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This is a commonly asked question... 

And, we know that's really what is most important to you is "will your job be there?"  The next Jobing.com Career Expo will be held on Wednesday, October 15th  at the University of Phoenix Stadium (Cardinals Stadium) from 12Noon to 5pm.  

There are more than 300 local employers attending with a very wide variety of jobs.  And their openings change on a daily basis.  So the answer to this really changes on a daily basis... all the way up to the day of the event... Our suggestion is that you create a game plan... visit the list of employers, then visit their openings and their websites to determine the types of jobs they may be hiring for.  

And this list changes all the way up until the day before the Career Expo.
 Jobing.com Career Expo Employers AttendingIn addition to the 1000s of jobs represented that day, remember, the day can be of benefit in so many other ways:
Receive a free resume review
Attend the free career search workshops
Get information on what's available for people with disabilities and visit the disability resource booth
AND much more!  Good Luck and Go Jobing!

Join us for a Webinar on Wednesday, October 8, 2008

This webinar is free to attendees of the Jobing.com Career Expo.  This brief session will cover ways for you to get the most out of your experience, and better your chances of securing that next career opportunity. 

This includes how to prepare, what to wear, what employers are looking for, what to do following the Career Expo, as well as all the great resources available to you at the event.  

Get ready to GO JOBING!

Date:Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Time:12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 

System Requirements:
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther®) or newer

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar Seat Now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/949637893

There are ten days remaining till the next Jobing.com Career Expo.

You will want to begin planning your day!
 
There are more than 250 employers that will be attending the Jobing.com Career Expo on Wednesday October 15th from 12Noon to 5pm.  We suggest that you take a few minutes to pre-plan your trip to the Career Expo by viewing the list of employers ahead of time.  Make a plan to ensure you are able to visit the employers you most want to see. 

Pre-register and see the list of employers at Jobing.com Career Expo

 

Take a trip with the Beatles in their Yellow Submarine to the depths of the ocean and discover an amazing lesson in adaptability. As we submerge together click on www.rapshody.com and listen to the original version of the tune whose refrain begins with "We all live in a yellow submarine" (Anyone for a sing a long?)

We are now submerged eight thousand feet below the surface on the ocean floor. No - I'm not talking about our current experiences in the stock / credit or the job markets. Though, we could draw some comparisons.

At this depth sight is useless and the blood runs cold in freezing waters. We are close to vents releasing heat in excess of 570 degrees from the earth's core. Proteins and DNA simply fall apart and enzymes melt away. (I felt like that...let's see.... maybe after the first bail out vote failed this week!)

I am talking about learning from one of the smallest creatures on earth. Oceanographic scientists have discovered colonies of living organisms not only surviving but thriving and reproducing under these conditions. Why? At some point in their existence - as conditions changed - they had to change too! Now that is a lesson in adaptability that gives me hope!

At CWT* we've learned that wither you are a worker or an employer Change is Constant. We change constantly and so does the world around us. Become adaptable, keep your skills current and seek out opportunities to learn new skills. The result is adaptability!

If your feeling like you're on the ocean floor without a submarine remember YOU CAN ADAPT! It's been done before and if you let yourself you can evolve and thrive again. Don't give up!

Workers.... Join us at CWT* for Boomers in Demand Summit - Thursday October 16, 8:30am - 1pm. It's FREE, Fun, Informative and planned to equip you with adaptability skills. You'll have the opportuntity to Speed date Boomer friendly employers who are looking for adaptable people for their job market. Skill building classes will help equip you to evolve in a constantly changing workplace.

Employers... You are invited to CWT* on this same date to adapt needs in your workplace to a ready pool of workers being prepared to recareer with you. You'll be able to tell your story in a large group setting plus network with Boomers at your display area. There is NO Charge for participating.

Workers & Employers are invited to Gateway Community College's Career Center Job Fair October 29 10am - 1pm. Over 1,000 attended our last Job Fair on campus.

