Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 - job search networking! Network With Professionals To Find A Job!

  ABC 7 Bay Area reports that the PinkSlipMixers.com concept as "Web networking revolutionizing job search".  Click to the see the March 18, 2009 news clip.

Press Release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
Contact: Vilma Bonilla or Edwin Duterte
Telephone: 818-304-1104 / 310-571-5483
E-Mail: Vilma.Bonilla@att.net / Edwin@pinkslipmixer.com
 
PinkSlipMixers.com invites local Bay Area Hiring Companies & Recruiters to join thousands of NUMMI Plant Workers and local job seekers for a Special Happy Hour event!
 
Fremont, CA - February 7, 2010 - The California Employment Development Department reported on February 2, 2010 that of the State's 18.2 million labor force workers, 2.2 million people or 12.1% are unemployed or unwillingly without a job. These figures do not include non-working professionals who are not receiving unemployment benefits or the under-employed. All of California, including Fremont and Palo Alto, has a higher rate of unemployment than the national unemployment rate.  
 
PinkSlipMixers.com, a California community volunteer organization, is hosting a special job networking event to help the 6,000 NUMMI workers affected by the plant closure in Fremont-CA. The massive lay-offs will negatively affect up to 35,000 families in California whose livelihoods are tied to the facility. PinkSlipMixers understands the widespread impact these mass lay-offs on the economic growth of the community on a state and regional level. PinkSlipMixers is teaming up with City Beach in Fremont to host the biggest ever "Pay It Forward" Job Networking Mixer and Happy Hour event. This will be an amazing event!
 
Several local hiring companies will be present at this special networking event to meet and recruit mid to upper level professionals. As always, various industry professionals will be represented; however, the NUMMI plant will be closing in March so we are doing our best to invite their white collar professionals. These are the times where we should band together to utilize all of our resources. Organizers anticipate several hundred job seekers in attendance. Participants will be networking face-to-face and connecting on-line via Twitter, Facebook, and PinkSlipMixers.com. The event is free!
 
When:              4pm - 7pm PST Thursday, February 18 2010
Where:             4020 Technology Place, Fremont, CA 94538
 
PinkSlipMixers 2.0 and local SF Bay Area businesses are banding together to help stimulate the local job market by supporting live job networking mixers. Together we are supporting the SF & San Jose communities by uncovering jobs that may or may not be posted on-line. The networking interaction provides job seekers with valuable information, including job leads, support, resources, and the opportunity to meet recruiters and hiring managers.
 
Company representatives that hire our members know that PinkSlipMixers.com attracts high quality local talent. We invite the community to network with the area's best and most intelligent workers. High-profile companies are excited to meet our members. "We want our guests to interact with one another on a personal level," says Vilma Bonilla Community Outreach Director of PinkSlipMixers. "It is very exciting to have everyone helping each other and sharing valuable resources. We also ask employers to hire local talent and invest in the economic and workforce development of their local communities," says Bonilla. PinkSlipMixers job networking events are supported by a network of volunteer partners, including recruiters, career coaches, small business owners, CA EDD, and local hiring companies. We believe it is the right thing to do for the community.
 
Details of PinkSlipMixers.com:
PinkSlipMixers 2.0 hosts job networking events to support and encourage job seekers through the recession. Guests "Pay it Forward" by exchanging job search tips, forwarding job postings, and "Tweeting" about things they talk about and hear in the crowd. Twitter Feeds are broadcast live during the event. Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 events are currently in California, Nevada, Georgia and Florida. These events will be expanding to at least 10 metropolitan cities in the United States. For more information, go to: www.pinkslipmixers.com.
 
For more information about the PinkSlipMixers 2.0 "Pay It Forward" Job Networking Events, contact Vilma Bonilla at (818) 304-1104 or Vilma.Bonilla@att.net.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Edwin Duterte
(310) 766-4478
edwin@pinkslipmixers.com

Labor Day Has A New Meaning: National Event Helps Other Job Seekers Find Jobs.

