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Goodwill® of Central Arizona Partners with Career Connectors to Serve Valley Residents in Career Transition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
VALLEY JOBS/ECONOMY/NON-PROFIT/PARTNERSHIPS

Phoenix, Ariz., (July 26, 2016) — Finding meaningful work just got a little easier for thousands of Arizona residents when Goodwill® of Central Arizona and Valley-based non-profit Career Connectors announced today they would enter into partnership to help better serve those in career transition in the greater Phoenix area.

Goodwill, with 19 no-cost career centers across the Valley, has been extremely successful at helping local jobseekers find employment. Their career centers are funded through donations and Goodwill retail stores.

Career Connectors, established in 2008, has served more than 24,000 mid-level professionals with three monthly networking events featuring face-to-face meeting time with quality hiring companies and free resources including career coaching, resume writing, LinkedIn coaching, and professional business portraits.

With the new partnership, Goodwill and Career Connectors will pool data and resources to provide an even greater impact on the collective workforce initiatives in Arizona.

“Career Connectors allows us to expand our reach to help mid-to-higher level professionals,” explained Richmond Vincent, Senior Vice President of Workforce Development for Goodwill of Central Arizona. “We are excited for the opportunity to assist professionals with their job search. We work with hundreds of Valley employers each month and know our partnerships will be beneficial to all involved.”

Career Connectors Executive Director, Jessica M. Pierce, is thrilled to partner with Goodwill. “They have such a strong brand and positive image in the community. It will be a blessing for us to have Goodwill play a role in the sustainability of Career Connectors, co-host more job fairs, and possibly expand free networking events to the West Valley.”

One of the goals for the partnership is to “capture” the impact the Career Connectors events and resources have for the job seeker. Historically, Career Connectors has collected limited data via a registration process, but hasn’t had the infrastructure to implement a post-event follow up or a “landing” status report.

With Goodwill on board, the two entities hope to build metrics and expedite job searches by providing jobseekers new skills, expanded resources and a hopeful experience for each and every job seeker served, Pierce said.

For information, careerconnectors.org or goodwillaz.org.
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About Goodwill of Central Arizona
Founded in 1947, Goodwill of Central Arizona is one of the oldest nonprofit agencies in Arizona. With 70+ locations, donating and shopping at Goodwill means you’re fighting unemployment and promoting a sustainable environment. Last year, Goodwill helped place more than 42,000 Arizonans in local jobs with hundreds of local employers. Each year, Goodwill diverts millions of pounds of material from going directly into Arizona landfills. It all adds up to one huge benefit: the betterment of our community. To learn more about our mission and services, visit: www.goodwillaz.org.

About Career Connectors
Career Connectors mission is to connect professionals in career transition to hiring companies and quality resources by hosting three no cost job seeker events per month at three Valley locations (Chandler/Gilbert, Phoenix and North Scottsdale). At each event Career Connectors showcases hiring companies, and offers free services including educational opportunities, DISC assessments, resume review, LinkedIn professional business portraits, networking tips, and interview coaching. In the past seven years, the organization has served over 24,000 job seekers. For more information or to register for an upcoming event, visit www.careerconnectors.org.

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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.
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.
I just wanted to reach out to you and say Thank you to you, Career Connectors and the whole Team! So let me explain why, while I’ve known of Career Connectors for many years, I never thought that I would need employment services or guidance before. On September 19th 2019 I found myself being let go from my job. I later the next day saw the Career Connectors event at Central Christian Church Gilbert Campus coming up on Facebook and signed up for it. While attending my first Career Connectors even… Read more
Brian P.
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.
Fantastic! Good variety of roles, Obvious interest in quality candidates, really good solid leads. Great investment of time.
Alicia
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
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.
Luis R.
A good friend told me of her success using Career Connectors networking.  She landed an interview and later, a job in her field, after attending one networking event.  So, when it was my turn, I had to check it out. I was starting to get the blues about being unemployed but the speaker lifted me out of the dumps and put my life back in perspective. So many people were there to help and offer support!   Just by networking that day, I was given a job lead that has led to two interviews and a… Read more
Mary B.
It was amazing, you guys did a great job! I found several potential companies!
Irene
Great lead for follow up with a couple of employers.
Rebecca, R.N.
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