Becoming Employable – Community Resource Fair

The Community Resource Fair will be held on Wednesday, June 17 and will run from 12:00p.m to 6:00p.m at the Four County Vocational Cooperative, 1601 East Dowling St., Kendallville, IN 46755. Business901 will conduct a 45-minute workshop on Becoming Employable – How to Market Yourself. I will demonstrate what it takes to market yourself in Read More …

Fun Friday Blog – take a personality test

Kingdomality is a book written by Sheldon Bowles published in 2005. This book is a great resource for understanding oneself and others in your organization. The advantage of understanding the people in your organization is that once you understand their personalities many times you understand so much better what they are saying to you. People Read More …

If you are going to say something – Make a Statement

"In the future everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes."     — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987. You’ve most likely heard this famous quote before. Andy Warhol refers to a special time in our lives when something we’ve done or accomplished gives us the visibility and recognition we deserve. If you were to look back took an Read More …

How to stand out from the crowd – Become an Actor

I am always looking for different ways to differentiate myself from the competition. One f the ways I found how to do this is looking in different markets for ideas that I can apply to my surroundings. I was thinking about a blog post for this site and wondered, who has the toughest time standing Read More …

Job Seekers do you have a telephone script!

All the pros have one, what about you? Best way to handle the gatekeeper: Try to say as little as possible about why you are calling. End your response to any question asked with, "So may I please speak with Mr(s). ________?”  If you get hold of the person you are calling or more than Read More …

Where do you start your job search?

Most people feel uncomfortable when they out of work and start searching in newspapers, online and cold calling. Even though, we have all heard that 80% of the jobs are never advertised. If that many are not, how do you hear about them? It is pretty simple, just do the math. Most people know approximately Read More …