July 21 job club meeting features video clips on errors to avoid during interviews

 According to an old saw, “Actions speak louder than words.”

 Job seekers, then, are invited to watch and discuss five video clips of actual candidate interviews at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 21, in the gymnasium at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, 1500 Brookdale Road, Naperville. Terry Kozlowski, nationally recognized advisor for career success, speaker, consultant and author, will facilitate the discussion.

Job seekers will learn the three biggest mistakes they may be committing during interviews and five action strategies they must use when interviewing. The result is knowing the best way to present oneself more effectively in today’s competitive market in order to avoid being screened out after the first interview, or reaching the finalist stage and then being eliminated. 

Kozlowski is president of Achievementor Group, advisors for career success located in Chicago. She shares proven success strategies with those in transition through her popular Web site at http://JobInterview911.com, using innovative audio and visual methods to entertain as well as to educate.

Kozlowski also has been featured twice nationally on NBC, appeared across the country on Fox News in April, and shared career and interview success tips as a radio guest. She also is a frequent contributor to the print media, including Reader’s Digest magazine, “The Wall Street Journal” and “The Chicago Tribune.”

This free program is being sponsored by the St. Thomas the Apostle Job Ministry. For more information about this program or the Job Ministry, contact Jim Breen, advisor to the ministry and a deacon at St. Thomas, at (630) 355-8980 or at jimb4853@yahoo.com.

Organized in 1984, the St. Thomas faith community numbers more than 3,300 households of more than 11,000 people.

NEWS RELEASE

FROM: St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church * 1500 Brookdale Road * Naperville, IL 60563 * (630) 355-8980 * http://www.stapostle.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * April 2, 2010

FOR INFORMATION: Jim Breen (630) 355-8980 * or Cheryl J. Marshall (630) 851-8781

Tips on job hunting while keeping balance in life to be shared at April 21 job ministry meeting

Dave Weinstein, sales director and coach at Sales Results, Inc., will explore how to land that next job while maintaining balance in your life and that of your family in a presentation, “13 Job Seeker Tips, or I Got a New Career, So Can You, Too!” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, in the gymnasium at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, 1500 Brookdale Road, Naperville.

According to Weinstein, his discussion will enable job seekers learn how to rest and recharge; network, network, network; and learn, learn, learn.

At Sales Results, Weinstein helps sales teams, entrepreneurs and business professionals achieve their sales goals. He also has held various leadership positions for 28 years in sales and marketing for a major automaker, and has been a public speaker before many groups on networking, the “LinkedIn” online network used to make business contacts, and career transition.

For more information about this free program or St. Thomas’ Job Ministry, contact Jim Breen, advisor to the Job Ministry and a deacon at St. Thomas Parish, at (630) 355-8980 or at jimb4853@yahoo.com .

Organized in 1984, St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church numbers more than 3,300 households of more than 11,000 people

Partial List of Networking and Support Groups in the Area:

 

BATAVIA

Holy Cross Job Club
Holy Cross Church
2300 Main Street, Batavia, IL 60510
Phone: (630) 879-4750
Contact: Kathy Carlson

Email: kcarbat@aol.com

Meets every Thursday evening at 7:00pm at Holy Cross Church in the “Cecelia” room on the lower level

WEB: http://holycross-batavia.org/jobs/

 Gray Hair Management, LLC
1181 Lake Cook Road, Suite G, Deerfield, IL 60015
Phone: (847) 940-2800
Fax: (847) 940-2180

$75.00 One Time Fee

Email: contact@grayhairmanagement.com

WEB: http://www.grayhairmanagement.com

 

 

GLEN ELLYN

 

DuPage Executive Network (The DEN)
College of DuPage
425 Fawell, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Building K-305, Parking Lot 10
DoorK-2, West Commons
Phone: (630) 942-2230

Meets every fourth Tuesday of the month, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Group for senior management executives working in career transition with minimum base of $75,000 in last position

Email: den@cdnet.cod.edu

WEB: https://www.cod.edu/secure/den/deninfo.htm

 

