Mural of Jesus and Scriptures in Downtown Los Angeles
Hi friends,
I pray that you are making good progress on your job search.
Scriptures tell us that God uses tough times in our lives to trust Him completely.
Posted below are the latest job related information on Blog.
Thank you for reading.
I. Scriptures to Share
James 1:2-3 (New International Version)
“2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.”
雅 各 書 1:2-3 (Chinese Union Version (Traditional))
“ 2 我 的 弟 兄 們 ， 你 們 落 在 百 般 試 煉 中 ， 都 要 以 為 大 喜 樂 ；
3 因 為 知 道 你 們 的 信 心 經 過 試 驗 ， 就 生 忍 耐 。”
II. Food for Thoughts
God created work as a fundamental structure of love in the kingdom of God. God's purpose for work is to bring people together in loving community for mutual benefit and support of each other.
(One main point from Mr. Bill Heatley’s book on The Gift of Work)
III. Job Opportunities
1. Executive Assistant/Coordinator at The Walt Disney Studios in Business & Legal Affairs (Burbank CA).
Please see description below and forward any referrals to Angie Karroum at Angie.Karroum@disney.com.
Description: The Distribution Legal group has an immediate opening for an executive assistant/coordinator with a “can do” attitude to join the Business and Legal Affairs group that is helping the company to leverage emerging technologies to create and deliver new entertainment products through a variety of technology driven distribution methods and channels on a global basis. Candidates must have a passion for technology, be team players and self starters with the ability to multi-task and must love a fast paced environment. A high degree of professionalism and excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills are required.
Basic Qualifications:
• Minimum of 5-7 years of demonstrated transactional work experience in a law firm or in-house experience supporting commercial and transactional work
• Technology company experience or technology background preferred
• Demonstrated stability in work history
• Polished and professional in verbal and email communications
• Proactive in thinking of ways to improve productivity and efficiency
• Strong team orientation and ability to work collaboratively
• Proficiency in SharePoint, Word, and MS Office is a must, ability to work in DelaView, Excel and PowerPoint is helpful.
• Willingness to learn new skills/software.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage up and down
To view the complete job description and to apply, please click: https://disney.recruitmax.com/main/careerportal/Job_List.cfm?szSearchType=Advanced
2. Corporate Communications Specialist at Tetra Tech, Inc. (Pasadena, CA)
Tetra Tech is a leading provider of consulting, engineering, program management, construction, and technical services based in Pasadena, CA. We are looking for a writer who is interested in water, energy, and the environment to help support our 10,000-person organization. https://tetratech.tms.hrdepartment.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=8438&lcid=en-US
Corporate Communications Specialist
Job Code: 020510-TES-MKT
Division: TES
Location: Pasadena CA US 91107
Career Level: Experienced (Non-Manager)
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Category: Marketing/Business Development/PR
Job Responsibilities:
The Communications Specialist supports Tetra Tech’s Corporate Communications function by writing, editing, and soliciting new content for the company’s internal and external communications activities. Under the supervision of the Director of Corporate Communications, the Communications Specialist helps develop content for the company’s external website and intranet, including conducting interviews and researching/writing feature articles, and providing content support for site users. The Communications Specialist develops articles for the company’s quarterly magazine, e-newsletter, and other marketing collateral. The Communications Specialist edits, copyedits, and also helps coordinate the production of marketing materials among authors, editors, and graphic designers. The Communications Specialist provides editorial and coordination support for special projects such video/multimedia development, an annual photo contest, events, promoting the company’s sustainability efforts, and other special needs of the Business Development Support office. The Communications Specialist works closely with Tetra Tech’s Information Technology department to implement web tools that support the company’s communication and collaboration goals. The Communications Specialist also provides administrative support in preparing and managing an annual advertising plan, as well as an ad calendar and magazine subscriptions.
Experience Requirements:
4+ years previous working experience in a writing, corporate communications, or editorial assistant position.
Skills Requirements:
Candidate must demonstrate superior communications skills and be able to work effectively with teams and individuals from across the company, including executive management personnel, technical experts, marketing staff, and graphic designers. Candidate must be proficient in interviewing, writing, copyediting, proofreading, and fact-checking. Candidate should have a working knowledge of web content management systems—ideally Joomla CMS and others. HTML coding experience a plus. Candidate must be able to work independently, prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and demonstrate flexibility and creativity in a dynamic work environment. Background or interest in science and engineering is required.
Degree Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree. Prefer degree in English, Journalism, or related communications field.
3. Three month, contract to hire, Business Systems Analyst opportunity with First American in (Poway, CA)
Please see description below and contact Diana Hang at diana.hang@prosum.com.
