Speakers: Ellen Sautter and Diane Crompton, Career Management Consultants, Right Management, Inc., Atlanta, GA

More than 12 million people in 130 industries around the world are members of the Web-based professional networking community LinkedIn. Nearly three-quarters of a million belong to competitor sites Ecademy and Ryze, while Europe-based Xing (formerly OpenBC) boasts tens of millions of member-to-member connections in 16 languages. A whopping 63 million blogs connect people around the globe. Google has archived more than one billion posts to message boards and discussion groups. Any way you look at it, a lot of people are doing a lot of multi-national mingling.

Online networking — building professional relationships through Internet-based social networks, discussion groups, blogs, and personal Web sites — is the hottest topic to hit the world of job hunting and career management since a little site called Monster started the electronic job search revolution of the 1990s.

As Career Consultants, the presenters have followed hundreds of clients through their online networking journeys, as well as experienced the process directly themselves. Ellen Sautter and Diane Crompton can offer attendees valuable insight on this topic. They have found online networking tools to be a pertinent and important part of any job search and for career management in general. In addition, this session may build awareness on the benefit and timeliness of developing an online brand.

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