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Neighbors-helping-Neighbors USA - helping-Brands by John R Fugazzie Success Stories of the Meeting & LinkedIn Group Members, and my personal coaching and access to my large professional network. On January we celebrated 7 years and counting for NhNUSA as we have helped over 770+ people land jobs though participation in our organization. We have over four hundred personal success stories how NhNUSA organization has helped them return to work, go into business, and improve their professional networks. Our volunteer leaders land jobs at 85% rate Our members who attend meetings weekly benefit more and have more success than those who occassionally attend meetings. Our Linkedin Group is over 4340+ strong many are recrutiers and community businesses who want to help our members land work. Our Facebook Group has 2082+ members Networking is critical to your job search success. I myself have been a success story #3 for Neighbors-helping-Neighbors USA and my NhN work has helped me to transistion to my current career and helped provided me with national expert status. My youngest son Tyler landed his position as Marketing and Communications Manager at Virtual Enterprises via a NhN member sending him a job lead The River Edge based support group started on January 27, 2011 and have been holding free weekly meetings ever since. Each year we find that fewer candidates who do land positions do not report in or do not want to provide us with their story as to how NhN has helped in the job search process. This seems to be common situation as I learned also in my year with the Ready To Work NJ grant where many who landed jobs with coaching help from our group didn’t report back when they did land. We really feel as part of our pay it forward concept and culture it is important that candidate who land help our other members who are still looking for work with both networking help, advice and a short story how NhN helped them. The candidates are the ones who land jobs but it is a lot of different people and organizations that help support these candidates while they are looking and keep the motivated. Our success stories are important to all of us and we ask you share them in your own words and with as much detail as you are comfortable with. We only use first names and meeting locations or our virtual group locations when reporting out successes. Please consider when you land reporting your story and offer help in networking and inspiration for the others who are still working hard at landing a job in this very difficult economy. Our group is extremely proud of the work it has done and the large number and rapid rate of success stories of members getting jobs, and we wanted to detail some of these success stories. Not all members report back when they get jobs so we know or numbers are even higher than the ones who report in and give us their short story to help motivate the others in the group We encourage you to connect with our success stories on the NhN LinkedIn group as when they land their network grows and they can be more helpful with connections. We always need to find volunteer facilitators, as our facilitators seem to land faster than our general members as they take on responsibility and show leadership skill, which allows them to be more attractive job candidates. Recent Success Story Reanin McRobertsVolunteering with us can lead to a job and provide you with a platform to practice your leadership skills, community service engagement, all which can increase your value to an employer -----Original Message----- From: Reanin McRoberts <reaninmcroberts@aol.com> To: johnrfugazzie <johnrfugazzie@aol.com> Sent: Sun, Feb 25, 2018 10:32 pm Subject: Volunteer for NhN Hi John, I just saw your post on LinkedIn regarding the NhN weekly meetings in Fort Lee. I am interested in volunteering as a facilitator. I have done workshops on job search as director of a training program, and I teach adult ed at night. If you are looking for speakers on specific topics, I have been thinking a lot about the following things lately and would love to put together a presentation on:
Reanin McRoberts Reanin presented the Gig Econmy at Fort Lee NhN April 2 -----Original Message----- From: Reanin McRoberts <reaninmcroberts@aol.com> To: 'John R. Fugazzie' <johnrfugazzie@aol.com> Sent: Thu, Apr 5, 2018 8:02 pm Subject: good news Hi John, Just wanted to tell you that I got the job at Maher & Maher! I’m hoping to start next week. I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to learn about my situation and give me an immediate referral to a position that feels like a perfect fit! I know it wouldn’t have worked out so well if I had applied anonymously through their website. Thanks again for your wisdom, guidance, and generosity. Reanin From: Reanin McRoberts <reaninmcroberts@aol.com>