San Jose, Calif., August 20, 2009 - National community grass-roots organization, PinkSlipMixers.com, will organize a simultaneous multi-city, bi-coastal, job networking event on Labor Day, Monday, September 7, that will utilize various online social media tools for the purpose of banding together thousands of job seekers to discover and uncover jobs. The event will connect each city by live-video streaming on PinkSlipMixers.com (powered by Groupsite.com) as well as real-time micro-blogging on Twitter and LinkedIn. Inspired by the "Tax Tea Party" of April 2009, the PinkslipMixers.com's world's largest job search networking event will be non-partisan. The goal of the one day event is to encourage job seekers to find job opportunities and show America that laid-off professionals are still valuable employees.

The current recession and continual corporate layoffs are redefining the meaning of Labor Day. Traditionally, Labor Day recognized and rewarded Americans with a day of rest for achievements in the labor force. Now, with so many Americans out of work, the efforts will be redirected toward job seekers and laid-off professionals because in the job search process there is no day off.

Where and When
Participating venues will be located in San Jose CA, Pasadena CA, San Diego CA, Newport Beach, CA, Las Vegas NV, and Jacksonville FL. The events will begin 2:00 PM PST and end 5:00 PM PST on September 7, 2009. PinkSlipMixers.com anticipates this will be the world's largest job search networking event. The national events are free to job seekers.

City Venue Address
San Jose, CA South First Billiards 420 S. First Street, San Jose
Pasadena, CA Bar Celona Lounge 46 E. Colorado, Pasadena
San Diego, CA Hotel Solamar / 6 Lounge 435 6th Ave, San Diego
Newport Beach, CA Atrium Hotel 18700 MacAthur Blvd, Newport Beach
Las Vegas, NV TBD
Jacksonville, FL TBD

PinkSlipMixers.com and businesses are banding together to help stimulate the local job market with a unique live and on-line networking event. Together, they are looking to continue to support the jobless community by paying it forward, uncover the hidden job market and develop a positive job search community. This is an effort to provide a place for job seekers and hiring companies to come together beyond the Web and interact with one another on a face-to-face level. This kind of interaction can and will help people find more leads or at the very least, interact with others to provide job search support. According to Edwin Duterte, founder of PinkSlipMixers.com, "This is the right thing to do to help revitalize our local job market. Online networking is fantastic, but nothing beats meeting up-close-and personal."

An Orange County Certified Financial Planner, Ray Kim of DFG West, says, "Job seekers must stay motivated and network with as many people as possible because the next person they meet might know of a job for them. Having this national day for job seekers to help one another will bring our nation closer as a community."

The PinkSlipMixers event is more than the typical "pink slip party", a popular and growing trend around the country. Party guests utilize social media tools including Twitter to "Tweet" their job search and career criteria along with the link to their Linked In profile in hopes of maximizing their job search exposure.

There will be a video screen that will live stream each venue location onto the PinkSlipMixers.com website. PinkSlipMixers.com will be utilizing webcams to interview job seekers, career counselors and hiring companies. Job seekers in areas that we are not physically hosting events can still network online by participating through our online instant messaging tools.

The video projector will also allow guest to read live Twitter Feeds. As guests walk in the door they will Tweet what other guests are looking for professionally and what recruiters attending want in a candidate. For instance, a job seeker talking to a hiring manager might Tweet (which is done via cell phone): "Recruiter Jon wearing the striped shirt is looking for a Product Manager." Guests in the mixer will see people being featured on the video screen and hopefully go on to connect "in person" at the party to discuss a possible opportunities or the knowledge of one.

"We want to have our professional guests interact with one another and more importantly, make it personal for them," says Duterte. There will be various industry tables where our guests can congregate and mingle with professionals specific to their job focus. The mixers will include a '"speed career circuit' in which experts will offer free job search tips, such as resume critique, interview skills, etc.

