#LinkedinLocal Tampa – Primary focus in and around downtown Tampa. -John Kachurick
LinkedIn Local Tampa Bay – Focus on Tampa and St. Pete (both sides of the Bay of Tampa). – Suzanne Ricci &
Kasandra Perez
LinkedIn Local North Tampa – Focus on northern Tampa. – Eric Bunch
Global Nerdy – Every Saturday, Tampa’s most connected techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds get their weekly
update from the Tampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events mailing list in their email, and you can too! –
Joey deVillaNo-Fee Career Support and Services:
Pinellas Career Source: – Weekly virtual events for Wed & Thur trainings which also provided networking
opportunities. (Hillsborough Career Source is in the process of securing a new training resource
Real Estate Lives – Open to all professions – Tue & Thur virtual meetings for more than 15 years in helping
people in the job hunt. – Greg Morgan
Transition Masters Career Clarity – Mon & Thur for Transition Masters. Career Clarity is a self-paced course
with an assigned coach. Joe Jones –
Computer Coach – Has held weekly career coaching workshops at no cost to attendees. (Yes, they also offer
fee-based training.)
IT Training: (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) services provides a $10,000 grant for trainingretraining to many unemployed persons. The program is federal and managed at local unemployment offices at the county levels. For IT training options in the Tampa Bay area, you can reach out to your local Career Source office or go straight to the below two IT training companies. Non-IT trainings are present for WIOA money. Please contact your local Career Source office for a list of service providers.)
Computer Coach – Suzanne Ricci & Kasandra Perez
New Horizons – Dewey McGuirk
OrganizationsAssociations:
Project Management Institute – SuncoastPMI – Holds monthly meeting for education and networking.
Project Management Institute – Tampa Bay – Holds monthly meeting for education and networking.
Women In Technology International (WITI) – Tampa Bay – Has routine events
Westshore Business Alliance – Holds routine networking events – Jamie Farrell.
American Marketing Association – Tampa Bay – Special request that I added in June 2020. Should have
routine networking and educational events.
The Job Seeker’s Toolkit is NextJob’s exclusive and proprietary online job search software. It is a web-based, multi-media program that facilitates interactive learning through nine job search modules. The Bank is offering the toolkit at no charge to its Internet banking customers, including checking and savings account holders and those with other types of borrowing or investment relationships with the Company. “Our relationship with NextJob continues to provide unique benefits for our customers,” said Steven Alonso, executive vice president and head of the Consumer Bank, Fifth Third Bancorp.
“Our homeowner reemployment initiative is an outreach effort to distressed mortgage borrowers to help them find their next career and avoid foreclosure. Now, this phase II effort enables us to offer a key component of that homeowner reemployment program—the online job search assistance—to a much broader audience, and therefore, help more people gain financial security.”
The Job Seeker’s Toolkit is a customized program that includes video interviews with job search experts, job seekers and hiring managers thereby providing learning examples from real-life hiring experiences. All aspects of a successful job search are included:
The toolkit is accessible to Fifth Third online customers from within Fifth Third Bank’s Internet Banking site at www.53.com. Once registered, Internet banking customers will be able to access the training for 39 weeks. After initial registration, customers can access the training from any computer at www.nextjobtraining.com. Fifth Third customers will be able to work at their own pace to develop or strengthen their job search skills.
“Fifth Third Bank has taken another step forward to help its customers,” said John Courtney, CEO of NextJob. “They were innovative with the offering of the homeowner reemployment program by reaching out to their mortgage customers who had lost jobs or suffered an income reduction. Now they are giving more of their customers an opportunity to gain employment or find more meaningful careers by offering, at no cost, comprehensive, top quality online job search assistance. We are thrilled to have this relationship with a financial institution that is always curious about what more it can do to improve the lives of their customers and communities.
Fifth Third Bank’s commitment to financial empowerment spans multiple generations, with programming designed to help people at every stage of life make smart financial decisions. Signature programming includes Young Bankers Club as well as sponsorship of the American Bankers Association’s Teach Children to Save program and Dave Ramsey’s Foundations in Personal Finance high school curriculum. Fifth Third Bank also offers multiple programs for adult financial empowerment, including the NextJob reemployment program for mortgage borrowers, and its Fifth Third Financial Empowerment Mobiles. These two 40-foot eBuses are equipped with Internet accessible computer workstations and travel into underserved communities to provide access to quality financial services. For more information, visit www.53.com/financial-empowerment.
Press Release:
http://www.tampabaynewswire.com/2013/07/11/fifth-third-bank-and-nextjob-offer-job-seekers-toolkit-to-bank-customers-12787