“Paxen Introduces New Online Tool To Help Job Seekers Successfully Prepare And Navigate The Employment Search Process” plus 1 more |
| Posted: 06 Aug 2010 03:21 AM PDT MELBOURNE, FLA.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Paxen Learning is providing job seekers with a new weapon in their arsenal of job-search tools. EmployMentor™, an online work-readiness guide developed by the company's publishing division, provides job seekers with much-needed comprehensive instruction and hands-on practice in seeking and securing employment, standing out in a competitive job market, and succeeding in the workplace. The nine-chapter, web-based instructional guide and tutorial provides an accelerated and targeted approach that spotlights strategies to help job seekers identify career interests and opportunities, write and customize résumés and cover letters, properly prepare for interviews, develop negotiation skills, and excel in a chosen career field. Material in EmployMentor™ fully correlates to the nationally recognized Equipped for the Future adult education standards, which form the backbone of the National Work Readiness Credential. Currently available as a resource for National Guard soldiers seeking civilian employment opportunities through the Guard's Job Connection Education Program in Texas, EmployMentor™ will be used in a variety of Paxen's work-readiness and life skills-development programs throughout the United States. "In today's highly competitive workforce environment, it is crucial that job seekers understand and properly use all the resources available to them to stand out amid a crowd of job applicants—and EmployMentor™ addresses this need," said Doug Merlin, Chief Operations Officer, Paxen. "We're very excited to introduce EmployMentor™. Thisonline tool provides excellent insights into best practices and is designed to readily support job seekers of all skill levels and backgrounds." Topics covered in EmployMentor™ include an overview of the job-search process, in-depth instruction about how to write clear and concise résumés and cover letters, a comprehensive overview of the interview process and best practice techniques to use during the actual interview, details on post-interview protocols including insights and strategies related to salary and benefit negotiations, and strategies to help new employees succeed in the workplace and advance in their chosen careers. Each chapter of EmployMentor™ features easy-to-understand instructions, essential concepts, best-practices strategies, hands-on tutorials and activities, and appropriate supporting information. Upon successful completion of each chapter, job seekers gain valuable workforce knowledge and proven strategies, and create immediately relevant materials—such as résumés and cover letters—for use in the job-search process. About Paxen Learning Paxen Learning specializes in developing and delivering outcome-based educational programs that build academic and employability skills for at-risk youths and adults. Each year, thousands graduate from Paxen programs on their journey toward meaningful employment. The company currently operates 25 programs in 10 states. Its clients and partners include the American Hotel and Lodging Association, Blackboard, Department of Defense, Department of Juvenile Justice, Indiana University High School, Home Builders Institute, National Guard Bureau, The Florida and Hawaii National Guards, state Departments of Labor, and local Workforce Investment Boards. The 25-year-old private, for-profit company is headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, with offices in Tallahassee, Florida, and Maui, Hawaii. Paxen Learning, 710 Atlantis Road, Melbourne, FL 32904 Tel: 800 247 2936 ( www.paxen.com )  Copyright Business Wire 2010 Five Filters featured article: "Peace Envoy" Blair Gets an Easy Ride in the Independent. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| FACTBOX-Search process for San Francisco Fed chief Posted: 06 Aug 2010 11:00 AM PDT (Reuters) - Christina Romer's resignation as head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers has revived speculation that her next job could be as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Janet Yellen, who has run the San Francisco Fed since 2004, has been nominated to be vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, and the U.S. Senate is expected to act on the nomination when lawmakers return to Washington from their summer break. Romer, who will step down on Sept. 3 to return to her job as a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, has been mentioned for months as a candidate to replace Yellen. "I certainly would be honored to be considered for the job," Romer told Reuters Insider on Friday. "I think it's important to realize that's not something that I can control or that anyone at the White House has any influence on. So we're just going to have to see what develops." How does the search process work, and who might end up with the job? WHO PICKS? A committee of board members led by the San Francisco Fed's chairman, retired Levi Strauss & Co Chairman T. Gary Rogers, is heading the search, with the help of a search firm. The committee will sift through candidates, interview several, and send dossiers of its two or three of its top choices to the Washington-based Federal Reserve Board, participants in several recent Fed searches said. The Board will sign off on the final pick. CANDIDATES? The initial pool is likely to include dozens of people, according to participants in past searches for Fed bank chiefs. Possible picks include: * Romer, who this fall is heading back to her job as an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, across the San Francisco Bay from the bank's headquarters; * John Williams, the San Francisco Fed's research director and a former senior economist at the Fed Board of Governors, whose recent research focuses on assessing tools for monetary policy; * Laura Tyson, a professor at UC Berkeley's Hass School of Business and a former head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers; * Glenn Rudebusch, senior vice president and associate director of research at the San Francisco Fed who recently wrote that it will be a "significant period of time" before the Fed begins raising rates. INSIDE TRACK? Most regional Fed boards pick chiefs who know the Fed from the inside. More than half of the 12 current regional Fed bank presidents worked under the bosses they succeeded, and only two -- the Atlanta Fed's Dennis Lockhart and the Dallas Fed's Richard Fisher -- had nothing to do with the Fed before they took the job. Still, participants in recent searches said committees cast a wide net and look beyond Fed insiders. DODD-FRANK CHANGES The Dodd-Frank Act changes how regional Fed presidents are picked, eliminating bankers on the nine-member regional Fed board from participating in the search. The change is designed to reduce any conflict of interest by bankers picking the person who will run their regulator. Yellen's successor will be the first Fed president picked under the new rules, but analysts say they will have little effect on the search. SEVERAL MONTHS The searches typically take months. If Yellen is confirmed and moves to Washington before the process is completed, the bank's first vice president, John Moore, will represent the San Francisco Fed at the U.S. central bank's policy-setting meetings until a new president is in place. (Reporting by Ann Saphir; editing by Jeffrey Benkoe) Five Filters featured article: "Peace Envoy" Blair Gets an Easy Ride in the Independent. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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