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On-Demand Free Audio Teleclasses

2012 FREE TELECLASSES:

CDI offers several different kinds of calls, which show up throughout the year. These include:

Honing Your Craft (HUC) - How-To strategy in areas such as resume writing, career coaching, social search, and more.
Tactical Biz-Tech Buzz (TBTB) - Informative calls that meet our commitment to help you stay up-to-date with new technologies to support your businesses and your clients/client services.
Next Practices (NP) - Business strategy for helping you to maintain a successful, fulfilling, and profitable resume and career services business.

All calls are scheduled on Tuesdays (usually the third week of the month) at 4:00 PM Eastern. Calls are open to CDI members only.

CDI also hosts Member Appreciation Month each January. This includes four free member calls, monthly prize drawings, and more. Learn about CDI Member Appreciation Month.

2012 Teleseminar Line-Up

(View archived MP3 list)

UNRAVELING THE WEBSITE MYSTERY: DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, HOSTING - Tuesday, 3/27/12

Presented by Susan P. Joyce of Job-Hunt.org

WHERE THE JOBS ARE FOUND: CAREERXROADS SOURCES OF HIRE SURVEY FEEDBACK - Tuesday, 4/17/12

Presented by Gerry Crispin of CareerXRoads

Direct from their 2012 survey findings, CareerXRoads co-founder, Gerry Crispin, will share how highly-competitive, high-profile companies fill their U.S. open positions.

OVERCOMING RESUME CHALLENGES WITH UNEMPLOYED / UNDER-EMPLOYED CLIENTS - Tuesday, 5/15/12

Expert guests: Donald Burns of DonaldBurns.com; Rosa Vargas of Career Steering; and Laura Smith-Proulx of An Expert Resume

PITCHING THE MEDIA IN THE DIGITAL AGE - Tuesday, 6/19/12

Presented by with journalist and digital strategist, Alexis Grant

You will learn:

Why you should ditch the press release and send a casual email instead
Why personalizing your pitch is a must How to track down contact info for journalists and bloggers
The difference between pitching a blogger and pitching a journalist How to use a newsy angle to convince reporters and bloggers to cover your story.

July - no call

HOW TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO CULTIVATE RELATIONSHIPS, CREATE COMMUNITY, AND GET MORE CLIENTS! - Tuesday, 8/21/12

Presented by Miriam Salpeter of Keppie Careers, and author of Social Networking for Career Success; and Laura Labovich of Aspire! Empower! Career Strategy Group.

These two industry power-houses will call upon their collaborative expertise and experience in co-authoring the soon-to-be-released, 100 Conversations for Career Success: Learn to Tweet, Cold-Call and Network Your Way to a Dream Job (published by LearningExpress, LLC).

SEO FOR WORDPRESS POWER BLOGGERS - Tuesday, 9/18/12

Presented by Karen Callahan, Adventures Online

No longer be one of those bloggers lost in the search engines because they “don’t know what they don’t know”. Be the blogger that soars to the top of the search results pages because you take advantage of the SEO opportunities available to you every time you write a post!

The purpose of this teleclass is to shed light on the power that everyday bloggers have to influence how the search engines perceive them and where the search engines offer them (list their blogs) as viable choices to prospects doing searches.

You will learn how to help Google understand who you are and what you do. Think Jerry Maguire…The scene where Tom Cruise is begging, “Help me help you!…“ Well, Cruise is Google, and you are Cuba Gooding Jr., the football player who holds the key to helping himself. After this teleclass, you will be aware of many opportunities you have to help Google figure out who you are and what your blog is about so that Google correctly categorizes your blog and presents it on search engine results pages to highly targeted audiences. You will understand the places where you can add SEO, the recommended components for successfully doing full, DIY-SEO on each post, the components that Google considers most important, how to keep yourself focused, and more.

Prerequisites: All members are welcome, but this will be jumping right in to the WordPress dashboard, so hands-on familiarity with WordPress will be a plus.

WOW! SECOND-ANNUAL MEMBER APPRECIATION EXTRAVAGANZA:

Here's what we did in January 2012:

Member Appreciation Teleclasses: Each week CDI will offer a free teleclass with topic experts. Events are currently planned for Tuesdays starting Jan 10th at 4:00 PM Eastern. All will be recorded and made available at no charge to members who are unable to attend. Calls include:

And:

Weekly Prizes: Each week (Jan 11th - Feb 1st) CDI will be giving away gift certificates to randomly selected CDI members valued at $20 each.

CDI Month-Long Social Member Celebration: Here's your opportunity to appreciate the CDI members, staff, and volunteers who have inspired, helped, or supported you! From January 11th - February 1st, take a moment to post Twitter (www.twitter.com), Facebook (on CDI's Fan page at http://on.fb.me/fmgmf4) or LinkedIn (on CDI's LinkedIn group page at http://linkd.in/h1IAcR) recognition for these individuals. More details available to members.

