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Hillary Cappel

11/18/21 – A 7 Step Career Amplifier

January 12, 2022 by Hillary Cappel

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.

Filed Under: Event Recaps Tagged With: career advice, career transition

12/14/21 – The Perfect Job in 2022

January 7, 2022 by Hillary Cappel

Career Connector’s CEO and founder, Jessica Pierce delivers a riveting presentation – “The Perfect Job in 2022”.

Written by Sherri Kerr

The year of 2021 has become a candidates’ job market due to the great resignation! “The term “The Great Resignation” was coined in 2019 by Anthony C. Klotz, a professor at Texas A&M University. He predicted workers would start to resign in masses following the pandemic due to burnout and working remotely would trigger a shift in people’s identities and workplace expectations. The year 2021 has caused 4 million people to leave their jobs monthly, 55% of American Workers plan to Look for a New Job, only 20% of the Global Workforce Is Engaged, and Americans want to Continue Working Remotely. Americans desire to continue to working remotely and do not see the need to go into a traditional office. Four Million people are leaving their jobs per month due to unhappiness at work. Workers want to find a company that is a good match for them and desire to work remotely so they can live anywhere and work. The remote workforce is not going to chance and the good news to this there are openings that companies need to fill.

This shift has created new jobs opportunities and it’s important to comprehend how employers can find You! Jessica outlines six keys to help job seekers to unlock employer’s hiring doors. These keys include: hiring process, marketing/networking, competence, character, chemistry, and culture match.

Hiring Process

Looking for a job requires a new mind set. This new mindset jumps into the hiring manager brain and swims in their recruitment thought process. In past, job seekers would use job boards, see a job that fits, apply for the position, and hear nothing from the company. This new looking for a job mindset is not a linear process. In fact, this process is more circular. Jessica encourages job seekers to think like a hiring manager. The hiring process is a recruitment life cycle: identification and understanding, sourcing, screening, initial interview, final interview, feedback, short listing, verification, officer, joining formalities.

Marketing/Network

Connections! What can you do to make connections? The recruiter needs to fill a position with a person that fits the company’s culture, has the right character, chemistry, and competence. The recruiters have to go through many steps to find the right candidate. The job seekers need to connect with the company of interest and begin to NETWORK. The whole purpose of networking is to find a new friend. It is important to also think, “who do I know?” It’s important to reach out to friends and family and tell them you are looking for a job and the type of job you desire. Ask your friends and family – “who do they know?” Companies find great people by first looking internally as they are “known” people. Jessica encourages jobseekers to ask for meetings with friends or to touch base with former colleagues. The next steps recruiter and hiring managers take are to reach out to prior work relationships. They will seek internal referrals from the employees they know. The final step recruiters make are researching online job postings which are a higher risk. Unfortunately, most job seekers start at the bottom by using the online postings. Yet, the recruiter could already have multiple candidates from their known network.

Simply using LinkedIn to network with people works. Make sure your LinkedIn page is full of key words and phrases. If you are not on LinkedIn, Jessica encourages the attendees to join. This leads to the next point – Social Media. LinkedIn is the number one source companies to recruit and find solid candidates. Companies will Google your name to find information on their candidates. It is important not to post anything related to illegal drugs, alcohol, guns, or political opinions on your social media because companies possible could use that against you. Therefore, make others aware not to take certain pictures. Social media is a tool to use in looking for a job. Besides networking and social media online job boards are helpful. Indeed, crawls and scans multiple job boards. As you find jobs of interest on Indeed, go to the company’s website to find out more information on the company. These job boards give a job seeker an idea of what positions are out there. Staffing firms and niche staffing firms for example engineering are excellent resources.

Competence

Do you have what it takes? Do you have the qualifications and experience? Employers seek candidates with the right qualification, experience, education, certification, and training. Think of the job you are actively purposing, or you plan to apply. Jessica recommends printing the job description and print your resume. Then read the job description and highlight the main things what the person is looking for in a candidate. What are the main qualifications from the job description? Then make sure your resume addresses each of the main qualifications and your transferable skills. It’s important for the words from the job description to match on your resume because this is how your resume gets through an applicant tracking system (ATS). The ATS scours for the key words. Also make sure key words and accomplishments are on LinkedIn. What do you need to do to up level your game? You can volunteer for any organization you want and that will allow your skills to be developed.

Character

Research! What is the company’s culture? It is very important to the company, what are the values, what does their social media state? Do your research through your network. Find out about their culture and find out if they won awards and these are culture indicators you can address with the company. Think about the key traits you are looking for? You want to work for a company that matches your behavior traits. Besides investigating the company’s character and values, an applicant can take the DISC assessment. The DISC assessment helps a job seeker update the resume and helps identify natural gifts and talents. The DISC assessment can be found on the Career Connector’s website and is free. The terms from the DISC assessment can be added onto your resume, used on covered letters, or during an interview. Jessica stresses the importance of picking a company that honors who you are and what you are about.

Chemistry

It’s important to have a STELLER first impression. In person a firm handshake or fist bump with COVID, smiling, and be kind to everyone because they are part of the interview process. Mirror the interview’s initial response. Connect with the employer on LinkedIn. After the interview write a Thank You card or email.

