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Job Fairs/Events NYC

Now that you have a new resume in hand, and you’ve read up about how to present yourself at both career fairs and interviews, it’s time to put your new skills to work! As a new series, we’ll be posting upcoming job fairs and other job-related events that are being held in the NYC region.

Upcoming Fairs/Workshops/Events*:

  • 1/16/14 10:00-2:00—Diversity/Professional Job Fair @ Holiday Inn Midtown 440 W. 57th St, NYC
  • 1/20/14 11:00-2:00–New York City Career Fair @ Holiday Inn Midtown 440 W. 57th St, NYC
  • 1/22/14 12:30-2:00—Job Searching Skills Seminar @ Grand Central Library 135 E. 46th NYC St. Tom Powner at Career Thinker Inc.

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*Check with sponsors/locations to verify event details. 

**This is not the most comprehensive list. If you are sponsoring an event and would like it mentioned on our site, please leave a comment and we’ll make sure it is listed in upcoming posts. 

Preparing for the Interview

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Preparing for the Interview

Throughout our job search discussions, we haven’t talked much about what to do when you land an interview. While this can be the most stressful step, it is something you can (and should!) prepare for. And preparation goes a long way.

The interview process will be different for every company/organization. With so many applicants, some companies are holding group interviews. If the position is in a different city, you might be asked for a phone or even a Skype interview. Despite this, there is basic crossover across all types–individual and group interviews, in-person and virtual–and across employment types–full- and part-time positions, internships, consulting jobs, etc.

 

 

As soon as you land the interview, start preparing right away:

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TASC/GED Updates for New York State

The New York State Board of Education decided on Wednesday that test takers who passed sub-tests of the 2002-2013 GED® can keep those scores and have them count towards the new TASC throughout 2014 and 2015. The Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC), created by CTB/McGraw Hill, will replace the GED® as the Common Core-aligned high school equivalency assessment in New York State. This is wonderful news for students who have worked hard to complete certain portions of the GED®, but were unable to complete the full series before the January 2014 deadline.

Facts about the TASC:

  • It can be completed online or pencil/paper
  • Base price of $52 (not including stated-imposed testing fees)
  • Takers receive 2 free re-tests
  • Tests in Reading/Language Arts, Writing, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies
  • Tests in both English and Spanish

Read more about the TASC here 

If you or someone you know is interested in receiving training for the TASC through Project Rise, contact us at 718.368.6600 or ProjectRise@kbcc.cuny.edu. Our next cohort starts in February, so reserve your spot today!

The Shifting Workforce

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Failure to Launch, from the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University, speaks to many of the issues we talked about in an earlier post regarding the changing atmosphere of the workforce. This report goes further into studying the effects this shift has on educational and labor market institutions. In six parts, this report analyzes long-term labor trends since the 1980s; more recent trends since 2000, the effects of the recessions that dominated that time, and a look at how both younger and older workers have been effected; specific geographic regions at the top and bottom of unemployment markers; social and cultural stereotypes of those who fare the worst during times of unemployment; policy recommendations to fix the lagging workforce structure; and finally, reasons to be hopeful about these overall shifts.

 

New Year, New GED at Project Rise

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Kingsborough’s Project Rise participants, Brooklyn, NY

Since our November post about the new GED, I met with Project Rise’s Associate Director, Dina LiMandri, to discuss the steps being taken to prepare for the new series of tests. Through meetings at the Young Adult Institute and at CUNY Central, Project Rise instructors have been receiving training to ensure they have the most updated information. Continue reading →

DCC & EMT CUNY CareerPATH Winter Info Sessions at BMCC

CUNY CareerPATH : www.cuny.edu/careerpath

For a full list of CUNY CareerPATH’s information sessions, check here.

Borough of Manhattan Community College:
EMT – Emergency Medical Technician program: Info Session, followed by testing. 

12/12/2013 11:00am
12/17/2013 6:00pm
12/19/2013 11:00am
1/7/2014 11:00am & 6:00pm
1/14/2014 11:00am
1/21/2014 11:00am
1/28/2014 11:00am

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Composting in New York

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KCC Urban Farm compost

Great news from PlaNYC! In the first 6 months of the city’s composting pilot program, over 2,500 tons of solid waste has been diverted from city landfills. That’s a lot of waste! The current pilot is running with curbside pickup in Staten Island and a handful of restaurants throughout the city. The Food Waste Challenge, which encourages restaurants to reduce food waste in city landfills by 50%, is part of the larger PlaNYC challenge to divert 75% of all solid waste from landfills by 2030. Despite still being in its adolescent stage, this initiative is expected to make significant changes to the way New Yorkers handle their waste.

Composting at KCC Urban Farm in Brooklyn is big! Our compost comes from Farm leftovers, as well as waste from Kingsborough’s Culinary Arts program. We have plans to revamp our current system as well as to develop a new, campus-wide collection and processing system. While this new program hasn’t yet gotten off the ground, our larger goal is engage the campus community with drop-offs for faculty, staff, students and other campus entities, as well as creating a more robust and collaborative system of learning for everyone involved. If you’re interested in learning more about composting or would like to be involved in this new initiative, contact the KCC Urban Farm (kccurbanfarm@kbcc.cuny.edu or 718.368.6578) for site visits or a list of our Continuing Education classes.

Career Tips

You’ve landed a job. Now, how are you going to rock it? Here’s some really great advice coming from thedailymuse.com 45 Pieces of Career Advice That Will Get You To The Top. A few highlights:

“2. Don’t take yourself (or your career) too seriously. Plenty of brilliant people started out in jobs they hated, or took paths that weren’t right at the beginning of their careers. Professional development is no longer linear, and trust that with hard work and a dedication to figuring out what you want to do with your life, you, too, will be OK! Kathryn Minshew, CEO of The Muse”

I’m not sure the opening wording is the best, but what comes after is…”Professional development is no longer linear” It’s rare that people end up in the exact career they planned for when they graduated. One bad job won’t define your future in a specific industry, and on the flip-side, one job in a completely different industry might change your future career path. With this in mind, work hard wherever you are. Find out what moves you and see where it, and you, can go.

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