To: 'John R. Fugazzie' <johnrfugazzie@aol.com> Sent: Thu, Apr 5, 2018 8:52 pm Subject: RE: good newsMy grant-funded position expired and I got laid off in late 2017. Between December and March I interviewed with eight different institutions, filled out tons of applications, attended all kinds of networking events and job fairs, yet nothing seemed to be working out. I was about ready to give up, but I always enjoyed doing workshops and presentations, so when I saw a post on LinkedIn about Neighbors-helping-Neighbors, I offered to volunteer. John Fugazzie got back to me right away and explained their philosophy and approach. He also asked about my situation and gave me several good job leads. Without me even mentioning it, he was able to hone in on my skill set and suggest spot-on matches with companies I’ve always admired. Better yet, he referred me personally. It’s worth noting that each time he forwarded my resume, someone from the company responded quickly, which I think speaks to the reputation of the organization, the preparation of its members, and the relevance of referrals. Thanks to NhN, I am about to start a new position with a company that’s always been on my Top 10 list! Recent Success Story Jerry SaulHello John. How are you? I hope good. I spoke with Joe Traynor at Cranford NHN and wanted to let you know that I did land a spot after a long transition. I know networking groups like NHN helped me a lot in gaining self-confidence and just being around a supportive group of people every week. While in transition its easy to get unmotivated and its hard to be positive 100% of the time. So thanks to Joe, Matt, Mary, Pat and all the folks who kept NHN going in Cranford. They're really nice and supportive folks. They all helped a lot as did the weekly members. I will do my best to get back there now as well.
Through persistent networking with personal contacts I was able to transition to a web administrator position where I do CRM, e-com, content and other digital marketing functions. I have a consumer marketing background and I was working as a retail project merchandiser for a while but this new spot is a leap forward in the skill set and career development areas. So I'm thankful for it and to all the people who I met and became friends with during my period in transition. Best of luck to you as you grow NHN. It's good to have a local networking/support group available and I would recommend it to other people going through career transitions. Jerry Saul Consumer & B2B Marketing Project Manager | Content Writer |Digital + Print / POP | Mktg. Channel Management | Ecom JerSSaul@gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/jerryssaul/ Twitter - @JerrySSaul "Unseen, Untold, is Unsold!" Your income can come from starting your own business Like Gina did
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The Neighbors-helping-Neighbors USA job search support and networking group started in the River Edge Public Library as a free, all volunteer led, weekly meetings on January 27, 2011 and has been holding weekly meetings in multiple locations ever since. The group expanded into libraries, colleges, internationally and we are building more partnerships with workforce organizations and non profits to help work to get people back to work. Our expansion has increased due to our significant online presence and our very large and active online group on LinkedIn.
When you realize that 85% of the NhN members who engage fully in the program and attend weekly meetings, use all our resources like the Top 100 career web site, the NhN (4100+ member ) LinkedIn group our success rate in helping job seekers is unprecedented o a national basis.
Beyond the members who have landed the other great value we provide as a group is the continued support and motivation that the attending weekly meetings can provide to all the members conducting a job search campaign. This is a very difficult and challenging process and having the great support of all our members both at meetings and in our LinkedIn group is beyond explanation. You must experience for yourself to fully understand the power of this group and its members.
When you realize that 85% of the NhN members who engage fully in the program and attend weekly meetings, use all our resources like the Top 100 career web site, the NhN (4100+ member ) LinkedIn group our success rate in helping job seekers is unprecedented o a national basis.
Beyond the members who have landed the other great value we provide as a group is the continued support and motivation that the attending weekly meetings can provide to all the members conducting a job search campaign. This is a very difficult and challenging process and having the great support of all our members both at meetings and in our LinkedIn group is beyond explanation. You must experience for yourself to fully understand the power of this group and its members.
NhN is a lifetime membership as all experts we talk to are saying that jobs and work is more short term and more temporary today in this changed economy we are faced with. It is important to know that long tenures are a thing of the past we need to keep our networking and job search skills up to date and every week we will have members meeting in libraries to help each other with this challenging task. There have been several more and will be more each week but the common theme to all of the success stories is the members unselfish willingness to support and encourage each other at weekly meetings, this positive approach for all is inspiring to anyone who becomes involved with this group of people and who take courageous steps to find their well deserved jobs.