Job Description:
The Business Analyst reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems, processes and user needs. Conducts preliminary project reviews with internal customers to determine scope and need for project prioritization. Performs and participates in the analysis, design and implementation of business systems following appropriate standards and requirement gathering. Conducts tests or test planning sessions, provides input for feasibility and prepares user/technical documentation and follow-up evaluation. Facilitates and provides software training as required. Acts as a liaison with business unit management and staff to resolve problems and improve processes or systems.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: (Functional requirements (Business Requirements Document), iii. Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs).
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
• Act as the liaison among stakeholders to encourage innovation for process improvements and system enhancements that result in increased automation, productivity, satisfaction and data consistency.
• Ensure documentation of process improvements and business requirements for system enhancements are complete and proper approvals are obtained.
• Communicate with other Business Analysts to understand interdependencies of all projects.
• Provide project management of special initiatives as directed.
• Participate in the development of processes and procedures to facilitate enhancements and workflow with internal users.
• Prepare written responses to user requests for enhancements and other customer follow up requests in a timely manner.
• Review and approve system changes prior to being turned over to production.
• Work with the business to ensure UAT test scripts are complete and approved.
• Act as a first-level escalation contact for on-going production support and trouble-shooting on current production systems.
• Translate business and user requests involving enhancements and improvement initiatives to software systems into business requirement specification documents.
• Provide systems training to operations and clients as required.
• Develop business/systems training materials and presentations as requested.
• Participate in production system roll out planning which may include training & documentation.
Education:
BA/BS degree preferably with a concentration in Computer Science or Business Administration.
Experience:
• Minimum 4 plus years’ systems/business analysis experience.
• Mortgage Banking/Vendor Management experience preferred.
• Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• Proven ability to work as part of a team as well as independently.
• Ability to multi-task and manage priorities effectively.
• Ability to evaluate business processes from a business and technical perspective.
• Requirements gathering, analysis and documentation experience.
• Experience writing policies and procedures and business requirement as well as functional specification documents.
• Training experiences a plus.
• Project Management skills a plus.
• Software Beta testing experiences a plus.
• Experience with electronic exchange of data methods to include xml, and other forms of electronic data exchange a plus.
• MS Word, Excel, MS Project, Visio.
IV. Career Education/Networking Opportunities
1. Event/Location/Date/Time: Lake Avenue Church’s Career Marketplace Search (CMS) Ministry. Room Hutchins Hall 401 at 393 N Lake Avenue Pasadena CA 91101/ Tuesday, 3/2/10, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Topic: The Gift of Work – Spiritual Disciplines for the Workplace (Chapter 2 - Kingdom Living)
Work: A Blessing or a Curse?
Mr. Bill Heatley – “I believe that instead of a curse, work should be a blessing. The 3 key elements to shift our mindset about work are Principles of Discipleship, Spiritual Formation, and Kingdom Living. The result is a new way to approach our work, and a doorway to discovering meaning, purpose, and value in whatever we do. That's why I wrote The Gift of Work, and why I love to talk with people about the importance and value of their jobs. I am also on the board of the Theology of Work, an international group of men and women collectively developing a body of work that is intended to provide processes for developing reliable answers to the many questions that arise in specific workplaces.
God has you exactly where He needs you. Your work done faithfully and well, blesses others - answers countless prayers for food, clothing, shelter, health, justice, knowledge and joy - and glorifies God. Work is one significant way that you love God and love your neighbor.”
Book on “The Gift of Work”
From the Foreword by Mr. Dallas Willard:
"We are now, as disciples of Jesus, members of a divine community that, when we seek it, we find with us in our job and throughout life, and thereby we turn all that we do into work for and under God. Thus, Paul advises: "Whatever you do, do your work heartily"—literally, 'from the soul'—"as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve." (Col. 3:23-24) We are not to try to look good (do "eye service"), as men-pleasers, but on our job we simply "do the will of God from the heart." (Eph. 6:6-8)
"Now this book tells us exactly how to do this. Intelligent, well-informed, and biblical to the core, it is intensely focused upon the real-life context of the job: on what really goes on there, and how, for our part, we can turn it into divine work. In this respect the author is telling us how to live a life that is spiritual throughout, full of meaning, strength and joy. He thus stands in the solid tradition of Christian teaching throughout the ages. He does so with the freshness of personal experience and the forcefulness of careful thought."
