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Career Center AT Beth Shir Shalom
Servicing our Whole Community
In helping our community with networking opportunities, ideas and potential job offerings, we will post seminars, job fairs and other temple events that are happening or in the planning stages for employers and job seekers to connect.
Being unemployed can be a lonely business, and finding a job in this economy can be frustrating. Our recently formed Career Center at Beth Shir Shalom offers learning, motivation, support and networking. We will help participants become more marketable by updating their skill sets and let the job seeker know they are not alone.
Open to anyone, the weekly meetings are held on Thursday mornings, 8:30-10am. Morning meetings will be a mixture of networking opportunities and structured learning. Participants will learn everything from getting their résumés reviewed, to successfully negotiate a contract, dressing for success, writing cover letters and doing follow ups to an interviews, even updating their skill set, no-cost search tips, and mock interviews. Attendees will listen to a variety of presenters, including motivational speakers, parenting coaches on family issues, and hear from individuals who have successfully started their own businesses.
To register for the Career Center, please email Cantor Ken Cohen at cantor@bethshirsholom.org.
There is no charge to attend and the whole community is invited.
Bagels and Coffee will be served. A small donation to cover the costs of the refreshments is suggested.
BSS Career Center covered in the Santa Monica Daily Press front page.
Read the Cover story that continued on page 11
FRIENDS in our community SEEKING EMPLOYMENT
The Rambam,
the preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the greatest Torah scholars of the Middle Ages, said the highest form of giving, involves making a person self-sufficient by finding him/her a job.
The Career Center at Beth Shir Shalom is interested in letting our synagogue family know of the highly completent individuals currently seeking employment, in the hope of helping them find the right job. None of us may be able, single-handedly, to eradicate joblessness, but together each of us can do our part to transform the systems that create opportunity in the marketplace.
Click here to see our candidates
Please let us know of any jobs being offered at your workplace or if you are aware of any other networking opportunities and we will make the information available to our members.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
CPA
Seeking an individual with a minimum of three years experience, with an emphasis on taxes. We are a small firm, but do prepare close to 1500 returns of all kinds-corp, s-corp, estate, trust, individual, partnership, gift and non profit.
We also do accounting for small businesses and some business management for our clients. If someone needs a part time job, this is possible also. We are very flexible.
Please contact Phyllis Schlessinger at phylliss@triplechex.com
EVENTS, WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, ARTICLES
ARTICLES ON JOB MARKET
(click on title of article to read more of the article)
Self-Blame and Self-Help
By Ofer Sharone
Tikkun Magazine, Fall 2009
Preoccupations: Is This the Time to Chase a Career Dream?
By PAMELA SLIM of the NY Times
Widespread financial panic has unleashed a giant wave of creative yearnings.
Apr 23rd 2009
by 'The Creative Group'
Monogrammed stationery.
A Rolodex filled with business cards.
The Sunday want ads.
These job search tools have all gone the way of the dodo. But are you still using tactics that are similarly slated for extinction?
Like all trends, those that define the job search change over time -- sometimes often, and sometimes dramatically. To give yourself the best possible chance of landing a new position, you need to use the most up-to-date approaches. And if you haven't launched a job hunt in several years, you could be behind the times.
TweetMyJOBS.com Connects Employers and Job Seekers on Twitter
Monday March 30, 2009
Charlotte, N.C.
The social networking site Twitter is based on the question, “What are you doing right now?” If the answer is looking for a job or seeking to fill an open position, a new start-up has built an application that might be for you.
The company is TweetMyJobs.com, and was founded by Gary Zukowski, an entrepreneur located in Charlotte, NC. Using a proprietary software program that Zukowski created, people can search jobs for free by signing up for various job channels in cities across America. Companies, in turn, can post jobs on the site as well. When a job becomes available on a job channel for which a person has subscribed, the individual instantly receives a text message on his or her cell phone announcing the opportunity.
“The goal is to become the premier and largest job posting site in America,” Zukowski said. “Based on the simplicity for both the job seeker and job poster, we are confident we are well-positioned to become the industry leader and completely revolutionize the employment market.”
In addition to connecting individuals, TweetMyJobs.com provides resume posting services, the ability to forward a job to a friend and a service that allows companies to feed all of their jobs electronically to TweetMyJobs.com.
