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SUMMARY:ONLINE EVENT: Transition Café Monthly Executive Networking Meeting 
DESCRIPTION:NOTICE: Our meetings are currently being held online. If you’d like to attend\, please use the registration link below. Before the online session\, you will receive an email with instructions on how to join our online meeting. \n\n\n\nAbout Our Meetings\n\n\n\nFor over 30 years\, like-minded executives have gathered at our local meetings to share job search and business development tips\, contacts\, and resources.  \n\n\n\nThis month\, join George Grachen of Executive Career Partners for a candid look at the “liabilities” job seekers often carry into a search\, such as unemployment gaps\, age concerns\, over- or under-specialization\, long tenure at one company\, military transition\, and more and how each can be reframed as a competitive advantage. Drawing on ECP’s 40+ years of combined executive strategy experience\, this session moves beyond generic resume tips into the real positioning and targeting decisions that determine whether a liability sinks a candidacy or becomes its strongest selling point. \n\n\n\nTakeaways attendees can expect: \n\n\n\n\nHow to identify which of the common “job search liabilities” (unemployment\, age\, over-specialization\, long tenure\, lack of a degree\, and others) may be quietly working against you\n\n\n\nPractical reframing techniques to turn a perceived weakness into a differentiator in resumes\, interviews\, and LinkedIn messaging\n\n\n\nHow positioning and targeting\, not just wording — determine whether a background reads as an asset or a red flag to a given employer\n\n\n\nA clearer sense of which types of companies (by size\, industry\, or culture) are the best fit for their specific background\n\n\n\n\nGeorge Grachen is the CEO of Executive Career Partners\, where he has spent over seven years leading strategic client services and career marketing initiatives. He specializes in designing tailored job search campaigns that combine business intelligence\, proven positioning strategies\, and hands-on coaching to help executives and professionals navigate career transitions with clarity and speed. \n\n\n\nExecutive Career Partners is a career strategy firm with over 40 years of combined executive coaching experience\, helping professionals and executives navigate job transitions through personalized branding\, strategic positioning\, and direct access to hiring decision-makers. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTransition Café Monthly Executive Networking MeetingOctober 14\, 20261:30pm – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nTake advantage of this opportunity for professional development and making new connections! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n    First Name\n        *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    Last Name\n        *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    Email Address\n        *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    Phone Number\n        *\n    \n    \n    By submitting your information\, you agree that we may contact you by phone\, email and or text message about your inquiry\, which may be automated.\n    \n\n\n    Zip Code\n        *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    Event Date\n        *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    First Name for Roster\n        *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    Functional Area of Interest (in 3 words or less)\n        *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    How did you learn about this event?\n        *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    Captcha\n        \n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n	\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n			\n			\n				If you are human\, leave this field blank.
URL:https://www.transitioncafe.com/event/oct2026/
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