CLASSIFIED A D VER TIS IN G NEED CREDIT? • ; /• ï z — — ----- ——— — — — . .*• --- • Marketing Your Talent Takes Talent LABOR FORCE 82 MILLION 1970 No one refused. Re gardless of credit his tory. Also ERASE bad credit. Do it yourself. Call 1-619-565-1522 Ext. C30260R 24 hrs. 1980 © As the working population grows, competition increases. That's one reason many job-seekers entrust professionals with the task of mapping career strategies. Sometimes it’s not enough to know you’re the best. You’ve got to make someone else believe it. More and more people, it seems, are en trusting their career strategy to professionals who have the experi ence and contacts to do it right. A wider choice of jobs are availa ble to those who visit a personnel consulting firm, experts agree. That’s one reason why more people seeking jobs—in fields ranging from entry level to executive—do just that. Personnel consulting firms are used both by employers who wish to fill a position and job seekers who wish to find them. For job seekers, the benefits of using a professional firm are many. Personnel consultants evaluate in terests and talents and offer advice about how best to use them. They conduct in-depth interviews of can didates and administer approp riate tests to check job skills and check references. The candidate is informed about current openings in the field of choice. Interviews then are arranged with appropriate em ployers. The personnel consultant also of fers advice on resume preparation, appearance, how to interview and all the other steps and details necessary to secure a new position. The term personnel consulting firm covers several types of businesses: • Employment agencies gener- PERSONAL Credit Dept. P.O. Box 280459 Dallas, TX 75228 or call (214) 270-9816 1-518 459 3546 EXT H6061A (TOLL-Refundable) 24HRS. You can save money owning this 2 or 3 Bed room home. Com pletely renovated. New Natural Gas Furnace, Good Roof, New Wall to Wall Carpet, Fenced Yard, Ready to occupy. $300 per m onth P.l. FHA Mortgage. Seller pays most clo sing costs. Approxi mately $800 total move in costs. $20,250 234 0501 or 288 1678 W ANTED TO BUY VETERAN M ASTERCARD. 106 MILLION 69 MILLION 1960 Hundreds weekly at homel Write: P.O. Box 17, Clark, NJ 07066 No Credit Check! $300 Credit Limit, your own Credit Card, National Mail Order Firm has new credit plan for people with bad/no credit. For info send name/address to: ally are oriented toward finding jobs for entry-level people; • Contingency search firms are primarily oriented in filling open ings with employers, but also find jobs for people with previous ex perience and whose background matches the areas of placement ac tivity of the contingency search firm. Many of these firms are members of the National Association of Per sonnel Consultants (NAPC), a pro fessional group of men and women who own and manage private per sonnel consulting firms throughout the U.S. and abroad. NAPC mem bers abide by rigid standards of ethical practices set down by the organization. As part of the aim to match up appropriate employers with job seeking people, NAPC published The Career Guide Handbook It lists every NAPC member in the U.S. according to their specialty and includes valuable career advice on conducting a job search and pre paring a resume. The job seeker simply looks under the desired career category and geographic location and the di rectory lists names of personnel professionals in that area who spe cialize in the field of interest. Copies of the handbook are avail able for $19.95, including postage, from NAPC, 1432 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. W A N T TO LOSE WEIGHT? Need 50 overweight people who seriously want to lose pounds. Finally a program that works. 