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Current Job Openings in Frederick Maryland from the Frederick Workforce

Prepared Foods Manager - MD0503756 Candidate must have minimum three years experience managing a food service operation, a demonstrated ability to develop and implement programs that satisfy customer needs, be able to review financial reports, set sales, margin and budget goals, manage vendors and inventory . Required: knowledge of natural and organic foods, special diets and food allergens.

Café Manager - MD0355346 Candidate must have two or more years of experience in food service operations and a knowledge of natural and organic foods, food allergens and special diets is required.  Tasks will include ordering and inventory, food production, and direct supervision of a staff of approximately 15 employees and supervisors.  Must be able to review financial reports and set goals to achieve sales, profit margin, labor and inventory turns.

Program Administrator (Homeless Education Program) - MD0481008 Program Administrator's primary responsibility is managing the Homeless Education Program, including its early childhood component.   Administer, coordinate and supervise the Homeless Education Program.  Work with community agencies to identify homeless preschool children and families.  Oversee training for staff, program budget, grant proposals, databases, policies and much more.

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More Job Openings in and around Frederick County Maryland from the Frederick County Workforce Services near FSK Mall

Inspector - MD1055618 Review electromechanical detail parts and assemblies for compliance to established specification and procedures. Inspect documents, prepare products and documentation for presentation to customer representative  Typical background - High School graduate with three to four years related experience. Be able to understand and interpret engineering drawings, technical manuals, and quality procedures. Must be proficient in the use of basic precision measuring equipment to determine compliance to specifications. Must have exceptional communication skills. FAA A&P Certificate or IPC - A-610 certifications preferred.

Plumber - MD0503316 Experience plumbers for commercial service work in the Baltimore/ DC metro area.   Service work to include but not limited to service for restaurants, new installations of a commercial capacity and general contracting.  Must have professional presentation and good customer service skills.  Able to work independently with reliability.  Solid work history and clean driving record required.  Pre-employment drug screen requirement.

Data Center Operator - MD0247590 Ft. Detrick, NEC  Description/Requirements: 24x7x365 server/operations environment requiring sound computer skills, server experience, Help Desk background, Microsoft proficiency, and network knowledge. Must perform professionally with limited supervision and possess sound problem solving skills. Ability to pass a NAC screen, live within 40 minutes of post, be actively seeking certifications in the IT field.

Tellers - MD0195428 Process deposits, transfers, withdrawals, and other transactions in accordance with established policies and procedures; must be continuously aware of fraud loss and check cashing guidelines as well as all security and transaction documentation requirements. Also responsible for the security of assigned cash which must be maintained and balanced within established guidelines. Must Champion and live the service and sales culture.

Sous Chef - MD0808796 A local Specialty restaurant has a full-time employment opportunity for the right individual looking to join a dynamic and growing small business.  Check the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure that standards are met. Monitor sanitation practices to ensure that employees follow standards and regulations. Check the quantity and quality of received products.

Bioscience Manaufacturing Operator - MD0170331 A Bioscience company is seeking a responsible, and reliable individual who is an experienced machine operator and can troubleshoot and repair most machinery, as well as work production?   Training will be provided.

Teller - MD0292221 An established Frederick County financial institution is seeking a Full-Time Teller -- Provides friendly, courteous service to customers and assists them with a variety of transactions by performing the following duties (and other duties as assigned): Accurately performs teller transactions in accordance with bank policies and procedures. Routine transactions will include, but are not limited to deposits, withdrawals, and official checks.

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Facebook and LinkedIn Can Get You Hired Or Fired

6 Career-Killing Facebook Mistakes

by Erin Joyce, Managing Editor
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

provided by

With more than 400 million active visitors, Facebook is arguably the most popular social networking site out there. And while the site is known for the casual social aspect, many users also use it as a professional networking tool. With that kind of reach, Facebook can be a valuable tool for connecting to former and current colleagues, clients and potential employers. In fact, surveys suggest that approximately 30% of employers are using Facebook to screen potential employees — even more than those who check LinkedIn, a strictly professional social networking site. Don't make these Facebook faux-pas — they might cost you a great opportunity.

