50+ Job Seeker & Networking Massachusetts

Program Information Session and “Go Ahead and Ask” (Online)
2026-02-23 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Join 50+ Job Seekers as we discuss how we can help! After a brief presentation, you can ask us anything about job hunting in 2026.
📆 Monday February 23rd
🕙 10:00
🔗 Sign Up Here!

Understand Others and be Understood with the Social Styles Index (Online)
2026-02-24 11:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
The Social Styles Index is a behavior-based assessment that will help you understand yourself and others more fully. You will:

Understand how others view your behavior.
Understand why you find some relationships more productive than others.
Develop insight about your behavioral strengths and behavioral weaknesses.
Make reliable assessments about another person’s behavior.
Develop a way of communicating with others that considers their behavioral needs and preferences.
Build on your strengths and the strengths of others to develop productive relationships.

Join Professor Ralph Braithwaite of the University of Hartford as he walks you through the Social Styles Index. There is no cost to 50+ Job Seekers participants for the Index tool. Download and then complete the Social Styles and Scoring Document prior to the presentation event.
Social Styles Profile and Scoring Document
📆 Tuesday February 24th
🕚 11:00
📍 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!

Budget and Saving Strategies During Unemployment (Online)
2026-02-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Microsoft Teams, United States
Join Operation Hope’s Qassim Darawsheh for practical advice on budgeting, maintaining savings, and managing expenditures while unemployed. PLEASE NOTE: This online workshop takes place on Microsoft Teams. Sign up is through the Operation Hope website.
📆 Wednesday February 25th
🕚 11:00
🔗 Sign Up through Operation Hope

Unlock the LinkedIn Kingdom (Springfield)
2026-02-25 14:00 - 15:30 | MassHire Springfield Career Center, 95 Liberty St 3rd Floor, Springfield, MA, 01103, United States
Unlock the secrets of LinkedIn… establishing your profile, making connections and using their powerful job searching engine. Join 50+ Job Seekers Career Coach Professor Melody Beach as she gives you the keys to the LinkedIn kingdom!
📆 Wednesday February 25th
🕑 2:00
📞 (413) 858-2800 to Sign Up!

Community Buzz at MassHire Springfield
2026-02-26 10:00 - 12:00 | MassHire Springfield Career Center, 95 Liberty St 3rd Floor, Springfield, MA, 01103, United States
Join 50+ Job Seekers, along with other community based service providers, at MassHire Springfield’s Community Buzz Event. Meet with us face to face to discuss our program, our website and related services.
📅 Thursday February 26th
🕙 10:00

95 Liberty Street
Springfield, MA 01103

What’s Your Story and WHY it Matters (Online)
2026-03-03 10:00 - 11:30 | Zoom
Knowing your story, and being confident in telling it, will allow you to pave your own yellow brick road. This webinar will help you tap into your history and express your skills, accomplishments, values and mindset to influence your audience.
📆 Tuesday March 3rd
🕙 10:00
🔗 Sign Up Here!

Unlocking the LinkedIn Kingdom - MassHire Southbridge
2026-03-04 13:30 - 15:00 | MassHire Southbridge Career Center, 14 Mechanic Street, Suite 330 Wellington Hotel, Southbridge, MA, 01550, United States
Unlock the secrets of LinkedIn… establishing your profile, making connections and using their powerful job searching engine. Join 50+ Job Seekers Career Coach Professor Melody Beach as she gives you the keys to the LinkedIn kingdom!
📆 Wednesday March 4th
🕜 1:30
📞 (508) 765-6430 or register on JobQuest to Sign Up!

Networking Workshop (Online)
2026-03-09 10:00 - 11:30 | Zoom
Networking is a key element in finding the right job for you! In this workshop, you get to practice networking with a 50+ Job Seekers Career Coach.
📆 Monday March 9th
🕙 10:00
🔗 Sign Up Here!

