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Workshop: Learn to Negotiate Like a Pro in Your Job Search Sept 10 Aurora

FREE INTERACTIVE, HANDS-ON WORKSHOP where you will first learn and then practice the skills required to negotiate for success during the hiring process with your future employer.  Learn the most successful negotiating tactics, including crucial steps that you must take even before the negotiating stage begins.  Lauren Milligan promises to deliver a high-energy and interactive workshop which includes a lively group exercise where the participants get to try out the tactics shared in the presentation

Attendees will Learn:

1) The 3 basic steps of the negotiation process.  Critical components of each step are discussed.

2) Important keywords & tactics to keep your negotiations on track, and in your favor.

3) The psychology and behaviors that shape negotiations. You'll know how to recognize when a negotiating is going well, or when you need to change direction.

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4) How to stay in your ZOPA.  Determine if a BATNA can be reached.

After these strategies are presented, the group will get a chance to put these skills to test, with a lively and fun exercise.

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Your Coach and Facilitator for the evening:

Lauren Milligan is one of the leading career experts in the Chicagoland market and is a frequent go-to expert for the media, including on WGN and WLS radio, ABC News, and CLTV. Ms. Milligan has also appeared in hundreds of career advancement articles across the nation (New York Times, USA Today, Crain's, CNN.com, The Ladders, Yahoo, CareerBuilder, Monster, and more). Her company, ResuMAYDAY, is the premier career management and outplacement services group in the Chicagoland area. Established in 2001, it has grown to an integrated firm, working with job seekers throughout the nation.

Do you need a job search/career transition plan in case you should lose your job in the near future? If so, please join us for the monthly networking meeting of the:

Crossroads Career Network Ministry
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
7:00 pm - 9:00pm

Eola Community Center & Library
555 S. Eola Road, Room 111
Aurora, IL 60504


No prior registration required for this FREE skills training & networking meeting

 For more information, call George Carson at 630-675-4509 georcarson@aol.com 

 Event Website:  http://networkforsuccess.eventbrite.com?s=17184267 

Directions: ½ mile north of intersection of Eola Rd & Ogden Ave on west side of road in large red brick building. Room 111 where meeting is being held is on north end of building. If the parking lot is full, please feel free to use the adjoining church parking lot on the south end of the building.

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