Session 2: Career Strategy in the New Environment
A veteran professional will provide insights and explain for achieving success in a business economics career.
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Candice Flor Hynek
Milken Institute
Candice Flor Hynek is a Senior Research Analyst with the Milken Institute’s Center for Regional Economics group. She was Associate Economist of the LAEDC Kyser Center for Economic Research, where she worked for over eight years and specialized on the structure of leading industries in Southern California. She managed the Kyser Center’s major economic reports and served as editor of e-EDGE economic newsletter. She co-authored numerous reports including The Business of Sports in Los Angeles County, The Creative Economy of the Los Angeles Region, and most recently Manufacturing 2.0: A More Prosperous California. In addition, she contributed U.S. economic outlook articles in several industry newsletters. Flor Hynek is a member of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and is the 2008-2009 President of the Los Angeles Chapter of NABE. She received her B.A. in Business Economics from the California State University-Long Beach.
Marc Cenedella
Founder and CEO, TheLadders.com
Marc Cenedella is the Founder of TheLadders.com, the #1 source for $100k+ jobs in the world.
Marc started TheLadders.com in July of 2003 to solve a puzzling gap in the world of online recruitment and high-end employment. As the Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations at HotJobs.com, Marc saw that, while large job boards worked well for entry and mid-level candidates, high-level job searches were not being conducted efficiently online. Job seekers were frustrated, while recruiters often elected not to post their executive opportunities online at all.
Marc's solution to this dilemma was a reverse business model that catered to the high-end job seeker. After orchestrating the $436 million sale of HotJobs.com to Yahoo!, Marc started SalesLadder.com, the first in the family of industry-focused websites exclusive to the $100k+ job market. The site was immediately embraced and appreciated by job seekers and recruiters alike for its unique approach and laser focus.
Today, TheLadders.com posts over 8,000 new jobs a week through eight specially-targeted sites geared to experienced industry professionals and the recruiters and employers looking to hire them.
Prior to founding TheLadders.com and his role as HotJobs.com, Marc was an Associate Vice President at The Riverside Company, a New York-based private equity firm. Earlier in his career, he founded, grew and then sold an international trading company focused on the export of US-made pet food to Japan. From that experience, he gained a great appreciation for Japan's emphasis on superior customer service - learning that he's now applied to TheLadders.com. TheLadders.com has become a model for great service, both online and off.
Marc holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar. He earned his B.A. in political science at Yale.