More prizes: That's not all! The member who posts the most #cdithanks appreciation posts on Twitter or CDI's Facebook Fan Page during the month will receive a CDI Superhero Gift Pack ($50 value).

”WOW! The Linkedin Buzz call was better than you advertised, really. The facilitator was clear, direct, and knowledgeable. Making the site user friendly for me means I can better serve my clients. Thank you for making this happen. My CDI membership is priceless.”

- Sari Neudorf, SDN

Consulting

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“I just listened to the LinkedIn Buzz call recording and LinkedIn's PR Rep, Erin O'Harra, led a super informative session.

As the 2nd Place Winner for the 2011 Best LinkedIn Profile TORI, I considered myself up on all things LinkedIn yet I still benefited a great deal by listening to this hour long session…and now my clients will benefit too!

Thank you for bringing us such fantastic expertise once again.”

- Melanie Lenci,

Résumé Relief

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"I just wanted to thank you for providing the free teleclasses as part of CDI's member appreciation program. I cannot begin to tell you how informative they have been, as each class has answered so many questions I have been pondering for quite some time. CDI and their dedicated panelists have truly been advocates to the industry and its members."

- Susan Barens,

Career Dynamics

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“Thank you for putting together the series of free teleclasses on many pertinent topics for members.

This is exactly the kind of activity I think true learning organizations should be supporting. It gives members the benefit of others’ expertise and visibility to those doing the presentations.

So glad to see it as a regular benefit to membership.”

- Kate Duttro,

D.Ed.

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"What an amazing call with Eric Enge for the Tactical Biz-Tech Buzz series!

I was a little concerned it would be way over my head and full of tech babble. Instead I got great nuggets of real world bottom line information in an area that can be totally overwhelming. Eric gave generously of tools and examples in a way that even the non-technical could understand (I’m proof.). Yet, he also dived deep when a listener question merited it.

If CDI were charging $50 or even $90 for these calls, my partner and I would have had half a dozen action items/tools, each of which would have been worth the fee. I know it was a really full call and it was clear people were taking a lot of value."

- Pat Schuler,

Creator of Kick

Butt Sales

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MORE TESTIMONIALS

"I just wanted to take a moment to rave about the FREE teleseminar on Prospering Despite a Downturn Market.

To think I almost missed the call! My head is spinning since the call ended. I wish I had been more prepared to take notes, because the ideas that were suggested were nothing short of brilliant. I honestly did not want the call to end. In short, I learned easy ways to increase my exposure in the market- place during a market downturn, without spending a lot of money or dumping my last dollar into advertising. I think this could be a 10-part series, and I know that I wouldn't miss a single one.

What a great class ... thank you!"

- Laura Labovich, A & E Consulting, LLC

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“Thank you, thank you, thank you for offering FREE teleseminars through CDI. I’ve found the calls extremely professional, insightful, and jam packed with valuable information. I’ve paid for many a teleseminar and received far less ROI. CDI makes a huge difference! Kudos for offering great topics and exceptional presenters.”

- Sari Neudorf, SDN Consulting

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“I had to write and thank you for the fantastic teleclass: Overcoming Your Money Hang-ups. Every CDI teleclass I’ve done so far has been extremely helpful and relevant to my career as a resume writer, but this one was a revelation…it blew my socks off! So thank you so much for this amazing teleclass. I know it will affect me in many areas of my life from now on. It would have been worth twice what I paid for my yearly CDI membership, only it was free! So thank you...”

- Lorraine Wright, 21st Century Resumes

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“Laura, as the host of CDI’s monthly free telecalls, you manage these conversations so well – and your brand is so pleasing, welcoming and real – we’re lucky to have you as a our fearless leader. Thanks!”

– Jean Cummings, A Resume For Today

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"I am a huge fan of the CDI teleclasses.

Initially, I started listening in as a networking tool to meet other career professionals. I have quickly discovered that CDI teleclasses are having a profound impact on my business. I hang up from every teleclass with at least one nugget of information that I can share with clients. More importantly, each call has provided me with at least one money making idea to help grow my business. For a new company, revenue is everything.

I can honestly say that these teleclasses have paid for the annual membership dues."

- Laura Labovich, A & E Consulting, LLC

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“Many thanks for today's Next Practices call ... and all the others I've been privileged to attend. I love the give-and-take of these conversations. Lots of valuable information from "the front lines," from multiple perspectives, offering thoughtful information and advice. Please keep up the good work!”

– Debbi O’Reilly, ResumeWriter.com

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"I really loved the call today with the four experts (Janice, Laura, Audrey and you). It was really and truly eye-opening to hear everyone's take on client service and boundaries.

I learned a tremendous amount. I know I'm already a huge CDI ambassador, but my goodness, it's truly amazing what you offer the members for FREE! Amazing."

- Laura Labovich, Aspire! Empower! Career Services Group