Here are the networking events for the week of September 30-October 5 in the Kansas City area. If you know about other career fairs, meetings or events that would benefit job seekers, please send a note to markvanbaale@gmail.com. Thank you.
There is also a Marketing/Social Media Job Leads page where new marketing/social media jobs are posted every day or every other day.
In addition, there are Internships, Web/Graphic Designer Jobs, and IT/Developer Jobs posted.
You can also follow @kcjobseekers or @markvanbaale on Twitter to get the latest updates.
NOTE: To be notified of future networking events posts, be sure to sign up for email updates. The sign-up form is on the right side column.
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All Week Long
CAREEREALISM Twitter Chats
Join us for our week-long Twitter chat from Monday, September 30th – Friday, October 4th.
- Twitter Chat Title: Job Jump-Start
- Hashtag: #JobJumpStart
- Moderator: @CAREEREALISM
Each day, we will moderate a 30-minute Twitter chat surrounding different aspects of job search.
Time: 11:00 – 11:30 AM CDT
Here’s the topic schedule for this week:
Monday – Job Search Strategy
Tuesday – LinkedIn
Wednesday – Cover Letters & Resumes
Thursday – Interview Prep
Friday – Networking
We’re inviting tons of career experts to participate in these chats so you can get answers to your burning questions.
At the beginning of every Twitter chat, a hashtag will be established. Our hashtag for each chat will be #JobJumpStart, so search for #JobJumpStart at the beginning of the chat.
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Monday, September 30
Monday Geek Night
Location:
Tannin Wine Bar & Kitchen
1526 Walnut St.
Kansas City, MO
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Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Bring a laptop, bring a friend or co-worker, and by all means bring whatever you’re working on. We all come from different development backgrounds but historically this group plays well together. We help solve challenges (code and otherwise) and often wander into the latest tech news conversations as well.
What is Monday Geek Night? It is a weekly Monday night gathering of geeks who enjoy topics including, but not limited to, application and web development (code of all kinds), entrepreneurship, gaming, marketing, design, movies, the current state of all things tech, and usually beer and other cocktails.
*A note for our tech recruiter friends: We get calls all day long from people trying to hire us away. Please respect the fact that we come to geek night to talk shop and geek out. You’re welcome to do the same, but if you think you’re going to recruit some devs, please look elsewhere.
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Networking: An Ongoing Career Strategy Workshop
Location:
Mid-Continent Public Library, Claycomo Branch
309 NE 69 Hwy
Kansas City, MO
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Free to attend, but registration is required.
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Learn to create a systematic networking campaign for increased job search success from a multi-certified resume writer and career and personal branding coach. The following topics will be covered: cultivating people skills, where to network, building rapport, social networking, and tracking networking contacts.
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#JobHuntChat on Twitter
Time: 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm CDT
Job Hunt Chat is a community where job seekers, recruiters, human resource professionals, career coaches, and hiring managers can connect. Discussion/questions shared on Twitter.com using the hashtag #JobHuntChat.
Here is how you can participate in this chat:
1. Search for hashtag #JobHuntChat on Twitter when the chat starts at 9 pm CDT.
2. Introduce yourself when the chat begins.
3. Read, ask questions, comment, re-tweet. Participate.
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Tuesday, October 1
OMNI Employment Job Seeker Roundtable Meeting
Location:
OMNI Employment Management Services
7201 W. 110th St. (Suite 225)
Overland Park, KS
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Time: 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Free to attend.
This is a very informal meeting and offers a great chance to network with other professionals and meet with Mike Tracy, Principal of OMNI Employment Management Services, LLC. This group is ideally geared to middle to upper management level candidates. Mike has been involved in the recruitment field for a number of years and has a multitude of helpful tips and suggestions to offer.
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We’re Talkin’ Tuesday” Networking Group Meeting
Location:
Mainstreet Credit Union
6025 Lamar Ave.
Mission, KS
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Time: 8:00 am – 9:30 am
Free to attend.
This week’s presenter: Joe Padavic, Teardrop Video
“We’re Talkin” Tuesday” is a fun, interactive networking experience and a great place to connect with other business owners and professionals.
This event is free and open to NEJC Chamber members, guests and those interested in the northeast or NEJC Chamber of Commerce.
Bring lots of business cards and meet business owners from the Johnson County and Kansas City metro area.
Contact Lauren Vaughan at lvaughan@nejcchamber.com or 913-262-2141 for more information.
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Biz2Biz Connect Networking Tuesday Meeting
Location:
Scooter’s Coffeehouse
10610 Shawnee Mission Parkway
Shawnee, KS
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Time: 9:00 am – 10:00 am
$5.00 entry. Job seekers and Non-profit staff can come for free.
