In This Issue:
~April Membership meeting~
~President's Message~
~April News~
- Seven Attributes of Highly Promotable People
- How to Avoid Hiring Mistakes
- National AFWA events and Webinars
~Board of Directors~
~Committee Updates~
~AFWA Foundation~
~Annual Conference~
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MEMBERSHIP MEETING:
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016 |
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6:00pm |
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Biltmore Hotel & Suites |
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2151 Laurelwood Road |
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Santa Clara, CA 95054 |
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April Membership Meeting
LinkedIn Training and Creating a Powerful Professional Profile
Sandra Clark
With more than 20 years of training experience in Silicon Valley, Sandra Clark now provides individuals and companies with professional, customized LinkedIn workshops and coaching. She works with individuals from a variety of industries-from high tech to service businesses-to create and manage their LinkedIn presence. She also speaks frequently about LinkedIn to professional organizations in Silicon Valley. (Please Note: Sandra is not officially affiliated with the actual company.)
Having a personal brand is a critical component in the modern professional's life. LinkedIn is a powerful tool for growing that personal brand, finding employment and building a career. Once you create a powerful LinkedIn profile that is attractive to potential employers, you can then use that profile to build your network and add value to your company.
In this practical and informative presentation, you will learn how to use the world's largest business network to effectively represent yourself both passively if someone you meet looks at your profile and actively to gain attention from recruiters and employers. You will see how LinkedIn can help you enhance your personal brand and promote your expertise.
You may reach Sandra via email Sandra at linkedinmentoring.com
Please Note: Get registered online early since the registration will close the Sunday before the meeting. Cost at the door the day of goes up for guests AND members.
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Eileen Perry
AFWA - Silicon Valley Chapter President
Happy April! Hope everyone had a great Easter Holiday. April is the month we give out our scholarship awards to local students studying in accounting or finance. We are given the opportunity to hand out scholarships each year due to our generous sponsors. Participation and support of our highly valued sponsors is integral to the success of our scholarship program! If you are interested in more details and the benefits of being a sponsor for our 10th annual Spring Gala in May, please don't hesitate to contact Edronda Guiriba at (408) 250-9552 or email her at [email protected]. Please confirm as soon as possible to maximize your exposure but, no later than May 10, 2016. Being a past recipient of our local scholarship program, I can say how beneficial it is to receive one. I encourage anyone who may not have the ability to sponsor to consider donating which can be done via our website (http://www.afwasiliconvalley.org/sponsors.html) by clicking the green, "donate now" icon at the top of the screen.
If you cannot donate or sponsor, simply reaching out to someone who you feel may benefit from the exposure of being a sponsor for our gala this year is just as beneficial. If you would like more information to provide someone you feel might benefit in being a sponsor, please feel free to contact Edronda as well.
Thank you in advance for your support and participation! Hope to see you at our scholarship awards dinner on April 26th and or our 10th Annual Spring Gala May 24th!
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Seven Key Attributes of Highly Promotable People
By Hank Boyer
As an employee
- whether part-time, full-time, contract or otherwise
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your day-to-day performance places you in one of two categories: promotable or not promotable. Getting a promotion starts months (or years) before the promotion date.
What makes someone promotable? Here are seven attr
ibutes of highly promotable people.
1. Doers, not talkers
2. Solvers, not excuse-makers
3. Selfless, not selfish
4. Respectful, not inconsiderate
5. Outward focused, not self-focused
6. Givers, not takers
7. Integrity and trust, not questionable motives
continue reading this article
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How To Avoid Hiring Mistakes and High Cost of Bad Hire
Faced with a shortage of highly skilled accounting and finance talent, hiring in the finance sector right now is
challenging at best. But even though you have to act fast to land your top candidate, you shouldn't be hasty.
The costs of a bad hire are high. A recent
Robert Half survey shows that the top two effects of hiring mistakes are decreased staff morale (39 percent) and lost productivity (34 percent). Monetary costs, cited by one in four respondents, came in at third place.
It's important to get it right the first time around. Here are some tips for avoiding hiring mistakes:
- Write spot-on job ads
- Vet the applications
- Do a phone screening
- Bring in top candidates
- Check references
- Check backgrounds
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National CPE and other events
AFWA offers a variety of networking and educational events for our members - many offering CPE through AFWA's NASBA registration. From the monthly local chapter meetings featuring educational topics, to spring and national conferences, to our lineup of webinars, we've got something for you!
Nationwide events-
- San Diego, CA | 4/16/2016 - End of Tax Season Celebration and Wine Tour
- Milwaukee, WI | 4/18/2016 - Post Tax Season Networking event
- Plano, TX | 4/19/2016 - Happy Hour Networking event
- Tysons, VA | 4/19/2016 - Panel discussion (1 CPE)
- Troy, MI | 4/21/2016 - 10 Ways to Maximize Your Work Day and be Productive!