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1. Inappropriate Pictures
It may go without saying, but prospective employers or clients don't want to see pictures of you chugging a bottle of wine or dressed up for a night at the bar. Beyond the pictures you wouldn't want your grandparents to see, seemingly innocent pictures of your personal life will likely not help to support the persona you want to present in your professional life.

2. Complaining About Your Current Job
You've no doubt done this at least once. It could be a full note about how much you hate your office, or how incompetent your boss is, or it could be as innocent as a status update about how your coworker always shows up late. While everyone complains about work sometimes, doing so in a public forum where it can be found by others is not the best career move. Though it may seem innocent, it's not the kind of impression that sits well with a potential boss.

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3. Posting Conflicting Information to Your Resume
If you say on your resume that your degree is from Harvard, but your Facebook profile says you went to UCLA, you're likely to be immediately cut from the interview list. Even if the conflict doesn't leave you looking better on your resume, disparities will make you look at worst like a liar, and at best careless.

4. Statuses You Wouldn't Want Your Boss to See
Everyone should know to avoid statuses like "Tom plans to call in sick tomorrow so he can get drunk on a Wednesday. Who cares that my big work project isn't done?" But you should also be aware of less flamboyant statuses like "Sarah is watching the gold medal hockey game online at her desk". Statuses that imply you are unreliable, deceitful, and basically anything that doesn't make you look as professional as you'd like, can seriously undermine your chances at landing that new job.

5. Not Understanding Your Security Settings
The security settings on Facebook have come a long way since the site started. It is now possible to customize lists of friends and decide what each list can and cannot see. However, many people do not fully understand these settings, or don't bother to check who has access to what. If you are going to use Facebook professionally, and even if you aren't, make sure you take the time to go through your privacy options. At the very least, your profile should be set so that people who are not your friend cannot see any of your pictures or information.

6. Losing by Association
You can't control what your friends post to your profile (although you can remove it once you see it), nor what they post to their own profiles or to those of mutual friends. If a potential client or employer sees those Friday night pictures your friend has tagged you in where he is falling down drunk, it reflects poorly on you, even if the picture of you is completely innocent. It's unfortunate, but we do judge others by the company they keep, at least to some extent. Take a look at everything connected to your profile, and keep an eye out for anything you wouldn't want to show your mother.

Facebook Can Help You Get Hired … or Fired
The best advice is to lock down your personal profile so that only friends you approve can see anything on that profile. Then, create a second, public profile on Facebook purely for professional use. This profile functions like an online resume, and should only contain information you'd be comfortable telling your potential employer face to face. Having a social networking profile is a good thing — it presents you as technologically and professionally savvy. Just make sure your profile is helping to present your best side — not the side that got drunk at your buddy's New Year's party.

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Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Find a Job

by Guy Kawasaki

Searching for a job can suck if you constrain yourself to the typical tools such as online jobs boards, trade publications, CraigsList, and networking with only your close friends. In these kinds of times, you need to use all the weapons that you can, and one that many people don’t—or at least don’t use to the fullest extent, is

From Maryland Employment

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LinkedIn has over thirty-five million members in over 140 industries. Most of them are adults, employed, and not looking to post something on your Wall or date you. Executives from all the Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn. Most have disclosed what they do, where they work now, and where they’ve worked in the past. Talk about a target-rich environment, and the service is free.
Here are ten tips to help use LinkedIn to find a job. If you know someone who’s looking for a job, forward them these tips along with an invitation to connect on LinkedIn. Before trying these tips, make sure you’ve filled out your profile and added at least twenty connections

