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Big News!

The latest edition of our magazine, Sweet Home Careers, is in distribution.

As it makes the rounds to the 4-counties’ high schools and colleges, various vocational training programs, workforce development professionals, libraries, chambers, agencies and sponsors, the odds are pretty good that you will see a copy.

If you’re looking for a job, a change in career, or know someone who is, I think you’ll find it to be a pretty useful publication.

Here’s a snippet:

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Help Is Just Around the Corner

In these turbulent times, with jobs in short supply and unemployment approaching double digits, one could be forgiven a lack of optimism.  As we write this in the first months of 2009, the news is bad, and seemingly getting worse.  But, to every dark cloud…
There is good news, to be sure.

For the first time in a very long while, there is consensus among the leadership of business and government that the practices of a privileged past must end, that the path to solvency is paved by the middle-class, and that the struggles and successes of the impoverished touch us all.

This epiphany has launched wave upon wave of initiatives, new and resuscitated programs, and a clear sense of purpose without precedent in the last 80 years.

There are new commitments to literacy, employability and vocational training.  Agencies whose focus had been lost to years of bureaucratic indifference have been reenergized and their staff rededicated.  Other stalwarts of workforce development and assistance, whose budgets were routinely slashed with each new year, suddenly find themselves the beneficiaries of economic “stimulus.”

The infrastructure of support is growing.  Help is just around the corner.

An even more gratifying by-product of the economic crisis is the return of grass roots, community-centric volunteering.

Your neighbors have begun rolling up their sleeves and doing what government cannot, providing physical, emotional and spiritual assistance to those in need.  And everyday those efforts are assisted, coordinated and publicized by a growing number of on-line resources.  (See www.sweethomecareers.com for a list.)

Although these efforts don’t create jobs where there are none, they arguably do something of equal importance.  They provide education and support, so that when the opportunity presents itself - and it will - we’ll be ready!

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For more, and a printable pdf version of the magazine… see our Careers web site.  www.sweethomecareers.com

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