ED SAMUEL SPEAKING EVENTS

EVENT HELD: Tuesday, 9/7/21, “‘Live’ Resume Critiques on Optimize Your Career - Power Hour on Clubhouse”. Ed Samuel and co-moderator Benda Soto discussed the Dos and Don'ts about Resumes (based on Ed's book, Optimize Your Resume - Dos and Don'ts the SamNova Way) and gave real time feedback and critique on resumes. 

EVENT HELD: Wednesday 9/8/21, “Cold Calling Best Practices to help your Job Search in a BIG WAY”, Great Careers Plymouth Meeting. Ed Samuel discussed how Cold Calling can play a pivotal role in your job search. Many myths about why cold calling does not work. 40% of all SamNova clients have landed a job because of it to date. Hosted by Bob Wood. 

EVENT HELD: Tuesday, 9/14/21, “Tougher Interview Questions - Optimize Your Career” Power Hour on Clubhouse. Ed Samuel discussed even harder interview questions and situations. Preparation spells success when it comes to interviewing. 

EVENT HELD:  Tuesday, 8/31, "What do you need to do before you quit or resign from your job?" at Optimize Your Career - Power Hour on Clubhouse with co-moderator Lynne Williams.

EVENT HELD:  Tuesday, 8/31,  "Building Stronger Teams using DiSC Personality I.D. (PID)" at Innovative Networking Professionals (INP), Kennett Square, PA - hosted by Houston Baker.

EVENT HELD:  Friday, 8/27, "The 17 Essentials to an Effective Job Search" hosted by George Schonewolf and Career Networking Group of Montgomery County.

EVENT HELD:  Tuesday, 8/24, "Live" Resume Reviews and Critiques with co-moderator Dr. Laura Dowling - Optimize Your Career - Power Hour on Clubhouse. 

EVENT HELD:  Tuesday, 8/17, "Live" discussion on the Dos and Don'ts of Cold Calling, Join Ed and co-moderator Brenda Soto as they explore the myths and practical reasons why cold calling can work and why. 

EVENT HELD:  Tuesday, 8/17, "When and How to Assess Your Career" at the Great Careers - King of Prussia chapter.  There are times in life to re-assess your career. You may sense it's the right time to evaluate your goals, purpose, and career direction. Other times, it's forced upon by circumstances outside of your control. Learn 11+ pivotal moments when it may make sense to re-assess your career and the key elements on how to do it. 

EVENT HELD:  Friday, 8/6, "Live" LinkedIn Profile Reviews on Clubhouse, Join Ed and co-moderator Lynne Williams (Great Careers) as they critique LinkedIn Profiles in this fast paced liv virtual forum.  Learn many LinkedIn best practices up to four (4) or more individual profiles are scrutinized. 

EVENT HELD: Tuesday, 8/3,  "Tough Interview Questions" - Optimize Your Career - Power Hour,  Join this virtual "live: event on (CH) with Ed Samuel and co-moderator,  Evelyn Maultsby-Bynum. Learn the best ways to answer the harder interview questions and even those you never see coming.  

EVENT HELD: Tuesday, 7/27,  "Optimize Your Career - Talking People's Careers - Are you in your Dream Job?",  Join this virtual "live: event on (CH) with Ed Samuel and co-moderator, Dr. Laura Dowling. Learn about people’s careers, the whys, the good/bad and if someone is thinking about making a pivot or staying put. Explore the question of whether the current job is bringing out the best in you? If not, what you prepared to do?  

EVENT HELD: Tuesday, 7/20, "Beating Age Bias - SamNova", An Optimize Your Career virtual "live" event on Clubhouse (CH) with co-moderator Pat Roque, Leadership and Career Strategist. We discussed lively discussion key actions one must take to combat ageism concerns and bias that exists in the job market. 

EVENT HELD: Tuesday,  7/13/21, "Leveraging LinkedIn for Business Owners", Ed Samuel spoke at Innovative Networking Professionals (INP) in Kennett Square, PA, hosted by Houston Baker. He discussed attracting new clients, growing your revenue, leveraging your formal network, expanding your social media presence and getting impactful testimonials.  

