Greetings

I am still waiting to hear how many of you are hired. Have a safe and blessed Thanksgiving.

Come Fall Into the Career of your Dreams…
At Job Fair 2007
Job Fair will be held Tuesday, November 13, 2007 from 11:00-1:00 in the gym

*We are planning on a wide variety of great employers...we need students present and ready to hand out resumes and talk with employers…..
Remember: WE ARE BRINGING THE EMPLOYERS TO YOU!!

Students are expected to come prepared…
Bring a resume
Dress professionally (you might be offered an interview!)
Communicate your interest to the employers by listening & making eye contact
While we love children, a job fair is not the best place for them….employers need to see you as a professional!


For more information on Job Fair, please call either:

Wendy Barker, 759-4635 Or Hiedi Gustin, 726-2702

Registered Employers/Vendors:
ACCUFORCE Staffing
AT&T
Bank of Granite
Bayada Nurses
Bemis Contract Group
Blue Ridge Healthcare (Nursing & medical)
Blue Ridge Healthcare (Food service)
Blue Ridge Parkway: National Park Service
Broughton Hospital
Caldwell County Job Link & partners
Caldwell Memorial Hospital
Career & Counseling Services at CCC&TI
Catawba Valley Medical Center
Catawba Valley Staffing
Clark Tire & Auto
CNC/Access (Home care/in-home aid)
City of Lenoir
Corning Cable Systems
Continuing Education: CCC&TI
CPI (Security/sales)
Department of Veterans Affairs (Federal Agency: Hospital)
Dillards
Eastman Chemical Company
Employment Staffing Inc. (Caldwell & Burke Counties)
Employment Staffing Inc. (Catawba County)
Espiritu Clinic
Fairfield Chair Company
Family Video (Hickory)
Fastenal (Industrial sales, etc)
Fed Ex Ground
Force One Armor
Forsyth Medical Center
Frye Regional Medical Center
Haywood Regional Medical Center
Health & Home Services (homecare)
Hickory Police Department
Intrepid USA (Home care)
Iredell Memorial Hospital
J. Iverson Riddle Dev. Center (MR/DD Facility, hiring from several programs)
Lenoir Fire Department & Rescue
Lenoir K-9 Unit
Lenoir Parks & Recreation
Lenoir Police Department
LuxScan Technologies
Mission Hospitals
Mr. Cool Heating and AC
Overstock Outlets
Primerica (Financial services agency)
PetSmart
Right At Home (in home care & assistance)
Rock Barn Golf & Spa (landscape gardening, culinary, cosmetology)
Timber Wolf Forest Products
Transportation Insight (Freight management)
Two Beacons, LLC (opening soon: Captain D’s Seafood Kitchen)
United State Navy
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Walters Chysler-Jeep-dodge
Westglow resort & spa

Being Googled

Phone Screens

Don't forget to let me know if you got a phone screen. Good luck.

WorkKeys Email from Dana

Donna:

I received an email back from Pam Gobel. Pam already sends me the National CRC seal to put on the certificates. I would encourage students to register on www.myworkkeys.com for employers to verify their scores but they are not required to order a National Certificate. Students may call WorkKeys at 1-866-760-1228 with questions. Thanks.

Dana

IT Shirts

The IT Shirts are in and are available in the Bookstore.

Prices before tax are:

S-XL - $6.25

2XL -$7.50

3XL - $8.75

4X: - $10.00

Online Linux Course Link

http://www.ed2go.com/cgi-bin/oic3/newcrsdes.cgi?name=cccti&course=ilx&title=Introduction^to^Linux&departmentnum=CL

Message from Google

Hello Students!
We are very excited to let everyone know that Google will again be contacting students to go through phone interviews but this time for the Data Technician Assistant position. Yes, as you all are thinking this is earlier than what Google communicated but it is good news for us that they could be looking for people sooner than 2008. Now the interviews for those who have been chosen will be happening only by phone so prepare those communication and interview skills we taught you! Google will be in touch with everyone in the next month letting everyone know their status for those who have completed the course.


Good luck!

Susie

10/29 and 11/15

We will be having a "Refresher Meeting" for IT Graduates on Monday, 10/29 at 6:00 in B104. You should have an agenda in your email.

There will be a Job Fair on Tuesday, November 13 from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. in the college gymnasium.

Have a great weekend.

Urgent Message

If you have revisions to your resume, please send a revised resume to me by tomorrow by 5:00. I am going to resend them to Google Friday. I can not extend this deadline. Thanks.

Due Date Extended

Thanks to all of you who have already sent in your resumes. I need all resumes by 10/19. I will send Google the resumes on 10/20.

The sample portfolio is in the JobLink now. ;) Please feel free to stop by and take a look.

Have a great weekend.

Updates

Congratulations Graduates!!!

We are very proud of you all. If you would like a DVD of the ceremony, please drop off a CD to me (you can leave it at the front desk) and I will get a copy made for you.


I saw many of you at the Directions Event. I hope you got some great information from the employers. I heard some of you had some concerns after you talked to Google and there were questions as to how long your resumes would be kept by Google for consideration. Your resumes will be considered for openings for positions as they come available. You will not need to reapply. Please let me know if you have any other questions and I will be glad to address them.


We met with the Google reps after the event and we are very excited about the future of this partnership.

If you have updates to your resume, please let me know and I will forward the updated resume to Google.

I am working on additional training or Module III. If you have suggestions, please let me know.

Have a great day.

Resumes Due 10/15

Resumes for the class that finished last week will be due 10/15. Several students were not able to finish their resumes by the original due date, so I decided to extend the deadline by one week.

Please email your resume to dbean@cccti.edu after you have had it approved by Dana Glenn (dglenn@cccti.edu). See you Monday at Graduation.

Have a nice weekend.

Donna

Portfolios and T Shirts

I plan to put together a sample Portfolio and house it in the JobLink. Please visit the JobLink AFTER 10/15 to receive a table of contents for your portfolio as well as a list of items used to develop the sample portfolio. These items will be available in the CCC & TI Bookstore.

We are also working to make IT Institute T-Shirts available for sell in the Bookstore. I hope the shirts will be available by 10/20.

Have a great evening.

Sorry

I wanted to apologize to the night class that was not informed of our schedule change. I requested that students be notified of the change, but unfortunately, that didn't happen. Again, please accept my apology.

Graduation

Please plan to be backstage at the Civic Center at 6:30 on Monday night. You will lined up to march in at that time. Congratulations to all the graduates.

FYI in response to overwhelming concern and prayers for Darlene's son

http://prayerrequestcaldwell.blogspot.com/

Saturday Schedule

Last Saturday was the last class we had scheduled for the extra 20 hours. I understand you didn't have 20 full hours of training. Please let me know if you would like to have an additional 5 hours added to this training. Have a nice weekend.

Email from VP, Technology and Instructional Support Services

Donna,

Please let the IT academy students know CCCTI has an opening for a Watauga computer technician.

Information can be found at:
http://www.caldwell.cc.nc.us/HR/fulltime.htm

I've also heard Hickory City Schools has a Technology Technician position open.
http://www.hickory.k12.nc.us/ADM/Personnel/pframe.htm

Thanks.

Susan Wooten, VP, Technology and Instructional Support Services

Ted Koppel Show Reporter visiting class tomorrow

There will be a reporter from Discovery Channel's Ted Koppel show visiting our IT Institute classes tomorrow from 7:30 to 9:00. See you then.