PACDA: Intentional Networking

Networking is essential to career development and job-search success, but it can also go wrong. For career professionals, the opportunity is twofold: to strengthen our own ability to build purposeful, reciprocal professional relationships and to offer clients and students practical guidance that helps them avoid common networking missteps.

In this session, Ed Samuel will share strategies for networking with greater intention before, during, and after an interaction. He will share insights about the four (4) Network Tiers, the 95% rule of networking, and re-visiting win-win/win-lose. Ed will recommend the two (2) things a job seeker must have in hand while in a job search and will help us guide our students / clients about:

Participants will leave with actionable ideas to “walk the talk” in their own networking and better equip the clients and students they serve to build connections that support long-term career success.

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Presenter Bio

Ed Samuel: Linkedin

Ed Samuel holds a BA summa cum laude in Business Administration from Wilmington University. He is a certified consultant in the DISC personality assessment for individuals and teams, New Horizons (retirement), and is both an assessment consultant and trainer in Career Direct, a holistic career assessment and strategy methodology. Ed is a multi-hyphenate professional, including career coach, resume writer, published author, nationwide public speaker, and faith/work leader.

He founded SamNova, Inc (samnovainc.com) more than 16 years ago and leads a team that delivers AI-enabled career advice to global clients, including career assessments, resume writing, Linked profile support, interview prep, networking support, targeted job searches, beating the ATS systems, attacking the hidden job market, landing a job 55+, and those making career pivots. He has nearly 29K connections on LinkedIn, has coached nearly 2K individuals (with 500+ testimonials), and has lead his international team in completing 1600+ career assessments. This is one of more than the two dozen workshops / seminars he delivers annually and he has been featured in well-known media including The Wall Street Journal, AARP magazine, Fox Business News, and cable TV. He published “Optimize Your Resume – Dos and Don’ts” in 2019 and will be releasing a book on networking later this year.

Ed launched his career with 19 years at Digital Equipment Corporation in Accounting and Customer Operations. He then spent 11 years leading operations with well-known firms such as Stride-Rite, Mead West Vaco, and UBS, where he as a licensed financial advisor (Series 7, 63). Ed then led recruiting at several Greater Philadelphia organizations, including WL Gore and Robert Half. He won the Eastern Region’s "New Recruiter of the Year in 2008" as part of Global Recruiters Network. Ed leads a bi-weekly faith/work small business forum and a non-profit ministry in stewardship with Crown Financial as a US Ambassador.