Interviews

Qualifications – have your resume on hand to help jog your memory during an interview. An In-person interview arrive five – seven minutes early. A Zoom Interview it’s okay to be a little early too – one or two minutes. Answer questions with fact based experience, if an employer hires you, they feel like you can do the job. This I how I’ve done this type of work before.

Behavioral Interviews – “Tell me about your time you had to have a difficult conversation with someone.” Be ready to answer these types of questions as the employee is wanting to know if you can handle conflict and what do you do.

If the position is a remote position make it a point that you have a designated work space to work. Employers will want to know that information.

References – talk to a few former managers, colleagues, subordinates, and personal and ask if these individuals will be a reference for you. Let them know if you know the company will call them for a reference. You can help them be prepared.

Do you have a connection with the people that are interviewing you – connect with them on LinkedIn.

Culture Match

Competence, Character, and Chemistry


Today we are saying goodby to Sheila Coulam who has faithfully served as the Career Connectors Director of Operations for 7 years – she will be sorely missed!


Hiring Companies

Sun Health
Erin McKee, Talent Acquisition Manager

Sun Health is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving the community for 55 years. Founded in 1966 as Sun City Community Hospital to bring critical healthcare resources to the West Valley.

Mission: We champion superior health and wellbeing through philanthropy, inspired living and wellness programs.
Vision: We envision a world where people live longer, healthier, more purposeful lives.
Core Purpose: To empower people to enjoy living longer.
Vibrant Values:
• Big-hearted
• Thorough
• Invested

Not your typical employee benefits:
• Benefits for part-time employees
• Paid training programs
• Education Opportunities & Scholarships
• Employee Health and Wellbeing Programs
• Discounts-The Employee Network
• Career and Leadership Development
• Volunteer through S.H.I.N.E. (Sun Health Involvement Never Ends)
• Annual recognition events- Years of Service and Vibrant Living
• Employee Referral Bonus program

How to Apply: https://www.sunhealth.org/careers

Open Positions

Salaried:
• Finance
• Senior Accountant
• Life Enrichment
• Director of Life Enrichment
• Nursing
• Director of Nursing, Director of Quality Management, RN Weekend Supervisor
• Real Estate & Construction
• Senior Director of Environmental Services

Hourly:
• Administrative (Hourly)
• Staffing Coordinator, Operations Clerk, Sales Assistant, Marketing Coordinator, Corporate Receptionist
• Dining
• Cooks, Lead Cook, Kitchen Stewards, Café Attendant, Servers, Lead Servers, Dining Room Supervisor
• Environmental Services
• Housekeepers, Floor Care Specialists, Maintenance Techs, Housekeeping Supervisor,
• Nursing
• Assistant Caregivers, Certified Caregivers, C.N.A.s, L.P.N.s

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Legal Zoom
Joe Lawrence, Technical & University Recruiter

And we’re here to democratize law.

We’re for the many. The many people determined to succeed, the goals that motivate them, the loved ones who inspire them.

We’re for technology that makes it easy, attorneys and tax experts who make it seem effortless, and trusted partners who make the next hurdle feel like less of a leap.

We’re for opening doors, opening a second location, and opening eyes to what’s possible. We’re for empowering people to take the first step and every step after. We’re for making sure everybody gets a fair shot.

For the many people who want to start a business properly, for the many families who depend on them, for the many ideas they need to protect, we’re LegalZoom. And we’re here to make it all official.

Our Values:
• People First: We’re all about people—both inside and outside the company—and we’re committed to their continued wellness and success.
• Unstoppable: We think big and work tirelessly to deliver the best experience for customers—and the best environment for employees.
• Purpose-driven: We’re united by our mission to democratize law, and we strive to improve people’s lives in everything we do.
• Simplicity: This is a complex industry, and we’ve made it easier for customers and employees to get work done while facing fewer roadblocks.

Strength in diversity:
Our employee network groups are at the heart of how we foster diversity, equity, and inclusion. Having a workforce that is welcoming to all can only mean better products, better service, and better ideas to best serve our customers and community. This is why—starting from our hiring practices, all the way to how we forge partnerships with other companies—we are fully committed to celebrating our differences, hearing every voice, and honoring all cultures. Because as much as tech is what drives our business, being human is what fuels it.

Position Open:

Inside Sales Representatives
Our Sales Representative role is the customer’s initial point of contact with LegalZoom, taking a consultative approach to the customer relationship by gaining a deep understanding of the customer’s business needs to pair services and strategy for long-term success.
• $19/ hour + Bonuses
• 100% Remote
• Extensive Medical/Dental/Vision (includes mental & fertility coverage!)
• 401k
• Profit-Sharing Opportunity
• Wellness Credit (for eligible expenses such as gym equipment, fitness classes, marathons, etc.)
• Paid Family Leave
• Vacation – 15 Days (13 Days + 2 Floating)
• 10 Paid Holidays

Freedom Financial Network
Lindsey Ardale, Employment Branding and Recruiting Marketing Lead

Our Core Values:
CARE (for everyone)
We show compassion and contribute to the well-being and growth of those around us. We only pursue products that improve the financial lives of our clients.