What's Your Story and WHY It Matters (Bellingham)
2026-03-09 14:15 - 15:45 | Bellingham Senior Center, 40 Blackstone Street, Bellingham, MA, 02019, United States
Knowing your story, and being confident in telling it, will allow you to pave your own yellow brick road. This webinar will help you tap into your history and express your skills, accomplishments, values and mindset to influence your audience.
📅 Monday March 9th
🕑 2:15
🏣 Bellingham Senior Center
☎️ 508-966-0398 to sign up! Or just walk-in!

Take Control of Your Job Search with Paul Cecala (Online)
2026-03-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
Join Career Coach Paul Cecala of Cecala Career Consultants as he gives you the tools to plan, organize and brand your job search.
📆 Tuesday March 10th
🕙 10:00
🔗 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!

Practice Interviewing (online)
2026-03-16 10:00 - 11:30 | Zoom
Sign up to sharpen your interviewing skills with 50+ Job Seekers an experienced Career Coach. On Zoom.
📆 Monday March 16th
🕙 10:00
🔗 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!

Resumes and Cover Letters (Franklin)
2026-03-16 13:30 - 15:00 | Franklin Senior Center, 10 Daniel McCahill St, Franklin, MA, 02038, United States
When did you last update your resume? Last week? Last year? Or does it date back even farther? It’s essential that the modern resume has the right content to get though applicant tracking systems, and past the glancing eyes of HR and hiring managers. Join this Master Class with 50+ Job Seekers Career Coach George Armstrong as he walks you through the content maze of resumes and cover letters.
📅 Monday March 16th
🕜 1:30
🏣 Franklin Senior Center
☎️ (508) 520-4945 to sign up! (or just walk-in)

Resumes and Cover Letters (Online)
2026-03-17 10:00 - 11:30 | Zoom
When did you last update your resume? Last week? Last year? Or does it date back even farther? It’s essential that the modern resume has the right content to get though applicant tracking systems, and past the glancing eyes of HR and hiring managers. Join this Master Class with 50+ Job Seekers Career Coach Melody Beach as she walks you through the content maze of resumes and cover letters.
📅 Tuesday March 17th
🕙 10:00
💻 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!

Is this Ageism? What Now? (Southbridge)
2026-03-17 13:30 - 15:00 | MassHire Southbridge Career Center, 14 Mechanic Street, Suite 330 Wellington Hotel, Southbridge, MA, 01550, United States
What’s the reality of Ageism and what strategies can you use to combat it? Join 50+ Job Seekers Career Counselor Professor Melody Beach as she delves into the best practices in managing age related bias.
🏫 MassHire Southbridge 14 Mechanic Street, Suite 330, Southbridge 01550
📞 Call (508) 765-6430 to Sign Up!
💻 Sign Up on JobQuest

Budget and Saving Strategies During Unemployment (Online)
2026-03-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Microsoft Teams, United States
Join Operation Hope’s Qassim Darawsheh for practical advice on budgeting, maintaining savings, and managing expenditures while unemployed. PLEASE NOTE: This online workshop takes place on Microsoft Teams. Sign up is through the Operation Hope website.
📆 Wednesday March 18th
🕚 11:00
🔗 Sign Up through Operation Hope

50+ Job Seekers Orientation and "Go Ahead and Ask"
2026-03-23 08:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Our Program Information Session is a great way to become familiar with 50+ Job Seekers and what we do. Join our Program Manager for a quick tour of our program, our coming events, and our website. After a quick presentation, you can ask us anything about job seeking and best practices to find meaningful employment.
📅 Monday April 27th
🕙 10:00
📍 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!

Program Information Session and “Go Ahead and Ask” (Online)
2026-03-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
Our Program Information Session is a great way to become familiar with 50+ Job Seekers and what we do. Join our Program Manager for a quick tour of our program, our coming events, and our website. After a quick presentation, you can ask us anything about job seeking and best practices to find meaningful employment.

📅 Monday March 23rd
🕙 10:00
💻 On Zoom — Sign Up Here!