St Joseph the Worker Employment Ministry
St. James the Apostle Church
480 South Park Boulevard, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Contact: Joe Kirkland (630) 653-6870 or
Bob Clark (312) 904-6317

Meetings on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month, 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm

Email: stjosephministry@aol.com

WEB: http://www.stjosephministry.org/

 

 

LISLE

 

Lisle Township Job Club
Lisle Library
777 Front Street, Lisle, IL 60532
Phone: (630) 971-1675
Contact: Joy Dooley (630) 968-1880 extension 49

Meets on Friday morning, 10:00 a.m. to Noon

WEB: http://home.xnet.com/~nomads/

 

WorkNet DuPage
DuPage Career Center
2525 Cabot Drive Ste. 302
Lisle, Illinois 60532
Phone: (630) 955-2030
Contact: Jim Fergle

Meets on Friday morning, 9:30 am to 11:30am

Guest speakers on career management topics

Website: www.worknetdupage.org

 

 

NAPERVILLE

 

Career Transition Support Group
Grace Methodist Church
300 E. Gartner, Naperville, IL 60540
Phone: (630) 355-6297 extension 4
Contact: Jim Blackshire

Email: Jblackshire@ETASC.com

Meets every 2nd Saturday morning, 9:30 am to 10:30 am

 

Community Career Center
First Star Bank Building, Second Floor
Gowder Road and Route 59, Naperville, IL 60540
Phone: (630) 961-5665
Fax: (630) 961-1271

Contact: Ann Castleton, Executive Director

Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, Wednesday 10:00 am to 7:00 pm, Wednesday and Thursday from 10:00 to 7:00 pm. The Job Club meets every Wednesday from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.

Email: info@communitycareercenter.org

WEB: http://www.communitycareercenter.org

 

Crossroads Career Network
Crossroads Community Church
1701 W. Quincy Ave. Ste 22, Naperville, IL 60563
Main Phone: (630) 585-7777

Contact: Mike Murphy, (630) 585-7777 x14

Meetings 2nd Tuesday of every Month, 7:00pm to -9:00 p.m.

Free Network Meetings, Career Planning Classes and Personal Coaching

Email: careers@ccc4him.org

WEB: http://www.crossroads-career.net/crossroads.html

WEB: http://www.ccc4him.org/

 

Knox Career Club
Job Network
St Margaret Mary Church
1450 Green Trails Drive, Naperville, IL 60540
Phone: (630) 369-0777

Contact: Larry Lewis (630) 527-8643

 

LDS Employment Services
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
1801 North Mill, Suite F, Naperville, IL 60563
Phone: (630) 369-0785
Contact: Sharon Worlton, Manager and Sally Morrison, Placement Specialist

Career Counseling and on-site resource area

First Time visitors need to call for an appointment for a 25 minute consultation to LDS services and to sign up for the free two-day workshop.

 

Job Search

Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 815 S. Washington, Naperville, IL 60540

Meets once a week. Jerry Brandt, (630) 369-0564

 

St. Thomas the Apostle Job Ministry
1500 Brookdale Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563
Main Phone: (630) 355-8980
Contact: Dave Muthler (630) 355 3444

Email: jobs@grizwiz.com

WEB Site: http://www.stapostle.org

WEB Site: http://www.grizwiz.com/jobs/

AM Meetings every Friday, 9:30 am to 11:30 am

PM Meetings last Thursday of each month, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

 

Training Network-Midwest

NAPERVILLE: Training Network -Midwest
NAPERVILLE: Chicago Training Network – Midwest

Business Education Professionals Job Club

Open to all Training Industry Professionals

 Meets every third Tuesday at: (9:30 am- 11:30 am)

Panera Bread
1191 East Ogden Avenue
Naperville, IL 60563
(630) 548-5070

Contact: Steve Gawron, Current Moderator

Email: sgawron@core.com

Meets 3rd Tuesdays, 9:30 am to 11:30 am.

(Instructors, Educators, Technical Writers, E-Learning, Organizational Development, Training Management)

 

 

 

ST CHARLES

 

TUG (TriCity Unemployment Group)

(630) 631-1871

www.tricityug.org

tricityug@att.net

Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Fellowship Hall
1145 N. 5th Avenue
St. Charles, IL

Meetings begin at 6:30 p.m.

