Career Networking and Resource Group
The Calvary Career Networking and resource group
started in April when Laura Hall, NCC, DCC, offered Calvary Episcopal Church
parishioners guidance to find a new job or to manage a transition to a new
job. The church open
the doors to help people in this extremely difficult economic panorama. Ms.
Hall very kindly accepted to collaborate with Mr. Surrenti,
a Calvary parishioner, and also an outplacement counselor himself. The
different background of the two Career Counselors has provided the group with a
combination of traditional career counseling: career assessment, skill set
inventory, resume and cover letter writing, networking strategy, interview
preparation, combined with experiential activities (namely body-mind awareness based on Yoga
and Contact Improvisation - a cutting edge of contemporary dance movement form.
The participants are having success getting interviews and defining their
career path with a full sense of ownership and satisfaction. Thanks to this group
experience and to Calvary for hosting us, we are understanding more deeply that
making responsible choices and decisions in one’s professional career,
actually invites us as a whole individual. The
productivity group has been meeting every first Sunday of the month (1st
meeting, Sunday the 2nd of August- at Calvary at 12.45 pm in
room 206) The main objective of "PG" is to keep track of
individual and group actions toward the job search ( resumes
sent, cover letters sent, network meetings, interviews, etc.
Now we are moving to Phase II when the
group will function as a resource for each participant, where members can
exchange information, contacts, referrals, tips. Each individual will
attend the group until they find a new job. They will leave the group
after a "celebration" for the new job (come to
your last meeting with cake or champagne!).
In addition:
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one “catching up” session is offered for free form Laura
Hall and Gionatan Surrenti.
This would be a one-on-one consultation where you can work on whatever you
like: resume development, networking strategy, etc. After the first
session, each session of 1 hour and 15 minutes will have a fee of $50. A
deferred payment policy is available. (for more information
call/email Laura Hall and Gionatan Surrenti)
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We
all acknowledge that having a career group in a church environment gave the
project a more deep and spiritual twist. We thank Calvary Episcopal church and Callie Hausman to have opened the door and
host us. Gionatan Surrenti
and Laura hall will be writing an article about this experience, so look for it
in the next bulletin issue.
Feel free to contact the church office to
get contact information for Laura Hall and Gionatan
Surrenti for further information.
