Organization Name: Colonial Job Seekers Support Network
Church Affiliation: Colonial Baptist Church
Church Address: 6051 Tyron Rd., Cary NC27511
Church’s Phone Number: 233-9100
Church URL: http://www.colonial.org
Meeting Time and place: Monday 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM in Room 217
Organization’s Leadership (email): Sharon Cox (careerresumesc@aol.com)
Organization URL: http://24.199.145.66/jobseekers/
Organization Yahoo Group: None
Comments: devotions Networking, training
This group is one of the most organized networking ministries.
The group has met for over a year.
They ran an “inverse job fair” in April of 2002.
Recent meetings have had over 60 attendees, with a role exceeding 200. The format of the meetings changed as of August 5th. As of that date, meetings open with a devotional
and then proceed to a prayer of praise and concerns expressed by members of
the group, after which they break out into Special Interest Groups (SIGs).
The policy of bringing speakers for each meeting is being abandoned,
at least for now. The speaker program will be considered again
after a full time volunteer Executive Director is found. The group used to send out many emails about
job opportunities for a very wide variety of positions to all on the master
mailing list, effective August 5th jobs that relate to that SIG
group’s members will be forward by the SIG leaders in lieu of mass mailings. Over 80 former members have landed. The changes in the group are prompted by the
growth of the group and because members of the leadership team are landing. The group also maintains a “Yellow pages” where
members list odd jobs that they will do for a fee.
Church Affiliation: St. Andrew the Apostle Roman Catholic Church
Church Address: 3008 Old Raleigh Rd., Apex, NC 27502
Church’s Phone Number: 362-0414
Church URL: http://www.saintandrew.org
Meeting Time and place: Wednesday 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM, C.A.R.E. Center, room 214
Organization’s Leadership (email): Paul Dean (dean3384@bellsouth.net)
Organization URL: None
Organization Yahoo Group: None
Comments:
This is a small, but growing group. It is made up almost exclusively of members of the St. Andrew parish. The focus of the group is as probably more support than networking. The group is trying to be more active, letting more parishioners know of the group, to both join and provide possible job openings. They are looking into putting a bio list of members on the church’s web site.
Organization Name: St. Mike’s Career Transition Group
Church Affiliation: St. Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church
Church Address: 804 Highhouse Rd. Cary, NC
Church’s Phone Number: 468-6100
Church URL: http://www.stmichaelcary.org/
Meeting Time and place: Tuesday 7:30AM to 9:00 AM on the third floor of the Trinity Center, which is directly behind the church
Organization’s Leadership (email): Nick Verna (nverna@nc.rr.com)
Organization URL: None
Organization Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/St_Mikes_Career_Group/
Comments: http://www.stmichaelcary.org/ministry/careertransitions/ministry.shtml
The group is very active with at least 25 people at each meeting. There is a short prayer to begin the meeting, and then everyone gives their “elevator speech” followed by the good/bad news of the week and an educational program.
Church Affiliation: St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
Church Address: 7506 Falls of the Neuse Rd. 27615
Church’s Phone Number: 847-1913
Church URL: http://sapc.com
Meeting Time and place: Wednesday 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM in the Fellowship Hall on the ground floor.
Organization’s Leadership (email): Linda Leake (lindasl@att.net),
Gary Wires (gwires@nc.rr.com),
Gary Greene (gary@greensources.com),
Joe Mitchiner (starhealth7@aol.com),
Charlie Moore (c_moore@ml.com),
Rev. Art King (aking@sapc.com)
Organization URL: http://www.sapc.com/Groups/CareerNet/CareerNet_flyer.htm
Organization Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SAPC-CareerNet/
Comments:
This group is one of the most organized networking ministries, with most of the leadership provided by people who own their own businesses. Recent meetings have had over 40 attendees. The focus is both networking and support. The meetings open with a short devotional and then a spotlighting of two attendees where leads are given to the spotlighted people. They have brought in hiring managers and others as speakers, after the speaker each table is encouraged to get to know each other and share leads. They will go around to all present encouraging people to tell one positive thing that happened to them during the past week.