More Information about the Group
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Coping with Change and Powerfully Dealing with Your Emotions So You can Get Back to Work Faster Webinar
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm CDT
We are going to be dealing with the angst you may be feeling about your job search, lay-off, the economy, the news, the people in your life and anything else that you may be thinking about in a way that limits what is possible.
In this results-oriented presentation, you will have the opportunity to:
- Learn how to use your own challenges to decide and commit to what you want.
- Shift from focusing on “what is wrong” to focusing on “what works”.
- Your thoughts influence your job search. Discover how to rise above the circumstances in the news and take powerful action.
- Begin to reach out, connect, empower and support one another in order to move through these waves of change with ease and grace.
- Learn how to powerfully use your time and energy starting today.
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Kansas City Networking & Referrals Group Meeting
Location:
Gambino’s Pizza
8725 Bourgade Street
Lenexa, KS
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Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Cost: $5.00 for guests
Networking with the friendliest people in town! We have a fantastic group of innovative and motivated business owners, movers and shakers. Come network with us. Please feel free to bring guests!
Special Guest: Jim Grant will be taking Q & A’s on Social media!
Learn more about Kansas City Networking & Referrals Group
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Build Meaningful Relationships: The Coffee Lunch Coffee Approach
Location:
Central Resource Library
Carmack Community Room
9875 W. 87th St.
Overland Park, KS
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Free to attend.
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Alana Muller, president of Kauffman FastTrac, will share an overview of her concept, Coffee Lunch Coffee – an actionable approach to professional networking for anybody interested in connecting with others, getting involved in their community, and/or seeking to advance their careers.
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Wednesday, October 2
Power Chics Power Coffee Meeting
Location:
Gusto! Coffee Bistro
3390 Fascination St.
Lee’s Summit, MO
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Time: 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Cost: Free for first time attendees; $10 for prospective members
The Power Chics Power Coffee is a new venue for the person who prefers to meet in the morning. We will meet at 8 AM and get to know each other with introductions and a discussion topic.
Power Chics is a personal growth organization, developed by women and for women. Power Chics is dedicated to helping “chics” from all professional arenas grow and develop, both personally and professionally. Come see what we are about.
Please do register for this event so we have an idea of how many to expect.
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PeopleKC – Professionals Enriching Other People’s Lives Weekly Meeting
Location:
Platte Valley Bank
8401 Missouri 45
Parkville, MO
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Time: 8:30 am – 9:30 am
Free to attend.
We are Business Professionals, enriching other people’s lives everyday.
We are united to support each other’s business through personal referrals and to work diligently to support the many needs of our community.
We meet every Wednesday morning from 8:30-9:30 in the lower level of Platte Valley Bank (rear entrance).
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1 Million Cups Program for Entrepreneurs
Location:
Kauffman Labs
4801 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO
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Time: 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation created 1 Million Cups (1MC) as a simple way to engage entrepreneurs in the Kansas City community. Each week, the 1MC program offers two local upstarts an opportunity to present their companies to a diverse audience of mentors, advisors, and entrepreneurs.
The program takes place every Wednesday morning from 9:00-10:00am in Kauffman Labs. So if you’re interested in being involved with the 1 Million Cups program sign up, show up, help someone startup by offering your thoughts, questions, and advice.
Watch Program Live starting at 8:50 am CDT.
Register to Attend and Who is Presenting
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Biz2Biz Connect Networking Wednesday Meeting
Location:
Scooter’s Coffeehouse
11106 Antioch Road
Overland Park, KS
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Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
$5.00 entry. Job seekers and Non-profit staff can come for free.
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Landing a Great Job After 40 Webinar
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CDT
Finding a job is tough for anyone nowadays, but it’s particularly hard if you are 40 or older. Despite the difficulty, landing a great, well-paying job after 40 is possible … if you take steps to improve your odds.
In this free webinar led by Kathy Bernard, you’ll discover 50 ways to improve your chances of getting hired (and we’ll even send you all of the tips in an easy, printable format so you can get started implementing them right away).
In this fast paced FREE 60 minute webinar, you will discover how to:
- Position yourself as the solution to a company’s problems.
- Play up your strengths and shore up your weaknesses.
- Identify organizations that actively seek out seasoned workers.
- Convince younger hiring managers that your experience is a plus and not a threat.
- Demonstrate your passion, vitality and accomplishments in a way will impress hiring companies and much, much more.
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Thursday, October 3
KC Roundtable Breakfast Meeting
Location:
First Watch
1022 Westport Rd.
Kansas City, MO
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Time: 7:30 am – 9:00 am
This breakfast we do not have a speaker but come meet and mingle with other Roundtable members.
