Sept. 2016 EARN Meeting
Date and time
Location
St. Patrick's Parish Center (Lower Level of the New Church)
Moseman Rd & Hanover St Yorktown Heights, NY 10598Description
An Unvarnished Tale of a Successful Job Search
EARN graduate, Dan Lewis, will provide personal insights about his recent successful job search. Included are details about the surprises and challenges encountered, and how he overcame many obstacles.
Daniel Lewis is a founding principal of New York Cloud Systems, LLC, a company that helps small and medium businesses improve their productivity, collaboration and data protection by using the cloud.
Organized by
is one of Westchester County's perennial faith-based groups specifically designed to assist the unemployed, underemployed and others in a state of career transition. EARN been holding monthly meetings since 1989.
The program was established by a small group of parishioners with human resources backgrounds with the intent of educating attendees about the job search process and by providing them opportunities to develop their networking skills. Essentially, EARN's coordinators help individuals to learn what it takes to uncover job leads and to increase their number of potential contacts. Not an employment agency, EARN provides valuable resources to connect attendees to work, but does not provide job placement.
The monthly meeting has four phases. Initially, there is News You Can Use -- an update on events. This is usually followed by a knowledgeable guest speaker who delves into various aspects of the job search, such as resume preparation, networking, negotiating and interviewing. Third, a coordinator facilitates a formal networking process whereby each participant tells of his/her background, aspirations and job search successes/setbacks experienced over the last month. Finally, informal networking takes place. Attendees do a one-on-one or small group interactions, for example, depending upon what transpired in the earlier networking phase.
EARN also publishes a monthly newsletter entitled Employment Exchange which lists job openings and situations wanted.
Visit EARNatStPats.com for more information.