I know that when you read the title of this post, you **immediately** drew to your mind YOUR first introduction to Joel - which is just one more sign of the impact Joel has on each of us, and the industry in which we all participate.
Although I’ve been a fan for years, my first in-person meeting with Joel was at the ERE conference in San Diego earlier this year… immediately following his on-stage interview of Jobster’s CEO. After watching what I believed was a complete, have-no-mercy, like-watching-a-car-wrech-in-slow-motion, so-painful-you-almost-(and I do mean “almost”)-feel-sorry-for-Goldberg thrashing (with questions like: “Ok, Jobster has had about 17,389 different business models since inception - what do you really want to be when you grow up?” Ouch…), I almost choked on my conference-supplied peppermint when Joel posed his first question to me: “Do you think I went too easy on him?”
Joel loves to stir things up - and that’s why I adore him. He is creative, insightful - and has started a fresh, new conversation in our world that’s otherwise filled with the language of jobs, work, career, employment, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..
IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP!!!
I hold the honor of being the first of Joel’s interview subjects to take the camera, and turn it back on Joel… and, just as I suspected, he is a living model of the advice he shared with his audience: “Get out there, follow your passion, and don’t be afraid to shake it up.”
Love it.
And by the way, Joel - I’m still waiting for you to send me that video clip so I can share it with the Experience network….!
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Jennifer Floren - who has written 7 posts on Cheezhead.
Jenny, founder and CEO, launched Experience in 1996 with the mission to educate, assist and inspire college graduates as they forge new paths into the world of work. Experience has grown its network to include more than 3,800 universities, 100,000 employers and 3 million students and alumni – all of whom are focused on launching the careers of the world’s most important talent.
Jenny has been recognized as one of the nation’s youngest business leaders and achievers by numerous organizations including Forbes, Business Week, New York Times, Working Woman, Boston Business Journal, Women’s Business, and Entrepreneur, and is a frequent speaker at nationwide universities and major business events such as the Kennedy eRecruiting Conference, EMA, the MIT Enterprise Forum, Springboard Venture Capital Forum, and the Association of Colleges & Employers. With a career path as a psychology-major-turned-entrepreneur, a relatively young CEO, a woman in business, an Internet pre- and post-bubble survivor, a venture capital fundraising veteran, an advisor to top universities and Fortune 500 employers, and as someone who helps millions of people find their true calling every day, she has many perspectives to share with her audiences.
Jenny earned a BA in psychology from Dartmouth College in 1993, and was a management consultant with Bain & Company in Boston prior to starting Experience. She is currently a board member and active participant in the MIT Enterprise Forum, Junior Achievement, the Dartmouth College Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, and the Caring Canines organization which certifies and manages therapy service dogs (along with her wheaten terrier sidekick, Bailey).
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