One thing to note is that PinkSlipMixers events are not job fairs. They are volunteer supported community events in which every member wants to participate in to help one another find work. "It is very exciting to have everyone helping each other in such a positive way," says Duterte.

Sponsoring and Supporting Companies
JobsDirectUSA.com
DFG West
Criterion Resources, Inc
Jennifer Hill Career Counselors
Elite Technical Group, Inc.
Bar Celona Lounge - Pasadena
South First Billiards - San Jose
!iT Jeans of Los Angeles
Hotel Solamar - San Diego
Atrium Hotel - Newport Beach
McGyver Represents

About PinkSlipMixers.com
The online community, PinkSlipMixers.com, is powered by Groupsite.com, the social collaboration platform designed to empower groups to make things happen. PinkSlipMixers are unique "pink slip party" job networking events. Guests "Pay it Forward" by exchanging job search tips, forwarding job postings, "Tweeting" about things they talk about and hear in the crowd (Twitter Feeds are broadcasted live during the event) and just simply encouraging other job seekers through the recession. Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 events are currently in California, Nevada and Florida, and will be expanding to at least 10 metropolitan cities in the United States. For more information, go to www.pinkslipmixers.com.

About Groupsite.com (formerly CollectiveX)
Founded in 2006 by serial entrepreneur, Clarence Wooten, Jr., Groupsite.com is the Web's premier social collaboration platform. Introduced in August 2007, Groupsites embody the Web's evolution into a social-collaborative medium by combining the most useful and productive features of traditional websites, discussion forums, listservs, blogs, collaboration software and social networks. In mere minutes, Groupsites allow individuals, organizations and companies to create communities that enable group members to communicate, share and network to make things happen. Today, nearly 30,000 Groupsites are in use by professional and social groups of all types and sizes. For more information or to create your own Groupsite, visit http://www.groupsite.com.

CONTACT:

For more information about the PinkSlipMixers "Pay It Forward" Job Networking Events, contact Edwin Duterte at (310) 766-4478 or Edwin@pinkslipmixer.com. For more information about Groupsites, contact Carissa Caramanis O'Brien at (978) 875-2020 or carissao@redboxcommunications.com.

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VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY GROUP HELPS JOB SEEKERS AS STATE ISSUES IOUs AND CONTINUES WORK FURLOUGHS.

Newport Beach, CA - July 10, 2009-As the State of California's budget crisis continues, Governor Schwarzenegger and State Controller Chiang are forced to issue IOUs and impose work furloughs. A statewide grass-roots organization called PinkSlipMixers 2.0 (www.PinkSlipMixers.com) wants job seekers to understand that although California State has budget issues, job seekers should continue to diligently stay positive and active to find work. To motivate job seekers, PinkSlipMixers offers unique "pink slip party" networking events and will host a series of job networking events in Orange County with the support of local businesses. The first event (entitled "Real Job Seekers of Orange County") will be on Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at CODE Restaurant in Newport Beach (4221 Dolphin Striker Way). PinkSlipMixers 2.0 guests will get the chance to network with the OC's largest hiring companies. The event is free to job seekers.

The next PinkSlipMixers 2.0 event will take place on
Wednesday August 5, 2009 from 5:30 to 9 p.m.
at the
CODE LOUNGE
4221 Dolphin Striker Way
Newport Beach, CA

PinkSlipMixers 2.0 and local OC businesses are banding together to help stimulate the local job market with a unique live and on-line networking event. Together, they are looking to continue to support the OC community by paying it forward, uncover jobs that may or may not be posted online and develop a positive job search community. This is an effort to provide a place for job seekers and hiring companies to come together beyond the Web and interact with one another on a face-to-face level. This kind of interaction can and will help people find more leads or at the very least, interact with others to provide job search support. According to Edwin Duterte, founder of PinkSlipMixers 2.0, "This is the right thing to do to help revitalize our local job market. Online networking is fantastic, but nothing beats meeting up-close-and personal."

