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Networking & support for all those searching for work or seeking to change careers in the metro Kansas City area. www.shoj.org/jobclub.htm
The Kansas City Star's Diane Stafford's Column: Your Job
Raises won't amount to much
Even top performers may barely be keeping up with cost-of-living increases.
Corporate salary increase budgets this year will be below 3 percent for the first time in two decades, The Conference Board reported today.
The research organization said 2010 "salary structure adjustments" for all categories of employees are "not expected to top 2 percent" this year.
That's below the forecasted inflation rate of 2.6 percent.
Your Job: The boss will wonder if you partied too hard
Party hearty for the Super Bowl…or for any other well-known national occasion…but be aware that bosses will be a bit suspicious if you call in sick the day after.
A poll of Society for Human Resource Management professionals, released last week, found 8 percent saying they’d had increases in the number of employees calling in sick the day after a major televised event.
Eleven percent said they had more employees showing up late to work on the day after such big events.
Update: January jobless rate went down, but more payroll jobs were lost
The national unemployment rate for the first month of 2010 fell to 9.7 percent, down from 10 percent in December.
At the same time, U.S. employers cut 20,000 jobs in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning.
That rather confusing result reflects the fact that the numbers come from two separate surveys -- a household survey that's a telephone poll of 60,000 persons, and a larger establishment payroll survey that looks at actual employee numbers.
December jobs data for metro area showed no uptick yet
The Kansas City metro area had an unemployment rate of 8.6 percent in December, and area employers provided 24,800 fewer payroll jobs than they did a year earlier.
The metropolitan jobs report released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics lags the national report by a month. The national unemployment rate for December, published in early January, was 10 percent.
(The national jobless rate for January will be published Friday.)
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Getting a Job in ANY Economy
March 1, 2010 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Johnson County Library
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Welcome to All!
I got into wanting to help job seekers first at Nativity where I ran the career transition group for many years until I moved to the desert southwest. Now that I have returned to the KC area I am now at Sacred Heart (Shawnee) running their job club and I am the administrator of this site, the Kansas City Metro Networking Job Club.
I am so pleased that I've been blessed to once again be able to give back to the KC community that I grew up in, where I can carry on my family's well over 100 year old tradition of giving back to our community [see the book At the River's Bend]. I work a full-time and a part-time job so this is my only way of giving of my time and talent…of carrying on the tradition of giving back and paying forward.
Maureen Reintjes
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If anyone has a problem with any individual on here who is trying to help the job seekers I ask that you please be grown up and professional by extending the courtesy to address your issue with the person in question FIRST before taking it to a large, open meeting.
Every person who is offering help on here came to me first and asked permission. If you feel I got it wrong then show me the PROOF! I will always question the agendas of the stone throwers over the accused when unprofessional tactics were used to gather and hurl the stones.
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Note to the Kansas City Metro Networking Job Club members:
Any links that lead away from this site we cannot control their content nor do we endorse their content. As in all opportunities you are responsible for your own research into the validity of the offer. And, as a reminder I have no problems banning anyone from this site if warranted.
Maureen
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Just a reminder: Please place your Resumes and Bios in the Group (above) named Job Seeker's Bios and Resumes and NOT in the Forum (below).
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For those that have joined our online group, WELCOME!!!! Please note, you do not need to be a member of our onsite group to join the online group.
Each member can build their own page. If you are a job seeker, please treat your page as a resume that potential employers may view. I suggest only placing your email address on your page as a way for anyone to contact you, do not post your address and phone number. Please remember that your future employer or current employer may happen upon this site, please conduct yourself appropriately. Any offensive photos, graphics, music, text, and conversations will be deleted by the facilitator/moderator. Rudeness to others on this site will not be tolerated and the offender will have his/her membership deleted from this group.
If you are not a job seeker but are in a position to hire or simply want to volunteer your time networking with the job seekers, you too may also build your own page. The same rules apply to you as they do to the job seekers: Any offensive photos, graphics, music, text, and conversations will be deleted by the facilitator/moderator. Rudeness to others on this site will not be tolerated and the offender will have his/her membership deleted from this group.
Anyone who is in a position to hire or help network are encouraged to join our online social networking group. We need professionals who can address the online members and/or groups about career transition related topics.
If you know of anyone who is out of work, changing careers, or who may be facing a layoff in the near future, please let them know about the group.
Announcing Sacred Heart’s Job Club:
Our newly formed job club is for networking and support for all those searching for work or seeking to change careers. It is open to all in the Kansas City metro area. For contact information and information about our weekly onsite meetings see:
http://www.shoj.org/jobclub.htm
Or simply visit our Group found on this site.
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The employer: KeyBank Real Estate Capital, in Kansas City, is a division of Cleveland-based KeyBank. KeyBank Real Estate is a full-service real estate finance organization operating in 32 major U.S. markets in 20 states.
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All are welcome....you do not need to be a member of Sacred Heart's onsite job club to participate on this online networking site. This site is for all job clubs, job seekers and those willing to volunteer their time online to help the job seekers and those in a career transition.
We ask that no multi-level marketing opportunities (aka pyramid schemes) be placed on this site or job seekers approached with these schemes.
If anyone is being bothered by another member, please let us know immediately...banning will be swift.
Maureen
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