GET BETTER (every day)
We innovate, iterate, and improve each day. We are creative, take thoughtful risks, and ultimately learn and recover from failures.

ACT WITH INTEGRITY(every time)
We take the right action even when it is hard and even when no one is watching. We treat our employees, clients, and communities the way they wish to be treated.

COLLABORATE (with everybody)
We strive to work together toward a common purpose by proactively sharing information and inviting participation. We recognize the perspective of various groups and embrace healthy, constructive debate.

There Are Benefits To Working With Us:
Balance at Work
• Vacation time
• Paid sick time
• Monthly appreciation lunch
• Employee discounts
• Employee recognition program
• Café on-site
• Company sponsored volunteer events
• Holiday party

Stay Healthy
• Medical & Dental benefits after 30 days
• LTD and life insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Plan
• New parent leave up to 12 weeks
• Employee mental health resources

Financial Health
• 401k with company match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Freedom Family Fund
• PTO for volunteer work
• PTO for your birthday

We are hiring for a variety of roles

Apply at FFNJOBS.com

• Customer Services & Sales
• Sales Representatives
• Sales Managers
• Bilingual Customer Service Representatives
• Mortgage Underwriters
• Loan Officers
• Managers of Loan Servicing
• Junior Loan Consultants
• Tech & Marketing
• Software Engineers- Java, Node, PHP
• Data Analysts
• Sr. Python Developers
• Lifecycle Marketing Specialists
• InfoSec
• Test Engineering
• Sr Growth Managers

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.

Filed Under: Event Recaps Tagged With: career advice, career transition, Job Hunting Advice, Job Search

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Networking helps, especially when you do not directly know anyone at a target company. I have attended 4 of your meetings and at one of them a company representative and recruiter presented. I was already familiar with this company, but she also said some other things in the presentation that made me take notice and created more interest on my part. I spoke with the recruiter at your event and she followed up the next week and from there I went on several phone interviews and on site interview t… Read more
Todd S.
After one year of unemployment, I have been employed with an excellent company at a job which is perfect fit for my experience and desires for many months, through the efforts of the devoted volunteers at Career Connectors. I and my family are eternally grateful. Sincere thanks!
Jeff A.
I want to follow up with you about the position I had hoped to get. I got it! And thanks to Jack Milligan’s Salary Negotiation talk, for the first time I didn’t feel like an idiot when I accepted a job. No one else offers that kind of information.  Thank you for all you do. I appreciate your efforts to bless others.  May you and yours be blessed every day. Thank you for everything,
Cheryl
When I was laid off last year from the company I’d worked with for over 14 years, I actually found I had an even BIGGER job ahead of me. With an outdated resume, no interview skills, and a huge feeling of displacement, I went searching for help. Career Connectors was my savior. The program and its’ leaders were instrumental in rebuilding my confidence, providing the necessary tools and resources, and ultimately responsible for my landing a great position with a company that was featured at o… Read more
Lynn S.
Career Connectors made the pivotal difference in my search for employment after a layoff lasting a full year. Their dedication to providing a consistent, local and no-cost program and venue to search, network and learn, ultimately provided not only an excellent fit in a new job, but also the ability to regain dignity and the ability to achieve financial independence once again. I am forever grateful to all of the volunteers that produced a program so vitally important to our family
Anonymous
Career Connectors offered me a one-stop-shopping capability for all of the coaching, resources and connections I needed to perfect my job searching skills.  The package of services, and support I found while attending these workshops over the past 7 months was unique to, and more productive than any other networking venues I attended. I am thrilled to share that I’ve landed with B/E Aerospace in Tucson.  I recommend to all Job Seekers to find out what works for you, and exploit it for best r… Read more
Aidan F.
I own a Leadership Company, and have enjoyed attending the Career Connector events. With gratitude I listen to the speakers you line up… they offer phenominal and practical information. What has struck me each time has been the audience. My heart hurts for them. They are in a desperate place in their lives. I have had the opportunity speak with a few of the people in attendance, and they have shared their stories… I walk away thankful to God for the opportunity to meet these people and they … Read more
Bonnie M.
If you are a job seeker in transition or looking to find that new great position I highly recommend Career Connectors. The search process has changed significantly over the years and Career Connectors will provide you many tools that will allow you to stand out and demonstrate your unique value to potential employers. At each event I had the opportunity to “sharpen the saw” through top notch expert presentations on image portrayal, positive attitude, networking, social media presence, job… Read more
Joe C.
I took advantage of Career Connectors when I found myself unexpectedly out of work and back in AZ.  The ease in using their website to locate meetings and identify subject matter at their weekly meetings kept me informed and engaged.  Their meetings are interesting and provide relevant and useful information toward getting into the right job.  They say that a network event is what you make of it … with Career Connectors they create the events and provide the resources you need to land your next … Read more
Jennifer V.
Thank you, Jessica. Although I wasn’t able to meet you personally, I was able to see you working with another applicant and was impressed with your efforts and the excellent platform that your team presented. Thank you very much.
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