An Orange County Certified Financial Planner, Ray Kim of DFG West, says, "The impacts of the State's IOUs and work furloughs should not negatively affect job seekers to find work. Job seekers must stay motivated and network with as many people because the next person they meet might know of a job for them."

The PinkSlipMixers 2.0 event is more than the typical "pink slip party", a popular and growing trend around the country. Party guests utilize social media tools including Twitter to "Tweet" their job search and career criteria along with the link to their Linked In profile in hopes of maximizing their job search exposure.

There will be a video screen that will project guest Twitter Feeds. As guests walk in the door they will Tweet what other guests are looking for professionally and what recruiters attending want in a candidate. For instance, a job seeker talking to a hiring manager might Tweet (which is done via cell phone): "Recruiter Jon wearing the striped shirt is looking for a Product Manager." Guests in the mixer will see people being featured on the video screen and hopefully go on to connect "in person" at the party to discuss a possible opportunities or the knowledge of one.

"We want to have our professional guests interact with one another and more importantly, make it personal for them," says Duterte. There will be various industry tables where our guests can congregate and mingle with professionals specific to their job focus. The mixers will include a '"speed career circuit' in which experts will offer free job search tips, such as resume critique, interview skills, etc.

One thing to note is that PinkSlipMixers 2.0 events are not job fairs. They are volunteer supported community events in which every member wants to participate in to help one another find work. "It is very exciting to have everyone helping each other in such a positive way," says Duterte.

Details of PinkSlipMixers.com:
PinkSlipMixers 2.0 is a unique "pink slip party" job networking event. Guests "Pay it Forward" by exchanging job search tips, forwarding job postings, "Tweeting" about things they talk about and hear in the crowd (Twitter Feeds are broadcasted live during the event) and just simply encouraging other job seekers through the recession. Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 events are currently in California, Nevada and in Florida and will be expanding to at least 10 metropolitan cities in the United States. For more information, go to: www.pinkslipmixers.com.

For more information about the PinkSlipMixers 2.0 "Pay It Forward" Job Networking Events, contact Edwin Duterte at (310) 766-4478 or Edwin@pinkslipmixer.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Carlos Gil

Telephone: 904-288-8430

Cell Phone: 904-536-5764

E-Mail: carlos.gil@jobsdirectusa.com


Ft. Lauderdale Native Son Returns and Vows to Help Local Job Seekers by Hosting a Party

Fort Lauderdale, FL - May 21, 2009 – Fort Lauderdale native, Carlos Gil, is a laid off executive who’s making his mark by paying it forward for those seeking work nationwide. Inspired by the West Coast community job search movement by PinkSlipMixers.com and accepting President Obama's call to volunteerism, Carlos Gil is doing his part in Florida by hosting unique “Pink Slip Parties” free of charge to people in search of their next job.

Born and raised in the Broward county suburb of Weston but now living in Jacksonville, Carlos Gil was on the fast track to success until he was laid off by insurance giant AIG in November 2008. Shortly thereafter, Gil started up JobsDirectUSA.com, an online job board where job seekers can submit their resumes to recruiters search and apply for jobs at no charge. In February Gil was introduced to the pink slip party concept by Edwin Duterte of PinkSlipMixers.com, a new twist to the “pink slip party movement”. Gil says, “After being ‘Pink Slipped’ last year, I decided that I could either look for a job like everyone else or figure out a unique way to stand out and helps others in need”. Gil adds, “I heard of this movement going on in Los Angeles and it sounded like the right thing to do. I can’t create jobs; however, I can actively call on companies to see what is available to job seekers”. Gil then lists those opportunities on his website. Further, Gil is reaching out to various communities throughout Florida and hosting free pink slip parties so that he can provide access for job seekers and hiring companies to communicate with each other face-to-face. Gil says, “It is the right thing to do to revitalize our local job market.”

