Turn your next interview into a conversation that addresses real world business issues. Learn to position yourself as an expert who can solve the challenges facing today's employers. In this workshop Mary Jeanne will discuss how to get the winner's mindset, what to expect during the interview and how to deliver what the employer wants. Find out the two questions that you absolutely must ask during an interview. Gain strategies and scripting ideas for responding to tough, illegal and trick questions.  Leave the workshop with valuable strategies for highlighting your expertise in a competitive market.

Mary Jeanne Vincent is a veteran Career Expert & Strategist, business page columnist for Monterey Herald, and author of Acing the Interview Tip Cards, Career Success Discover Cards, and Beyond the Resume Cards. Using a unique, practical and intuitive approach she helps people reframe their background, rediscover their expertise and reclaim their career. She offers one-on-one career coaching; job search, interview and résumé writing workshops; networking and job search support groups; and tools that assist with career transition. Visit her on the web at www.careercoachmjv.com

Formerly a practicing lawyer and a grassroots political organizer for parents of children with autism and other learning disorders, Rebecca Foust is now an award-winning poet. Dark Card (poetry about raising a son with autism) and Mom's Canoe (poetry about people and place in western Pennsylvania) won the Robert Phillips Poetry Prize in consecutive years. Being released in 2010 is all that gorgeous pitiless song. Her widely published work has received two 2008 Pushcart nominations and International Publication Prizes from Atlanta Review among other honors.

Danusha Laméris's work has been published in Lyric, Poetry Northwest, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Sun and The Crab Orchard Review as well as in a variety of other journals.  Her poems have also appeared in the anthologies In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare and Intimate Kisses.  Her poem "The Interview" was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as an honorable mention for Water-Stone's Jane Kenyon Prize, and last year she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  She lives and writes in Santa Cruz.

Whether you are a published author, working on your memoir, or starting a blog, you need readers, reviewers, agents and editors to find your work. In this workshop-style class, Karen will explain how online social media tools can take your writing to the next level. Primarily, the focus will be on the use of Twitter. (The session on 11/14 will focus more on Facebook and LinkedIn.) Leverage these sites to sell yourself and your writing projects. You will leave with valuable tips and resources that Karen has developed during her decade as a successful freelance journalist.

Whether you are a published author, working on your memoir, or starting a blog, you need readers, reviewers, agents and editors to find your work. In this workshop-style class, Karen will explain how online social media tools can take your writing to the next level. Primarily, the focus will be on the use of Facebook and LinkedIn. (The sessions on 10/3 and 11/14 focused on Twitter; it is recommended that today's participants have attended this earlier session though it is not mandatory.) Leverage these sites to sell yourself and your writing projects. You will leave with valuable tips and resources that Karen has developed during her decade as a successful freelance journalist.