 

WOODRIDGE

 

Lisle Township Job Club #1
Woodridge Library, 3 Plaza Dr., Woodridge, Il. 60517

Meets once a week. Joy Dooley, (630) 968-1880 x249

 

Resume Critiques
Woodridge Public Library
3 Plaza Drive, Woodridge, IL 60517
Phone: (630) 968-1880 extension 232

Contact: Susan Peterson

Meets on Monday, 10:00 am to Noon.

 

Learn strategic guidelines to “Getting Unstuck” in job hunting program at St. Thomas Church

If your job search has bogged you down, you need a boost, something to pep up your job hunt, and Wendy McCormick, head of her own consulting firm for 15 years, is just the person to energize you. McCormick will share “Five Guiding Principles to Getting Unstuck” at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 16, in the gymnasium of St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, 1500 Brookdale Road, Naperville.

McCormick, a Life Coach and professional speaker who specializes in getting people “unstuck,” will explain her “Five Guiding Principles”: being 100%, standing in who you are, discovering your uniqueness, everyone is different for a reason, and there is a reason life unfolds moment by moment.

McCormick’s firm acts as a professional problem solver for individuals, families and corporations. Also a speaker, author and former radio host, McCormick is a certified graduate of CoachU and a member of the International Coach Federation. She has studied psychology at Loyola University and St. Mary of the Woods College in Indiana.

This free program is being sponsored by the St. Thomas Job Ministry. For more information about this program or the St. Thomas Job Ministry, contact Jim Breen, advisor to the ministry and a deacon at the church, at (630) 355-8980 or at jimb4853@yahoo.com.

Organized in 1984, the St. Thomas faith community numbers more than 3,300 households of more than 11,000 people.

NEWS RELEASE

FROM: St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church * 1500 Brookdale Road * Naperville, IL 60563 * (630) 355-8980 * www.stapostle.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * Dec. 2, 2009

FOR INFORMATION:  Jim Breen (630) 355-8980 * or Cheryl J. Marshall (630) 851-8781

SES “ETS” (Employment Transition Support)

Out of Work? Send us your contact info to be posted on our website

Got Jobs? Send them to Deacon Andy for posting on our SES website

Want to help? Send your contact info to become a networker in your field

Have some free services to offer job seekers? Contact Deacon Andy to get you started.

~ Pray for job seekers at every meal, at every Mass, say a rosary every day.

~ Do an hour in the chapel for all job seekers every week.
Contact bjbrock1123@aol.com for chapel hours.

~ Come to our monthly prayer service

Please Contact Deacon Andy 630-416-3325 x772 or ancirmo@wowway.com

Recognizing the stresses placed on job seekers and their families during this time, members of our parish with skills in human resources, finance and other areas meet regularly with job seekers to listen, to pray together, and offer job search advice, direction and focus. We are not a job club, but a support team offering help and networking. A number of parish volunteers from various industries have offered to be networkers in their industry, and their contact information is posted on our parish website.

The mission of this ministry is to provide support to those who are unemployed or under-employed during their time of job transition. Recognizing the stresses placed on job seekers and their families during this time; members of our parish with skills in human resources, finance and other areas offer job search advice, direction and focus. We are not a job club, but a support team offering help and networking. A number of parish volunteers from various industries have offered to be networkers in their industry, and their contact information is posted on our parish website. Our pages on the parish web site also offer job search links, and a number of open positions referred to us by parishioners.

This group provides those seeking work, whether unemployed or under-employed, with sharing and networking; and with guidance and resources to help in job searching during this transition.

Here you will find links to job search resources such as the St. Joseph the Worker Ministry as well as links to selected search engines and databases.

You will also find pages featuring listings of individuals who have stepped up to help. By volunteering their names, email addresses, employer’s company name, and industry, these parishioners are available as networking resources to supply contact information and forward résumés to the right people in their area of business.

Please contact Deacon Andy Cirmo (coordinator):
ancirmo@wowway.com  or 630-416-33285 x 772
(All information provided is proprietary and used exclusively for this purpose only)