Start your week with a community of other job seekers who support, encourage, motivate, and learn from each other through their job searches. Job Seekers Connection energizes and inspires participants by sharing valuable strategies and techniques from professional career coaches, recruiters, and Human Resources representatives.
This week's presenter: Hailey George
Topic: Career Confidence: Your Story is the Strategy
Most job-search advice boils down to “apply more, hustle harder.” It’s exhausting and it rarely works.
This workshop session is different. We will focus on the inner and outer work that actually creates opportunity: knowing what you want, owning the real story of your journey, and building relationships that open doors applications never will.
Participants will walk away with a clear, authentic professional narrative they can use tomorrow, practical tools to stay focused and uncover direction instead of scattering energy across endless applications, and warm networking language that feels natural even if networking usually feels awkward.
This is not a lecture. It’s a supportive, practical session grounded in one core idea I've seen hold true from startups to community centers: when people get clear and show up as themselves, the right opportunities find them.
About the presenter:
Hailey George is the Founder & Principal of HGHR, a fractional HR consultancy that helps founders and CEOs scale their organizations by establishing strong, people-first foundations.
With more than a decade of strategic HR leadership in high-growth organizations, Hailey has built her career around one core belief: empowered communities, power communities.
That belief drives the community-centered programs she leads, including Because Small Business Deserve BIG HR and the popular Career Confidence series. Through this work, she supports emerging talent, small business leaders, and career builders as they step into new opportunities with clarity, capability, and confidence.
A regular panelist, public speaker, and workshop leader across Boston, Hailey holds an MBA and is SHRM-CP certified. She is thrilled to bring her signature Career Confidence programming to the Harvard Ed Portal.
LOCATION:Harvard Ed Portal STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20260112T160000Z DTEND:20260112T173000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR