Monday Job Seekers Connection: Career Confidence: Your Story is the Strategy

Start your week with a community of other job seekers who support, encourage, motivate, and learn from each other through their job searches. Job Seekers Connection energizes and inspires participants by sharing valuable strategies and techniques from professional career coaches, recruiters, and Human Resources representatives.

This week's presenter: Hailey George

Topic: Career Confidence: Your Story is the Strategy

Most job-search advice boils down to “apply more, hustle harder.” It’s exhausting and it rarely works.

This workshop session is different. We will focus on the inner and outer work that actually creates opportunity: knowing what you want, owning the real story of your journey, and building relationships that open doors applications never will.

Participants will walk away with a clear, authentic professional narrative they can use tomorrow, practical tools to stay focused and uncover direction instead of scattering energy across endless applications, and warm networking language that feels natural even if networking usually feels awkward.

This is not a lecture. It’s a supportive, practical session grounded in one core idea I've seen hold true from startups to community centers: when people get clear and show up as themselves, the right opportunities find them.

About the presenter:

Hailey George is the Founder & Principal of HGHR, a fractional HR consultancy that helps founders and CEOs scale their organizations by establishing strong, people-first foundations.

With more than a decade of strategic HR leadership in high-growth organizations, Hailey has built her career around one core belief: empowered communities, power communities.

That belief drives the community-centered programs she leads, including Because Small Business Deserve BIG HR and the popular Career Confidence series. Through this work, she supports emerging talent, small business leaders, and career builders as they step into new opportunities with clarity, capability, and confidence.

A regular panelist, public speaker, and workshop leader across Boston, Hailey holds an MBA and is SHRM-CP certified. She is thrilled to bring her signature Career Confidence programming to the Harvard Ed Portal.

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Advance registration is preferred for all Ed Portal programs and events. Walk-in attendees may not be admitted.

Parking is limited around the Ed Portal so we recommend taking public transportation.

Public transportation options:

We are about a 15-20 minute walk from the Red Line Harvard Square station or Green Line -B Harvard Avenue station.

Several MBTA buses also stop near the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue: #66, #86, #70.

Parking information:

If you choose to drive to the Ed Portal please be prepared to utilize the two-hour on-street parking surrounding the Ed Portal or to park at Artesani Park and walk 10-12 minutes along Western Avenue to arrive at the Ed Portal. A limited number of parking spaces are available in the rear of the Ed Portal building on a first come, first serve basis. You may only use parking spaces in the rear of the Ed Portal building outlined in orange paint.

To help protect visitors and staff, members of the public are asked to stay home if they are unwell or have experienced signs of illness* in the past 24-hours.

If you require an accommodation for a disability, please call the Ed Portal ahead of time at 617-496-5022 or e-mail us at edportal@harvard.edu, and we will do our best to assist you.

* Signs of illness include: fever, chills or feeling feverish; a new cough (not related to chronic condition); new fatigue; muscle or body aches; sore throat; new nasal congestion or new runny nose (not related to seasonal allergies); nausea or vomiting; diarrhea.