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CAREERS IN TRANSITION
The Careers in
Transition group meets on the first and third Saturdays in each month 8:30 –
11:00 am. All persons who are either in transition or exploring career
alternatives are welcome to join us.
CIT has its own yahoo
based group website. Access is limited to active participants in the Saturday
meetings. Members forward job leads, articles, post inquiries about particular
companies, consultants, etc.
The group has been
meeting since 1987 with three persons continuing to participate as part of their
own outreach ministry. Without a doubt the CIT group is the most ecumenical
undertaking of Christ Church. Our leadership includes Catholic and Jewish
individuals, all of whom are gainfully employed but return to help others.
Unlike other groups in surrounding towns, our group is open to anyone regardless
of religious affiliation.
At
the high point of the last recession the group ran 85+ at each meeting. We seem
to have hit a low point of 25 during the Summer 2006. This fall attendance has
gradually increased with as many as 8 new members at a meeting. The meetings are
informal and provide the benefits of networking, resume critique by peers and a
degree of support. We provide a membership list to attendees and know there is
a great deal of contact between meetings.
The standard format is
a quick introduction from everyone stating name and what they are searching
for. We then break into smaller groups for strategy sessions. There is the
resume review group that aims to be kind but very honest. Anyone is invited to
participate and everyone is considered an expert - because most of our members
are middle to upper management and have hired employees.
The
other 3 strategy groups tackle various topics such as, what is the biggest
problem you are having with your search, interview techniques, websites, age
discrimination, mapping a career search strategy. Each strategy group is lead
by a volunteer and the group try to supportively deal with whatever issues are
critical at the time.
They also report that
CIT was the most helpful group that they worked with. Anyone who lands has to
return to tell the others what worked for them - and in a new tradition which
has been well received - to bring doughnut holes for the group. Christ Church
supplies coffee and tea to go with the snacks.
FOOD PANTRY
The Interfaith Food Pantry has a great new home!!
We’re out of the basement at the old location and into a clean and
easily-accessible first-floor space at The Episcopal Church of the
Epiphany (formerly Grace Church) in Orange!
We need your help for a total of 2 ˝
hours, several times a year.
That’s it!! The task is easy:
prepare bags of good and distribute . . . to as many as 40 clients, some
of whom truly fall through the cracks in qualifying for other programs and count
on us.
Please call the church at 973.379.2898 if you
would like to be part of this important ministry! Thank you very much.
INTERWEAVE
 Interweave is a community
learning center teaching skills for wholistic living that strengthen
wellness, deepen spirituality, and promote the common good. Serving the
Church and the community since 1980, it offers a wide variety of classes,
workshops and conferences for people of all faiths that draw on the
resources of depth psychology, spiritual wisdom, and wellness disciplines.
Housed at Calvary Church in Summit, it is also a resource group for the
Episcopal Diocese of Newark.
http://www.interweave.org
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