April, 1999 HGS Seminars, Courses and Field Trips

April, 1999Seminars, Short Courses, and Field Trips

Career Decision Workshop: In order to solve a problem, you need to describe it. This workshop adds the words to describe it.

Instructor: Dr. John Dyck of Drake Beam Mortin, Inc.
Date: Session A: Thursday April 8, 1999
Time: 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location: Veritas, 3701 Kirby, please check-in with the 4th floor receptionist
Reservations: Please send your check to the HGS Office. For more information, telephone the HGS office (713-785-6402) or e-mail.
Note: A second session "Session B" will be held on Wednesday May 5, 1999

Description: Attendees walk out with an action plan for the next day, next week, and next month after assessing skills, interests, and personality for best fit. This workshop will be given twice, once in April and again in May. Class size is limited to 20-25. Cost is $25.00 to cover the price of materials. This class is being underwritten by Drake Beam Mortin, Inc. and the HGS.
Speaker Biography:
Drake Beam Morin is the worldwide leader in providing strategic consulting solutions that align organizational and individual goals, values, and competencies to achieve business results and career success. Drawing on its incomparable experiences, resources, and global network, Drake Beam Morin delivers state-of-the-art human resource services that focus on employee selection, development, retention, and outplacement, as well as individual career management and transition.
With more than 180 offices in over 35 countries, Drake Beam Morin is a subsidiary of Harcourt General, a $4 billion publishing, education, and specialty retailing company.
John W. Dyck, Jr., Ph.D. serves as the staff psychologist and managing consultant in Houston. In addition to performing psychological assessments for executive and senior clients, he provides career counseling, management consulting, and executive coaching to numerous businesses and executives at all organizational levels.

Internet Job Hunting and Networking for Geoscientists

Instructors: Kara Bennett, Dave Crane, Inda Immega, Alan Jackson, Bill Mathias
Date: Saturday April 24, 1999
Place: Room 904 in the Phillips Petroleum Co.office in the Chase Bank Building., 6330 West Loop S., on the corner of Bissonnet and the west loop (610). Parking available around building and in covered lot adjacent to building.
Time: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Cost: In advance: (before April 22) $20, non–HGS members $30. At the door, member $25, non-member $35. Non-members will receive a $10.00 (50%) discount toward HGS membership for the first year.
To Register: Send check by April 22 to the HGS Office
Contact: Jim Crabbe (281) 240-8333, email
Note: BBQ lunch is included.
If you are unable to attend this session, check the HGS Web Page Calendar for future class dates.
Class Notes:
The class notes in HTML format were handed out at class on a floppy disk. The files included on the handout disk have been put into a zipfile for you to download here. Download the ZIP file , use Winzip, PKZIP, etc., to extract the html files to a new directory or floppy disk., then use your browser to open the "entry" page file "mainpage.htm."
Description:

Developing proficiency in the use the Internet is becoming more and more important for geoscientists. For many of us, this new "tool" has already become an integral part of our daily lives. Examples can be found in the way we do our work, communicate with friends and colleagues, access data, do research, and shop for goods and services. In this time of downsizing, use of the Internet can be especially helpful in locating new jobs and keeping our personal "networks" up to date. With that in mind, this course has been developed to help HGS members use the Internet for the job search.
Designed for the beginning to intermediate user, it gives the beginning user a firm grounding in the basics then progresses to more advanced topics. Attendees will learn how to get connected to the Internet, use search engines, navigate geoscience and other job-hunting web sites, tailor resumes for email and scanning, build personal resume web pages, and develop strategies for today''s job market. Each attendee will receive a disk containing web addresses to job search sites and class presentations, example "home page" html code, and other useful information.
Agenda:

• History and Organization of the Internet
  
• Getting connected - Hardware, Software, Cost
  
• Using Search Engines – Finding Companies, People, Addresses
  
• Job Search Sites and Networking
  
• Tailor Your Resume for Email and Scanning
  
• Building your own "Home Page"
  
• Real World Strategies for the Job Search

Class Outline
9:00 Jim Crabbe -      Introduction
9:15 Alan Jackson -   History and Organization of the Internet
9:45 Dave Crane -     Getting Connected

• Hardware, software, and cost
  
• Basics for a job search
  
• Add-ons to "tune" your PC

10:30 Break
10:40 Dave Crane -    Using Search Engines

• Kinds of search engines and how they differ
  
• Finding sites, companies, people, and addresses

11:25 Lunch
12:30 Kara Bennett  -  Job Search Sites and Networking

• Geoscience employment
  
• Other employment
  
• Skills data bases
  
• Networking

13:30 Break
13:40 Kara Bennett  -   Tailoring Your Resume for Email and Scanning

• Best foot forward
  
• Formats and problem formats
  
• Submitting resumes (on-line, email, fax, etc.)

14:10 Inda Immega   -  Building Web Pages

• Putting your resume on your own web site.

14:55 Break  (collect questions for Q&A session on 3x5 cards)
15:05 Bill Mathias  -   Real World Strategies

• The current job market
  
• Recruiters vs outplacement and other employment services
  
• How recruiters use the internet
  
• General recommendations
  
• Q&A for this speaker

15:50 All Instructors  -  General Q&A
16:20 Jim Crabbe    -&