GEN-ers, we recently received an email from Suzanne Travers, founder and CEO of the Grapevine Group. She is developing a website to list local service providers for job search and career transition resources.
Here is her message:

"There are two purposes for aggregating all the Georgia owned and operated service providers into one site:
To make it easier for the job seekers and people in transition to find local resources and
To help the local service providers compete against Exec-u-net, The Ladders and national outplacement firms.

The site is going to be called Career Seasons (it is in development and I have secured the name). The tag line is “Resources for Georgia Professionals seeking career fulfillment.”

Currently these are the categories for the site:

Books
Career Coaches
Interviewing Mastery
Networking
Outplacement
Personal Growth
Resumes

Each resource will have a link to their website. As an example I am currently aware of two resources where people can go to find where local church networking events are located and when. Under Networking Resources will be the following links:

http://jobnetworkingcenter.com/

http://godel.com/html/atlanta_meetings.htm

If there are any other online resources regarding networking that should be included I will include them as soon as I am aware of them. For example if you want a link to your church group’s site it will be included.

All listings and links will be included for free. I am not looking to exclude any service providers.

Who is Grapevine Group? Grapevine Group is a recruitment services firm specializing in placement in Life Science, Healthcare and Retail. We work for major companies and are paid by our corporate clients locally and nationally. I founded Grapevine 16 years ago and we are located in Roswell.

Do we provide services to job seekers? I have one service for job seekers and people in transition. I hold Phone Interview Boot Camps for people who want to improve their phone interviewing skills. The website is called PhoneInterviewBootCamp.com if you want to check it out. Beginning in September I am offering the workshops for free.

Beyond our Phone Interview Boot Camp we are not looking to be in the outplacement or career coaching business. We are looking for a way to make a positive difference to the people in the area. We thought that aggregating information would provide a needed service.

I do a great deal of writing for various LinkedIn Groups for the purpose of helping people in transition. Most of it is motivational or specifically geared to helping with something job search specific. Here is a link to my blog where you can check out my most recent articles http://blog.phoneinterviewbootcamp.com/.


Be well,
Suzanne

"Helping Exceptional Recruiters Place Top Talent in Great Organizations."

Suzanne Travers
Founder and CEO
www.GrapevineGroup.com
1000 Holcomb Woods Parkway, Suite 111
Roswell, GA 30076
Direct Line: 404-601-1209
Cell: 678-612-5203
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_side_pro
Twitter: http://twitter.com/SuzanneTravers