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Comment by Jenny Pitkin on April 17, 2008 at 8:45pm

I will be at the Linked In Training! Hope to see everyone there!!

Comment by David Schow on April 9, 2008 at 8:34am

It is great to see a network for the Rocky Mountains. Thanks for getting this started Jenny. It appears that RMAR is focused on the private recruiting industry, is that correct? Any place for a corporate recruiter like myself?

Comment by Kacey MacLaughlin on April 8, 2008 at 7:28pm

Hi local recruiters,
Thanks Jenny for creating this group. I just joined Rocky Mountain Association of Recruiters this week and look forward to getting to know some local recruiters here in Colorado. Welcome to Colorado, too! I'm a fourth generation Coloradoan. I'm also on linkedin kacey@intellectrecruiting.com and would welcome any invitations. Thanks, Kacey

Comment by Jenny Pitkin on April 7, 2008 at 8:39pm

LinkedIn for Recruiters
Friday May 9th
1:00 to 5:00 pm

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network with over 20 million LinkedIn users worldwide...and growing daily.

LinkedIn has evolved as one of the most important business tools for the Recruiting and Staffing Industry in the last 10 years. It has reached critical mass and is now in the hands of over 20 million users. This is an important audience full of business executives, decision makers and candidates.

Effectively using LinkedIn (and gaining a business advantage) is different than being on LinkedIn. There are tremendous benefits if you only know how to take advantage of LinkedIn.

Join us for this special RMAR Recruiter Training program takes the mystery out of LinkedIn and gets you quickly up to speed with everything you need to know to be a killed user of this extremely powerful business and network development tool.

This program is designed exclusively for the Recruiting and Staffing Industry.

In this 4 hour workshop

LinkedIn for Recruiters will cover:
• On-Line Business and Social Networking in general.
• LinkedIn Profiles - Optimizing them for business use.
• Strategies for who to invite into your network and how.
• Tips, tricks, and the nuances of LinkedIn.
• Invitation strategies and techniques for building your LinkedIn network to 500+ connections or more in a matter of days.
• Avoiding the "hidden" pitfalls.
• Learn to successfully search for people, businesses, resources and jobs..
• Presentation handouts and valuable MS Word Templates (Profiles, Invites, Intros) are provided.

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Pricing for this event:

$ 70.00 RMAR Members

$ 100.00 for Non-Members**

Special Pricing for 3 or more from the same company
Call for rates 303-766-7780

** Become a RMAR Member to day and you can attend this program at the Member rate and receive discounts for future RMAR training programs.


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Auraria Campus
North Classroom Building
Room 1207
Downtown Denver
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About Mike O'Neil
Integrated Alliances
Mike O'Neil is the epitome of a go-getter. As a tech consultant and business strategist, Mike creatively arranged private networking events to promote his services and link various tech organizations together to grow his clients' businesses. Mike steadily created a vast network of service providers and other B2B organizations and began to develop the powerful networking events which focused on the core mission of what would become Integrated Alliances: a venture to bring people and business together in a vibrant atmosphere.
Subsequently in November of 2003, Mike founded Integrated Alliances, LLC, to serve that niche as a business networking and events company. Originally formed to include the Telecom and Internet industries, IA has grown to include other sectors such as web development, hosting, marketing and other business services. Today, IA has a network of over 8,000 business professionals and is recognized as one of the fastest growing business and technology networking events companies in Colorado.
Beyond IA, Mike is an Industrial Engineer who has been providing sales engineering services for systems integrators and large Internet/telecom carriers in Colorado for 15 years. Originally from Minnesota, Mike graduated with a Bachelor's in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University in 1983. His passion in technology eventually moved him from Arizona to Colorado in 1990.

Comment by Jenny Pitkin on March 31, 2008 at 7:28pm

Hi Madeline,
That is great to build your network and your business. I have been in CO for almost 2 years now, and I am always networking!! I will send you a invitation on here and also please check out www.RMAR.org. Its group for recruiters and its a fun group (because its all recruiters).

In the work life balance arena, for me it was just the learning curve of what work life balance actually means here. I just have learned to clarify a lot more if a candidate says they want work life balance or a client defines that culture to be work life balance environment. So I just thought it was interesting the different expectations. Now I just ask tons of questions! I think overall, here people do expect to work less hours for the same pay than in other markets I have recruited in (Boston, St. Louis).

Comment by Madeline Branda on March 31, 2008 at 6:50pm

Hi everyone, I'm brand spanking new to recruiting! So I'm really trying to build my business and network. I'm on linked in, mbranda@surrex.com and would love to hear from any of you. Jenny, I also noticed a big life balance difference between Denver and Minneapolis when I moved here. I love it here too. I have been hiring actively here since 2004, and I have found that people who live here expect the work life balance. which aspect of setting expectations are you finding challenging? the long cycles? the delays?

Comment by Dominick Neves on March 31, 2008 at 4:50pm

I guess I'm in too! :)

Comment by Tracy Lowery on March 31, 2008 at 4:45pm

I'm in!