North Coast Job Seekers - Upcoming NCJS Meetings

North Coast Job Seekers Meetings

Upcoming Meetings

Zoom Meeting Link:

NCJS ZOOM MEETING CONNECTION

Monday, December 8, 2025

7:30 – 9:00pm EDT
[online meeting room will open at 7:15pm]

North Coast Job Seekers Meeting

Make the Holidays the Best Time for Job Search

Speaker: Mark Gonska

70% of Job Seekers think no one gets hired between Thanksgiving and New Years
FALSE
Everyone is too busy for networking during the Holidays
FALSE
All the important people are on vacation
FALSE
If most of the other job seekers have gone into hibernation... YOU should too.
DEFINITELY FALSE

Events, family gatherings, and holiday parties can actually yield job offers. Learn how a robust networking plan can fit while wearing your Christmas tie. Gonska has a super-secret hack on overcoming unemployment embarrassment in the HO, HO, HO.

MARK GONSKA is an Executive Coach who has assisted thousands of individuals in career acceleration. Mark is the career accelerator who loves to demystify “what do I really want to do next?” and “how do I move forward in my career?” His unmatched relationships with clients and candidates are built on candor and commitment to address problems head-on and solve them. He’s action-oriented in all roles: teacher, mentor, and coach.

Mark’s personal trainer approach to coaching: “You can have excuses or results, not both.” He is living proof you can create a great new chapter in your career.

Passionate about strategic coaching, he has helped clients advance, obtain new positions, and explore other career or entrepreneurial options. Mark is recognized as a master coach on leadership development. He has substantial experience with group projects—throughout the United States. Mark brings a significant network of contacts from business, industry and not-for-profit organizations. His background includes international marketing and product management positions in a Fortune 200 corporation, participating in the successful start-up and development of a technology-based company. He holds a BA in Communications from Bowling Green State University (Ohio) and has completed additional human resources study at Baldwin-Wallace College (Ohio). Mark is certified in several assessment protocols.

Mark has been a member of the Board of Trustees for the local Society for Human Resource Management. In addition to being a nationally certified professional resume writer, he contributed to the book, The Five O’Clock Club Guide to Building a Great Resume. He has presented hundreds of webinars, podcasts, and public addresses. Mark hosts a weekly television show, “Job Hunt Cleveland.”