Guest Speaker, Chelle Johnson, MBA & PHR is the CEO & Founder of The Best Career Advantage.
Chelle developed her career by moving up the ranks in human resources. She has been a HR leader in varies leadership positions of Fortune 500 companies including Lockheed and Comcast. She achieved great success in her career when she became a top executive in HR. Yet she felt unfilled in her leadership role. She desired to help others with their career goals. She started her own business to serve job seekers in their journey in career & self-development.
Written by Julia Churan
Chelle’s lectured on “A 7 Step Career Amplifier”- this is when a job seeker focuses on vision, strategy, tactics, purpose, and mindset. Positivity is the oil that greases the gears to amplify your awesomeness. The Mindset and Vision are the first two gears of mindset gears. This first gear is Vision – know what you are natural good at. The job seeker needs a vision to how to use their natural gifts and talents. Another helpful tool for vision is to create a journal to track your desires and dreams. Next Optimize your mindset by knowing the pain of the employee and have a solution the problems. Mental Fitness is the ability to change the neuron pathways in your brain. This is a mental work-out with positive, cognitive psychology, performance science, and neuroscience. The next step to move forward in career amplification is to identify saboteurs which include relentlessness, people pleasers, controller, hyper-achiever, stickler, hypervigilant, hyper-rational, victim, and avoiders. A test can be taken to help you determined your saboteur. The development of your mental fitness requires building mental muscle by having empathy for oneself during the job search journey. Another exercise is to explore areas of professional growth – certifications or new skill. The final exercise is innovation by figuring out the person you want to become, identify the characteristic of that person, and pick a word.
Hiring Companies:
Goodwill of Central & Northern Arizona – Danielle Shaw and Elizabeth Barron
Goodwill’s Mission is Empowering Individuals , Strengthen Families, and Building Stronger Communities and they accomplish this mission by purchase and donation to Goodwill support their efforts to end poverty through the power of work.
Core Values: Trust, Collaboration, Engagement, Ownership, and Innovation.
Full-Time team members are offered medical, dental, and full benefit package. They are recruiting corporate positions, leadership, and store. They also strongly believe in promoting within. Check out their My Career Advisor program as well – open to all.
Research their positions at jobs.goodwillaz.org
Vertex Education
Jonathan Tummavichakul or JT, Recruiter
Vertex Education is a charter management organization. The district office located in Chandler, AZ. They change lives for education. They offer hybrid work schedule – three days remote and two days on campus. They work primarily with Legacy Schools but do assist other schools in recruitment. They support all school operations including academic support, enrollment, grant applications, IT, HR, and PR. They support Legacy Traditional schools and online to 27 campus – 20 in Arizona, 3 in Nevada, and 4 in Texas.
If interested in Vertex Education go to: vertexeducation.com or vertexeducation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/vertexcareers.
Community Medical Services
Megan Kennedy, Recruiter
CMS is opening in two more states and their corporate campus is located North Scottsdale. Community Medical Services has been around since 1980’s. They are across nine states and locations all over Arizona. CMS helps individual with substate abuse disorder. They hire for community outreach, medical, and counseling. They have a robust benefit package.
Research their careers at communitymedicalservices.org.
The Entrepreneur’s Source
Anna Schulaman Brambilla, Career Ownership Coach
She helps professional seek a better fit in their profession. She is a career coach and desires to help others. She has helped 100 clients explore career or franchise options.
