Awesome Job Search Bootcamp

What a wonderful job search bootcamp we had this past Saturday. Almost 40 attendees braved the dreary wet January morning to attend our fantastic sessions. The first speaker, Sally Morrison of LDS Services and the Naperville Career Center, walked us through the steps of preparing a cover letter that gets you noticed. There were numerous requests for her handouts, which will be posted on our links page. Sally was followed by Paul Shanahan and Mike Flickinger of Randstad teaching us How to Handle Tough Interview Questions. The audience decided this topic had enough meat that we could have made it three hours long and still not covered everything we wanted to! The final speaker was Jeff Korhan of True Nature who provided us some insight on determining our career path in life. We received excellent feedback from all the participants on these fine speakers.

Following our seminars, we held a vendor exhibit area, which gave our attendees the opportunity to learn about the various resources in Naperville for job seekers. Our thanks to Directions Training, the Illinois Education and Training Center (it was great to see our June 2005 speaker again Richard Oberbruner!), the Naperville Career Center, the Naperville Public Library, OfficeTeam, Randstad, Robert Morris College, St. Thomas the Apostle Job Club, and True Nature.

Finally, we thank Gwen Ray of Packer Engineering and Paul Shanahan, Mike Flickinger and Jessica Masterson of Randstad for providing free resume reviews for our attendees. More than twenty individuals took advantage of the chance to receive an HR individual's opinion of their resume.

We really enjoyed this seminar and we hope to be able to offer it or something similar in the future.