100% money back guarantee. Call Claire (503) 233-3865. REPORTER '84 graduate of Lewis & Clark College with degree in international affairs and concentra tion in jo u r alism seeks general assignment re porting position. In college reported for campus newspaper on a variety of ssues, and worte featui ;s and re views. Also freelanced for local weekly and completed several in ternships before mov ing to New York City for three years to work in editorial department of publishing. Exper ienced in photojourn alism and layout. Con tact: Sam Bennett, 10634 S.W. Hedlund, Portland, OR 97219; (503) 635-6462. HOUSES SEIZED Properties. Call Les, Keizer- VETERAN Opportunity for qualified veteran (acceptable credit & earnings) to acquire a two family home at no cost. Call Mackie or Jack Opportunity for qualified veteran (acceptable credit & earnings) to ac quire a two family home at no cost. Call Mackie or Jack 252-3366 252-3366 S m ith & Associates BUILDING MATERIALS Pole Building Kits. Complete building package, 1/sliding door, 4/colored walls, 6x6 poles, 24x36x10 $1,875; 24x48x12 $2,512; 30x60x12 $3,533. Many other sizes. Labor and financing available. 1 800-331-0155, (503 ) 263-1805. Builders' Board No. L44526. BUILDING M ATERIALS Pole Building Kits: Fall specials. 24x36x12, $1999; 24x48x12, $2446; 30x60x12, $3378; 40x 60x12, $4165. Financing, labor, delivery, other sizes available. Free color brochure. (503) 263- 6953; 1-800-872 0070. OR 40703. BUILDING M ATERIALS Barbed Wire Special: 12-H ga. 4 point, while supplies last, $24.50 a roll. Fox Fence Co., 4330 S.E. Division Street, Portland, OR 97206. USA phone 1-800-235-4188. LOANS & FINANCING M O N E Y TO LEND CONTRACTS & MORTGAGES Need Money? Equity loans on all types of real estate, easy qualifying! Rapid funding! We buy contracts. Call now! Toll-free, 1-800-537-5498, Oregon Land Mortgage. PIC K UPS/C A N O PIES 500 Totem Tops: Warehouse prices. Totem, Stampede, Brahma. Over age units less. Free price list. Phone free, 1-800-452-9113, 9-5:00, 7 days. Totem Mfg, Salem, Oregon. Smith & Associates HELP W ANTED NEEDED IMMEDIATE LY: Welders, carpen ters, electricians, plum bers, management po sitions, technicians, mechanics, machinists, drivers, equipment op erators. Entry level, degreed, up to $32.60 hour. Call Transcon tinental, (308)647-5555. Fee. Sunday Oregonian. Then for details, see any real estate agent. Lower down. Lower interest. Our all new Double Play w ill help you come home a winner. HUD and your real estate agent. We’re The Home Team.® HUD nr DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT SALE Call TODAY for FACTS! PMT reproduction camera. times, (503) 390-1051. ig a H U D I ball game, a FOR GOVERNMENT HOMES for $1.00 (U Repair) BUY DIRECTI Repos & Tax Lower down payments, Lower interest. Buy an FHA-insured HUD-owned home now and enjoy a lower down payment and interest rate with our all new Double Play offer. Now for a limited time. HUD has dropped the down payment to just 3% for owner-occupants and 10% tor investors on all HUD-owned properties eligible for FHA Mortgage Insurance. Plus, HUD w ill pay up to 6 additional points to help cut your interest rate up to one full percent . . . or more! Check the HUD listings ad in the classified section of your Friday or STOP PAYING RENT. LOANS & FINANCING Need Money? Equity loans on all types of real estate, easy quali fying! Rapid funding! We buy contracts. Call now! Toll-free, 1-800- 537-5498, Oregon Land Mortgage. PETS Hao Kan Chinese Shar- Pei: Healthy, wrinkly puppies from cham pions. We're not the biggest, but no North- | west breeder can match our record. Box 74, Amity, OR 97101. j (503)835-6981. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FIGURE SHAPING AND SUNTANNING EQUIPMENT: Open your own figure or sun tan salon or add these features to your exist ing business. Buy fac tory direct; (312) 234- 9547. C O M M ER C IA L PROPERTY FOR SALE 28 SPACE MOBILE PARK, 16 mobiles own ed by park. Located in Medfore, Oregon. De tailed package avail able. Owner carry at 9% A.P.R. (503 ) 826- 2661 or 1-800-422-0341. MOBILE HOMES Huge Selection of the first homes. From $16 square foot. wide. Foundations, garages, etc. available. Santiam Homes, 1969. (503) 769-7744, collect. mobile/modular Installed state land financing, Stayton. Since FOR SALE Varityper CompSet 500. $400 or best offer. Richard Keller, (503) 777-5436. High Point Com munications, P.O. Box 8279, Portland, OR 97207. FOR SALE Weekly newspaper in growing community on beautiful Oregon Coast. 1,450 paid circulation. 