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NEED HELP KICK-STARTING YOUR CAREER OR JOB SEARCH? Are you contemplating
a specific career change and want to know what kinds of skills it would take to
make that leap? Or do you simply want to explore what kinds of jobs are in a
particular industry? Pathfinder Careers will help write your new résumé, and for your next career, we highly recommend working with the following professionals, who are exceptional resources: Life Coaches:Will Wiebe - (503) 626-9839 or (503) 467-1812 phone will_wiebe@comcast.net email www.willcoach.net web Lead life/career coach for VocationVacations Samantha Mayfield - (503) 473-4754 savmay@earthlink.net email www.nurturelifecoaching.com web Coaching regarding supporting and empowering women Career and Management Consultation: Bruce Blackstone Hazen - (503) 280-0151 phone brucehazen@cs.com email Focuses on management coaching and oreganizational effectiveness Mark Koenigsberg - (503) 224-9364 or (503) 754-6570 mark.koenigsberg@gmail.com email Specialty is organizational and leadership development, as well as team and organizational effectiveness Bret Bernhoft - (360) 921-8145 A phenomenal Generation Y speaker and consultant, and has a high degree of understanding of how to work with younger employees in a workplace setting, which can prove helpful in integrating different approaches in the workplace. Human Resource Solutions: Makana Apo and Kelly Kordon - Professional Business Solutions, Inc. (541) 744-8923 phone kelly@pbsi.com email www.pbsi.com web If you are an HR professional, consider outsourcing to a professional HR company, which saves money, reduces liability and allows business owners and managers the time to focus on core activities. PBSI is your “One-Stop HR Department.” Recruiters: Donna Valente, President - Leadership Placement International (610) 449-5653 phone donnam@lpifirm.com email www.lpifirm.com web Providing global and local placements, retained searches and contingency searches John Erickson, Global Recruiters of Portland East (503) 235-4006 phone jerickson@grnportlandeast.com email www.grnportlandeast.com web Concentrating in placing corporate executives and executive committee staff in hotel, resort, private club and restaurant industries Looking for a job? Here are some great resources: Portland Job Developers Network is an association of employers and job developers seeking to connect candidates to open positions. Job listings are regularly updated on their website. Business Journal newspapers usually have a complete listing of business networking events in the area. Seventy percent of all job seekers find their next job through networking, and this is a great medium to get out there and make new connections. Portland Job Finders Support Group run by Cleon Cox, who has invested his time, energy and expertise as facilitator of the Job Finders Support Group since 1991. He is a fountain of knowledge and is a highly-connected individual who is always glad to assist job seekers with ideas and advice. The JobFinders website has a regularly updated and exhaustive list of job search links and engines. Weekly meeting at the Capitol Hill Branch of the Multnomah County Library every Friday at 12noon-2pm. LinkedIn is a great resource to connect to local and national contacts. Profiles are free and once you are in, you can use this as a way to learn about job opportunities as well as make connections to land informational interviews and networking. Life By Design NW supports people as they age, by discovering their passion and purpose so they engage their wisdom and skills to strengthen the community and achieve personal fulfillment. This organization is especially useful for mature workers seeking to transition from vocations to avocations. Insitute of Non-Profit Management is a Portland-specific organization based out of Portland State University, and has a great daily digest of jobs and volunteer opportunities that can bolster a resume, or be a great place to look for employment in the non-profit sector. Sign up is required. Community News Resource Group (CNRG) is another Portland-specific digest of volunteer opportunties and jobs in the non-profit, public and social services sectors. Registration required. Young Professionals of Portland provide a place for young professionals to connect, network, and socialize. The YPOP's ultimate goal is to help create a revitalization of the American economy and society based on the principles that people are at the heart of what makes businesses and communities work well. Idealist.org is THE resource for non-profit and social-service types of jobs. Registration required. Indeed.com is a great job-search spider that goes out and searches all of the job listing websites and does a compilation of your search specifications. It's a wonderful way to save on time going to each website separately, and this website sends job alerts directly to your email inbox. Registration is required but you can set up your own job search alerts that are specific to particular job titles and locations. Very handy! |
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