Organization Name: Professionals in Transition (P.I.T.)
Church Affiliation: Asbury United Methodist Church
Church Address: 6612 Creedmoor Road, Raleigh, NC 276
Church’s Phone Number: 847-2818
Church URL: http://www.asburyral.org
Meeting Time and place: First & Third Wednesday, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM,
Room 304 in the Life Ministries Center
Organization’s Leadership (email): Carl Schreck (cschreck@bellsouth.net)
Rev. Richard Bryant (richard@asburyral.org)
Organization URL: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-ralPIT
Organization Yahoo Group: None
Comments:
The group at Asbury UMC was formed by providing a home for
the Alcatel-Raleigh Professionals in Transition (APIT) group. Since the group stopped meeting at Right Management
in December 2001, it is no longer an exclusive (Alcatel) group and meetings
are open to everyone. Attendance has
been averaging about 20 people. The meetings are well organized and serve mainly as a networking
and peer support/advice group. They
maintain an excellent web site.
Asbury UMC is organizing another group that will focus more on the emotional and spiritual support group for those either unemployed or worried about the pending loss of their job. This group will be open to all interested. The first meeting was at 7:00 PM on Thursday June 6 in room 301 of the Life Ministries Center. There is no word yet on when this group will meet again.
Organization Name: Career Networking Group
Church Affiliation: First United Methodist Church - Cary
Church Address: 117 S. Academy St. Cary, NC 27511
Church’s Phone Number: 467-1861
Church URL: http://www.gbgm-umc.org/caryfumc/HOME.htm
Meeting Time and place: Every other Thursday 8:00AM to 10:00AM Room 212
Organization’s Leadership (email): Rev. Nancy Pugh (npugh@fumc-cary.org)
Organization URL: None
Organization Yahoo Group: None
Comments:
Enter from Waldo Street entrance
This small group (fewer than 10 active members) opens its’ meetings with a short devotional and the proceeds to various networking and support topics. They do have a listing of bio’s for the group’s members on the church’s web page. The group meets every other week (6/13 & 27, 7/11 & 25, 8/8 & 22, 9/5 &19, 10/3 & 17 & 31). The group has reorganized again for the second time since March due to the facilitators landing.
Church Affiliation: Raleigh Vineyard Christian Fellowship
Church Address: 6809 Davis Drive, Raleigh, NC 27613
Church’s Phone Number: 781-2171
Meeting Time and place: Friday 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM at the Vineyard Café, 3915 Western Blvd., Raleigh, NC 27606 (across from Ten-Ten Restaurant)
Church URL: http://www.raleighvineyard.org
Organization’s Leadership (email): Daniel Ehmann (Daniel.ehmann@alcatel.com)
Organization URL: None
Organization Yahoo Group: None
Comments:
Church Affiliation: Apex United Methodist Church
Church Address: 100 S. Hughes St., Apex, NC
Church’s Phone Number: 632-7807
Church URL: http://www.apexumc.org
Meeting Time and place: Sunday 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM in the church library
Organization’s Leadership (email): Rev. Anne Ahl (anne.ahl@apexumc.org )
Organization URL: None
Organization Yahoo Group: None
Comments:
Mainly for people of that congregation, devotions, networking
Church Affiliation: University United Methodist Church
Church Address: 150 East Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Church’s Phone Number: 929-7191
Meeting Time and place: Tuesday 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Church URL: http://www.orbcom.com/UUMC
Organization’s Leadership (email): David Goldston (davidgoldston@nc.rr.com)
Organization URL: None
Organization Yahoo Group: None
Comments:
This group has reportedly suspended operations.
