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- Career Partnership program gets contract
- Kennedy seen as model for re-entry women
- Elusive employment in Valley: Thousands seeking work in crowded …
- Letters from readers
Career Partnership program gets contract
Marin Independent-Journal CA
Larry Meredith head of the county Department of Health and Human Services said the program involves about 30 youths who participate in activities including meetings to determine career interests resume preparation interview techniques job search skills workplace etiquette and internships. Youths who complete internships get a $550 stipend. The program “is able to guide at-risk youth through their barriers to employment and or education allowing them to become productive citizens in their communities and in doing so allows for more youth to be served by other youth programs and services in the community” Meredith told county supervisors in a report.
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Kennedy seen as model for re-entry women
The Associated Press
But many women identify with her impulse to enter the work force after two decades of child rearing. Kennedy’s bid for the Senate has reignited the “mommy wars” between mothers with careers and those who take a break from paid employment. Like Kennedy many women face resentment when they return to the work force after raising kids and doing volunteer work. “She’s a Kennedy but she’s a lot like us” was the headline of a Dec. 28 column by Anne Glusker in The Washington Post. “If you strip away the glamour the name and the money then Caroline is.
Elusive employment in Valley: Thousands seeking work in crowded …
TMCnet
Many are 20-year veterans of the work force casualties of the economic downslide. Seeking assistanceWhile some individuals search for the elusive jobs on their own many seek assistance from staffing agencies which play a central role in the path from unemployment to employment. "Starting in September we’ve seen an increase in job seekers and that has held steady through this first week of January" said Abott Wood employment service manager for the Decatur Career Center. "As for placement it’s been a slow market since the first of December. The number of jobs listed through the office went to an all time low.
Letters from readers
Florida Times-Union FL
Some younger employees tend to view the work as a 9 to 5 job and not as a commitment to a career. Can-do folks who do whatever it takes to get it done are valued. That was what it took in the days when companies were offering a shot at career employment and that’s what it still takes to be deemed a professional. The work ethic is something that transcends generational lines. If a company that has older experienced employees wants to attract new talent they need to find the ones who have the drive and commitment to succeed. They’re out there and they’re the keepers. Companies will find room for those people.