1. Get the word out. Tell your network that you’re looking for a new position because a job search these days requires the “law of big numbers” There is no stigma that you’re looking right now, so the more people who know you’re looking, the more likely you’ll find a job. Recently, LinkedIn added “status updates” which you can use to let your network know about your newly emancipated status.
2. Get LinkedIn recommendations from your colleagues. A strong recommendation from your manager highlights your strengths and shows that you were a valued employee. This is especially helpful if you were recently laid off, and there is no better time to ask for this than when your manager is feeling bad because she laid you off. If you were a manager yourself, recommendations from your employees can also highlight leadership qualities.
3. Find out where people with your backgrounds are working. Find companies that employ people like you by doing an advanced search for people in your area who have your skills. For example, if you’re a web developer in Seattle, search profiles in your zip code using keywords with your skills (for example, JavaScript, XHTML, Ruby on Rails) to see which companies employ people like you.
4. Find out where people at a company came from. LinkedIn “Company Profiles” show the career path of people before they began work there. This is very useful data to figure out what a company is looking for in new hires. For example, Microsoft employees worked at Hewlett-Packard and Oracle.
5. Find out where people from a company go next. LinkedIn’s “Company Profiles” also tell you where people go after leaving the company. You can use this to track where people go after leaving your company as well as employees of other companies in your sector. (You could make the case that this feature also enables to figure out which companies to avoid, but I digress.)
6. Check if a company is still hiring. Company pages on LinkedIn include a section called “New Hires” that lists people who have recently joined the company. If you have real chutzpah, you can ask these new hires how they got their new job. At the very least you can examine their backgrounds to surmise what made them attractive to the new employer.
7. Get to the hiring manager. LinkedIn’s job search engine allows you to search for any kind of job you want. However, when you view the results, pay close attention to the ones that you’re no more than two degrees away from. This means that you know someone who knows the person that posted the job—it can’t get much better than that. (Power tip: two degrees is about the limit for getting to hiring managers. I never help friends of friends of friends.) Another way to find companies that you have ties to is by looking at the “Companies in Your Network” section on LinkedIn’s Job Search page.
8. Get to the right HR person. The best case is getting to the hiring manager via someone who knows him, but if that isn’t possible you can still use LinkedIn to find someone inside the company to walk your resume to the hiring manager or HR department. When someone receives a resume from a coworker even if she doesn’t know the coworker, she almost always pays attention to it.

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New Employment in Frederick Maryland

Get a Job in Frederick Maryland continued:

Every other post to this blog is going to be on the topic of finding suitable employment opportunties in and near Frederick Maryland. I can see from my web stats that Job information what you want the most from this blog.

Most Common Resume Mistakes:
Don't include the kitchen sink!

Job seekers do themselves a disservice when they send out résumés with more information than they need. Most employers don’t have the time or patience to sift through the irrelevant details. Here are 10 things your résumé could do
without: (I'm not going to copy all ten items here, just what jumped off the page for me)

1. Spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. “If you are careless enough to send out this most important document with a mistake…I immediately assume you'll never care enough about the work you send out representing my company," says Jose Bandujo, president of New York-based Bandujo Advertising. He recalls one candidate who misspelled Manhattan, despite having worked in the city for a decade and another whose great educational background didn’t compensate for the fact that he couldn’t spell “education.”

I'm guilty as hell on this one... I lost a Frederick Internet Advertising customer from not proof reading my copy... managed to learn something from it though:

1. I now clearly state what my consulting firm does and doesn't.
2. I'm not your web designer (I can fill in if you don't have one)
3. I'm not your copy writer (Although I do a great job of it)

I am your Search Engine Positioning guy- that's a very specific talent. Web Designers can not get Google to say exactly what we want Google to say about your company!

This next one from the article surprised me... leave out the opening objectives?

2. Opening objectives. “These are generic…They do nothing to differentiate one candidate from another,” says Donna Flagg, president of The Krysalis Group, a human resource and management consulting firm in New York.

5. Details of every task you’ve ever performed in every job you’ve ever had.
“It's too much information. Managers and recruiters need to know at-a-glance what makes a candidate special,” Flagg says. Focus on those details that pertain to the job for which you’re applying.

6. Excessive bragging. Stating one’s accomplishments can be helpful, but when it’s overdone, the candidate can come across as narcissistic, a huge turnoff for employers, Flagg says

OK, this one hit's too close to home... Bragging cost me getting my name in the paper. When I started my online publishing business I did not know just how many important people were reading my work. My first 3 customers wanted me to think I was not worth anywhere near as much as I knew I was... one even tried to leverage my past mistakes against me, implying that no one else was going to hire me with a checkered past like mine (see my blogger profile and read between the lines)

Bottom line when I DID do something outstanding I went way, WAY too far in bragging about it, not realizing that just a few highly targeted readers that really, REALLY want to know what I'm saying is all it takes for some one in my business to make money.

I'll explain: website one gets thousands and thousands of generic visitors, like
a MySpace Page, why did they come to the site? To "be cool?".

Website two only gets 30 visitors a day, but 1 of them actually BUYS something! That is a 3% conversion ratio.. in my business a 1% means making a substantial profit.

