are you a recruiter or hiring manager?
Would you like to participate in this Virtual Career Fair?
Plan for your current and future needs for Project / Program managers and be a recruiter at this event!
For further details, contact Agnes Benneh at

Keynote

Tamarra Causley Robinson, MS, MCC, CMC
Tamarra specializes in professional and leadership development. As an executive coach, she dedicates herself to inspiring and empowering leaders to rediscover their voice to have the confidence to make courageous choices and to boldly take charge of their lives and careers without apology, guilt or shame. She has helped individual contributors, managers, and executive-level leaders accelerate their ability to navigate their professional journey, embrace their authenticity, and effectively manage change.

Through her leadership, the TCR Coach Collab provides organizations with Executive Leadership Development coaching, training, facilitation, and consultation focused on growing staff, managers, and leaders to increase their leadership potential.

Prior to coaching, Tamarra was the Director of Information Technology at PwC. While functioning as the Director of IT for New York Metro, Tamarra led four cross-functional IT teams to deliver various technology solutions and services across the US. Tamarra partnered with HR which positioned her to fill the NY Metro Diversity Leader role for one year, served as an Executive Leadership Coach for Emerging Global Leaders, and Personal Development Coach for newly promoted Senior Associate staff.

Tamarra holds coaching certifications from the International Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), a Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential through the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and is a Certified Mentor Coach (CMC). Tamarra is also an Adjunct Professor at Montclair State University’s School of Business.

Tamarra actively serves her community as a Board member with Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Incorporated, and Urban Promise Trenton. She also serves on Montclair State University’s MBA Advisory Board and OneWe Reach (formally WOCIP) Advisory Board. When not giving to others, Tamarra finds joy at the beach and tending to her vegetable garden.

Rooted, Ready & Resilient
A Growth Mindset for an Uncertain World

Project managers are trained to manage scope, timelines, and deliverables. But no PM certification prepares you for the emotional and psychological weight of navigating an uncertain economy, an AI-reshaping industry, and the very personal experience of underemployment or unemployment. This keynote meets professionals exactly where they are — not just as practitioners, but as human beings — and equips them with a growth mindset to become the project manager of their own life.

Takeaways include

• treating Mindset as a Critical Deliverable
• practicing self-compassion
• building the "Resilience Triangle"(Rooted, Routines, Relationships)
• transforming disruption into opportunity
• creating tangible, actionable commitments for forward movement

Executive Leader, Board Member, Military Family Advocate, Army Veteran, Public Speaker, Mentor

Jim Beamesderfer is a seasoned executive with experience in various roles in a Fortune 100 company, including IT project and program management, and Military Community Initiatives. Mr. Beamesderfer mentors military spouses through the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation Hiring Our Heroes Amplify program and mentors transitioning service members through America’s Corporate Partnership (ACP). He has been on and led various national advisory councils, including having spent multiple years as the co-chair of the US Chamber of Commerce Hiring Our Heroes Military Spouse Employment Advisory Council. Currently Mr. Beamesderfer is a member of the SHRM Foundation Military Community Advisory Committee and also advises companies on their military talent strategies and advises military community nonprofits on their strategic plans and programs.

Mr. Beamesderfer is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY with a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering and holds an MBA from Phoenix University.

Mr. Beamesderfer was a 2021 George W. Bush Presidential Center Stand To Veteran Leadership Program Scholar.

Mr. Beamesderfer and his family reside in northern New Jersey.

Carmen L Bonilla maintains a thriving practice through which she has coached over 700 executives, entrepreneurs, mid-career and early career professionals. She has supported her clients in achieving diverse goals, including job search goals, starting their small businesses, generating more self-awareness, developing skills to coach employees, and pursuing opportunities to serve their communities.

Carmen is skilled with a broad, unique ability to coach candidates in many different industries and functions, leveraging her past experience in operations management, consulting, project management, entrepreneurship, and business development.