Pink slip parties are becoming a national craze. Utilizing basic networking techniques businesses have used for decades, job seekers are now banding together to see how to maximize each other's contacts to find one another jobs. Carlos Gil says, “I've hosted a few pink slip parties in the Jacksonville area and have already helped hundreds of job seekers come together with recruiters. My family still lives in the Broward county area and they have been telling me the stories of companies closing down or doing mass layoffs. I want to see job success in the city I grew up in. I want to do my part to rebuild the community and end this recession sooner than later. If more people in my old neighborhood reach out to one another, this current economy doesn't have to be so challenging.”

The next Pink Slip Party hosted by Carlos Gil will be May 27, 2009 starting 5 PM and held at 88’s Dueling Pianos at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino located at 5721 Seminole Way, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314. Carlos Gil will also be hosting a Pink Slip Party for Miami-Dade county job seekers, and recruiters, on May 28, 2009 starting a 5 PM and held at Martini Bar Miami at Sunset Place located at 5701 Sunset Place 124a, Miami, FL 33143.


About Carlos Gil:
At age 25, Carlos Gil has already made a successful name for himself while representing the world's largest financial corporations as an employee. Within seven years Carlos Gil, a South Florida native, has gone from selling shoes part-time job to working in Branch and Client Management positions for Fortune 500 corporations such as American International Group (AIG), Citigroup and Regions Bank. After being downsized in late 2008, Gil launched JobsDirectUSA.com as a resource for job seekers to create a profile, search and apply for jobs, and submit their resume to recruiters at no charge. For a small annual fee employers, and job recruiters, can post unlimited jobs and view unlimited resumes on JobsDirectUSA.com.


About PinkSlipMixers.com events:
PinkSlipMixers.com is a unique “pink slip party” job networking event. Guests “Pay it forward” by exchanging job search tips, forwarding job postings and encouraging other job seekers through the recession. Events are currently in California and will be expanding to at least 10 metropolitan cities in the United States. For more information, go to: www.PinkSlipMixers.com.

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For more information about JobsDirectUSA.com contact Carlos Gil at 904-536-5764 or email carlos.gil@jobsdirectusa.com . If you would like more information about the PinkSlipMixers.com “Pay It Forward” Job Networking Events, please contact Edwin Duterte at (310) 766-4478 or edwin@pinkslipmixers.com.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Edwin Duterte                               Tim Whiteman
Telephone: 310-766-4478                            (213) 765-7078
Cell Phone: 310-406-7992
E-Mail: Edwin@pinkslipmixer.com                    tim.whiteman@espnzonelalive.com

LA Live's ESPN Zone and small grass roots organization initiates Obama's call for volunteerism to help stimulate Southern California's job market

LOS ANGELES, CA - May 16, 2009 - PinkSlipMixers.com is a grass-roots organization of unemployed professionals that provides unique "pink slip party" networking events. This worthwhile organization is paying it forward to the community with the help of Los Angeles' newest hotspot, the ESPN Zone @ L.A. LIVE. By actively addressing the national leadership's call to volunteerism by reaching out to job seekers and hiring companies alike, the hope is that this partnership will lend to Southern California getting through these challenging economic times. ESPN Zone will be co-hosting monthly interactive job search events every first Wednesday of the month until the recession is over, with the first job networking event taking place on Wednesday June 3, 2009 from 6-8 pm.

Nestled inside the L.A. LIVE campus and only a few months old, the ESPN Zone @ L.A. LIVE has already seen success in and acceptance from the community. With the immeasurable influence of the local sports franchises like the Lakers, Dodgers, Clippers and others, the ESPN Zone @ L.A. LIVE sees the Southern California region as their community teammate. Tim Whiteman, marketing manager for the ESPN Zone @ L.A. LIVE, says, "Even though we have only opened our doors a few months ago, we appreciate L.A. welcoming us to the sports & entertainment landscape. Right now, Los Angeles and Southern California need us to be leaders and help folks get back on their feet. Last month, we were approached by PinkSlipMixers.com and they indicated their strong efforts to help stimulate our local job market. With our unique multifunctional venue as well as media contacts, we can help Southern California's unemployed to get through these challenging economic times and find work for one another. We want the support of the community and by paying it forward today, we think the community at large will continue to support our venue in the years to come. If we can provide access for job seekers and hiring companies to communicate with each other face-to-face, maybe they will find their next job or at the very least interact with others during their job search. We feel it is the right thing to do to help revitalize our local job market."