9. Unexplained gaps in work history. While job seekers shouldaccount for these gaps, they should be careful with theirwording. “One of the weirdest things that I ever saw on arésumé…was a candidate who explained a 10-year lapse inwork experience as being in jail during those years forkilling her husband,” recalls Linda Goodspeed, marketingrecruiting manager at VistaPrint. In such a situation, shesays, the best thing to write would be “left work forpersonal reasons,” and the candidate would be able toexplain the criminal record later.

I cover my gaps in employment with being a free lance what ever, it's the truth so I say so. I think every one should have a little side business, even selling Amway or what ever. Hell, your hobby often qualifies as a business if you do it right.

For the rest of that article go here:

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With the election all we hear about is how damaging outsourcing labor overseas has hurt our local economy. College grads didn't fear this too much as it looked as if only blue collar jobs were going to the cheap labor countries. Well India has more and better and smarter and hungrier college grads than we do. As an entrepreneur I have to say this about that: If he wants it more than you do he earned the right to get it. It's not like anyone did him any special favors, he earned it and you didn't.

Here are 9 jobs that HotJobs at Yahoo says aren't going overseas, these jobs are staying right here: (yahoo credits the US dept of labor for this list)

Dental Hygienist
It's tough to clean teeth from across the world. A career as a dental assistant usually begins with an associate's degree from an accredited college or university.
Pharmacy Technician
People take their health seriously -- that's why a certification as a pharmacy tech is not likely to be outsourced.
Fitness Professional
It's hard enough to be motivated in-person. Offshore encouragement won't cut it. A career in fitness can begin with a certificate program.
Teacher Aide
Teachers need live help to care for kids. An anonymous, off-site representative just won't cut it when it comes to educating our kids.
Auto Repair Technician
Most car troubles can't be repaired with simple, over-the-phone instructions. An auto tech studies anywhere from 6 months to 2 or more years, and will always have a steady stream of live customers.
Pet Groomer
Along the lines of a dog trainer, pet grooming just must be done in person. This is usually only a certificate program.
Plumber
This career depends fully on local workers -- plumbers definitely won't be phoning in from overseas to unclog your toilet.
Veterinary Assistant
A pet's health and happiness is of serious importance to most owners, and they won't be putting it in the hands of foreign workers. You can become a vet assistant by completing a certificate program.
Electrician
This highly technical and hands-on job simply can't be done any other way, except live and in-person.

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Life in Frederick Maryland

More Jobs in Frederick Maryland

Relocate to Frederick Maryland for a better job

For openers I need to hire an intern.

Ideal Candidate is high school student with aspirations of being a journalist.

After School part time hours. I'm accepting applications the entire month of January with an eye on February being the job start date.

2 -3 hours a day, 2 to 4 days per week.

Can work from your own computer and Internet connection.

MUST be able to write a 200 character description of (summary of) a news story.

This is a minimum wage position but it's going to look real, REAL good on your resume and when you get into college (assuming you're going to be a journalism major)

I plan on finishing out the remainder of this year illustrating employment opportunities for young professionals seeking to relocate to Frederick Maryland.

To see what is involved take a peek at my blogger profile here Local Google Advertising

OK, on with the rest of this issue:

The largest employer in Frederick County is Fort Detrick.

How to use CPOL (Army's Vacancy Announcements) to find Department of Army Vacancies Serviced by the Fort Detrick Civilian Personnel Advisory Center (CPAC):CPOL Web site: http://cpol.army.mil

• Select: Employment
• Select: Army's Vacancy Announcements
• Scroll down to States and Select MARYLAND
• Hit Get Results

There will be about 200 vacant positions that will be listed for Maryland.

From the official Fort Detrick Website

The military loves to abbreviate stuff, I think they're called acronyms?
Prepare yourself for being acclimated to acronyms, a quick perusing of the job listings reminded me of filling out a Form 1040!


