The IEEE Chicago Section invites you to a PACE (Professional Activities Committee for Engineers)

meeting on Thursday January 19, 2012.

TOPIC: Emotional Intelligence and Interviewing

Speaker: Suzanne Edgar, PhD

TIME: Social 6:30 p.m. Presentation 7:00-8:30: p.m.

Register for the meeting by clicking HERE.

Additional Information and meeting registration is available at the IEEE Chicago Section Website

Calendar at www.ieeechicago.org. Registration isn’t required but helps our meeting planning.

What is your Emotional EQ?  Emotional intelligence or EQ, "accounts for anywhere from 24% to 69% of performance success," according to the Harvard Business Review.  When employers make hiring decisions, it can be a hit-or-miss affair.  A promising candidate can turn out to be a disaster, leaving frustrated colleagues and tattered client relationships in his/her wake.  Then this promising employee is let go.

In his definitive book Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman explains the chief characteristics of someone with high EI; he or she is aware of emotions and able to regulate them—and this awareness and regulation are directed both inward, to one’s self, and outward, to others. “Personal competence,” in Goleman’s words, comes from being aware of and regulating one’s own emotions. “Social competence” is awareness and regulation of others’ emotions.

More and more companies are utilizing interviews that take a measure of candidates' emotional intelligence.

Suzanne will discuss the Components of Emotional Intelligence and home in on your own understanding of your Emotional EQ to enhance your interview preparedness.

About our speaker:

Suzanne Edgar is a Senior Career Management Consultant with Right Management.  Suzanne has been providing career transition support to individuals since 1991.  She is skilled in both one-on-one coaching and group facilitation.  She has in-depth knowledge of the critical communication factors that impact and facilitate career transition and re-deployment.

Suzanne excels at establishing partnerships with her clients to assess and formulate goals and objectives.  Serving as both motivator and mentor, she counsels her clients to analyze the pros and cons to identify and implement actions to meet goals.  She and her clients collaborate as a team to monitor or measure results redefining goals, strategies and actions so that positive outcomes are realized. 

Suzanne is in her third career.  Prior to career management consulting, she held positions in education and MCI Telecommunications. 

Suzanne holds a Ph.D. in Speech Communications, University of Denver, Denver CO.  In addition, she holds a BS and MS in Education.  She served as adjunct professor in the MBA program, Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois.  Suzanne is a volunteer speaker to community and faith based organizations on career-related topics.

LOCATION:

Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus (Danada)

201 East Loop Road

Wheaton, Illinois 60189

Detailed directions at http://www.iit.edu/rice/about/directions.shtml