In addition to her coaching, she delivers professional and leadership training to corporate, government, and nonprofit managers. Her courses cover from professionalism and communication skills to delegation, coaching skills and building inclusive workplaces, among others. She leverages her past experience teaching for Rutgers Business School, part of New Jersey’s state university, for 7 years.

Credentials

• Certified Coach by the Hendricks Institute in Ojai, California
• Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program and High Growth Venture program by Arizona State University
• Organization Development Certification, Institute of Organization Development
• Certified Change Management Practitioner on Prosci® methodology
• Certified Sales Trainer, by Eric Lofholm International
• Effective Teaching Practices, by Association of College and University Educators (ACUE)
• Toastmasters International's "Competent Communicator" designation for public speaking
• Bachelors degree Magna Cum Laude from University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez
• Masters in Business Administration from New York University, Stern School of Business

Learn more about Carmen’s work
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Tony Calabrese is a certified Life and Career Coach.  A lifelong New Jersey resident, he has thrived through a series of life changing events.   Coaching, consulting, facilitating support groups, and writing blogs and newsletters provide the opportunity for him to share what he has learned with others.

After a long and successful career in Project Management and Systems assignments, a series of life events led Tony to shift directions and pursue a new career in coaching.  In 2009, Tony earned his certifications from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC) in both their intensive coach training program and their Energy Leadership assessment and debrief process.  In August of 2011, he became a Certified Career Coach.  Tony is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and was President of its New Jersey chapter in 2012.

Tony and his wife, Carolina, reside in Maplewood, NJ. 
Cell: (201) 306-9811

Paul Cecala, a Five O’Clock Club Certified Career Coach, has been coaching since 1999 and assisted over 3000 people in either changing careers or starting their professional lives.  He has worked for several post-secondary career schools as Director of Career Services specializing in Biotech/pharmaceutical careers, Green Economy jobs, aviation, allied health, IT and general administrative professions.  Currently, he the Director of Program Development for Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Petrocelli College of Continuing Studies where his responsibilities include identifying developing and managing many of the school's adult, non-credit programming.  Additionally, he helped develop the job search training process for several NJ Department of Labor sponsored job search groups.

Paul has a BS in Psychology from Florida Institute of Technology.  Prior to career coaching, he had a long career in corporate aviation sales.  His final position in this arena was Vice President of Aircraft Charter Sales for a nation-wide industry leader.

Known as “The Landing Expert,” Alex Freund helps his clients improve their interview performance by removing the fear so they can feel confident during the process. For the last 17 years, Alex has helped more than 1300 clients ranging from managers to CEOs in a variety of industries.

Alex is volunteering and active in several job-search networking groups where he is an occasional presenter. He teaches via his workshops on interviewing, resumes, LinkedIn, Value Proposition, Personal Branding and Personal Marketing.

Janelle Razzino, President and CEO of Razzino Associates, Inc. discovers the right talent for the right companies at the right time. She is passionate about bringing big ideas to life, motivating and empowering candidates and partnering with companies to make great things happen!

As a boutique firm and premier search organization, Razzino Associates, Inc. brings nearly 30 years of experience in corporate recruiting and management specializing in C-level, executive level, and mid-level placements for The Fortune Global 2000 marketplace. Its core disciplines are Accounting, Finance, and Information Technology. The firm also places candidates in Marketing, Sales, Human Resources, and Business Development.

Clients have described Janelle as energetic, passionate, tireless, refreshingly honest, and committed. She not only closes the deal, but she opens the relationship. Janelle has built and strengthened countless relationships while promoting top-tier executives to the most premier positions in the tri-state and greater Metro New York areas.

Janelle is a regular speaker at many corporate outplacement firms and networking groups. She is the founder of the Hillsdale Network Career Resource Ministry in Hillsdale, New Jersey which now includes over 1900 members.

She has also presented programs to students and professors at Mount Saint Vincent College in New York, County College of Morris and Bergen Community College in New Jersey and has been a guest on the talk radio show, Your Career is Calling, broadcast live on Sunday mornings from Rider University.