The Frederick News Post has a typo in this ad: someone chopped off the "m" in dot com:

Home> Classifieds> Top Jobs

Top Jobs

Administrative Director, Behavioral Health

Administrator Administrative Director, Behavioral Health Services Incredible Opportunity for seasoned professional to manage large, comprehensive behavioral health program.

abelvin@diamondhealth.co I checked and this was supposed to be a dot com not dot co (hey I make my share of coding mistakes! give em a break)

Since I don't know what employment field you're interested in I added this form:
Just fill out what type of job (office work, blue collar, management, legal, medical, clerical, what ever field YOU want to find out about and the form will tell you current openings in and near Frederick Maryland

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job title, keywords

where

city, state, zip

jobs by

Many people work in Montgomery County and Live here in Frederick County (who can afford to live in Montgomery County Maryland?) that's why Rush Hour Traffic on RT 270 is a pain.

HOWEVER... if you live here in Frederick Maryland and Choose to work in Hagerstown Maryland (that's farther west for those of you reading this in a state outside of Maryland)
If you head up the mountain in the morning and down the mountain in the evening all the traffic is going the other way!!!

You'll basically get RT 70 all to yourself.

Merry Christmas Frederick
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Employment Opportunities in Frederick Maryland

As promised Life in Frederick Maryland now has Current Job Postings for young professionals seeking to relocate to Frederick Maryland.

Technology Job Offerings in or near Frederick Maryland:

Health Care openings in or near Frederick Maryland:

Career Openings in the Legal Professions in or near Frederick Maryland:

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job title, keywords or company	city, state or zip jobs by

Now this is interesting... Jobs in Social Networking!

"social networking" Job Trends

"social networking" jobs

Advertising Opportunities for Local Frederick Maryland Small Businesses start at only $12 per year for a simple business listing and they start with an email to: davidbrucejr@frederickwebpromotions.com

Issue #29
December 8, 2009
Life in Frederick Maryland

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Employment Opportunities in Frederick MD

Economic Downturn or no...

There still are lucrative employment opportunities in and near Frederick Maryland!

Hi Tech Jobs, Hi Tech Careers with in 30 miles of Frederick Maryland.

Fort Detrick is Frederick Maryland's largest employer.

8000 Employees and 1300 Service Men & Women stationed here make the US Army a substantial part of the local Frederick County Maryland's economic vitality.


I culled this current list from a site called TalentZoo.com

Note: most of these recent listings of high tech jobs are in the computer programming industry, a few are in PR, Public Relations... one of them is even something that interested ME (SEO equals search engine optimization) hmm, enticing!

This is NOT the entire listing of good paying careers available close to Frederick Maryland, I picked through the listing and selected jobs near Montgomery Counties RT 270 Technology Corridor to ensure that the list I published here is of careers suitable to pay a mortgage in Frederick MD.

For the less techy minded job seekers, well seekers of jobs within Frederick County Maryland, I included Yahoo's Hot Jobs

11/11/2008 Senior Flash Developer Hirshorn Zuckerman Design Group Rockville, MD

11/14/2008 Senior Marketing Research Analys... Bae Systems (BAE Systems)Rockville, MD

11/11/2008 Java Software Engineer - NLP - A... CyberCoders (CyberCoders)Derwood, MD

11/08/2008 Senior Level Electrical Avionics... CDI (Beyond.com) Hagerstown, MD

11/14/2008 Communications & Media Coordinat... Assoc. for Research in Vision and Oph... Rockville, MD

11/14/2008 Public Relations & Media Service... Manpower (Net Temps) Gaithersburg, MD

11/12/2008 SEO COPYWRITER 123 Print, Inc (CareerBuilder) Frederick, MD

11/14/2008 PR Pro Association for Research in Vision &... Rockville, MD

11/07/2008 Java/Business Objects Web Develo... Akimeka LLC (Dice) Frederick, MD

11/13/2008 Marketing Intern AGV SPORT (ActiveHire) Frederick, MD

11/13/2008 Web Developer Internship AGV SPORT (ActiveHire) Frederick, MD

11/14/2008 NFS Design and Construction Proj... Kaiser Permanente (Kaiser Permanente)Rockville, MD

11/14/2008 Mechanical Design Engineer Digital Receiver Technology, Inc (Dic... Germantown, MD

11/11/2008 Java Developer General Dynamics Information Technolo... Frederick, MD

11/12/2008 Senior Software Engineer (Java) SRA Int'l Inc. (SRA Int'l I... Frederick, MD

11/14/2008 Senior Web Application Developer Data Tree Inc (washingtonpost.com) Gaithersburg, MD

