Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Starting over: Colleges, universities step up career help for out-of-work alumni - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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Like Marquette’s staff, Petrites sees more alumnj who havehad long, successful careere and now are starting over aftert being laid off from their jobs. In response, the center is developingb a Webinar or job search seminar for mature The university also launcherd acareer e-newsletter with information on alumnk programs and career issues. More alumni are seeinfg access tothe university’s job search board. Anothert Webinar on creating a job search plan got subscriptions from all overthe country. The university also is launching a communityon Ning.
com, a sociao networking site, for people who participated in the Gary Poggemiller, 54, of Cudahy, got laid off from his job as a tax accountantr at in April and sought help from Petrites. Poggemiller earneed his master’s degree in taxation from UW-Milwaukee in 2003. Petritesw helped him write a resume and do some mock and gave him somenetworking contacts. “Shew got me started,” said who had only worked for two employersx inhis 30-year accounting career and said his job-searc skills were rusty. Poggemiller sought help from UW-Milwaukee at the suggestion of “I was very surprised that they spene that much time with you for no fees or he said. “It was great.
” He has not yet found a new job, but has had one

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