How to Ace an Interview with Marian Bernard (Online)
2026-03-24 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
50+ Job Seekers welcomes back Canadian friend Marian Bernard of ResumeExpert.ca for an entertaining, high-impact session designed specifically for job seekers over 50. As a Certified Employment Interview Professional, Marian will share insider hiring insights, practical strategies to handle today’s interview questions, and techniques to help you turn decades of experience into a clear advantage. Walk away ready to interview with confidence — and ready to score that job offer.
📅 Tuesday March 24th
🕙 10:00
💻 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!

Networking: Connecting the Dots (Springfield)
2026-03-25 14:00 - 15:30 | MassHire Springfield Career Center, 95 Liberty St 3rd Floor, Springfield, MA, 01103, United States
Applying online is easy… just click and type or drop and drag. But what are the odds you’ll get a job that way? Slim to none! 85% of jobs are filled through networking! Join 50+ Job Seekers Career Coach and Recruiter Melody for this Master Class on the mindset of Networking.
📆 Wednesday March 25th
🕜 2:00
🏫 MassHire Springfield Career Center 95 Liberty Street Springfield 01103
💻 Register on JobQuest
📞 413.858-2800. Walk-ins are welcome!

Generate Hope for a Good Future (online)
2026-03-30 11:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
Hope can uplift and motivate us amid challenges, uncertainty, and unpredictability. Join Dr. Miriam Rosalyn Diamond to take steps
toward increasing hope while navigating career upheavals, an ever-changing job market, financial concerns, and whatever else comes along.

📆 Monday March 30th
🕚 11:00
🔗 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!

Unlocking the LinkedIn Kingdom
2026-04-01 13:30 - 15:00 | MassHire Southbridge Career Center, 14 Mechanic Street, Suite 330 Wellington Hotel, Southbridge, MA, 01550, United States
Unlock the secrets of LinkedIn… establishing your profile, making connections and using their powerful job searching engine. Join 50+ Job Seekers Career Coach Professor Melody Beach as she gives you the keys to the LinkedIn kingdom!
📆 Wednesday April 1st
🕜 1:30
📞 (508) 765-6430 or to Sign Up!

AI for Job Seekers and Working Professionals: Register for the Series (online)
2026-04-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
In Part Two of 50+ Job Seekers Six Part Series on AI, join our Guest Presenter Zara Massoud as she continues to demystify and build your foundational knowledge regarding Artificial Intelligence with AI Prompting 101: Getting Good Answers from AI.

What is a prompt?
Role, context, and examples (RCE model)
Asking for structure, tone, formats
Iteration: the secret sauce
Avoiding “garbage in → garbage out”
AI Hallucinations

📆 Monday April 6th
🕙 10:00
🔗 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!
Part Three of 50+ Job Seekers Six Part Series on AI, join Professor Melody Beach who will take you through using job postings, your resume and LinkedIn profile to your best advantage through using AI.

Analyzing job postings
Tailoring resumes & cover letters
LinkedIn headline & About
Keywords & ATS alignment
Matching transferable skills to roles

📆 Wednesday April 15th
🕙 10:00
🔗 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!
In Part Four of 50+ Job Seekers Six Part Series on AI, Career Coach George Armstrong will demonstrate how AI may be able to help you reduce interview anxiety and build confidence in your story.

Mock interview generation
STAR storytelling support
Researching companies & industries
Drafting networking outreach messages
Practicing age-positive framing

📆 Tuesday April 28th
🕙 10:00
🔗 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!
In Part Five of 50+ Job Seekers Six Part Series on AI, join our Guest Presenter Zara Massoud as she continues to build your foundational knowledge regarding Artificial Intelligence for real-world workplace usage.

Writing support (emails, reports, web content)
Summarizing meetings/documents
Research & analysis
Task planning & prioritization

📆 Monday May 4th
🕙 10:00
🔗 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!
In the final Part Six of 50+ Job Seekers Six Part Series on AI, join our Guest Presenter Zara Massoud as she continues to build your foundational knowledge and help you broaden imagination and empower confident participation in the modern economy.

