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Maximum Connections: Job Fair

Dress for success, bring copies of your resume and be ready to network!

Talk with major companies like Columbia Sportswear, Comcast, Netflix, PHC Northwest and TJ Maxx. Employers are looking to fill the following positions: customer service, call center, claims, data entry, mail, warehouse, security officer (unarmed), supervisor, electronic technician, buyers, material handlers, administrative personnel, engineers, janitors, landscape professionals, sales, customer service, accounting, store managers, assistant managers, team managers, leasing agents and more.

For more information go to WorkinginOregon.org.

September 16, 2010 - 9:00am - 2:00pm

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Unemployed Finds Path to Employment and Life Change

Seifollah Mojab had been laid off from his first job in the U.S. when he spotted a flier advertising PCC's Entry Level High Tech Skills Training Program, changing his life.

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Resilient Recareering: Lifelong Learning - a Key to Success

by Cynthia Dailey-Hewkin

With fall approaching our thoughts often turn to the beginning of the new school year and learning new things. However, learning can go on all year long and in places other than classrooms.

If you are considering switching careers, working for a different employer, volunteering, running your own business, or simply taking it easy, you might want to consider the importance of keeping current by being a "lifelong learner".

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Get the Job Edge: Expand Your Online Job Search

If you're looking for work, you already know the statistics: Oregon's June's unemployment numbers are out. Joblessness is over 10%, and has been for the past eight months in a row. The data for those looking for work is also discouraging; across the United States, roughly 1 in 10 people are searching for work.

Searching for a job

Job seekers need an edge.

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Field Your Allstar Team with Express Employment Professionals

It's the 9th inning, 2 outs, 3 balls, 2 strikes...aren't you glad you have Express Employment Professionals on your team? Let us show you our appreciation and join us for an Allstar night of baseball, food, prizes, drinks and fun!

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Phone Interviewing Tools and Techniques (Make a Lasting Impression)

Welldigger's Guest Speaker: Barbara Barde, Barde Career Solutions

Topic: Phone Interviewing Tools and Techniques – making a lasting first impression.

Barbara will be covering the purpose and goal of a phone interview as well as essential and critical tools and techniques to ensure candidates land their face-to-face interview. This will include incorporating the right questions the candidate should be asking during a phone interview as well – a well rounded, fully loaded overview of successful phone interviewing.

Time: 7:30 am, Thursday July 1

Location: The Buffalo Gap, 6835 SW Macadam

Cost: Room Fee of $5 includes coffee, tea, muffins

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Simply Hired (Too Young to Retire?)

This job board specializes in people over 50. Give it a whirl!

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Adapting Your Resume for a Nonprofit Job Search

If you are a prospective bridger—someone with experience primarily in business who is seeking a senior position in the nonprofit sector—you’ll want to take a hard look at your resume and consider adapting it for a nonprofit job search.

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Resilient Recareering: Using Temporary Employment Agencies

by Cynthia Dailey-Hewkin

If you are recareering you might consider using temporary (or "temp") agencies as resources. They can be helpful if you need to earn some money quickly or are unsure about what you want to do or where you want to work. There are many listed in phone books under "Employment Agencies" and "Employment Contractors - Temporary Help". Make sure the agencies you contact are appropriate for your needs by checking out the variety of positions they have listed and whether or not they charge a fee to the job applicant. If you are on a limited budget you will want to stick with the agencies that charge the employer.

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New Realities of the Job Market and Ideas to Overcome Those Obstacles

MetLife Mature Market Institute recently released Buddy, Can You Spare a Job - research on why it may be difficult for Boomers to land jobs. Here are some perceptions of those looking for jobs and the realities, according to that research, as well as ideas.

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