How LinkedIn and Building Relationships during and after College Will Be Transformational for Your Career Journey
4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Cost: $10 for talk ($25 if attending all three talks in the Speakers Series)
Location: Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Room 214A
Guest Speaker: Larry Kaufman
Join us as we welcome our guest speaker, Larry Kaufman. He is a best-selling author, a LinkedIn international speaker and trainer, and a business leader. Larry will also share his book, The NCG Factor: A Formula for Building Life-Changing Relationships from College to Retirement.
Larry will share how the NCG factor can be a formula during and after college to transform your career journey. You will understand why and how you need to network, to build relationships, and to understand the power and value of LinkedIn.
Key items covered will include:
Defining the value and power of the NCG factor: networking, connecting, and giving in your personal and college life.
How the latest LinkedIn platform will help you raise your professional profile, brand, and thought leadership, and how to network strategically (live demo).
Understand how you can still build life-changing relationships in a virtual meeting setting to in-person.
How to define your network: inner and outer circles.
NCG and career evolution during and after college.
How you can become an indispensable connector and giver.
Rewrite your living legacy through NCG and more you can use and implement immediately after Larry’s session.
Larry Kaufman Bio
Larry Kaufman is the author of The NCG Factor: A Formula for Building Life-Changing Relationships from College to Retirement. Larry is a connector, giver, and rainmaker who lives his life to help others succeed. Larry currently is the regional managing director for the midwest region at Jefferson Wells (a ManpowerGroup company). He is a senior-level sales and operations leader and has been a globally published speaker and trainer on LinkedIn for more than a decade. Larry has held roles in sales and operational leadership with P&L ownership in public accounting, insurance, technology, healthcare, and other industries. He has worked in outside sales and in other entrepreneurial capacities for the past several decades. He has hired and developed inside and outside sales forces in healthcare, technology, staffing, manufacturing, consulting firms, and the accounting industry. He has also been a powerful force in helping small, mid-market, and larger companies recruit talent to their organizations and has provided hundreds of corporate introductions to companies and business professionals wishing to expand their client base. Larry is an investor and advisor to several local technology companies and supports various local and national charities. Larry resides in a Chicago suburb with his wife and two children.
