“Whittier job skills search session to host guest speaker” plus 1 more

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Whittier job skills search session to host guest speaker Posted: 23 May 2010 01:57 AM PDT Participate in job search skills sessions at 7 p.m. every Monday in the Education Center, second floor, Illuminate Room at Whittier Area Community Church, 8175 Villaverde Ave. Monday's meeting will feature guest speaker Steve Catt of Circle C Company in Whittier. Catt will discuss how employers can discover the specific desired results to achieve with every contract employee. For information e-mail jobquest@wacc.net Send submissions for "Around Whittier" to news.wdn@sgvn.com Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Colleges get boost from difficult job market Posted: 23 May 2010 06:56 AM PDT A degree from one of the nation's top business schools should be enough to make a job search as difficult as choosing what to wear in the morning. In normal times, that might very well be the case. But with the nation still struggling through its economic malaise, this year's crop of more than 100 MBA students coming out of Washington University's prestigious business school are finding the job search to be rather daunting. "It's a rough time to come out as an MBA. You can't paint it any other way," said Mark Brostoff, director of the career center at the Olin Business School. It is, he says, one of the worst markets he's seen, even worse than the one that followed on the heels of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It has the economy playing a key role both in driving record enrollment on college campuses across the nation, and in making life difficult for those ready to leave. To be sure, reports suggest that the job market for undergraduates appears a bit stronger this year. But many companies still are reluctant to go after the pricier graduates such as those with master's degrees in business administration, Brostoff said. The school won't say how many of its graduates are still looking for work, but even many of those who have found jobs say the search has been tough. Chris Curtis, 28, of University City, spent several months chasing jobs before capturing a position with Anheuser-Busch. It was a search marred by frustration and dead ends. "A lot of those jobs -- you apply, and it goes off into a black hole," Curtis said. The lean market prompted Peter McCarthy, 39, of St. Louis, to join the school's two-year-old MBA search team program. It puts students in support groups, meeting once a week to offer each other encouragement and advice in sessions designed to improvenetworking and personal marketing skills. Working with those other students -- some considered among the best in the class -- kept McCarthy's spirits up during a lengthy search that finally yielded a job two weeks ago with a local financial services firm. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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