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Marketing for Jobs
The Cascade Campus Job Fair,
which attracts more than 1,000 job
seekers from around the Portland
metro area, makes its annual return
on Tuesday, April 30.
Job seekers will not only get tools
needed for that competitive advan­
tage in the jobs market, but also
access to a photography service to
help them better market themselves
to employers
New to this year’s event will be a
free headshot photography service
for attendees. A professional pho­
tographer will be on hand to take a
close-up photo for use in online
networking and more.
“As more and more of the job-
search process moves online, hav­
ing a high-quality photo of yourself
can really help your prospects,’’ said
Portland Community College Cas­
cade Career Services Director Becky
W ashington.
An assortment of area employers
will be on hand at the 16th annual
event, set for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the
Physical Education building on the
PCC Cascade Campus, 705 N.
Killings worth St.
Among the employers repre­
sented at this year’s fair will be
AAA Oregon/Idaho, Colonial Life,
Job seekers, em ployers an d em ploym ent resource p ro fe s s io n a ls share com m on g ro u n d a t la s t y e a r’s C ascade C am pus Job Fair. The
an nua l e ve nt re turn s on Tuesday, A pril 30 .
Hoffman Construction Company,
Kaiser Permanente, KGW Media
G roup, N ew S easons M arket,
LORI GOT A JOB AT PCC’S
CASCADE
JOB FAIR
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Cascade Campus Gym
705 N. Killingsworth St.
Portland, OR 97217
• Network with more
than 50 local employers
• Free admission & parking
• Workshops on resume •
writing, job searching
with social media, starting
a business and more!
Special thanks to our sponsors:
BROOKS STAFFING
A Division o i S. Brook» & A siocio tm , Inc.
www.pcc.edu/cascadejobfair
Oregon Live, com
Portland
Community
College
OnPoint Community Credit Union,
Portland Fire and Rescue, Portland
General Electric, Safeway, Self En­
hancement Inc., and Xerox, to name
a few.
Attendees are encouraged to
dress as if they are going to a job
interview and to show up early.
“It’s no secret that it’s acompeti-
tive job market at the moment,”
Washington said. “People should
try to give themselves every advan­
tage they can. The job fair places job
seekers face-to-face with employ-
ers from a wide range o f industries
in both the public and private sec­
tors where they can learn about
available openings, pay scales and
benefits, and the amount of educa­
tion needed to obtain a given posi­
tion.”
Sponsored by Brooks Staffing
and OregonLive.com, the job fair
will also feature free workshops in
Cascade’s Moriarty Arts and Hu­
manities Building.
The session include: Rdsume
W riting with corporate recruiter
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Kristina Tumey of Crowd Compass
(11:30 a.m., room 215), Job Search­
ing with Social Media for Dummies
author Joshua Waldman (12:30 p.m.,
auditorium), Contracts and Copy­
rights: What Makers Need to Know
( 1:30 p.m., room 215), Interviewing
tips from Toastmasters (2 p.m., au­
ditorium) and Work for Yourself or
W orkfor Someone Else: SmallBusi-
nessTips (2:30 p.m., room 215).
For more information, call 971-
7 2 2 -5 6 1 3 , o r v isit p c c .e d u /
cascadejobfair.
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Urban League Job Fair
Career Connections event recruits for diversity
The Urban League o f Portland
will host its C areer Connections
Job Fair at the Double Tree Hotel,
1000N.E. Multnomah St., on M on­
day, April 22 from 10 a.m. to 4:30
p.m.
The 20th annual event, held in
partnership with C lear Channel
Media and Entertainment, will fea­
ture em ployers from health care,
retail, construction, governm ent,
non-profit organizations, and cor­
porate sectors from the Portland
m etro area.
Em ployers are looking to the
Urban League of Portland to help
them recruit qualified, skilled, and
diverse jo b candidates.
New Seasons M arket Staffing
M anager M ary Lou Keeran m en­
tioned that New Seasons is look­
ing forw ard to the event this year,
"W e had good success at last
year's event and have hired sev­
eral great folks."
O ther em ployers are hiring for
positions from entry-level to pro­
fessional, from management to ex­
ecutive, ranging from construc­
tion and retail to governm ent and
corporate opportunities.
Job seekers can use this time to
connect with a wide array of Port-
land-area employers who are ac­
tively seeking qualified candidates.
Sponsors include the Oregon
Departm ent of Transportation, the
P acific N o rth w est C arp en ters
Union, Cam bia, and the C ity o f
Portland D evelopm ent C om m is­
sion. Em ployer participants in­
clude K aiser Perm anente, E nter­
prise, N ECA -IBEW , the City o f
Beaverton, the U nited W ay, US
Bank, Regence Blue Cross Blue
Shield, and New Seasons M arket.
The Urban League of Portland is
recognized as one of the leading
voices for A frican A m ericans,
people of color, and others in the
region.
In addition to participating in
the career fair, jo b seekers can
access thousands o f jo b postings
from local em ployers through The
Urban League's reference library
and web site year-round.