Events

Ongoing CAREER and faith-based Events

Optimize Your Career on 1180 am WFYL

1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month at 8 am ET – Listen to Ed on live Philadelphia radio, 1180 am WFYL on "Optimize Your Career" program. Ed touches on every career management topic whether you're working, in job transition or thinking about a career pivot. Every month, Ed will have a regional or nationally-known guest appear on his Career Spotlight Series. To listen, go to internet radio: https://www.1180wfyl.com then click on the blue box, "listen live".

Career Professionals Executive Networking Group (CPENG)

4th Thursday of each month at 6 - 8 pm ET, hosted by Ed Samuel. This virtual forum is geared for mid-senior leaders who are in job transition or who are working and want to expand and grow their network. No fee to attend the first two (2) meetings and/or CPENG events. Registration required. Please email Ed Samuel at: esamuel@samnovainc.com for more information or go to: https://cpengroup.wildapricot.org/

Believers in Business (BIB) Greater Kennett Square, PA Chapter

Meets the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month, 7:15 am - 8:30 am ET at Creek Side Dinner, Kennett Square, PA. This small, virtual business forum focuses on the Word (bible), prayer, support and providing each other leads and referrals to help grow each other's respective businesses. It is a business category driven forum. This chapter is one (1) of 10 chapters in the region. To attend as a guest, please contact Ed Samuel at: esamuel@samnovainc.com. For more on BIB go to: https://www.bibnetwork.org

Small Business Group - Beloved Truth (Faith Based)

Meets the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month at 6:30 - 7:45 pm ET. Join Ed as he leads a virtual forum that provides prayer, bible training and practical advice to help business owners. The primary focus is to help business owners learn to run businesses using Larry Burkett's book and training, "Business By the Book". Training manual ($12.50) and book, ($13.50). Areas of focus include ownership and purpose, human resources, finances, business relationships, integrity, giving, planning, networking, and social media. There will be no restriction on business owners attending from competing industry segments. Business referrals outside of this forum will be 100% organic and not required or expected. Free to attend but you will need to join Beloved Truth Community. Once accepted, you can Like this group and gain access to the Zoom link and learn the best way to order the discounted materials. Please begin by clicking this link: https://www.belovedtruthcommunity.com/

Previously-Held Events

EVENT HELD: Tuesday, 6/8, 11-12:00 pm ET on Job Offers and Best Practices on Clubhouse. Ed was joined by Career Coach, Evelyn Maultsby-Bynum in this fast paced "live" Q&A session on Clubhouse.

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: 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: 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: 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.

EVENT HELD: Friday 3/26/21, 7-8:30 pm ET, "Executive Career Coaching Panelist", Penn State University (PSU), Executive MBA Program/Alumni, Smeal College of Business virtual forum. Open to all PSU students and alumni. Upcoming event registration details available via the PSU Newsletter or email Ed Samuel at: esamuel@samnovainc.com

EVENT HELD: Thursday, 3/18/21, 5-5 pm ET, “The Balanced Job Search”,

Financial Executive Networking Group (FENG) - LATAM SIG Chapter. Ed Samuel covered 16 areas that will improve your ability to land a job of your choosing sooner.

EVENT HELD: Tuesday, 3/23/21, 12-2 pm EST. “One Year Later - The Job Market and Economic Changes during COVID-19”, Pennsylvania Career Development Association (PACDA). Ed, as the Executive Career Coaching Panelist, will be speaking on what has occurred in the job market. Registration details forthcoming.

EVENT HELD: Wednesday, 3/17/21, 12-1 pm ET, “Assessing Your Career at Any Stage”,

Joint webinar by Ed Samuel - Executive Career Coach (Assessing Your Career at Any Stage) and Faizun Kamal - Franchise Consultant (Encore Careers).

EVENT HELD: Friday, 3/5/21 at 2:30 pm ET, "Optimizing Your Career Dos and Don'ts", Pennsylvania Basketball Alumni Relations Committee, co-chaired by Stanley Greene.

EVENT HELD: Friday, 3/5/21 at 9:30 am ET, "Assessing Your Career at Any Stage",

Innovative Networking Professionals, Exton PA. Hosted by Susan Mattern, Realtor. Ed Samuel presenting.

EVENT HELD: Saturday, 2/6/21 at 8:00 am ET, "The Art of Follow-up", 1180 am WFYL radio, Optimize Your Career program. Internet radio, https://www.1180wfyl.com/

EVENT HELD: Thursday, 2/4/21 at 7:00 - 8:30 pm ET, "Virtual Interviewing - Do's and Don'ts", Technical Professionals Networking Group (TPNG), Virtual Forum, focused on best practices for video interviewing.