Free Seattle Career Search Seminar with Elizabeth Case

Learn how to stand out in a crowded job search market! Find the answers at a FREE seminar Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 8:30am-10:00am in downtown Seattle. This networking event is hosted by the Business Journal and led by Business Development expert Elizabeth Case.

Top Five Reasons to Attend this free seminar:

  • Learn how to use the Puget Sound Business Journal to identify job opportunities with growing companies
  • Recognize industry trends and stand out as an informed, business savvy prospective employee
  • Follow people as they make moves – know where business leaders are landing and what it means for the companies they’re leaving/joining
  • Network with other business professionals and share ideas for a successful career search
  • Discover how to fill your pipeline with job leads
  • For more information or to register, please go visit http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/event/20391. For more info, contact George Tramountanas at 206-876-5457 or gtramountanas@bizjournals.com.

    Free online stock market game program for Washington teachers and students

    The Washington Council on Economic Education is proud to offer The Stock Market Game™ (SMGP) a free online program for the fall and spring school semesters. Due to the generosity of Merrill Lynch, the Washington Stock Market Game is available to elementary, middle school and high schoole teachers and students at no cost. Find your local SMGP program.

    • Teachers have discovered that The Stock Market Game™ program can boost attendance and reduce dropout rates. Students who participate in the program gain confidence, build self-esteem and have fun while they see how classroom lessons apply to the real world.
    • Students learn core academic concepts and and essential skills such as critical thinking, decision-making, cooperation, communication and research.
    • SMGP uses real research and news, making the simulation a mirror of the real marketplace. Starting with a virtual cash account of $100,000, students strive to create the best-performing portfolio using a live trading simulation.

    Survival Jobs for Actors job board website helps actors find temporary jobs

    Survival Jobs for Actors is a job board that helps actors find a way to pay the rent, audition, take class, AND have a little fun in the process!

  • Actors can put up to 5 resumes on the website and use them to apply to jobs that employers post. Actors can also sign up for job alerts – which is an e-mail whenever a job is posted that they would be interested in – either by keyword “catering” or by city.
  • Employers can search through the resumes on the site, and if they want an actor’s contact information for a specific job, the actor has to approve it, before any contact information is sent out.
  • How to get the most out of networking

    If you’re going to invest time (and money) in attending networking events, know why you’re there. Know what you want to get out of it. Know what success looks like at the end of the evening. Get and give more value by following the best practices outlined in 7 Etiquette Best Practices for Your Next Networking Event from Seattle etiquette consultant, speaker and business etiquette columnist Arden Clise of Clise Etiquette.

    Free Career Fairs for those 50+ hosted by AARP

    Over 50 and looking for low-cost job-search assistance or career counseling? EmploymentGuide.com in collaboration with AARP and WiserWorker.com is helping job seekers succeed in this challenging job market with a series of career fairs called Helping Experience Work@50+. The Work@50+ Career Fairs are free; there is no cost to participate.

    Each Work@50+ Career Fair will offer career counseling, job-hunting strategies, networking tips, and information on how to effectively market your skills and experience. Employers ready to hire 50+ workers will also be on site. Attending a career fair is an excellent opportunity to enhance and re-energize your job search efforts.

    These fairs will be held throughout 2010 in 19 states with the highest unemployment rates among older workers, including these fairs to be held in Washington State:

  • 05/18/2010 Career Fair in Partnership with AARP Tacoma
  • 06/07/2010 Diversity Job Fair in Seattle – SoDo District – Silver Cloud Inn Seattle
  • 09/07/2010 Career Fair Tacoma
  • 10/05/2010 Diversity Job Fair in Seattle – SoDo District – Silver Cloud Inn Seattle
  • 11/09/2010 South Sound Diversity Job Fair at the Tacoma Convention Center Tacoma