Go to www.boomersindemand.com for more information and to register or call The Center for Workforce* Transition at 602-286-8158

Next time on PlaYiNg a NeW TuNe hear from someone who is recareering and playing a NeW TuNe after 30 years in the construction business. Why? He's discovered that Learning is Ongoing if you realize and adapt to the fact that Change is Constant.

Join us for a Webinar on Wednesday, October 8, 2008

This webinar is free to attendees of the Jobing.com Career Expo.  This brief session will cover ways for you to get the most out of your experience, and better your chances of securing that next career opportunity. 

This includes how to prepare, what to wear, what employers are looking for, what to do following the Career Expo, as well as all the great resources available to you at the event.  

Get ready to GO JOBING!

Date:Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Time:12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 

System Requirements:
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther®) or newer

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar Seat Now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/949637893

Whether you are a job seeker, a talent recruiter, career development professional, or budding entrepreneur, this program is for you - hosted by the Arizona Career Development Association.

Cookies From Home
1605 West University in Tempe

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
11:30 to 1:30 pm

Founded by Susan and Barry Brooks, Cookies From Home is a multi-million dollar cookie gift and mail order company serving cookie lovers since 1981. Acknowledged as the “Best Cookies in Phoenix” by the Phoenix New Times, this entrepreneurial venture also received the Tempe, Arizona Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year award. “Cookie Queen” Susan Brooks will talk about her entrepreneurial spirit, as well as her sales, marketing and customer service skills used to launch this successful and delicious business.
Susan will also provide a tour of the Cookies From Home facility which houses 20 employees, bakes over 12 million cookies a year and ships gifts worldwide from the Tempe, AZ headquarters.

The tour of the Cookies From Home facility begins promptly at 11:30 am followed by Susan’s presentation. A light lunch, and of course, sweet treats will be provided.

Cost for the tour, dynamite presentation, sweets and connecting with colleagues is just $20 for practicing professionals and $10 for students with an entrepreneurial spirit. Payment may be made at the door but please RSVP your attendance to Joyce at joyce.donahue@asu.edu by Monday, October 6th.

Let me start by telling you that I spent my formative teen years in the South.  South Louisiana to be more specific.  Where "laissez les bon temps roulez" attitudes casually intermingled with Cotillion lessons on what it means to be a lady.  So early on I learned that it wasn't polite to talk about politics or religion outside of your immediate circle -- and particularly not at work.  Looking back, I realize that given Louisiana's colorful political history, this social norm may have actually been more rooted in keeping the status quo -- but I digress...

I have to admit that I have lived pretty peacefully with the "don't ask, don't tell" philosophy.  When people at work would start talking politics -- even if I agreed with what they were saying -- I would find a way to politely bow out of the conversation.  Yes, there were times when someone would say something particularly narrow-minded, disturbing, or just flat out wrong.  But I would always keep my political ideas to myself.  Until now.

If you want to see what has changed my mind, read "In this economy, is our hindsight still 20/20?" on my Breakroom blog.

So this has me curious. 

• How many of you out there are actually engaging in political discussions at work? 
• Do you think the office is an appropriate venue for those discussions? 
• If you do talk politics, do you keep it light?  "That was crazy when Sarah Palin gave a shout out to the 3rd graders in the debate!" Or do you delve a little deeper?  "When is the right time to move our troops out of Iraq?" 
• Does your office have any rules about it? 
• Has anyone had an experience where learning more about someone's political views has caused you to change your personal views about them? 

I'd love to hear your thoughts.  I'm ready to talk about it!

Wow. What a week.  If you are like me then you’ve been glued to every media outlet trying to glean just a bit more information about our markets, political climate and exactly how the collapse and take-over of so many financial institutions will impact us all. I don’t pretend to be an economist, but the lack of consumer confidence and market stability of the past week has me thinking a lot more about my own financial situation and what I’m looking for in, not only our next president, but all of our federal, state and local leaders.  It’s been a week that has many people talking and asking questions….questions about why the “Bailout” bill failed, whose fault it was, what can be done to pass a “Rescue” plan, and questions surrounding the fundamentals of Wall Street. 

