Posted: 18 Mar 2010 11:37 AM PDT

New York, NY, March 18, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Diversity job board LatPro (www.LatPro.com) in conjunction with the National Society for Hispanic Professionals (www.NSHP.org) will continue their 2010 diversity career fair series with a multicultural event in New York City. The job fair will take place at the Metropolitan Pavilion on Thursday, April 15, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The LatPro team chose to return to New York City after hosting four highly successful New York City career fairs in the past.

Jobseekers attending the 2010 NYC Diversity Career Fair will have the opportunity to network with fellow Hispanic professionals and local chapters of Latino organizations, in addition to meeting representatives from employers such as Tupperware Brands, Time Warner Cable, BP, the Transportation Security Administration, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and many more.

Admission is free for all job seekers. Professional dress is required. Jobseekers can pre-register at: http://network.nshp.org/events/new-york-job-fair-1

2010 LatPro Career Fair Schedule
• Chicago – Navy Pier, March 18
• New York – Metropolitan Pavilion, April 15
• Washington, DC – Trinity College, May 13
• Denver - Denver Marriot Tech Center, May 26
• Atlanta – Holiday Inn Decatur Conference Plaza, August 26
• Washington, DC – Trinity College, September 23
• Dallas – Dallas Convention Center, October 28
• Los Angeles - Long Beach Convention Center, November 18

For more details, exhibitor and sponsorship information:

www.nshp.org
(954) 727-3863
jobfairs@nshp.org

About LatPro.com
Established in 1997, LatPro is the worldwide leader in online employment resources for Hispanic and bilingual professionals. With over 325,000 registered candidates and 95 of the Fortune 100 companies using its award-winning service, the LatPro.com site (available in English, Spanish and Portuguese) is the premier career destination for Latino and bilingual professionals throughout the U.S. and Latin America. LatPro also hosts a career focused social network where the company welcomes all career experts and job seekers.

About The National Society for Hispanic Professionals
The National Society for Hispanic Professionals (NSHP), a non-profit organization with more than 20,000 registered members, works to empower Hispanic professionals with connections, networking and leadership opportunities, as well as information on education, scholarships, careers and entrepreneurship. NSHP seeks to ensure the inclusion of Hispanics in corporate America at a level commensurate with the representation of Hispanic Americans within our communities.

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Career Compass helps staff chart career paths - Winnipeg Free Press

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:52 AM PDT

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Canadian Wheat Board's Candace Gauthier said Career Compass's program gave her a new perspective on her career.

CANDACE Gauthier had a fine job at the Canadian Wheat Board working in treasury services, but after 10 years, the 32-year-old with an MBA from the Asper School of Business wanted a change.

"I had gotten to a stage in life," she said. "I had my MBA, I had children, but I really didn't know what opportunities there were for me."

She landed a new position at the CWB and then she had the opportunity to participate in a career-management program the corporation deployed called Career Compass.

"It really was a huge life experience for me," she said. "I used to think 'Where will my career take me?' Now I think 'Where am I going to take my career?' "

Being able to keep young, talented, skilled workers engaged in their work and furthering their career with their current employer is something more and more companies are realizing is not such a straightforward undertaking.

Diane Wiesenthal, a CWB executive whose title, fittingly, is vice-president people and organizational services, said the corporation has switched its human resource management model.

"We now approach it as talent management," she said. "The idea is to build jobs around the skills and strengths of the individuals. That's how you get people to be passionate about the work they are doing."

The CWB retained KWA Partners, a division of People First HR Services in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, to run the Career Compass program that's designed to encourage employees to do exactly what Gauthier did -- take personal responsibility to map their own career.

Dave Gallant, another CWB employee who's been with the organization for 20 years, went through Career Compass and said it has empowered and energized his career.

As a chartered accountant, Gallant said he took positions that were offered to him throughout his career.

"My career was a series of fortunate events and good luck. I really didn't manage the course myself," he said. "Now I have the tools to do that."

Those tools include a better understanding of his own skills and attributes and also a better understanding of the opportunities that exist at the CWB.

Brita Chell, chief financial officer of the CWB, said the 450-person global grain marketing organization must depend on its people to an extent that may be greater than other enterprises.

"We do not have tangible, hard assets," she said. "Our employees are our intellectual capital. We have to invest in them and try to link our strategic plan with their career development as well as our budget process."

Chell said she realizes younger professionals might want to seek new challenges at a greater pace than has been the case in workplaces of the past.

"We need to be able to retain those innovative Generation X and Y people with real career opportunities," she said.

For all sorts of reasons, managing that process requires a great deal of personal input from the employee as well as their managers.

Many people have a hard time articulating in their own mind just what their careers goals are or what sort of position or department in an organization they would be most productive in.

On top of that, it can be a daunting proposition to have that sort of probing personal development conversation with one's manager.

"That's why it's best to have those kinds of conversations with someone from outside the organization," said Eileen Kirton, regional vice-president of KWA Partners.

A key element of the six-step Career Compass program is two hour-long, one-on-one sessions with a career consultant.

But the program also includes extensive briefings with managers so that in the future there are better and more comfortable lines of communication from top down and across departments.

martin.cash@freepress.mb.ca

The six steps

The Career Compass six-step program is designed to encourage employees to map out and grow their careers within the organization they are already in.

-- Self-assessment -- identify skills, interests, personality and work preferences.

-- Reality testing -- obtain feedback to validate strengths and weaknesses.

-- Targeting -- identify career opportunities within the organization.

-- Researching -- investigate options using a variety of resources.

-- Action planning -- set personalized objectives/actions to achieve career goals.

-- Sustaining the plan -- overcome roadblocks to reach career goals.

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 19, 2010 B4

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Medical job fair set for Trident - The Post and Courier

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 10:28 PM PDT

The Trident One Stop Career System will have a free medical job fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at its career center at 1930 Hanahan Road in North Charleston.

Job seekers attend should have resumes with them.

Participating medical facilities include Allcare Medical, Carter-May Home, Doctors Care, Griswold Special Care, Hope Clinic, Horizon Senior Services, Interim Healthcare, Maxim Health Information Service, Pathology Service Associates, Quest Diagnostics, Savannah Grace, Somerby of Mount Pleasant, Trident Health System, Utopia and We Care Health Care.

For more information, call 1-888-226-1606.

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