Our mission is to:
- Focus on relationship building; not lead generating.
- Facilitate collaboration, openness, transparency, learning and teaching.
- Establish an entrepreneurial network.
- Fill the void of not having the water cooler.
We meet on the 1st & 3rd Thursday of every month at our favorite location at First Watch in Westport. In addition to our morning meetings, KC Roundtable provides other opportunities to network with young entrepreneurs such as events like Just For Starters & After Hour events. Prospective members are self-motivated, curious, and open to learning and teaching.
More Information about KC Roundtable
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iKC: The Unconference
Location:
H&R Block World HQ
1 H And R Block Way
Kansas City, MO
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Time: 8:00 am – 6:30 pm
Cost: Various ticket prices (See Registration link for prices)
Closing Party is $10.00 if you don’t attend the conference
The Unconference is an open format conference to facilitate collisions between innovators, entrepreneurs, investors and dealmakers.
The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce & Think Big Partners have joined forces to gear up for the second annual iKC: The Unconference. This year, iKC will be unlike any conference known to Kansas City. The open format conference will allow you to submit ideas and create the agenda! You create the session topics you want forming unpredictable collisions and conversations.
The iKC Closing Session will also feature the world premiere showing of the Tech Trek, a Google Glass-enabled documentary shot by local Kansas City entrepreneurs.
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Free State Digital Seminar
Location:
SpringHill Suites Ballroom
1 Riverfront Plaza
Lawrence, KS
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Choose One of Two Sessions:
Times: 8:00 am – 9:00 am or Noon – 1:00 pm
Free to attend.
Do you know how often you should be posting updates on Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn? Or who you should be targeting with Twitter? 7 out of 10 people say they trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations and that by the end of 2013 there will be more mobile devices on Earth than people. Are you ready?
Topics include:
- Social Media Marketing (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & More)
- Ways to improve your website performance on search engines
- How digital marketing is different than traditional advertising
- Examples of businesses doing a great job generating revenue
- Ways you can implement these strategies
Whether you’re planning to handle social media on your own or you’re looking for a partner to help you navigate the ever-changing digital landscape, we’ll send you home with information you can use to connect with customers and grow your business.
Register for One of Two Sessions
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Olathe Chamber Coffee meeting
Location this week:
Santa Marta
13800 West 116th St.
Olathe, KS
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Time: 9:00 am – 11:00 am
Open to job seekers to attend free of charge.
Opportunity to mingle with Olathe area business owners and network to your next job. Expect to meet 150-250 people. There is a special sign-up area so job hunters and employers can meet.
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KC Business Journal Career Transition Seminar
Location:
Central Resource Library
Carmack Community Room
9875 W. 87th St.
Overland Park, KS
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Free to attend.
Time: 9:30 am – 11:00 am
Kent Barthol of the Kansas City Business Journal will show you how to use the Journal to find your next career opportunity! The workshop will focus on the following: looking beyond the headline of a story to identify opportunities; discovering networking events using the paper’s calendar section; utilizing advertisements in the paper as a source of information; and more. This program is presented on behalf of New Landings and the Johnson County Library.
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The Resume Reboot Workshop
Location:
Central Resource Library
Carmack Community Room
9875 W. 87th St.
Overland Park, KS
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Free to attend.
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
In the current job market, with unemployment hovering at around 9%, and the “broad unemployment rate” nearly 18%, it is absolutely essential that your resume make you irresistible to hiring managers. It needs to highlight the skills you can bring to any position, and minimize any liabilities that would keep you from getting an interview. You need a resume that really tells an employer what you bring to a position that separates you from the crowd. You need to communicate YOUR STORY.
If you are getting no response from your current resume, you owe it to your career and yourself to attend this free workshop.
In this two-hour workshop, Tammy Kabell will teach you step-by-step how to put together the components of a successful resume. She will help you identify your skills that can be transferred to multiple industries, as well as resume strategies to overcome obstacles in your search, such as long unemployement or advanced experience / age. Most importantly, Tammy will show you how to craft a resume that truly defines your strengths and achievements, and shows your next employer what you are capable of.
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#OMCChat on Twitter
Time: 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm CDT
Open Mic Career Chat is an unfiltered & upfront discussion about job search, interviewing, resume construction & bad interviewers. Great chat where job seekers, recruiters, human resource professionals, career coaches, and hiring managers can connect. Discussion/questions shared on Twitter.com using the hashtag #OMCChat.
