Career Development
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Integrate For Good to Host Montco Employer Event on April 12 for Those with Untapped Potential
Event for Montgomery County Employers, Untapped Potential, a Source of New Employees is a free pot luck and candid conversations about hiring people with disabilities! Hosted by Integrate for Good, The Partnership TMA of Montgomery County, and Perkiomen Valley Brewery. Employers are invited to chat about being an inclusive workplace that is not only good…
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Blue Bell’s CompanyVoice Committed to Providing Job Training and Licensing for Local Employees
CompanyVoice invests in staff development by helping their employees hone strengths, grow skills, and obtain insurance licenses. For their clients in the insurance industry, CompanyVoice hires workers who have insurance experience or are interested in adding a credential to their resume. Obtaining an insurance license better equips CompanyVoice operators to support insurance projects on which they…
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Abington High School Students Brew Up the Best While Learning Real-world Job Skills
Abington High School students get real-life work experience within their high schools walls, with an in-school coffee window reports Katherine Scott for 6abc. The school’s A.C.T.I.V.E Academy for Young Adults with Complex Needs includes The Perfect Blend, where students can get coffee at school. The students working the coffee shop are the program and are…
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How Can Employers Recruit & Hire Top Talent in the Great Resignation?
The Great Resignation, The Great Reshuffle, The Great Reset, I quit, or whatever you want to call it. Employers need to know how to attract candidates. Not too long ago, because of the onset of The Great Resignation, I did a presentation at a Chicago suburbs SHRM (Society for Human Resources Management) chapter called “LinkedIn…
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Ebony, Jet CEO Headlines Free Career Conference at Neumann University
Michele Thornton Ghee, CEO of Ebony and Jet magazines and digital platforms, will deliver the keynote address at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, during a free Neumann University conference designed to help professionals build a personal brand and improve career success skills. Sponsored by the university’s Center for Leadership, the ElevateU Conference features speakers who will offer practical advice on…
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Penn State Great Valley Prof Gives Keynote at NASA Event
Kathryn Jablokow, a professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering at Penn State Great Valley, presented one of three keynote talks at NASA’s imaginAviation virtual event last week. Jablokow’s keynote, “The Edge of Uncomfortable,” was framed as a fireside chat with John Cavolowsky, NASA’s Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program (TACP) director. The discussion focused on the challenges of…
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Blue Bell’s CompanyVoice is Committed to Creating Jobs in Montgomery County for Older Workers
CEO Claudia Timbo of CompanyVoice in Blue Bell employs a unique hiring model that initially focused on hiring mature workers with special skills in banking, insurance, healthcare, and other regulated industries. That approach quickly expanded to people with disabilities, transitioning professionals, veterans, and their families. Claudia has also partnered with a federal program giving grants…
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Local Grad Launches Startup That Uses Community to Combat Workplace Burnout
Your Care Collective, a startup launched in 2020 by Joelle Tolifero, a West Chester University graduate, uses community to combat workplace burnout, writes Kennedy Rose for The Philadelphia Business Journal. Prior to creating You Care Collective, Tolifero worked with students in residential housing as well as study-abroad programs. While it seemed like the perfect job,…
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Staying Productive While Working Remotely in Montgomery County
The pandemic has drastically shifted the way we work, writes Caleb Yen for Job Journey, a blog of Express Employment Professionals, who has locations in Lansdale and Bryn Mawr. Although many businesses are bringing employees back to the office, some are still working from home full time, or their company has adopted a hybrid approach…
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The Conundrum of Peak Productivity & Technology Skills
We live in a pandemic where technology skills are essential to work in a remote world, yet many digital immigrants (Gen X and boomers) lack skills. Digital immigrants are individuals born between 1946 and 1980 and did not grow up with technology. In contrast, those born after 1980 are considered digital natives and grew up…
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Royersford-based Job Exchange Associates Recognized with Best of Staffing Client Award
Royersford-based Job Exchange Associates has been recognized with a Best of Staffing Client Award for providing its clients with superior service. The Best of Staffing Award is presented by ClearlyRated in partnership with Indeed and Talent.com. The winners are industry leaders in service quality as rated by their clients. “Winners of the 2022 Best of…
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Malvern Preparatory School Welcomes Patrick Sillup to Serve as the New Head Of School
Today, the Board of Trustees at Malvern Prep announced the appointment of Mr. Patrick Sillup as the 15th Head of School. The appointment of Patrick comes after a months-long, national search that began when Fr. Donald Reilly O.S.A., announced his decision to step down last summer. “I am both humbled and honored to have been…
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After Departure of His Most Likely Successor, CEO Al West Acknowledges Oaks-based SEI is Searching for His Replacement
After his most likely successor departed the company, SEI Investments Chairman and CEO Al West, of Paoli, has acknowledged the Oaks-based company is searching for his replacement, writes Jeff Blumenthal for the Philadelphia Business Journal. “We’re looking for a strong CEO,” said West during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call. Before he left in December, Steve…
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Career Corner: Looking for a New Job in Montco? Should You Get Loud About Your Availability
If you have been out of work lately, perhaps you have been seeing others using hashtags like #OpentoWork and wondering if that is a strategy worth trying to get more interviews. It is a strange paradigm shift, where being unemployed used to nearly make you a pariah to recruiters, but now in the culture of…
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Career Corner: When Negotiating Your Salary, Be Machiavellian
If you have been performing well at your job for a long time, you no doubt would like an opportunity for advancement. Maybe a role promotion, or even just a raise. But the thought of having that conversation with your boss is awkward and a source of anxiety. Per book author Stacey Vanek Smith in…
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Career Corner: 3 Signs Your Job Interview Went Well
You just got through a job interview for a position you really want and you feel like you did great during the conversation. But now your mind is replaying every moment looking for flaws as you wonder if you are going to hear any good news. How can you set your anxious mind at ease…
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See Which Montco Cities Near Philadelphia Are the Easiest Places to Find a Job
Montgomery County is home to two of the five places near Philadelphia where it is easiest to find a job, according to a new report by www.movoto.com. Bala Cynwyd is about a 20-minute drive from the big city, which gives it easy access to many available jobs in the entire Metropolitan area of Philadelphia, especially…
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As Talent War Intensifies, Blue Bell-based Unisys Doubles Down on Retaining Its Employees
As the talent war intensifies among companies desperate for tech workers, Blue Bell-based Unisys is doubling down on retaining its best employees, writes Kennedy Rose for the Philadelphia Business Journal. CEO Peter Altabef informed investors during a recent second-quarter earnings call that while the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on talent does play a role…
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