1986 gross over $80,000. Priced for rapid sale, $60,000 firm; $10,000 down, owner will finance balance. No brokers. Write: Bruce Allen, 25 N.W. Cedar Avenue, Warrenton, OR 97146. Labor Secretary B rock U rges Greater Training in Skills for M inorities to O ffset Shortages WASHINGTON, D C. - Predicting a serious shortage of skilled workers in the United States in the near future, the U.S. Secretary of Labor, William E. Brock, recently urged more intensive and effective training of minorities to help fill the shortage. Brock was the keynote speaker for the Corporate Awards Breakfast at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, pan of the Minority En terprise Development Week (MED Week) activities. He said that America was moving rapidly from a system of “ manual, or sweat-based, employment to a system of mind, or skills-based, employment." This condition. Brock said, should en courage America to provide better basic education and skills training for its young people than is currently availa ble. Sixty percent of the new jobs created during recent years have been “ in the highest skilled categories," Brock said, while noting that the nation was already experiencing serious shortages in some professional and technical areas. The Secretary of Labor also sug gested long-term solutions for the skilled worker shortage that included creating more effective school systems at all levels for all Americans. He urged parents to become more active in local schools and to hold school officials ac countable for improving education. The breakfast, a high point in the four-day series of meetings, workshops and discussions, sponsored by the Mi nority Business Development Agency (MBDA), also included the presentation of 10 Corporate Awards to major busi ness organizations by the MBDA. The awards recognize the corporations’ “ dedication, enthusiasm, cooperation and distinguished service in promoting minority businesses.” Stanley S. Scott, Vice President, Di rector of Corporate Relations and As sistant to the Chairman. Philip Morris Companies Inc ., accepted the Corporate Award for Philip Morris. Scott said: "The Secretary of Labor was right on the mark in encouraging the growth of minority businesses as a means of combating the skills shortage, by providing employment opportunities and on-the-job training. In the several years that Philip Morris has done busi ness with minority firms, we have seen much evidence that this is so.” MED Week is observed during the first full week of October to recognize the more than 840,000 minority business persons in the United States. t James H. Richardson Gonzales, Di rector of the MBDA. told MED Week participants that "the entrepreneurial spirit has captured the imagination of many of our nation’s minority entrepre neurs." He said that more than 240,000 new minority-owned businesses were established during the last five years. FOR D IS TIN G U IS H E D SER VIC E — Stanley S. Scott, Vice President, Director of Corporate Relations and Assistant to the Chairman, Philip Morris Companies Inc., (right) accepts a Corporate Award for the promotion of minority businesses, from Director of the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). James H. Richardson Gonzales. Philip Morris was one of 10 corporations receiv ing awards during recent M E D Week observances in Washington, D .C . Scott noted that the company ’s long-time support of minority businesses has been “ good Tor Philip Morris, for the nation and for the national economy.’’ 1 TASK FORCE M EM B ERS — Members of the Philip Morris Minority Vending Task Force attending the recent M E D Week observances in Washington, D .C ., included, from left: Alain Goby, Manager. U.S. Export Logistics, Philip Morris International; Jerry 0 . Wilhoit, Corporate Minority Vendor Coordinator. Miller Brewing Company; John Milco, Administrator. Purchasing Services, Philip Morris Incorporated; Bernard J. Kosakowski. Director. Minority Business Devel opment. Philip Morris U.S.A.; Wanda McClain. Manager, Employee Relations, Mission Viejo Realty Group Inc., and Anthony M . Morelli, Chairman of the Philip Morris Minority Vending Task Force, Philip Morris spent more than $180 million with minority firms in the past year. I