Thursday, May 14, 2009

Creating your personal "BRAND"

Workshop Facilitators: Bob Linschied, President and CEO and Faith Parks, Founder of Connect. This will be a fun and informative workshop to help you define your personal "BRAND" This great tool will be a definite plus to both employment seekers and support persons. See you all there!

Always bring your resume and writing implements

Date: May 19, 2009
Time: 5:30p.m. to 6:30p.m.
Place: Bidwell Presbyterian Church
208 W. 1st Street (Downtown Chico next to the University)
530.343.1484

Friday, May 1, 2009

Special Speaker, Ken Speed, Butte Community College

Connect Meeting Announcement
Date: May 5, 2009
Time: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Plenty of time to celebrate after)
Place: Bidwell Presbyterian Church, Room 105
Address: 208 W. 1st Street, Downtown Chico
Phone: 530.343.1484

Speaker: Ken Speed, Coordinator, Job Placement and Cooperative Education
Topic: Resumes

Ken is foremost in Butte County for Resumes that get you Employed.
In addition to speaking Ken will spend part of the evening giving personal attention to each of your resumes.
Please bring your resume and a pencil and take advantage of this great opportunity.
See you there. : )

Friday, April 17, 2009

Connect Chico Speaker Announcement

We are so fortunate to have Cynthia Arregui speaking at our event on Tuesday, April 21st. We can all benefit from her area ot expertise.
Don't be late as we will start promptly at 5:30 pm. to allow her plenty of time.
Please bring a resume if you are looking for employment and a business card if you are a support person.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

What to bring.

Please bring your current resume include your email address and contact phone number to any meeting you attend.
Networking Meeting Schedule: Tuesday
Dates: April 7th and 21st
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Place: Bidwell Presbyterian Church
Address: 208 West First Street, (Downtown Chico)

Msg Phone: 530.809.1634

Workshop: Saturday
Date: April 25th
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Place: Uptime Coworking Studio
Address: 101 Salem, Suite 240 Chico Ca
(Upstairs from Celestinos)
Special Speaker Topic: Business Etiquette

Monday, March 2, 2009

Meeting with SCORE

Our local SCORE group has agreed to be part of our Connect group and will attending our Networking meetings and providing seminars for our workshops. SCORE is amazing!

Saturday, February 28, 2009

What is Connect....Connecting People, Business and Education to Opportunities.

PURPOSE: To CONNECT People, Businesses and Education to opportunities promoting a self sustaining prosperous community. We will seek opportunities to inspire and encourage by serving the under-employed unemployed and potentially unemployed persons by connecting them to the available resources in our community.

BENEFIT: To Unveil opportunities and to provide sustainability tools and moral support to the under-employed, unemployed and potentially unemployed through local business, education and services.

PROGRAM Sponsored by BPC:
1. Meetings first and third Tuesdays at 5:30p.m.
2. Monthly Workshops
3. Provide support for the under-employed, unemployed and potentially unemployed.
4. Internships
5. Apprenticeships
6. Mentoring
7. Counseling
8. Weekly Job Postings
9. Promoting Entrepreneurs
10. Promote Local Business
11. Promote Education


SESSION OBJECTIVES:
1. Collect Data
2. Business Listings
3. Counselors
4. Services/Service Provider
5. Educators/Resources
6. Mentors/Internships/Apprenticeships
7. Job Postings
8. www.ConnectChico.blogspot.com
9. Monthly Saturday Workshops