2-Hour Virtual Seminar on Strategies For Job Seekers: Best Practices For A Strategic Job Hunt
December 3, 2025
10:00 AM PST | 01:00 PM EST
2 Hours
711794
Group Attendees: Any number of participants
Recorded Version: Unlimited viewing for 6 months ( Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)
Ready to land the right role faster-and with confidence? This practical, results focused webinar shows you how to design a strategic search that targets the jobs you actually want, positions your value clearly, and accelerates interviews and offers.
You’ll learn how to build a compelling professional narrative, understand what hiring managers and applicant tracking systems (ATS) really look for, and use modern tools-networking, data, and AI-to work smarter at every step. From optimizing your résumé and LinkedIn profile to crafting high?response outreach, mastering interviews, and negotiating strong offers, you’ll leave with a personalized job?hunt blueprint you can apply immediately to generate momentum within days.Why should you Attend:
- Define a clear job?search strategy aligned to your target roles, skills, and market realities
- Translate your experience into a sharp value proposition and achievement?driven résumé bullets
- Optimize your résumé and LinkedIn for ATS relevance and recruiter search-without keyword stuffing
- Create a focused target?company list and a weekly pipeline plan that balances applications, referrals, and outreach
- Use AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) to speed up tailoring, research, and interview prep-while keeping your voice authentic
- Write messages that get replies: networking, warm introductions, and recruiter follow?ups
- Prepare for behavioral and case?style interviews with concise, evidence?based stories (STAR/CAR frameworks)
- Negotiate compensation and evaluate offers confidently (base, bonus, equity, benefits, growth)
- Build a sustainable routine to avoid burnout: activity metrics, accountability, and continuous improvement
Areas Covered in Session:
- 0:00 - 0:10 Kickoff & Goals
- Current hiring landscape; define your search goal and constraints; quick self?assessment
- 0:10 - 0:25 Targeting & Value Proposition
- Identify target roles and competencies; craft a positioning statement that guides all materials
- 0:25 - 0:40 Résumé & LinkedIn That Work
- ATS alignment vs. keyword stuffing; metrics?driven bullets; profile essentials; quick wins checklist
- 0:40 - 0:55 Building a High?Yield Pipeline
- Create a target?company list; balance applications with referrals; weekly activity metrics that compound
- 0:55 - 1:10 Networking & Outreach That Gets Replies
- Message templates; warm introductions; recruiter engagement; follow up cadence and tracker tips
- 1:10 - 1:25 Interview Mastery
- Story banks (STAR/CAR); behavioral and case prompts; concise answers; handling gaps and pivots
- 1:25 - 1:35 AI for Job Search (Ethical & Effective)
- Research companies, tailor materials, generate practice questions; keep authenticity and accuracy
- 1:35 - 1:50 Offer Evaluation & Negotiation
- Total compensation, levers to negotiate, timing, counteroffers, and decision frameworks
- 1:50 - 2:00 Action Plan & Q&A
- 90?day job?search blueprint; weekly routine; tools & trackers; open questions
Topics We Will Address
- Market aligned targeting: roles, industries, and the skills that matter most
- Crafting your professional narrative and value proposition
- Résumé and LinkedIn optimization for human readers and ATS
- Smart pipeline building: balancing applications, referrals, and recruiter conversations
- High?response outreach and networking playbook (scripts and cadence)
- Interview prep: story banks, mock questions, and feedback loops
- Leveraging AI tools to accelerate research and tailoring responsibly
- Offer evaluation, negotiation strategies, and decision?making frameworks
- Personal weekly operating system: habits, metrics, and accountability
Who Will Benefit:
- All
Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle's clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted to government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom.
He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, "90 Days to a High-Performance Team", published by McGraw Hill and often accompanied by in-person, facilitated instruction, has helped and continues to help thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.
He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues.
He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster's International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.
Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation.
He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.
Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.
