Master’s Program Alumni Buck Negative Employment Trend with Updated IT Skills; Career Coaching
SetFocus (www.setfocus.com) reported 222 individuals who completed The Master’s Program® training found jobs in 2009 as Business Intelligence, report, and systems analysts or as .NET and SharePoint developers. These IT professionals enhanced their marketability with The Master’s Program, combining training in Microsoft technologies with career coaching provided by professional recruiters.
In the toughest job market in nearly 30 years, job seekers are finding it necessary to re-tool in order to find jobs. IT professionals, in particular, must update their skills to stay competitive. However, today, skills alone are not enough to set a candidate apart.
SetFocus, an IT training and placement firm, provides IT professionals with a unique program that includes comprehensive, hands on technical training in Microsoft technologies — .NET, SQL Server, SharePoint, Business Intelligence – combined with career development and placement support. Candidates receive individualized career coaching and learn personal marketing skills to help them navigate and stand out in a crowded job market. SetFocus also employs professional recruiters to help its candidates find employment.
“In my eyes, the clients are actually our candidates. I work with individuals who are at various stages in their careers. Some are recent college graduates or career-changers. Others are mid-level or senior IT professionals who need to re-tool. My goal is to help them secure a position in their newly-obtained skill set.” notes Brian Galicki, a member of a team of placement specialists – all former recruiters who bring 20+ years combined IT recruiting experience to graduates of the SetFocus Master’s Program.
The SetFocus commitment to its alumni is life-long. Of the 222 candidates who found employment in 2009, 11% were graduates of The Master’s Program who found themselves back on the job market.
Since 1997, SetFocus has been a leader in selecting, training, placing, and supporting Microsoft professionals worldwide. SetFocus identifies skills gaps and develops programs that directly train and source skilled professionals to meet the immediate hiring needs of its partners. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, SetFocus employs a unique hands-on learning curriculum and a combination of services to help organizations grow. SetFocus is currently ranked among the 2009 Inc. 5,000 fastest growing companies in America and the 2008 New Jersey’s Fifty Fastest Growing Companies.
For more information, SetFocus can be reached at +1-886-91-TRAIN and through its website, www.setfocus.com
Here’s all anyone needs to know about our relationship with Egypt. We give them millions of dollars in foreign aid, they gave us Mohammed Atta and dancing in the streets on 9/11
They jsut sold us out. net neutrality is the 1st amendment of the Web. Without it, we will go back to the 1990s where you had to pay for each byte downloaded.
And meanwhile, the richest are getting a tax break of about $70K per million income and a big break on estate taxes. We have the highest concentration of wealth in the hands of a few since the 1920s, and new law courtesy of the Supreme Court that allows them to buy the political process without disclosing their participation.
The Republican Party’s main critics of the repeal opposed it on the basis, essentially – but with some room for theoretical extrapolation of intent – that allowing gays to serve openly in the military would somehow put troops at risk. The “gays,” according to their baseless arguments, would jeopardize every mission by their flamboyant waving of purple feather boas and their high-stepped marching to the facile choruses of Lady Gaga through the rocky hillsides of Afghanistan.
The FCC sold out to the big corporations a few days ago with their new Internet policy decision that effectively kills net neutrality, so why not this too? It’s such a spineless FCC. I wish it was a GOP run FCC cause at least these decisions would be expected. It hurts more when it’s a democratic FCC, and they get pushed around easier than a feather in the wind.
The FCC sold out to the big corporations a few days ago with their new Internet policy decision that effectively kills net neutrality, so why not this too? It’s such a spineless FCC. I wish it was a GOP run FCC cause at least these decisions would be expected. It hurts more when it’s a democratic FCC, and they get pushed around easier than a feather in the wind.
The party of NO is going to start saying yes all of a sudden. Why? Because that’s what Shrum WANTS them to do. The reality is they’ll disappoint the shit out of him.
As appalling as the likely DREAM Act defeat will be, the Food Safety bill, which took decades of dogged advocacy to create, is likely going down since it was attached to the Omnibus bill that Reid withdrew. They may try to reattach it to something else, but all it will take to block that is the objection of one senator–and the odious Tom Coburn from the meat state of Oklahoma is likely to do that. So a doctor will be responsible for more food deaths that will inevitably occur. So add more sick food poisoned kids to those poor kids who won’t be able to go to college. Charming country we live in.
Well, sure, some kind of legislation is needed, but it’s the kind that involves asking the rich to pay more to support the stable, educated, free society that allowed them to make all that money in a genteel fashion. And that takes more guts than I’ve seen from anyone in Washington, except maybe Bernie Sanders.
This is the second post I’ve read on this blog and I’m definitely going to bookmark and check back everyday.