Emphasis on Job Search Strategies in a Red Hot Employment Market

With the stock market up and unemployment down, now is the perfect time for you to make that upward career move you deserve. DePaul University’s two-day Career Enhancement Program has been designed to help you build the skills necessary to take that next step up the career ladder or make the career change you’ve been considering.

The 16-hour program will be held on Saturdays, June 13 and 27, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd., Chicago. Two distinguished faculty members from DePaul’s nationally ranked College of Commerce will help participants develop a career portfolio, assess skills and improve resumes. Vital job search techniques, such as capitalizing on the wealth of leads available on the Internet and negotiating an appropriate salary, will be addressed.

"Career enhancement skills are life-changing skills," said Helen LaVan, a professor of management at DePaul and assistant director for alumni career services. "They allow individuals to enhance their job level, their compensation level and their job satisfaction level. They also balance career and life issues."

LaVan and her colleague David Drehmer, an associate professor of management, will share years of experience and insight on interviewing, creating career and life goals and tapping into effective job networks.

For more information or to register for the program, call 312/362-6300.