PinkSlipMixers.com Invites Hiring Companies like Tesla Motors to Rev Up Job Seekers
Palo Alto, CA – January 6 2010-
The California Employment Development Department reported on December 18, 2009 that of the State's 18.3 million labor force workers, 2.3 million people or 12.3% are unemployed or unwillingly without a job. It is important to note that these figures do not include non-working professionals who are not receiving unemployment benefits or the under-employed.
California-based, volunteer-supported, grass-roots organization called PinkSlipMixers 2.0 (www.PinkSlipMixers.com) has invited several hiring companies like Tesla Motors of San Carlos, Nelson Staffing of San Francisco and Robert Half International, to rev up job seekers options and power drive to a new career with 2010's first major job search networking event on Tuesday January 12, 2010 at B412 Lounge in Palo Alto, CA starting at 6:00 PM. The organizers anticipate several hundred job seekers to attend with several thousand to connect online via Twitter, Facebook and PinkSlipMixers.com. The event is free to job seekers.
Event/Venue Details:
Tuesday January 12, 2010 from 6 to 8 p.m.
at the
B412 LOUNGE
412 Emerson Street
Palo Alto, CA
More info on PinkSlipMixers.com
PinkSlipMixers 2.0 and local SF Bay Area businesses are banding together to help stimulate the local job market with a unique live and on-line networking event. Together, they are looking to continue to support the SF & San Jose communities by paying it forward, uncover jobs that may or may not be posted online and develop a positive job search community. 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 help people find more leads or at the very least, interact with others to provide job search support. According to Edwin Duterte, founder of PinkSlipMixers 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."
Local IT job seeker and PinkSlipMixers volunteer organizer Prasanth Padmanabahn says, "We are very excited to have a strict hiring companies like Tesla Motors come out to our events to hand pick the best professionals in Silicon Valley. The Tesla website says 'Tesla Motors is hiring highly qualified and dedicated individuals. Our hiring bar is high to keep our team size small, so each member of our team must be among the most technically gifted in his or her field. The people we seek could work anywhere they want and tend to be the most highly prized by their organization.' Based on the fact that they are sending a few representatives to hire our members says that PinkSlipMixers.com attracts higher quality professionals than what they are finding online. We are striving as a community to network with the area's best and most intelligent workers. High-profile companies are really recognizing this fact and are excited about our members."
The PinkSlipMixers 2.0 event is more than the typical "pink slip party", a popular and growing trend around the country. Party guests 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.
There will be a video screen that will project guest Twitter Feeds. As guests walk in the door they 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." 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 be various industry tables where our guests can congregate and mingle with professionals specific to their job focus. The mixers will include a '"speed career circuit' in which experts will offer free job search tips, such as resume critique, interview skills, etc.
One thing to note is that PinkSlipMixers 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.
Details of PinkSlipMixers.com:
PinkSlipMixers 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, Nevada, Georgia 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.
For more information about the PinkSlipMixers 2.0 "Pay It Forward" Job Networking Events, contact Edwin Duterte at (310) 766-4478 or Edwin@pinkslipmixer.com.
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