REGIONAL JOB FAIR: Nonprofit sees business attire donation at Covington event as part of mission

COVINGTON, Ga. — Elaine Armstrong remembers viewing occupation-seekers’ faces gentle up and their self confidence immediately show up to raise in 2019 basically mainly because they donned an posting of clothing.

Armstrong, who is vice president of promoting for Goodwill of North Ga, mentioned she assisted in shape task-seekers with jackets and blazers the nonprofit donated for the duration of the 2019 Regional Job Fair at Ga Piedmont Technical College’s Newton campus in Covington. 

“You can unquestionably tell the working experience of putting something on and seeking in the mirror and a smile appear throughout your encounter,” Armstrong mentioned. 

“That was exciting for me, to see the transformation as individuals occupation-seekers had been placing on those people jackets and blazers, and we’re seeking forward to furnishing that once again,” Armstrong mentioned.

The 2021 Regional Work Truthful will function dozens of nearby and regional businesses from a wide variety of industries Thursday, July 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Ga Piedmont Complex College’s (GPTC’s) Newton D Convention Centre at 8100 Bob Williams Parkway in Covington.

It is set to aspect about 60 regional employers from Newton and Walton counties in the fields of producing, movie, enjoyment, community basic safety, local authorities, education and learning, bio-pharma, high-technologies and distribution who are prepared to show up at the Task Good.

Sponsors are set to incorporate Ga Piedmont Tech, Newton County Industrial Growth Authority, Covington-Newton County Chamber of Commerce, and Enhancement Authority of Walton County. 

Goodwill of North Ga options to donate about 100 fit jackets to these needing them for interviews at this year’s Career Good, Armstrong mentioned.

The nonprofit also donated the exact same range of jackets to work-seekers in 2019 — which was the previous calendar year the Regional Work Reasonable operated as an in-particular person function in Covington, she mentioned. 

She claimed GPTC officials “reached out and questioned if we would like to participate” in this year’s celebration.

“(GPTC) companions with us on numerous of our occupation instruction applications,” she stated.

“We absolutely mentioned ‘yes’ to the opportunity,” Armstrong mentioned. “It’s our enjoyment to take part and provide these issues so that we can proceed to assist fulfill our mission of connecting folks to positions and placing them to perform.”

Lots of work professionals suggest candidates give themselves an edge and “dress for success” by wearing business apparel of some variety to a work interview.

Armstrong admitted Goodwill did not receive the $1,000 to $1,500 in profits of the jackets but its mission is to link “good people with fantastic work, greater work or careers.”

“It’s in our wheelhouse — it’s what we do all working day at Goodwill,” Armstrong claimed.

“We know that often it might be difficult for these who do not have a position by now, or who are not working,” she explained. “They may not have the perform apparel to satisfy with an employer, specially (considering the fact that) some of those employers at the occupation reasonable are choosing on the location.”

Armstrong stated the impact on occupation-seekers in 2019 was recognizable when they acquired their jackets.

“You stand up a little straighter and you wander out that doorway — exactly where we had the jackets — and to the Occupation Honest with a minimal far more self-assurance,” she said.

Dessa Morris, workforce enhancement director for the Enhancement Authority of Walton County, also participated in the 2019 celebration and claimed the donation effort and hard work had a ripple result.

It permitted organizers to educate some of the young task hopefuls about considerably less tangible competencies they wanted to show possible employers for the duration of interviews, she said.

“They received a blazer and a pep speak,” Morris explained, laughing.  

Goodwill of North Ga was founded in 1925 and is a member of Goodwill Industries Intercontinental, which features about 150 Goodwill businesses in North The us.

The nonprofit operates 67 put together retail merchants and collection centers in north Ga and metro Atlanta, like a person in the Newton Plaza buying center on U.S. Hwy. 278 in Covington. It also operates 48 locations that are selection centers only. 

It uses the profits from people centers to fund its sequence of 13 job facilities and to assist task education and placement courses absolutely free to a range of people in search of operate.

They permitted Goodwill to join much more than 24,000 space residents with careers in 2020, which includes many from groups who typically have trouble acquiring work these types of as men and women with disabilities, one mom and dad, and men and women with prison backgrounds, according to information from the nonprofit.

It also operates a services administration business that employs more than 200 people today with intense disabilities. They are amid Goodwill staff who maintain more than 3 million sq. feet of business office house at 9 federal government and industrial contract places, in accordance to the nonprofit.

The work teaching facilities and courses are open to all — not only Goodwill workers, Armstrong said. 

For more details on the 2021 Regional Job Truthful, take a look at https://lnkd.in/eEFFpTb.