Here is how you can participate in this chat:
1. Search for hashtag #OMCChat on Twitter when the chat starts at 6 pm CDT.
2. Introduce yourself when the chat begins.
3. Read, ask questions, comment, re-tweet. Participate.
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Friday, October 4
Social Media Club of Kansas City October Breakfast: Linda Buchner with MINDDRIVE
Location:
Think Big Partners
1800 Baltimore Ave. – 6th floor
Kansas City, MO
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Time: 7:30 am – 9:00 am
Cost: $10.00 (include admission and continental buffet)
MINDDRIVE is an educational program that uses experiential methods to teach at-risk urban high school teens through hands-on work in its automotive design and contemporary communication classes. The automotive class builds prototype ultra-high-efficiency alternative fuel plug-in electric vehicles designed to drive efficiently. The communications class teaches students how to write, present, photograph, video, construct and manage web pages and use social media channels.
Linda Buchner, the President & Cause Marketing/Public Relations Director of MINDDRIVE and Eric Looney, Group Creative Director at VML, will discuss how they teamed up to develop and execute the MINDDRIVE’S Social Fuel Tour.
The Social Fuel Tour was a social media-fueled drive this past summer, where they built an electric car, connected to an Arduino device that monitored the social activity about MINDDRIVE and their sponsors to govern their car’s power. The students went on an incredible journey from K.C. to D.C. with their “social fuel” and a strong message about the hands-on learning methods of MINDDRIVE. The students and mentors of the program were sponsored by our state’s Congressman, Emanuel Cleaver and they met with legislators and government officials to help drive change in education.
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Face2Face Networking Event hosted by Greater Kansas City Chamber
Location:
The Board Room at Union Station
30 W. Pershing Rd.
Kansas City, MO
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Time: 8:30 am – 10:00 am
Cost: $20 for non-members
Make 25 business connections in 90 minutes at this fast-paced speed networking event. Come prepared with at least 50 business cards, your one minute elevator speech (we do time you), and any other company flyers or brochures to set out on provided share tables. In an effort to attract different niche groups of members and enhance the variety of businesses represented at this event, The Chamber will be cross-promoting Face2Face with other programs/organizations. This month’s feature is Manufacturing.
Speed networking is a great approach to promoting your company, and doesn’t involve forcing yourself to walk across a crowded room to introduce yourself to a total stranger. Anyone can talk about their business for one minute.
Please register by noon on Thursday the day before to reserve your seat.
Please contact us at (816) 374-5458 or taylor@kcchamber.com if you plan to attend or for more information.
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Job Club Support Group Meeting
Location:
Church of the Resurrection
West Building, Room 2202
13720 Roe Ave.
Leawood, KS
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Time: 8:30 am – 10:30 am
Please join other job seekers for networking, accountability and group support for those who are unemployed and underemployed.
Questions? Please contact Cheryl Greenough at 913-544-0238.
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Legends Networking Group Meeting
Location:
Hollywood Casino Kansas Speedway
777 Hollywood Casino Blvd.
Kansas City, KS
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Time: Starts at 9:00 am
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Wise Women Connect Luncheon
Location:
Hereford House
5001 Town Center Drive
Leawood, KS
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Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Cost: $21.00 (includes lunch)
Our ‘End of Summer’ Wise Women Connect event is on Friday, August 16th in Leawood and we want YOU to be there to Connect with ladies from ALL OVER Kansas City! Our theme for this event will be HISTORY…so you may wear something that commemorates a favorite historical character!
Who is Wise Women Connect? We are a professional organization of women with the established purpose of support and encouragement of women in business. If you know a lady who wants to be CONNECTED to other women in a certain profession, Wise Women Connect could be just what she needs.
You may attend 2 events before joining the organization.
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Christian Business Connections Network Meeting
Location:
New Life Event Space
1828 Walnut St., 4th floor
Kansas City, MO
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Time: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join us! It is an all-inclusive and non-denominational group and our focus is networking/friendship/outreach.
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Saturday, October 5
KCSV (Kansas City Startup Village) 1-Year Anniversary Celebration & Block Party
Location:
KCSV
45th St. and State Line Road
Kansas City, MO
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Time: Noon – 5:00 pm
Free to attend or donations accepted.
The KCSV is turning 1 this month and we’re celebrating – Block Party Style!!
We plan to shut down 45th Ave for 1 block on either side of State Line Rd and allow local businesses and startups to showcase their wares on the street.
(note: State Line Rd will remain open, free parking may be found on nearby streets)
Art, games, prizes, food, a local Village market and more! Now looking for talent, makers, and goods. If you’d like to celebrate with us and have the opportunity to promote your brand, give us a shout at brittain@kcsv.org.
Register for KCSV Celebration Party
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