Mission
Teach and facilitate Networking among PMINJ members to
support their personal and professional growth, engage
career coaches and experts to provide guidance in
navigating the job-search process, and promote exposure to
career and business opportunities.
Scope
The PMINJ Career Networking Local Community of Interest
(CNL) was established to facilitate business and career
networking among PMINJ members. The CNL's goals are to
provide additional networking opportunities to PMINJ
members in the form of networking events, educational
forums, and professional development opportunities. A
structured networking event is hosted each month, with
elements of speakers, panel discussions, job
announcements, networking sessions and interactive
workshops.
The CNL provides these services for interested PMINJ
Project Managers:
- Career Networking session prior to monthly Chapter
meetings
- Career Networking email list enabling notices and
opportunities to be sent to CNL members
- Reference information about other networking resources
and previous speaker sessions
Monthly Sessions
Career Networking Sessions are held before monthly PMINJ
Chapter meetings, at the Main Meeting location.
Registration begins at 5:15pm; the Networking event opens
at 5:30pm and closes at 6:30pm, giving members time to
enjoy dinner before the main meeting. No separate
pre-registration is needed - just be sure to register for
the chapter meeting, arrive a bit earlier, and join us.
This season, CNL is planning to host speaker presentations
in September, November, February, April and May, and
facilitated networking sessions in October, January, March
and June.
Handouts from the meetings (when available) can be
downloaded from the PMINJ chapter website. Go to Events
> Archive, and find the meeting of interest to download
the handouts.
Upcoming Session
6/18/2019 - ABSOLUTELY ABBY RETURNS!
"Networking for Introverted, Extroverted and In-Between-Verted Project Managers"
Do you attend PMI meetings or company events and walk away feeling like you could have been more successful in meeting more people? Do you wait for others to approach you? Do you feel anxious when you try to start a conversation? In today's world, networking isn't just for those NOT working.
It's a powerful personal and professional tool we can all use to leverage relationships. To advance in your PM career, it's imperative that you get comfortable with networking. But why just be comfortable when it can actually be fun???
Walk away from this interactive event knowing:
- How to explain what you do so people will remember you
- Why being specific when asking for help is important
- How to identify the right networking opportunities for you
- What "paying it forward" is all about
- Why networking is simply making new friends
- How to turn your networking magic into long term relationships
Abby Kohut, known in the job search world as Absolutely Abby, is the President of Staffing Symphony, LLC and author of "Absolutely Abby's 101 Job Search Secrets." In the past 23 years, Abby held corporate recruiting positions in a variety of industries and is responsible for helping 10,000 people get hired. Her website AbsolutelyAbby.com, which was selected as one of the "Top 100 Websites for Your Career" by Forbes, teaches candidates secrets the Absolute truth about the job search process that other recruiters won't reveal. AbsolutelyAbby.com was also mentioned on CNBC as one of three top websites for career changers. Recently CNBC published an article naming Abby as a Top Career Coach and Recruiter. Abby is one of the "Top 100 Influential People Online" according to Fast Company Magazine and is known as "Ask Abby" on LinkedIn. She has provided job search tips on SiriusXM, Fox 5, NBC, CBS, ABC, Monster, Real Simple, The Ladders, Bloomberg Radio, and Forbes. Recently, CEOWORLD Magazine rated Abby "One of the Top 25 Women for your Job Search" and Business News Daily rated @Absolutely_Abby as "One of Top 10 Twitter Accounts Every Jobseeker Should Follow". Since 2012, Abby has been on a mission to help one million job seekers and is currently driving and flying around the USA on a nationwide tour to accomplish that goal.
Remember to bring your business cards!
The
email list carries CNL announcements, and also allows members
of the list to share career opportunities, events etc. Only
members of the list may email to the list.
PMINJ chapter members can subscribe / unsubscribe to the
networking email list via the chapter website. To check or
change your subscription status:
- Click the Login menu entry at the top right
- Enter your PMI preferred email address and your PMINJ
password (same as used for online registration) and click
Login As Member (or use the Forgot Password link to create
a new password)
- On the next screen, under the Members menu click View
History
- Review your "Current Mailing List Memberships" and click
the button if you need to change this status
- The change will be effective immediately
Note also that:
- The email address used is the one registered at
www.pmi.org. If you need to change your email address,
login to www.pmi.org and make the change there. Note that
the NJ chapter receives a data feed from PMI, so it may
take up to four (4) days for the email address change to
be effective at PMINJ.
- New PMINJ members start as Unsubscribed. Existing
members of the Networking LCI are Subscribed
- Do NOT reply to a Networking email with an unsubscribe
request - that sends your request to every member of the
list
