On Wednesday, March 24th, at 5:30 at 7 West 81st Street in Manhattan, Susan will be conducting a class on interviewing tips, presented on behalf of Carole Hyatt’s networking group and The Leadership Forum.  The discussion will be interactive and will help attendees prepare for their next business development meeting or interview.  It will include learning interviewer’s alternative methods of screening potential hires, as well as common sense tips, and reminders for preparation before a meeting.  Also, included in the presentation, are comments about trends in interviewing; these current trends are a direct response to the tight job market and are geared toward finding the best potential fit for an organization.

The article coinciding with the release of the new Tim Burton movie, “Alice in Wonderland“  was published in the weekly newsletter, Woman Around Town.  The creative piece was Susan Goldberg’s business-oriented idea for the newsletter’s special “Alice” theme; her purpose was to present positive and motivational business lessons with illustrations from a quintessential example of English literature.  Using The Rabbit character’s obsession with maintaining a strict schedule in the Lewis Carroll story,  and the last point made in the article, “Make sure you make time for fun in your work-life”, she took the time to have fun, quickly summarizing some lessons gathered from reading the story, and then returned to meetings and emails as usual.  You can read the short written piece at www.womanaroundtown.com/working-around/easy-to-digest-business-lessons-from-alice-drink-me/

The new website for Susan Goldberg Executive Search Consulting (SGES), www.susangoldbergsearch.com  is launched.  After months of preparation, research, verification, planning, and design, the new official site for the company is functioning.   The new logo appears on the site along with the new tagline, “Business Focused. People Centric”. Thanks to all the people involved for making it a success.

Susan Goldberg’s article is published in the  November 4, 2009 weekly online newsletter, “Woman Around Town” (www.womanaroundtown.com) .  The article sits within the “working around” section of the weekly website and is entitled  “Working for a Family Owned Business”.    The piece was targeted toward recent graduates and talks about the pros and cons of working for a family-owned business (when the family is not related to the employee).   It pulls together information gathered from personal interviews with experienced professionals across the country in industries which include retail, law, manufacturing, medicine, media, and architecture.   All of the professionals interviewed related their own personal experiences in working for family-owned businesses.

SGES travels to the South Bronx to see Grace Outreach’s operations during an active school day.  We meet the administrative staff, the teachers, the new Executive Director, Andrew Rubinson, and experience an actual class in progress.   We learn how the young women became aware of the school and its programs and how committed the students have to be to stay in the program. 

It is apparent that Grace Outreach is very special and that Susan Goldberg Executive Search Consulting wants to support the organization. Besides donating a small percentage of every fee that SGES receives to the non-profit, we envision other initiatives that would help the organization.  We would like to be able to create awareness for the organization, speak with the women who attend the program, have some of our corporate clients be role models for the women by speaking with them at the school, and perhaps even have corporate clients organize field trips for some of the students to visit their offices in an effort to expand the young women’s horizons and knowledge outside the classroom setting.

SGES learns about Grace Outreach and has the first meeting with Margaret Grace, President, Board of Trustees for Grace Outreach.   We exchange ideas about how our company could help the local 501C3 organization.  We had been looking to ally ourselves with a small community-based local non-profit that resonates with our company’s mission.  

Grace Outreach seems like a great fit for SGES because it helps women become better-educated and offers them opportunity for potential growth,  it is based in New York City (our local community), it is a small organization with a lot of room for growth, it can benefit from having its message communicated to a broader audience,  it provides options to individuals who would never have those options without the help of the programs offered by Grace Outreach, and it sheds light on a local issue that many people are unaware of: New York State has the lowest G.E.D. (General Educational Development test) pass rate of all the states in the nation, with New York City’s pass rate even lower than the state average (according to an editorial in the New York Times, October 13, 2009).

A decision is made to change Susan Goldberg Executive Search Consulting’s marketing materials including website, tagline, and logo.  The website will change from the domain name of www.sibylsearch.com to www.susangoldbergsearch.com as a result of the business’ new marketing plans.  The new tagline for the company is “Business Focused.  People Centric.” Giving back to the community becomes a special goal of the company: an effort to research and locate a local charity that helps individuals progress with their professional options and education is also considered as an important facet of the company’s plans.