EVENT HELD: Tuesday, 7/6/21 "Assessing Your Career and Franchising", Ed Samuel, Optimize your Career with Ed Samuel and co-moderator Faizun Kamal (Franchise Consultant/Author) led this audio only Clubhouse (CH) virtual event on learning the drivers behind staying the course or making a change, including a shift to hanging your own shingle. 

 Tuesday 6/22/21, 11 am - 12 pm ET, "Networking Gone Wrong", Ed Samuel, Optimize Your Career, and co-moderator Dr. Laura Dowling (L&D consultant) led this audio only Clubhouse (CH) virtual event, discussion on what to do and not to do related to networking. 

EVENT HELD:  Friday, 6/4, 10-11:30 am ET, Resume Dos and Don't based on Ed's most recent book, "Optimize Your Resume - Dos and Don'ts" at Lehigh Valley Professionals (LVP). He and his team have helped 1000+ to date with amazing results. 

EVENT HELD:  Friday, 5/28, 11-Noon ET, "Job Seeker Power Hour on Clubhouse". Lynne Williams interviews Ed Samuel on When to Optimize Your Career 

EVENT HELD:  Friday, 5/21, 6-8 pm and Saturday, 5/22/21, 8-4 pm CT, Doing Business By The Book (BBTB), Ed Samuel led a seminar in Tulsa, OK, with local business owners. This 1 ½ day seminar taught business how to optimize their businesses and lives by conducting business according to biblical principles. Teachings are  based on Larry Burkett's book, Business By The Book. 

EVENT HELD: Tuesday, 5/11/21, 11am-1pm, “How to Optimize Your Resume - SamNova”Ed Samuel and co-moderator, Brenda Soto, HR Consultant (Jobs2Joy) discussed the Do's and Don'ts of resumes on Clubhouse. 

EVENT HELD: Tuesday, 5/6/21, 9-11 am, "The Balanced Job Search", Career Success Group, Montgomeryville, PA. Ed covered key elements of a balanced job search, actions to take and how it can optimize your career long term. He also introduced an assessment tool to use. 

EVENT HELD: Friday, 4/30/21, 11 am -12 pm ET, "Job Seeker Power Hour" on Clubhouse: Lynne Williams Interviewed Ed Samuel on Career Pivots, Dos and Don'ts. 

EVENT HELD: Wednesday, 4/28/21, 6-7:30 pm,  "The Balanced Job Search", Joseph's People - West Grove, PA Chapter. Ed covered 16 areas to improve your ability to land a job of your choosing sooner

EVENT HELD: Tuesday, 4/20/2021, "The Dos and Don'ts of Job Offers and Contracts", Joint webinar with Ed Samuel - Executive Career Coach (The Dos and Don'ts of Job Offer Negotiation) and Katherine Witherspoon Fry, Attorney with Offit Kurman (The Dos and Don'ts of Signing Job Offers, Severance Agreements and Short-Term Temporary Work Contracts). 

EVENT HELD: Tuesday, 4/13/2021, 5-6 pm ET, "Authentic Interviewing", Financial Executive Networking Group (FENG). Ed Samuel discussed the importance of conducting an Authentic Interview, getting a potential employee to hire you based on your strengths of who you are vs. what they want or think you might be. Ed touched upon five (5) key areas to enhance your authentic interviewing approach and success. To learn more about FENG, please contact Parmila Phillips at: parmila.phillips@gmail.com or Joyce Gibney at: joycegibney@thefeng.org 

EVENT HELD: Monday, 4/12/21, 6-8 pm ET, "Optimize Your Resume - Dos and Don'ts", A virtual presentation at Free Library of Philadelphia, PA

EVENT HELD: Monday 4/5/21, 6-8 pm ET, "The Balanced Job Search", virtual presentation at BENG - Business Executive Networking Group of Reading, PA. Ed summarized key elements of a balanced job search, actions to take and how it can help you not only land your next job but optimize your career on a longer-term basis.