The PinkSlipMixers.com event is more than the typical pink slip party, a popular and growing trend around the country. Job seekers at PinkSlipMixer events utilize online social media to "Twitter" career criteria along with their Linkedin.com resume in hopes of maximizing their job search exposure. Edwin Duterte, the creator of PinkSlipMixers.com, explains, "ESPN Zone is a great venue for our job seekers. They have several video screens that we will project Twitter-feeds. Our guests will be posting what other guests are looking for professionally and what recruiters attending want in an employee. For instance, a job seeker talking to a hiring manager might twitter post using her cell phone 'Recruiter Jon wearing the striped shirt is looking for a product manager'. Guests in the mixer will see that on the video screens and hopefully other job seekers looking for that type of position will find Jon to discuss a possible fit."

In addition to merging the online and offline communities, PinkSlipMixers will be making the job search mixer experience more interactive and specialized than any other typical pink slip party. Edwin Duterte says, "We not only want to have our professionals interact with one another, but we want to make it personal to them. We will have at least a dozen different industry tables where our guests can congregate and mingle with professionals specific to their job focus. Also, we will have a 'speed career circuit' whereby we will have experts in various job search stations, such as resume critique, interview skills, and etc., to offer free job search tips to our PinkSlipMixers.com members. This is not a job fair but a volunteer supported community that every member wants to pitch in to help each other find work. It will be very exciting to see everyone helping each other in a positive way."

As previously mentioned, the next PinkSlipMixers.com event will be June 3, 2009 starting at 6 PM and will be held every first Wednesday of every month. The ESPN Zone @ L.A. LIVE is located at:
1011 S. Figueroa Street, Suite B-101
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(right across the street from Staples Center)

Details of the ESPN Zone @ L.A. LIVE:
ESPN Zone @ L.A. LIVE has two floors with a variety of experiences for sports fans of all ages. Immerse yourself in the ultimate viewing environment in the Screening Room and Studio Grill or test your skills by competing with friends and family in our Sports Arena with interactive games and attractions along with superb arcade sports simulators and video games.
ESPN Zone @ L,A. LIVE offers a complete menu of great "American Grill" food and a full bar. Take a little ESPN Zone home by purchasing souvenirs and collectibles at the Sportscenter Studio Store featuring a wide variety of authentic ESPN and ESPN Zone branded merchandise.
ESPN Zone @ L.A. LIVE serves as a unique venue for promotional events, private events, and corporate groups from 10 to buy out capacity (1100). ESPN Zone is a captivating experience for fans of the foremost sports brand in the world.
Please visit www.espnzone.com for more information.
Phone: (213) 765-7070

Details of PinkSlipMixers.com events:
PinkSlipMixers.com is a unique "pink slip party" job networking event. Guests "Pay it Forward" by exchanging job search tips, forwarding job postings and encouraging other job seekers through the recession. Events are currently in California and will be expanding to at least 10 metropolitan cities in the United States. For more information, go to: www.PinkSlipMixers.com.

