This month, Tech Valley Connect teamed up with the Hope 7 Center of Troy to adopt families in need! 

On the evening of Wednesday, July 15th, Tech Valley Connect staff, clients and their families attended Park Playhouse’s production of Singin’ in the Rain.

Park Playhouse is just one of the numerous arts attractions in the Capital Region. The Playhouse puts on separate performances in July & August. This year, the season opened with Singin’ in the Rain, based on the MGM classic, which runs through July 25th. Next month, the Playhouse will perform The Pajama Game, based on the novel 7 1/2 cents, from August 1st – 22nd.

Performances take place every Tuesday through Sunday. Preferred reserved seating is available in the price range of $16-$18. Bleacher and lawn seating is free, but get there early! Seats fill up fast.

For more information about Park Playhouse and its productions, visit www.parkplayhouse.org

Published by ExecuNet April 2015

Eighty-five percent. That’s how many executives found their next job through activities other than scouring job listings. How do we know that? Because only 15% of the top executive jobs — the ones that are truly for senior-level executives like yourself — are ever publicly posted online.*

What do executives say works best to find new career options? Networking. Getting referrals from current contacts in their network and finding people in target companies and networking with them.*

For example, here’s what a few of our members shared about how they found their new opportunity.

• Reach out to broadest network possible, and keep your message of what you are good at and want to do, simple, short and concise!
• Don’t network too much with friends, expand your network beyond that. Work with all areas, recruiters, online job boards, company websites, face-to-face networking, etc.
• Network and then network some more. I strove to have 5 meetings or calls per week and used every meeting/call to ask for more contacts to network with.
• Learn how to ‘play the game’ as quickly as possible, i.e. have a good résumé ready with plenty of keywords included, try to make contact with the hiring person at a target company, try to be as focused as possible.