PR For Job Seeker

By Norma Yamaji Susan Hill, co-owner of Susan Hill Public Relations and former news anchor, discussed how to improve your job search and “open doors” through personal branding and public relations at a recent Pronet meeting on March 12. Hill outlined the strategy of C-R-E-A-T-E to maximize results as a job seeker. Not to be [...]

Personal Branding: Stand Out From the Crowd

By Susan Breidenbach Personal branding gives you a big advantage in today’s job market.  It’s how you stand out from the flood of resumes triggered by every posted job opening.  And it’s how the hidden jobs—which account for more than 80% of job openings these days—find you. That’s the message Bret Simmons delivered to ProNet [...]

ProNet Featured in Reno Gazette Journal

By Susan Breidenbach If you are an unemployed professional, why should you seek out an organization such as ProNet?  Or if you are recruiting professionals for your company, organization, or clients, why should you go to a ProNet-type organizations such first? ProNet Reno’s branch manager, Pieter Droog, spelled it all out in a recent article [...]

ProNet Program Discussed on KUNR

Are you an unemployed professional wondering if a program like ProNet is right for you? Are you a prospective employee looking for quality, pre-screened applicants? Dan Erwine on KUNR’s Nevada Newsline radio program recently conducted an in-depth interview with ProNet Branch Manager Pieter Droog and ProNet members Johanna Downey and Rich Goldman. Topics covered in [...]

On Your Own, But Not Alone…at Reno Collective

The job as we’ve known it may be dead. Many of today’s job-seekers are looking at self-employment as the only alternative. The Reno Collective is helping them.

Managing what you share on Facebook.

While you must be visible to people interested in hiring you, it’s of penultimate importance that you control what is visible to them.

Online Reputation Management: Do You Know Where Your Name Is?

By Susan Breidenbach “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” —Oscar Wilde In Wilde’s time, the talking was done face to face, and some of it might work its way in to a newspaper with a geographically limited circulation. Today, the talking is done online and can spread all [...]

Finding the Rest of the Job-Market Iceberg

The job market we are seeing from within ProNet Reno has almost no resemblance to the one we read or hear about in the news.

Networking: The Key Weapon in any Job-Search Arsenal

Some 80 percent of available jobs never get advertised or publicly posted. They are filled through networking–word-of-mouth referrals and recommendations