PinkSlipMixers to add video resume service to events

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Contact: Laurie Pehar Borsh, 800.915.2151x706, lauriepeharborsh@lpbpr.com
“Video Resume Taping” Venue Planned for Executive Job Seeker “Pink Slip Mixer”
LOS ANGELES, CA – June 22, 2009–Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 (www.Pink Slip Mixers 2.0), a grass-roots organization that supports unemployed professionals by offering unique "pink slip party" networking events and RezBuzz (www.rezbuzz.com), a brand new social networking site that brings together members via the power of video resumes, are coming together on Monday, June 22, 2009 to offer a great job search mixer event at the Palomar Hotel (10740 Wilshire Blvd.) in the heart of Los Angeles. Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 guests will get the chance to win a full video resume production and have a video shot right at the event as well as learn to create a profile on RezBuzz.com and shoot a short their own video resume via anyone of the computers and webcams that will be at the event.

Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 is a unique "pink slip party" job networking event. Guests "Pay it Forward" by exchanging job search tips, forwarding job postings, “Tweeting” about things they talk about and hear in the crowd (Twitter Feeds are broadcasted live during the event) and just simply encouraging other job seekers through the recession. Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 events are currently in California and in Florida and will be expanding to at least 10 metropolitan cities in the United States. For more information, go to: www.pinkslipmixers.com.
The next Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 event featuring RezBuzz- Video Resumes will take place on
Monday June 22, 2009 from 6-8 p.m.
at the
Hotel Palomar Los Angeles - Westwood
10740 Wilshire Boulevard (at Selby Avenue)
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tel: 310.475.8711
RezBuzz offers hiring professionals and employers a way to search for candidates and for candidates to search for employers with the distinctive feature of connecting through a Professional Video Resume (or “PVR”) or a Corporate Profile Video. It essentially combines some of the most popular networking communities on the World-Wide-Web. We like to think of it as a “Linked In meets YouTube meets Monster.com meets Facebook meets Match.com” kind of networking environment.
As the Social Media Revolution continues to change the way in which we all connect, socialize, meet and network online, the resume--one of the last remnants of the “paper world”—has finally gone digital. Los Angeles-based Corp Shorts Video Productions (www.Corp Shorts.com) is changing the landscape of how video resumes are being produced, utilized and promoted with the launch of REZBUZZ (www.rezbuzz.com). RezBuzz is a video resume and branding service paired with a social networking platform that is looking to span the globe bringing together job seekers and businesses looking for new employees.
RezBuzz and Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 are now coming together help stimulate the local job market with a unique live and on-line networking event. Together, RezBuzz and Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 are looking to continue to support of the LA community by paying it forward and by doing so, the hope is that the community at large will continue to support Pink Slip Mixer 2.0 venues in the years to come. This is an effort to provide a place for job seekers and hiring companies to come together beyond the Web and interact with one another on a face-to-face level. This kind of interaction can and will only to help people find more leads or at the very least, interact with others to provide job search support. According to Edwin Duterte, founder of Pink Slip Mixers 2.0, “This is the right thing to do to help revitalize our local job market. Online networking is fantastic, but nothing beats meeting up-close-and personal."
The Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 event is more than the typical pink slip party, a popular and growing trend around the country. Party guests also utilize social media tools including Twitter to “Tweet” their job search and career criteria along with the link to their Linked In profile in hopes of maximizing their job search exposure. Now with RezBuzz and a Video Resume Production venue in the mix, Edwin Duterte, is excited to see what more can be done to support job seekers to increase exposure to new hiring possibilities. “Video Branding is the most powerful form of online media offered today,” said Mark Sadovnick, RezBuzz CEO and of Sadovnick Partners Executive Search who was named one of the “Most Influential Headhunters in the World” by Business Week Magazine in November 2008. “Online video is the future of resume distribution and networking in the workforce, if produced responsibly and professionally.”
There will be a video screen that will project guest Twitter Feeds as well as the Video Resumes that will be shot by the RezBuzz production crew on site. As guests walk in the door they will also receive a raffle ticket to win a premium video resume production (a $2500 value) as well as be able to be taped on site at the event by RezBuzz or shoot a webcam video at one of the computers set up at the event. Guests will also be able to create an online profile on RezBuzz.com and have their video resume uploaded. Party goers will Tweet what other guests are looking for professionally and what recruiters attending want in a candidate. For instance, a job seeker talking to a hiring manager might Tweet (which is done via cell phone): “Recruiter Jon wearing the striped shirt is looking for a Product Manager.” Another Guest might Tweet: “Check out Sally Smith’s new Video Resume on her new RezBuzz.com Profile – here’s the link. Sally’s wearing a bright green shirt.” Guests in the mixer will see people being featured on the video screen and hopefully go on to connect "in person" at the party to discuss a possible opportunities or the knowledge of one.
"We want to have our professional guests interact with one another and more importantly, make it personal for them," says Duterte. There will also be various industry tables where our guests can congregate and mingle with professionals specific to their job focus in addition to the RezBuzz video venue where guests can opt to have a video resume taped right there at the event or sign up to have one produced on location at Corp Shorts Video Productions in West Hollywood or at their home or other location. There will also be a '”speed career circuit' in which experts from various stations, such as resume critique, interview skills, etc., will offer free job search tips.
One thing to note is that Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 events are not job fairs. They are volunteer supported community events in which every member wants to participate in to help one another find work. “It is very exciting to have everyone helping each other in such a positive way,” says Duterte.
For more information about the Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 "Pay It Forward" Job Networking Events, contact Edwin Duterte at (310) 766-4478 or Edwin@pinkslipmixer.com   
For more information about RezBuzz-Video Resumes contact Catherine Gray or Mark Sadovnick at Corp Shorts, 323.654.4443, Catherine@CorpShorts.com or Mark@CorpShorts.com.
The next Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 event featuring RezBuzz will take place on
Monday June 22, 2009 from 6-8 p.m.
at the
Hotel Palomar Los Angeles - Westwood
10740 Wilshire Boulevard (at Selby Avenue)
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tel: 310.475.8711