These are all questions and topics that are going to continue to directly impact Young Professionals as we navigate our own financial strategy and decide who will lead us through this economical storm.  Some of the questions I’ve found myself thinking about are: how safe is my 401K /IRA? How much do I really need in savings?  What is going to happen to my home value? How does this financial climate affect my parents who are very close to retirement age?  How is this going to affect my taxes? Who do I believe is the most qualified candidate to help us get out of this mess? These are questions that I think many Young Professionals are asking themselves, and as we ask these questions it becomes abundantly clear that Young Professionals would greatly benefit from a network of resources to help us make very well-educated personal decisions. 

Having been a part of GET Phoenix for a year and a half I know I have that outlet of these exact resources.  You see, GET Phoenix offers not only a network of Young Professionals within the Phoenix metropolitan  area, but it also provides educational seminars on personal finance planning , job hunting resources and political panels to hear directly from local candidates about the ballot initiatives they support.  It’s an organization that has pretty much everything a Young Professional could be searching for; community, connectivity, and resources.  In this time of political and economical uncertainty I feel very fortunate to be involved with GET and I hope you will too get involved!  Please join us at one of our upcoming events!  We are going to be meeting at Burrton Barr Library on Friday, October 3 rd for Phoenix’s First Friday’s from 6pm-10pm and we will also be hosting a social networking happy hour at Coach and Willy’s on Thursday, October 16 th from 5:30pm-7:30pm.  Individual memberships start at $75 annually. For more information please visit us at www.getphoenix.org.  

October 1, 2008

 Wow. What a week.  If you are like me then you’ve been glued to every media outlet trying to glean just a bit more information about our markets, political climate and exactly how the collapse and take-over of so many financial institutions will impact us all. I don’t pretend to be an economist, but the lack of consumer confidence and market stability of the past week has me thinking a lot more about my own financial situation and what I’m looking for in, not only our next president, but all of our federal, state and local leaders.  It’s been a week that has many people talking and asking questions….questions about why the “Bailout” bill failed, whose fault it was, what can be done to pass a “Rescue” plan, and questions surrounding the fundamentals of Wall Street. 

These are all questions and topics that are going to continue to directly impact Young Professionals as we navigate our own financial strategy and decide who will lead us through this economical storm.  Some of the questions I’ve found myself thinking about are: how safe is my 401K /IRA? How much do I really need in savings?  What is going to happen to my home value? How does this financial climate affect my parents who are very close to retirement age?  How is this going to affect my taxes? Who do I believe is the most qualified candidate to help us get out of this mess? These are questions that I think many Young Professionals are asking themselves, and as we ask these questions it becomes abundantly clear that Young Professionals would greatly benefit from a network of resources to help us make very well-educated personal decisions. 

Having been a part of GET Phoenix for a year and a half I know I have that outlet of these exact resources.  You see, GET Phoenix offers not only a network of Young Professionals within the Phoenix metropolitan  area, but it also provides educational seminars on personal finance planning , job hunting resources and political panels to hear directly from local candidates about the ballot initiatives they support.  It’s an organization that has pretty much everything a Young Professional could be searching for; community, connectivity, and resources.  In this time of political and economical uncertainty I feel very fortunate to be involved with GET and I hope you will too get involved!  Please join us at one of our upcoming events!  We are going to be meeting at Burrton Barr Library on Friday, October 3 rd for Phoenix’s First Friday’s from 6pm-10pm and we will also be hosting a social networking happy hour at Coach and Willy’s on Thursday, October 16 th from 5:30pm-7:30pm.  Individual memberships start at $75 annually. For more information please visit us at www.getphoenix.org.