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- 1. May 3, 2010 7:00PM – 8:00PM
- 8. Discussion
Editor's Notes
- Welcome to job seekers support network’s first conference call meeting. My name is maria mcintyre and I will be facilitating our first meeting today.
- Our agenda today are as follows (read the slide). This call was initiated by all of you expressing interest in having a support group to help one another and share our experiences, no matter what those experiences might be. I began brainstorming and about a month ago, I sent out a survey monkey and received some real good feedback from folks that are truly committed in making this group happen. Now it’s come down to a dozen of us.
- At this point, I’d like for all of us to get acquainted and introduce ourselves. Let’s try to limit our intro to two minutes please. And oh yes, please share with us what is your favorite past time?
- As I mentioned earlier, I sent out a survey monkey to everyone on my facebook and my contacts list. I accumulated all the data and here are some of the feedback I received from those that participated. (Read slide). To get support, ideas, referrals to other job sources, etc. = Some of us have participated in our company’s transition workshops and I’ve met many of you through there. We can all share what we’ve learned to others and likewise, we could also learn new things from one another. To get feedback about experiences in finding jobs, resources, and support to unemployed people. = I think what’s important here is emotional support. It’s hard enough that we are unemployed but I think that some of our friends and families, just don’t get us, you know what I mean? It’s easy to get depressed and moody and at the same time, we have to appear like everything is cool. You know the old cliché, “Don’t worry, be happy.” And I think for our support group, we should allow ourselves to feel whatever it is that we are feeling. At one of our meetings, we will explore our feelings, past, present and future, so we can complete that part of our life and then we can move on and get focused in finding a job. If we don’t get complete and close that chapter of our life, we will not be able to move on and stay focused in our goal to find a job, our ideal job.
- I want to congratulate and commend you all for taking one hour of your precious time and spending it with this group. Tonight, we learned more about each other. And as we went through the PowerPoint presentation, I hope that you will continue to participate and share yourself with the group. Earlier I mentioned that one of our process is that we will have a buddy. Our buddy system is to keep us engaged in this conversation by having you two schedule time to call each other and begin thinking about this group. What would you like to see this group be; how would you like the group to help you and how would you like to help the group. Many of us are entrepreneurs, perhaps at one of our meetings we can let people share their talents and business. As we grow and know each other, we can perhaps schedule a face to face meeting so we can know each other by name and by face. Perhaps we cam have guest speakers at one of our calls to share ideas on how we can find employment. Now, I would like to ask the team, what do you want to do next? When is our next meeting? Any volunteer as facilitator? (Pause for feedback) Thank everyone for participating.