The News Review:
- DACC center offering employment services to veterans
- Help veterans seeking work by being practical
- During a recession people return to school for new careers
- Laid-off workers start own businesses
DACC center offering employment services to veterans
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette
That’s not only a good thing; it’s the right thing because of what they have done for us. “DACC opened its Veterans’ Multi-purpose Employment Center this year thanks to a $50000 grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic pportunity. The center is housed in the college’s Career and Employment Services Center in Lincoln Hall’s Room 104. The center offers career counseling career readiness workshops help with resume-writing financial aid services and navigating GI educational bill benefits. Center officials also plan to partner with the local Small Business Development Center to offer career and business workshops and to start a support group for veterans and their family members.
Help veterans seeking work by being practical
Atlanta Journal Constitution
org — to find state-sponsored work force centers with free job search assistance programs and specially-trained Veterans’ Employment Representatives. Isolation is a powerful deterrent to success during career transition. Potlucks or work parties where everyone contributes will feel better than dinners out where you pick up the tab.
During a recession people return to school for new careers
Record-Searchlight
Hart has been going back to school to become a teacher after his career in technical illustration and residential design dried up with the economy. Hart says that he’s appreciative of how things are still holding together despite his unemployment. "It seems like God’s opened up doors left and right" Hart said. Hart has been going back to school to become a teacher after his career in technical illustration and residential design dried up with the economy.
Laid-off workers start own businesses
San Francisco Chronicle
Today Hodgkinson runs two businesses – one that creates handmade soaps and another that designs Web sites for crafters like herself. She loves the flexibility and creativity of self-employment but says it’s a tough way to make a living. “I work a lot more than I ever worked in the corporate world” said Hodgkinson whose husband still has a job with a steady paycheck and benefits. Hodgkinson represents a growing wave of what UC Santa Cruz economist Robert Fairlie calls “necessity entrepreneurs. ” “A lot of people start businesses because they don’t have opportunities in the salary sector” Fairlie said. Fairlie has studied small-business trends for the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City Mo.
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