Archive for April 2009

April 29th, 2009, 6:00 am

Ask-A-Recruiter: The Language of Career Change

Contributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart

As my last 15 years of experience has been specialized (contract negotiations, mortgage loans, and asset and mortgage backed securities), how do you successfully convey that your past experience and skills set is transferable to a new industry, such as health care?

How to translate [...]

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April 28th, 2009, 6:30 pm

Voices from the Field: a day in the life of a Microfinance Institution CEO

by Pamela Weinsaft

You are invited to WAM-NY’s ongoing Voices from the Field series and High Water Women Foundation’s preview of its Master Class in Microfinance™ series, with this panel discussion about what banking looks like from the perspective of 4 MFI CEOs. Come join us for a global panel of women microfinance CEOs and Managing Directors [...]

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April 28th, 2009, 6:00 pm

Building Networks to Develop Leadership Skills and Opportunities

by Pamela Weinsaft

Registration:
NYC Bar Member Price : $40.00 Register
Non City Bar Member Price : $50.00 RegisterTime and again, women attorneys express the need for greater opportunities to network with other women and to develop and earn recognition for their leadership skills. Join us for cocktails, during which we will introduce you to other women lawyers [...]

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April 28th, 2009, 5:30 pm

Reinventing Ourselves: Envision Your Perfect Career

by Pamela Weinsaft

Please join 100 Women in Hedge Funds as our panelists’ diverse expertise will provide sage advice for key aspects of career search in the hedge fund industry. They will help you learn how to find your own path by taking stock in yourself.

Plan your next steps, whatever the stage of your career – [...]

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April 28th, 2009, 5:30 pm

100 Women in Hedge Funds: Paris Networking Event During EuroHedge Conference

by Pamela Weinsaft

Please join 100 Women in Hedge Funds for informal drinks, the first evening of the Paris EuroHedge conference, in a lovely French Gallerie.

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April 28th, 2009, 1:00 pm

Equal Pay Day, April 28th

by Liz O’Donnell (Boston)
Today is Equal Pay Day. The day, always a Tuesday in April, represents how much longer a woman must work, on average, to earn as much as a man earned the previous year. And even though President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in January, the work is not [...]

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April 28th, 2009, 12:00 pm

City Women’s Network: Are markets really efficient?

by Pamela Weinsaft

The Chicago Booth School of Business has invited CWN members to a lunch time session with Eugene Fama, who is credited as the father of the efficient market hypothesis, and Daniel Hertzberg, International Editor of the Wall Street Journal.To register please go to www.eventbrite.com/event/312268002.Venue information: dress code is Business; nearest tube is Bank; telephone number [...]

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April 28th, 2009, 12:00 pm

Open House – New Directions: Practical Skills for Returning to Law Practice

by Pamela Weinsaft

For information about our innovative and unique program to facilitate attorneys’ return to the legal marketplace, please come to our upcoming Open House. New Directions graduates will be attending to describe their experiences. You provide the questions – we provide food, beverages and answers!
Session 2, 2009: July 13, 2009 – December 18, [...]

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April 28th, 2009, 7:22 am

Eurohedge Summit 2009

by Pamela Weinsaft

Held in Paris every spring, the EuroHedge Summit is a major hedge fund event which attracts the industry’s elite from around the globe. This year, at a time of unprecedented turmoil and stress across the entire financial industry, we will be discussing the many challenges, opportunities and structural changes facing hedge funds under the overall [...]

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April 28th, 2009, 6:00 am

When You Work with a Jerk: The Bad Apples Study

By Paige Churchman (New York City)
Eliza Byington was unhappy at her job. There was no camaraderie. People didn’t work together, they barely spoke to one another. Then one of her colleagues was out sick for a long while, and the change in atmosphere was dramatic. Byington and her coworkers became a team — people [...]

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