11/12/2008 Global Design Firms seeks Senior... Confidential (EngineeringJobs.net) Frederick, MD

11/11/2008 Fashion Design Internship AGV Sports (InternJobs) Frederick, MD

11/11/2008 Web Development AGV Sports (InternJobs) Frederick, MD

11/13/2008 Web Designer / Developer (ShareP... First Data Corporation (First Data Co... Hagerstown, MD

11/11/2008 Sales/Marketing Internship AGV Sports (InternJobs) Frederick, MD

11/11/2008 Junior Public Relations Specialist Manpower (NewYorkJobs.com) Gaithersburg, MD

11/14/2008 Java Developer/Consultant ? Java... J.R. Associates (HotJobs) Rockville, MD

11/13/2008 JAVA J2EE Developer Anthem Tech Inc (Dice) Rockville, MD

11/13/2008 Java Front End Developer Inscope Solutions (Dice) Rockville, MD

Issue #21

November 14, 2008

Life in Frederick Maryland

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View from Creekside Plaza

New header graphic: Carroll Creek in the City of Frederick, the view from Creekside Plaza.
I wish I'd taken this photo... but I'd have to be a resident of Creekside Plaza to pull that off.

There are lots of reasons to move to Frederick County, I live within the City of Frederick, so most of my focus in on happenings within city limits.

In future posts I'll talk more about Frederick County Maryland... I promise.

According to WTOP radio, the economic downturn is not going to impede the planned development of Carroll Creek Park!

There is more than $150,000,000 in private investment renovating the historic areas of Carroll Creek, including new development.

I for Dewey Jordan last year building the highway interchange from MD Rt 85 and MD 355 and new asphalt has been laid leading right up to East Street and South Street, which leads right into Carroll Creek and Creekside Plaza.

Quoting from the City of Frederick's Economic Development website

Creekside Plaza, a 90,000 sf office/commercial/residential building on the northeast corner of Court Street along Carroll Creek is bustling with activity. Located in the heart of historic Frederick, this building is home to The Green Turtle and Wachovia Bank on the first floor, three floors of office space which is home to Warner Construction, R&J Builders, America East Mortgage, United Title Services, LLC. and, Real Estate Teams. The top two floors house 11 residential condominiums, with 5 of those spaces still available.

Things are definitely looking up in Frederick!

Issue #14

November 7, 2008

Life in Frederick Maryland

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Find a job in Frederick Maryland

Frederick County Government is offering a free resume clinic November 6 at the
Frederick County Workforce Services, located at the Business and Employment Center on 5340 Spectrum Drive, Suite A, in Frederick, Maryland.

I wish I'd seen this earlier because it looks like in order to attend this free resume clinic they require as a prerequisite that you've already taken another free class on 'selling yourself on paper' (I couldn't find a link to that course?)


What does the Frederick County Workforce Services attempt to do?

From their official website:

Intended outcome for Job Seekers using FCWS in 2006:

Reduced the skill shortage faced by Frederick County's high-demand industries by providing career training scholarships to one-third of all registered job seekers.

Of the job seekers who received training and/or job placement services:

98% re-entered the workplace
96.5% earned a credential
90.9% remained in their new positions for at least one year.
Provided comprehensive outplacement services to 1,194

Intended outcome for Businesses seeking quality employees in 2006

Supported Frederick County businesses in the retention and growth of their workforce by approving training for 106 employees at various companies via the Maryland Business Works program. Of these employees, 82% received a recognized industry certification, such as SQL or Six Sigma Black Belt.

Taught professional development classes to 2,697 workers at over 50 businesses in partnership with FCC, resulting in increased staff knowledge, skills and overall productivity.

A total of 232 businesses listed 5,404 jobs in the Maryland Workforce Exchange (www.mwejobs.com), resulting in measurable recruitment cost savings and access to 2,600 active job seekers in Frederick County.

For a complete list of services offered by FCWS to job seekers click here

They are open on Monday through Thursday, from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and on Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Ok, now for some less than bright news about people wanting to work for Frederick County:

Hiring Freeze for the County of Frederick in Effect as of October 21, 2008

http://www.co.frederick.md.us/jobs.asp
The County Commissioners have instituted a temporary "Hiring Freeze" that initially affects all vacant positions with Frederick County Government.
Each Division's vacant positions will be assessed, and the County Manager will determine whether each of those positions will or will not be eligible for hire at this time.