- Buffalo, NY | 4/25/2016 - Forensic Accounting Update (1 CPE)
- Nashville, TN | 4/26/2016 - Sip and Shop
- Milwaukee, WI | 4/26/2016 - Medicare Planning
- Silicon Valley, CA | 4/26/2016 - LinkedIn Training
- Chattanooga, TN | 4/27/2016 - 60th Annual Public Relations luncheon
- Tacoma, WA | 4/30/2016 - Student event: Panel discussion on mentoring (1 CPE)
Webinars-
- 4/12/2016 - Ask the Pro Series with Cheryl Heitz, AVP Northern Arizona University (1 CPE, Professional Development)
- 4/21/2016 - Savvy Series: Staying Relevant (1 CPE, Personal Development)
- 4/28/2016 - All Things Members: Chapter Structure and Non Dues Revenue
more details here
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
2015-2016
Board President:
Eileen Perry
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Program Director:
Nicole Sheets
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Newsletter/Web Chair:
Amrit Dhaliwal
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President Elect:
Edronda Guiriba
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Scholarship Director:
Julia Becklund
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Hospitality Director:
Allyson Girardi
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Treasurer:
Sue Stokke
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CPE Chair:
Deborah Rosengarten
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Hospitality Co-Chair:
Barbara Lietzan
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Secretary:
Lois Vega
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Membership Chair:
Fiona Stephenson, ACA
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Immediate Past President:
Nicole Letellier
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PROGRAMS
Chair: Nicole Sheets
There is an excellent line-up of programs for the Silicon Valley Chapter this year, and most of them qualify for CPE! Check out the line-up as we have engaged some dynamic and outstanding speakers coming up for 2016.
April
04/26/16
LinkedIn Training and Creating a Powerful Professional Profile
Speaker: Sandra Clark
May
05/24/16
10th Annual Spring Wine Gala
Credit Report and Credit Scores, what every consumer should know
Speaker: Ben Dupre
June
Date- 06/28/16
Speaker: TBD
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QUALIFICATIONS:
- All Levels of Accounting & Finance
- Bookkeepers
- Corporate Accounting Finance
- Public Accounting
- Management & Educators
- Recruiters
If you would like to join the Silicon Valley Chapter of AFWA, follow the link to our National website:
Please feel free to complete the application or forward a copy to someone you think would benefit from joining our Chapter.
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
Prestigious status of professional affiliation
- National contacts for networking and professional information
- Forum for CPE
- Scholarships
- Leadership opportunities in supportive arena
- Subscription to Accountability e-newsletter
- National and regional conferences at a discounted rate
- Access to Career Center
- Access to AFWA's LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter groups and National online membership directory
- Discounted membership to the Institute for Management Accountants (IMA)
- Discounted products and services through affiliation agreements (CPA review courses, CCH tax & accounting books, Long Term Care Insurance and Bank of America credit card)
Email Fiona-
[email protected]
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HOSPITALITY/CPE COMPLIANCE
Hospitality Chair:
Allyson Girardi
CPE Chair: Deborah Rosengarten, CPA
Reservation and cancellation policy:
Reservations or cancellations are requested by noon on the Friday preceding each meeting.
Email Allyson- [email protected] to reserve or cancel. The goal is an accurate count for the hotel. Unreserved members (not guests) incur a surcharge of $5.00.
Reserved members or guests who are no-shows will be billed if not cancelled by noon the preceding Friday. We do want you to come to the meetings and reservations are helpful but if you have to cancel let us know beforehand to avoid incurring the cost of the meal.
WE ACCEPT CREDIT CARD PAYMENT AT THE DOOR with higher cost. Online registration will close on Sunday before the event day.
Volunteers are always welcome at our monthly membership meetings. Lend a helping hand to make our monthly events and meetings even more interesting while building a great network and forming new relationships.
CPE credit is available for participating in any of our qualified programs. See Debbie for more details in person at the meeting.
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NEWSLETTER
Chair: Amrit Dhaliwal
Send in your articles!
We encourage our membership to submit articles of interest for our monthly newsletter. Please make your submission under the following criteria...
- Prepared as a Microsoft Word document
- Photos in JPEG format
- Captions are okay, no imbedded text, please
The newsletter is prepared and distributed on a monthly basis. Visit our web site at www.afwasiliconvalley.org. If you have questions regarding articles to submit or about the newsletter, email the newsletter chair, Amrit, [email protected].
Amrit is interested in hearing about your latest achievements and activities too, she will include the appropriate content in next newsletter.
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INTERESTED IN EXPANDING YOUR COMPANY'S VISIBILITY IN THE COMMUNITY?
BE A MEMBER MEETING SPONSOR!
There are three sponsor levels of contribution established for the scholarship fund:
Silver
Sponsorship up to $150.00
Gold
Sponsorship up to $200.00
Platinum
Sponsorship $350.00 or more
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Share
the information!
See Julia Becklund for more
details.
(Please contact Julia for information about our annual May Gala sponsor prices.)
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AFWA FOUNDATION
The Foundation is all about us, accounting and financial professionals, we strive every day to make a difference in the financial world and in our communities. The Foundation is charged with raising funds for national scholarships, and educational advancement of our peers and rising leaders.
The Foundation offers each of us the opportunity to support the future direction of the profession where we have gained our own personal successes.
It is important to support those entering the profession and working alongside us. Those that follow in our footsteps have much to teach us and much to learn from us. They embody the next generation of accounting and financial professionals. Our goal for you and AFWA is to lead the way in their development.
Mission
The Foundation promotes and advances education, career development and leadership in finance and accounting. Our vision is to guide women along the path to achieve success in finance and accounting.
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Founded in 1938, AFWA/ASWA provides
women in accounting and finance the
leadership, education and networking
opportunities needed to achieve their career
goals. Celebrating 75 years as the only
organization that solely represents the interest
of women in the entire accounting and finance
community. The organization's mission is to
enable women in all accounting and related
fields to achieve their full personal,
professional and economic potential and to
contribute to the future development of their
profession.
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