“Everyone keeps asking, what are the practical business applications for Twitter,” Zukowski said. “TweetMyJobs.com addresses that need in the marketplace.”
For more info: http://www.TweetMyJobs.com
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PAST SPEAKERS AT THE CAREER CENTER
May 7 Steve Keleman: Coach, Determining your interests, skill sets, and accomplishments, Crafting a resume"
May 14 Steve Keleman: Coach, Where are the jobs and how do I get one?"
May 21 Maxine Shapiro: Coach, Energizing your job search from the inside out"
May 28 Deborah Gallant: Business Coach, "Helping you get where you're going"
June 4 Bette Alkazian: Parent and Family Coach,
"How to deal with change within your own home"
June 11 Shari Faerman: Image Consultant, "Dressing for Success"
June 18 - Lynn Grossman: Professional Life Coach
"Are you living full out in your life?"
June 25 - Naomi
Finkel
"Say It With Words"
July 2 - Alan Young
"Hot search tips in an emotional winter "
July 9 - Diane Gubin
“Negotiation Skills for Your Career”
July 16 - Cantor Ken
"Moving forward together"
July 23 - Larry Braman
"Job Search in the New Economy, pt I "
July 30 - Ilana Meskof
“Everything you wanted to know, but afraid to ask,
from an employer’s perspective”
Aug 6 - Peter Getoff
Aug 13 - Jennifer Rosky
Aug 20 - Lynn Grossman: Professional Life Coach
"Are you living full out in your life?
Aug 27 - Florence Kanofsky
"Everything about job search you wanted to know,
but were afraid to ask"
Sept 3 - Larry Braman
"Job Search in the New Economy, pt II "
Sept 10 - Stuart Fried
"Learning the Art of Networking through LinkedIn"
Sept 17 - Gary Grossman
"You already know your truth, get ready to talk about it"
Sept 24 -
By popular request, the Career Center will be holding this week's meeting in the densely wooded, gorgeous Temescal Park. Please plan on meeting at the synagogue at 8:00 am, and we'll carpool over to the park.
Once there, we'll hike into the park, find a beautiful clearing, and discuss highlights from the book
Finding your own North Star by Martha Beck. Please make sure to bring snacks, water, chair or blanket, and suntan lotion.
Oct 1 - Bill Saleeby
"Real Keys to effective and productive networking"
Oct 8 - Harriette Lowenstein
"How to thrive, not survive, in the new economy"
Oct 15 - Peter Bennett
"Interviewing techniques"
Oct 22 - Stuart Fried
"Learning the Art of Networking through LinkedIn - Part II "
Oct 29 - Nancy Kurshner
Business Venture Proposal "Prepaid Legal"
Nov 5 - Steve Keleman
Nov 12 - Lynn K. Jones
Transformation MOJO!
Nov 19 - Harriet Cohen
Dec 3 - Harriette Lowenstein
"How to thrive, not survive, in the new economy" part II
Dec 10 - Pascal Gaspri
Dec 17 - Yves Marton
"Utilizing your intuition"
Jan 7 - Cantor Ken
"Group Check-In"
Jan 14 - Juli A. Burkhart,
"Consultant on individual and family services"
Jan 21 - Sandra Mueller
" Exploring New Turf - Discover hidden resources in yourself"
Jan 28 - Stuart Fried
"Learning the Art of Networking through LinkedIn - Part III "
Feb 4 - Brian Buckley
Rediscover yourself by exploring their strengths and peak experiences
Feb 11 - Susan Lindau
"Tools for getting through rainy weather"
Feb 18 - Miriam Reiss
“Staying happy no matter what – 5 tips from an expert career coach”
Feb 25 - Jeffrey M. Petersil
"Prep For Success”
Mar 4 - Nancy Kurshner
Networking
Mar 11 - Cantor Ken Cohen
Inspirings from Rick Jarow
Mar 18 - Steve Keleman
Determining your interests, skill sets, and accomplishments.
March 25 -Larry Coleman
April 1 - We WILL NOT MEET this week
April 8 - Archana Daniels
April 15 - Rick Jarow
CD Series #3
April 22 - Larry Coleman
"Appreciation (Marketing) in all areas of life"
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