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After weeks of advancing their clients, Friday was the big day at DuPagePads.
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Everyone had able account attire. Resumes were updated. Even haircuts and manicures were allotment of the affairs for the aboriginal career fair the bureau hosted to advice articulation audience with job leads.
"Everything we're accomplishing actuality is to move bodies aback to the association and to be as cocky acceptable as they can," said Carol Simler, admiral of DuPagePads. "We don't appetite bodies to aloof get a job …. what we're absolutely absorption on for our individuals is to anticipate about a career."
On Friday, breadth companies set up booths as DuPagePads audience and others asked about application opportunities. Some set up interviews for the accessible weeks, others got advice about how to administer online. Several larboard with acceptable leads and achievement that those leads would about-face into a job.
The career fair drew about 120 job seekers. Though the fair was organized by DuPagePads, the accident wasn't bound to bodies who are homeless.
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Before the Career Fair, advance Patti Romanowicz helps DuPagePads affairs participants baddest able accouterment and accessories.
Before the Career Fair, advance Patti Romanowicz helps DuPagePads affairs participants baddest able accouterment and accessories. (DuPagePads / Handout)
Shaquille Smith and Jaari Williams, both 23 and of Batavia, heard of the job fair from a ancestors member. Both larboard with leads on accessible job opportunities. Smith was hopeful the "person to person" acquaintance at the fair would advice back he fills out applications or sends in his resume to bodies he batten with.
The fair featured a array of companies including Wal-Mart, Grove Dental, StateFarm, Cintas, UPS, Home Depot, Xerox, Job Corps, DRF Trusted Property Solutions, Hyatt Lodge at McDonald's Campus, Jane Adams Resource Corporation, Lexington Bloom Network, Swap.com, and WorkNet DuPage.
"It goes with our aggregation ethics of faith, assurance and value," said Terri VanRossem, animal assets administrator for Plainfield-based DRF Trusted Property. She acclaimed her aggregation has accurate DuPagePads and added agencies, such as Habitat for Humanity, in the past.
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She added she had at atomic three bodies from the career fair who were activity to alarm in for an interview.
Atlanta-based Georgia Pacific additionally was attractive advanced to award candidates for their new operations in Aurora. The aggregation is attractive for an added 25 advisers to add to their anew acquired facility, aforetime accepted as Excel. Jobs accommodate accepted laborers, machinists and apparatus operators. Betty Hong, animal assets administrator at the Aurora Georgia-Pacific facility, acclaimed she set up several interviews from Friday's fair.
"It's accomplishing for us to accord addition employment," said Tom Coleman, environmental, bloom and assurance administrator at the Aurora facility. "It's mutually beneficial."
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Laurie Marshall, left, of Nails By Design in Wheaton provided chargeless manicures to adapt for the abandoned agency's Career Fair.
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Laurie Marshall, left, of Nails By Design in Wheaton provided chargeless manicures to adapt for the abandoned agency's Career Fair. (DuPagePads / Handout)
Employers at the fair accustomed DuPagePads for allowance their audience adapt for the event.
Latisha Jefferson, DuPage Pads' career solutions affairs director, said Friday's was the aboriginal footfall in allowance audience defended a job. Case workers will aftereffect with their audience in the advancing weeks and advice them adapt for interviews back necessary.
"We appetite them to accretion employment," Jefferson said. "We appetite them to apperceive we accept their best absorption at heart."
Jefferson acclaimed the bureau afresh launched a accolade affairs to advice animate audience in their new jobs. Audience who accommodated assertive milestones – such as blockage on a job for 90 canicule – accept allowance cards from the agency. DuPagePads additionally provides audience with abutment during their aboriginal year of application and assignment with their audience to defended abiding housing.
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"This is a abundant befalling for me," said one DuPagePads applicant who did not appetite to be named. She said she is a distinct mother of two from Downers Grove and is belief cosmetology. She is attractive for assignment until she is done with school. She said she additionally begin some job leads for her 19-year-old daughter.
Alicia Fabbre is a freelance reporter.
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