The News Review:
- Area employment forecast ‘weak’ for upcoming quarter
- Unemployed UIC students have a chance with Career Services
- NJ career expert shares networking tips
- Career Fair to Include Job Search Workshops
- Did you make the right career choice?
- Harvard Business School Students Prepare to Enter the Job Market
Area employment forecast ‘weak’ for upcoming quarter
Cape Coral Daily Breeze
Industries like construction – Cape Coral’s former cash cow – durable goods manufacturing transportation and utilities financial activities professional and business services leisure and hospitality and government and other services plan to reduce their number of employees in the third quarter. The local wholesale and retail trade and education and health services sectors will look to hire next quarter while hiring in non-durable goods manufacturing and information is expected to remain stable. Homer Sosa manager of the Cape Coral Career and Service Center said the health services industry is the main sector looking to hire right now. “Right now the medical field that’s what they’re pushing. The retail the hotels everything else is pretty scarce” he said adding that the summer off-season for tourists is dampening the outlook for the hospitality sector. ne employer in the medical services industry however is not necessarily looking to hire next quarter. Samira Beckwith president and chief executive officer of Hope HealthCare Services a nonprofit group specializing in end-of-life care that ranks as one of the top nongovernmental employers in Lee County said demand and hiring has remained constant.
Unemployed UIC students have a chance with Career Services
Examiner.com
The ffice of Career Services is there to help students with on and off campus employment. You can schedule an appointment with a career counselor about anything including: job searching interviewing resume and cover letter help and more.
NJ career expert shares networking tips
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
Your goal in this first stage of networking is to become more knowledgeable about what is going on in companies and industries and to identify people with whom you would like to speak all while staying within your stated 20-minute time frame. Then you want to be referred to them so you can have a beneficial work-related conversation in which you can show your talents the second stage of networking. When you call a contact to whom you have been referred state your primary objective up front. For example: “I am a job seeker in career transition researching how various companies manage their shipping and receiving function and in particular how you manage yours. Would you be willing to talk for 30 minutes about the successes you’ve been having and challenges you face? I certainly would be willing to share what I’ve found to be successful in my seven years in shipping and receiving and what I am learning from other companies I am researching. ” It is essential you pledge to make the conversation beneficial to your networking partner and follow through on that pledge.
Career Fair to Include Job Search Workshops
Inside INdiana Business (press release)
com ReportThe Indianapolis Employment pportunities 2009 Career Fair set for later this month will also feature seven professional workshops. The June 23 event will take place at Lucas il Stadium and present workshop topics including job search and networking resume writing and interview skills. More than 30 businesses from central Indiana have already signed up for the career fair. Source: Inside INdiana BusinessContinued Below.
Did you make the right career choice?
Globe and Mail
They think: ‘If I’m not a financial adviser but a childcare worker instead then for some reason that’s not as valid. ‘ “Media images also factor in. Glamorizing some professions also steers people toward careers that don’t really suit their personalities or abilities says Lisa Nerman an employment counsellor with the Women in Successful Employment (WISE) program a career-resource service run by the non-profit agency JVS Toronto. Tokar figures his ill-advised choice came out of pressure he felt to make a quick career pick right after finishing his BA degree. “I think there is too much pressure on younger people to choose not only a career but the right career right away after entering university” he says. “And all of this happens way before we really get to experience much of life.
Harvard Business School Students Prepare to Enter the Job Market
PitchEngine (press release)
2009 – This year’s Harvard Business School graduates will step into a job market they did not anticipate two years ago when submitting their application to the MBA program. Because of the economic crisis the landscape for MBAs has changed significantly and with that so have employment opportunities. “Given the economic climate we’re very happy with the employment status of our current second-year students” said Jana Kierstead Managing Director of Harvard Business School’s MBA Career Services. “Career Services works with MBAs from the moment they step on campus to help them pursue a vision for a unique and meaningful career path. Although opportunities for immediate employment may have changed in the past year our students’ five- to seven-year vision generally has not. So we’ve been helping them explore alternative paths to reach their goal. For some that means starting in a different kind of job or even a different field from the one they originally expected while others have chosen to continue their education or start their own company.
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