Speaker and Author: Mr. Bill Heatley
Speaker's background: Bill Heatley has decades of experience in corporate America as an Information Technology professional. He has served Fortune 500 companies and managed his own business, both roles providing him with necessary insights as a Christian. He currently works at Kaiser Permanente in Pasadena where he is a program manager involved in upgrading their medical records and billing systems, which is the largest project of its kind in the U.S. Bill lives with his wife and youngest daughter in Oak Park, California.
Audience: Open to all job seekers and career changers for support and networking.
Cost: free.
2. Event/Location/Date/Time: CHALLENGER NETWORKING GROUP, Woodland Hills Chapter. Meeting held at Zen Buffet at 21610 Victory Blvd. Woodland Hills, CA. 91367 on Tuesday, March 2nd at 12:00PM.
(Sponsored by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., designed for executives in all disciplines. Hosted by Pete Tzavalas and facilitated by Dick Kaumeyer)
Topic: Perfecting Your Pitch in an Outsourced World
Speaker: Mimi Donaldson, President, Mimispeaks
Speaker's background: http://www.mimidonaldson.com/
Audience: Open to all job seekers and professionals.
Cost: $11(payable to restaurant). Parking: Free. Dress – Casual.
No need to RSVP
3. Event/Location/Date/Time: Women at Work, a Non-Profit Community Organization. Women at Work is a career and job resource center serving a broad spectrum of women in the greater Los Angeles area, helping each individual to recognize and attain her full employment and earnings potential by providing job and career resources in a supportive environment. http://www.womenatwork1.org/
Upcoming Events in February and March of 2010
The Many Ways of Finding A Job
Thursday, February 25
10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
*Do you feel your job search is limited?
*Explore various ways of finding work
*What is "Networking" and how can it improve your job search?
$20 by February 23, $25 after
Connecting With Others to Explore A New Career
Monday, March 8
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
*What answers do you need to plan your education and career?
*What is Informational Interviewing?
*Learn how to contact others to get inside information
$20 by March 4, $25 after
Networking Mixer
Wednesday, March 10 5:30 p.m. to 7:00
In need of a job, looking for others to connect with? Bring your business cards.
Donation Requested
V. Questions about unemployment benefits and Cobra medical insurances
1. Regular / extended unemployment checks - Updated on 2/18/2010
Filing deadlines for federal unemployment extension benefits are fast approaching. Unless the U.S. Congress takes action to extend the current filing deadlines, Sunday, February 21, 2010, is the deadline for filing a first federal extension of benefits once a regular Unemployment Insurance (UI) claim runs out. In addition, the current deadline for filing for a second, third, or fourth federal extension is Sunday, February 28, 2010. The impact on claimants depends on when they started their regular UI claim and when they are set to exhaust their current benefits.
More Recently Unemployed
Unless there is further federal legislative action, anyone exhausting their regular UI claim after February 21, 2010, will not be eligible to collect on any of the four federal extensions currently in place. Such a situation would apply to someone who started a typical 26-week regular claim any time after August 16, 2009.
However, California currently meets the threshold for a separate extension of benefits known as FED-ED. Additional benefits are potentially available for eligible claimants once they run out of their original maximum of 26 weeks of benefits and remain unemployed.
Unemployed for a Longer Period
For those on a federal extension: The current deadlines does allow claimants to continue to collect on whatever extension they are currently on until benefits run out, or they are eligible to file a regular new UI claim, or the federal payment deadline of July 31, 2010 (which ever happens first). Claimants would not be able to move into any next level of the four federal extension benefits currently available.
You may collect up to 26 weeks of regular unemployment benefits. Once it runs out, you may apply for extended unemployment benefits. Actually, most of the time, it extends automatically, but please check with EDD office to make sure you won't miss your bi-weekly unemployment checks.
http://www.edd.ca.gov/Unemployment/Federal_Unemployment_Insurance_Extensions.htm
2. Medical insurances - Federal Cobra versus Cal Cobra
Initially, Cobra medical insurance lasted for 9 months. Recently, Obama extended Cobra medical insurance for another 6 month once the initial 9 month health coverage expires, to help job seekers.
You may apply up to 18 months of federal Cobra medical insurance.
When it runs out, you may apply for Cal-Cobra medical insurance.
http://www.cobrainsurance.com/Cal_COBRA_Insurance_Information.htm
http://www.dmhc.ca.gov/aboutthedmhc/gen/ann/gen_ann_uc.aspx
VI. My prayer for job seekers
“Thank you, Lord, for your gracious provisions every day. May you bless job seekers with stable employment in 2010. In the meantime, thank you for your unemployment benefits as a lifeline to help job seekers to survive through this Great Recession. May job seekers continue to place our hope, trust and faith in you. ”
"For the Glory of God; for the good of people"
Steve
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