The News Review:
- Career Events Prepare Students for Job Search
- A rung up on career ladder
- PGA CareerLinks garners “Association Program of the Year” award
- Hot List of Job Tips
- Career opportunities for Engineering IT in Norway
- Your next career: Where retrained workers are headed
- Greener Pastures Ahead
Career Events Prepare Students for Job Search
University of Central Florida
The conference is specifically designed for students to connect with employers. Services offered at this event include: resume critiques practice interviews and employability skills workshops conducted by Career Services staff and local employer representatives. For more information about the Career Expo Employment Prep Conference career-related services and additional resources visit:.
A rung up on career ladder
Minneapolis Star Tribune
He walked through the construction site with project superintendent Bruce Peterson left. A record 1300 Minneapolis high school students are getting exposure to the workaday world thanks to the Step-Up employment program. About 150 local businesses are involved in the program.
PGA CareerLinks garners “Association Program of the Year” award
WorldGolf.com
– CareerLinks The PGA of America’s complimentary employment referral service has earned a ninth consecutive “Association Program of the Year” award presented by The BoardRoom Magazine. Launched in 1996 CareerLinks continues its mission to build successful employment relationships between golf facility employers and qualified PGA Professionals. The BoardRoom Magazine first presented CareerLinks its “Association Program of the Year” honor in 2001 based on the program’s overall excellence achievements innovation and vision for future growth in the golf industry. Since its inception CareerLinks has assisted nearly 5700 industry employers who have indicated 100 percent customer satisfaction for employment services in the golf industry. The award was presented at a recent luncheon sponsored by The BoardRoom Magazine in Boca Raton Fla.
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Hot List of Job Tips
MyFox Washington DC
What They Check Hiring managers are seeing more lies on resumes. It is better not to list something rather than to lie about it because they will catch you. Items checked the most include employment verification educational background degrees references credit history driving record and court records. Action Verbs When putting your resume together make sure it reads fast clean and impressive. You should be using action verbs. These are concrete descriptive words that express your skills experience and accomplishments. Tell them how you “advised” on a matter “briefed” members of the management team or “charied” an event.
Career opportunities for Engineering IT in Norway
Manila Bulletin
Citing a report from the embassy of Norway Roque said the host country is issuing for the first time a job seekers’ visa to Filipino professionals that will allow them one-year grace period to find jobs if they are selected. Roque clarified however that the job seekers’ visa is not yet an employment visa. “We’re still studying it. We have yet to determine the system of monitoring and reporting and how to go about the line of coordination among others’’ he said in an interview.
Your next career: Where retrained workers are headed
HeraldNet
1 percent last month reaching double digits for the first time in 25 years. That means fewer occupations workers can transition to with financial assistance from the state. Welders construction workers and electricians are no longer considered in demand according to state employment data. Neither are graphic designers loan officers and dozens of other lines of work.
Greener Pastures Ahead
California Job Journal
No one knows that more than Sal Vaca Director of the Employment and Training Department for the city of Richmond California. As he sees it “today’s green economy is one that continues to grow and create new opportunities. ”Rebuilding CareersThrough the efforts of Vaca and his staff Richmond has created a highly successful employment program called RichmondBUILD which focuses on future-minded careers in green construction. “It’s a ten-week intensive training program” he explains “introducing new skills that are of current value to builders. ” Interestingly Vaca’s program just might be the first green-job training program developed both as career assistance and as a way to reduce community violence. The results have been farther reaching than were imagined at the start. Today RichmondBUILD has green training components that include solar installation solar thermal (water heating systems) and an innovative energy-efficiency component that is tied to internships.