Micro-entrepreneurship possibilities (examples of successful launches using AI)
Freelance and consulting
Business planning & research
Business incubator process (Ideation, MVP, iteration, and validation)
Marketing content creation
Customer support scripts
Competitive analysis
Branding aids
Pricing & proposal drafting

📆 Wednesday May 27th
🕙 10:00
🔗 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!

AI Prompting 101: Getting Good Answers from AI (Online)
2026-04-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
If you’re just guessing about asking for AI for an answer or task? Workshop Presenter Zara Moussard for the second installment of 50+ Job Seekers series on artificial intelligence of as she helps you to develop the skill of writing AI prompts. You’ll learn:

What is a prompt?
Role, context, and examples (RCE model)
Asking for structure, tone, formats
Iteration: the secret sauce
Avoiding “garbage in → garbage out”

📅 Monday, April 6th
🕙 10:00
💻 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!

What’s Your Story: A Practical Guide to Networking - online
2026-04-07 10:00 - 11:30 | Zoom
Uncertainty, fear of rejection, the transactional nature of networking , and slow results all make networking for some an uncomfortable experience. Join 50+ Job Seekers career Coach George Armstrong as he walks through practical and tangible steps you can take to improve your networking.
📆 Tuesday April7th
🕙 10:00
🔗 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!

Budgeting and Saving Strategies During Unemployment (Online)
2026-04-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Microsoft Teams, United States
Join Operation Hope’s Qassim Darawsheh for practical advice on budgeting, maintaining savings, and managing expenditures while unemployed. PLEASE NOTE: This online workshop takes place on Microsoft Teams. Sign up is through the Operation Hope website.
📆 Wednesday April 8th
🕚 11:00
🔗 Sign Up through Operation Hope

Networking Workshop (Online)
2026-04-13 10:00 - 11:30 | Zoom
Networking is a key element in finding the right job for you! In this workshop, you get to practice networking with 50+ Job Seekers Career Coach, George Armstrong.
📆 Monday April 13th
🕙 10:00
🔗 Sign Up Here!

Labor Market Information – Research and Data (Bellingham)
2026-04-13 14:15 - 16:00 | Bellingham Senior Center, 40 Blackstone Street, Bellingham, MA, 02019, United States
Where are the holes in the Labor Market and where do you fit in? Join 50+ Job Seekers George Armstrong for this session on how to locate, and then effectively utilize this information.
📅 Monday April 13th
🕑 2:15
📍 Bellingham Senior Center
📞 (508) 966-0398 to Sign Up!

Ready to Move on: Forgiveness & Healing for Jobseekers (online)
2026-04-14 11:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
You’re looking for work. It’s not unusual to experience some lingering resentment or hurt regarding former co-workers, managers, leaders – even friends and family who just don’t understand your situation. These emotions can hinder applicants from presenting themselves in the best light. In this workshop, we will explore steps you can take to let go of difficult feelings and move toward your destiny feeling lighter and less encumbered.
📆 Tuesday April 14th
🕚 11:00
🔗 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!

AI for Job Search: Resumes, Cover Letters & LinkedIn - online
2026-04-15 10:00 - 11:30 | Zoom
Part Three of 50+ Job Seekers Six Part Series on AI, join Professor Melody Beach who will take you through using job postings, your resume and LinkedIn profile to your best advantage through using AI.
◉ Analyzing job postings
◉ Tailoring resumes & cover letters
◉ LinkedIn headline & About
◉ Keywords & ATS alignment
◉ Matching transferable skills to roles
🗓️ Wednesday April 15th
🕙 10:00
🔗 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!

Practice Interviewing (online)
2026-04-20 10:00 - 11:30 | Zoom
Sign up to sharpen your interviewing skills with 50+ Job Seekers experienced Career Coach Melody Beach.
📅 Monday April 20th
🕙 10:00
📍 On Zoom, Sign Up Here!
