JumpSTART Your Career...
Background
JumpSTART Your Career is a program of The Alexandra Surdyk Jones Foundation, Inc., a 501-C-3 organization founded in 2006 and dedicated to helping women build successful attitudes in order to achieve their personal and professional goals and become self-sufficient.
JumpSTART Your Career was created in memory of Alexandra Surdyk Jones by her mother, Suze Surdyk Jones, who serves as the organization′s founder. The inspiration came from Alexandra′s concern for and interest in women struggling to find satisfying careers in a competitive culture with many possibilities as well as challenges. Her untimely death at the age of 31 brought her mother together with several other highly motivated business women and community leaders to develop a program to benefit women.
Alexandra Surdyk Jones 1974 – 2005 ″If working women are better able to realistically analyze their skill sets and lifestyle needs, they can better determine appropriate career paths impacting more productive work environments … leading to healthier family conditions in homes throughout Atlanta and lasting legacies for future generations ″ --- Alexandra Surdyk Jones.
Now entering its 3rd year of operation, JumpSTART Your Career has held 10 workshop classes and served over 200 women of all ages, races and nationalities.
It will really make a difference in my approach to looking for a job to know that networking is the most effective way to find one. By following the workshop suggestions I have started getting in touch with my network to begin my search. Learning about behavioral interviews was something new to me! Knowing and practicing some real life interview questions makes me feel more prepared. And knowing the kind of questions that will be asked in an interview will help me prepare in advance. I have a better understanding of the kind of information I need to gather and experiences I need to review in order to do well.
Marilu
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