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If you would like more information about the PinkSlipMixers.com "Pay It Forward" Job Networking Events, please contact Edwin Duterte at (310) 766-4478 or Edwin@pinkslipmixers.com. For more information about ESPN Zone @ L.A. LIVE, please contact Tim Whiteman at
tim.whiteman@espnzonelalive.com or (213) 765-7070.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Edwin Duterte                      Ben Soriano
Telephone: 310-766-4478                   408-206-5161
Cell Phone: 310-406-7992
E-Mail: Edwin@pinkslipmixer.com      bensoriano@gmail.com

San Jose business in redevelopment zone wants to revitalize Silicon Valley job market

SAN JOSE, CA - May 14, 2009 - San Jose's local hot spot, South First Billiards, is paying it forward to the community to help revitalize not only the SOFA district in the Downtown San Jose area, but wants to reach out to job seekers and hiring companies in hopes that Silicon Valley can get through these challenging economic times. Partnering with PinkSlipMixers.com, a grass-roots organization of unemployed professionals that provides unique "pink slip party" networking events, South First Billiards will be hosting monthly interactive job search events every second Monday of the month.

Known as one of the largest interactive nightlife and creative art displays in the San Jose Downtown area, South First Billiards wants to pay it forward and give back to the community that has supported them for almost 20 years. Ben Soriano of South First Billiards says, "We were introduced to the PinkSlipMixers job networking concept by one of our patrons last month. As soon as we heard that they are a grass-roots organization of professionals that are being proactive to find jobs, we knew we needed to offer space to help them get through these challenging economic times and find work for one another. Over the years our venue has supported the art community and we now need to support the general community at large. If we can provide access for job seekers and hiring companies to communicate with each other face-to-face, maybe they will find their next job or at the very least interact with others during their job search. We feel it is the right thing to do to revitalize our local job market."

The PinkSlipMixers.com event is more than the typical pink slip party, a popular and growing trend around the country. Job seekers at PinkSlipMixer events utilize online social media to "Twitter" career criteria along with their Linkedin.com resume in hopes of maximizing their job search exposure. Edwin Duterte, the creator of PinkSlipMixers.com, explains, "South First Billiards is a great venue for our job seekers. They have two ten foot video screens that we will project Twitter-feeds. Our guests will be posting what other guests are looking for professionally and what recruiters attending want in an employee. For instance, a job seeker talking to a hiring manager might twitter post using her cell phone 'Recruiter Jon wearing the striped shirt is looking for a product manager'. Guests in the mixer will see that on the video screens and hopefully other job seekers looking for that type of position will find Jon to discuss a possible fit."

In addition to merging the online and offline communities, PinkSlipMixers will be making the job search mixer experience more interactive and specialized than any other typical pink slip party. Edwin Duterte says, "We not only want to have our professionals interact with one another, but we want to make it personal to them. We will have at least a dozen different industry tables where our guests can congregate and mingle with professionals specific to their job focus. Also, we will have a 'speed career circuit' whereby we will have experts in various job search stations, such as resume critique, interview skills, and etc., to offer free job search tips to our PinkSlipMixers.com members. This is not a job fair but a volunteer supported community that every member wants to pitch in to help each other find work. It will be very exciting to see everyone helping each other in a positive way."

The next PinkSlipMixers.com event will be June 8, 2009 starting at 6 PM and will be held every second Monday of every month. South First Billiards is located at 420 S. First Street, San Jose.

Details of the South First Billiards:
South First Billiards has been rated as "San Jose's Best Upscale Place to Play Pool" 10 years running and Best Hamburgers in Town. CitySearch.com calls the venue the best and the only billiards club in Silicon Valley that features full far, 12 beers on tap, 29 Olhausen tables, air hockey, arcades, fooseball and pingpong table. It is downtown's best night spot.

Details of PinkSlipMixers.com events:
PinkSlipMixers.com is a unique "pink slip party" job networking event. Guests "Pay it Forward" by exchanging job search tips, forwarding job postings and encouraging other job seekers through the recession. Events are currently in California and will be expanding to at least 10 metropolitan cities in the United States. For more information, go to: www.PinkSlipMixers.com.

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If you would like more information about the PinkSlipMixers.com "Pay It Forward" Job Networking Events, please contact Edwin Duterte at (310) 766-4478 or Edwin@pinkslipmixers.com. For more information about South First Billiards, please contact Ben Soriano at bensoriano@gmail.com
(408) 206-5161.