Organization Name: Career Works
Church Affiliation: St Francis United Methodist Church
Church Address: 2965 Kildare Farm Rd., Cary, NC 27511
Church’s Phone Number: 362-1666
Church URL: http://www.saintfrancisumc.org/
Meeting Time and place: Wednesday 7:00 to 8:30 PM
Organization’s Leadership (email): Mike Brothers (mbrothers@nc.rr.com)
Organization URL: http://www.gbgm-umc.org/stfrancisumcnc/careerworks.html
Organization Yahoo Group: None
Comments:
This group was formed in April 2002. It is active and has brought in some excellent speakers. Recent meetings have had attendance of 10 to 15 members. There is also a breakfast group that meets from 7 to 8 AM on the second Tuesday each month at Barry’s Café in Cary. The breakfast group has a mix of employed and unemployed. The focus of the breakfast group is support and discussion of issues faced in the workplace.
Church Affiliation: Grace Community Church
Church Address: 6561 Meridian Dr., Raleigh, NC 27616
Church’s Phone Number: 862-8521
Church URL: http://www.gracecommchurch.com
Meeting Time and place:
Organization’s Leadership (email): Ken Burton (kenburton@hotmail.com)
Organization URL: None
Organization Yahoo Group: None
Comments:
This group that recently organized and appears to be focused mainly on the needs of it’s own congregation.
Organization Name: Bridge Builders
Church Affiliation: Hudson Memorial Presbyterian Church
Church Address: 4921 Six Forks Rd., Raleigh, NC 27609
Church’s Phone Number: 787-1086
Church URL: (under construction)
Meeting Time and place: Monday 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM,
Organization’s Leadership (email): Dave Leonard
Organization URL: None
Organization Yahoo Group: None
Comments:
It appears that this group has suspended operation because the leaders all landed.
Organization Name: Professional Employment Networking
Church Affiliation: Non-Denominational
Church Address:
Church’s Phone Number
Church URL:
Meeting Time and place: Thursday 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM Thursday
Rainbow Lanes Bowling Center (http://triangle.citysearch.com/profile/6159398)
850 West Highway 42,
Clayton, NC 27520
Organization’s Leadership (email): Drew Becker (mailto:drbecker@earthlink.net)
Organization URL: None
Organization Yahoo Group: None
Comments:
This is a relatively small (10 to 15 members) group. Meetings open with a nondenominational prayer. They sometimes bring in speakers. The group has had two facilitators land since it was formed earlier in 2002.
Organization Name: Employment Transition
Church Affiliation: Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Church Address: 7000 Creedmoor Rd, Raleigh, NC
Church’s Phone Number
Church URL: http://www.gslchurch.org/
Meeting Time and place: Fourth Thursday 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Thursday, Choir Room
Organization’s Leadership (email):
Organization URL: None
Organization Yahoo Group: None
Comments: Information was taken from the church’s web site.
Organization Name: Career Connections
Church Affiliation: Crossroads Fellowship
Church Address: 2721 E. Millbrook Rd., Raleigh, NC
Church’s Phone Number: 981-0222
Church URL: http://www.crossroads.org
Meeting Time and place: Thursday 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM Room 113
Organization’s Leadership (email): Susan Josephson (josephson@earthlink.net )
Rev. Doug Gamble (DGamble@crossroads.org )
Organization URL:
Organization Yahoo Group:
Comments: This is a relatively small (10 to 15 members) group. Meetings open with a devotional and usually have a speaker. Membership is probably the most diverse of any group in the area.
Church Affiliation: St. Raphael’s Catholic Church
Church Address: 5801 Falls Of the Neuse Rd. Raleigh, NC
Church’s Phone Number: (919) 876-1581
Church URL: http://www.saintraphael.org/
Meeting Time and place:
Organization’s Leadership (email): Mike Ficalora (mkficalora@hotmail.com)
Organization URL:
Organization Yahoo Group:
Comments: This relatively new group was formed since August 2002
Church Affiliation: United Church of Chapel Hill
Church Address: 1321 Airport Road, Chapel Hill, NC
Church’s Phone Number: (919) 942-3540
Church URL: http://www.unitedchurch.org/
Meeting Time and place: Monday, 7:30 PM
Organization’s Leadership (email): Robert Anderson (rca@nc.rr.com)
David Bright (thebrights1@juno.com)
Organization URL:
Organization Yahoo Group:
Comments: This relatively new group was formed since August 2002