Human Resources will contact each applicant for previously advertised Frederick County vacancies (by letter) to advise their status as soon as decisions are made regarding the status of each hiring process that has been affected by this Hiring Freeze.

Any positions that are approved for advertising and hire during this Freeze will be announced and advertised by Human Resources in the customary manner, using the Job Opportunities page on the Frederick County Government website (www.co.frederick.md.us/jobs rel="nofollow"), Frederick cable television (channel 19) and local newspaper advertising.

Issue #12

November 6, 2008

Life in Frederick Maryland

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Entrepreneurs & Small Business Owners try for Fort Detrick Contracts

This is from the Frederick News Post, I didn't write it, but the subject is exactly what I want to do with this blog... so hats off to the Frederick News Post:

600 get lessons in contracting at Fort Detrick
Originally published November 01, 2008


By Ed Waters Jr.
News-Post Staff


About 600 entrepreneurs and small business owners turned out Friday to learn how they might get contracts with companies and agencies at Fort Detrick.
Representatives from agencies, financial sources, business incubators and military organizations discussed how to enter the process of seeking business with Uncle Sam.

The program, SMARTPROC 08, was coordinated through the office of Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-6th.

In one session, which drew about 50 attendees, Bryan Patchan, executive officer of the Frederick County Builders Association, moderated a panel of guests who handle construction of buildings and residences at military bases.

Patchan said the Army Corps of Engineers has set a standard equal to the silver level of the Leadership in Energy Efficiency Design program.

"You can build to those specifications other ways, but it is usually just as convenient to follow LEED and get certified," he said.

Like any government contract, Patchan said, a potential bidder has to be checked out ahead of time to ensure the company can handle the project and there has no legal or other problems connected to the firm.

Another session brought representatives from business incubators in the region together to discuss how they could help start-up firms.

"Getting into an incubator is no golden key or a pass, but it does open doors in Maryland," said Larry Brown, president of Sensics.

His firm started at an incubator in Baltimore, which has led to a successful business.

Mike Dailey, executive director of the Frederick Innovative Technology Center Inc., said entrepreneurs are the "engine that drives economic and social development throughout the world. You might start out with a small business that one day becomes a Microsoft."

Money is always a key issue for any new business.

"I've never met a company that did not need money coming to the incubator," Dailey said.

Chris Marschner, director of Hagerstown's incubator, said his goal is to keep businesses in Washington County.

He said human resources is paramount for a company.

"A business needs to be sure it has enough people to handle the job when it goes for a government contract," he said.

A lot of entrepreneurs who go through an incubator find the graduation a traumatic experience. The firm no longer has the low rent, full support and other benefits of an incubator when it ventures into the real world.

Joseph Hoffman, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a professor at Frostburg State University, said the program there is a bit different.

Entrepreneurs, while getting similar support in some areas, must work with the college, using interns or becoming involved in educational programs. He noted that Allegany County was once a prosperous area with large manufacturers and coal mine revenues.

Today the emphasis is on high-tech careers for students, though Cumberland has become a city recognized for its efforts in arts and tourism.

"Twenty percent of the 1,000 graduates each year at FSU at in high-tech fields," Hoffman said.

Allegany and Garrett counties are in "Hub Zones," which give preference to federal contracts, said Lydia Reiser of the Garrett Information Enterprise Center. A Hub Zone is an area the federal government views as an underutilized business district.

The $2 billion National Interagency Biodefense Campus at Fort Detrick will provide ample opportunities for small firms to sell their wares or services.

Mike Jewett of the U.S. Army Garrison, and other speakers, used illustrations to show the ongoing construction of the biodefense center and a new building for the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Detrick.

Patricia Nelson, subcontracts manager for Battelle National Biodefense Institute, said the bioforensics focus of the center could have helped with analysis of evidentiary material for biocrime and bioterroism.

"It would have been used to study the anthrax case at Detrick," she said.

The institute, which targets 23 percent of its contracts to small and disadvantaged businesses, provides a twice-yearly assessment to the president on the bioterroism threat.

Issue #11

November 2, 2008

Life in Frederick Maryland

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