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CAREER VISION IN THE NEWS
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WGN Radio AM720: The Money Show with Bill Moller
Naperville Sun
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Events Calendar
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ALL AREA PARENTS & STUDENTS INVITED:
"Critical Steps to Successful College Major and Career Planning"
8/21 The Village Greens of Woodridge
10/1 DePaul University, Naperville Campus
10/3 Wheaton Library
OTHER EVENTS:
8/20 Naperville Central HS
9/11 Naperville Central HS
9/11 Waubonsie Valley HS, Aurora
9/18 Career Resource Center, Lake Forest
9/25 Neuqua Valley HS, Naperville
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For Our Clients & Their Families
LOCAL MUSEUMS INVITE CAREER EXPLORATION
Does your child - or the child in you - dream of being a crime scene investigator? Look no further than Chicago's own Museum of Science and Industry. The multi-media exhibit,"CSI: The Experience," is based on the popular television show and provides hands-on opportunities to involve visitors in the science of solving a crime mystery. The exhibit is open until September 3. More on museums...
NEW ADDRESS? Adults, students, and parents of students should each be receiving their own copy of this e-newsletter and any mailings that we send; please keep us informed of new addresses so we can keep in touch.
WE'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU! Send us a quick email or call us at 630.469.6270. Let us know how you have used your Career Vision results to make college or career decisions.
MAKING IT EASY TO "SPREAD THE WORD" More here...
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High School Partnerships
OVER 200 PARENTS & STUDENTS attended "How to Help Your Teen Choose a Motivating College Major" at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, one of our partnership schools.
Does your high school have a Career Vision Partnership to educate parents on the importance of early college and career planning? Call us to find out more.
Call us if you would like to host a free Career Literacy program for your parent group.
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Career Vision
800 Roosevelt Road
Suite E-200
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
toll free: 800.469.8378
local: 630.469.6270
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August 15, 2007
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Families Seek Experts to Help with Competing Demands
It's not news that families today are juggling competing demands; how they manage is. In response, parents are becoming adept at seeking out and employing a variety of expert resources to make their lives easier. And they are spreading the word to help other challenged families.
A 2005 Families and Work Institute study reports that one in three American employees is chronically overworked, while 54 % have felt overwhelmed in the past month by the amount of work they had to complete.
Four factors contribute to this sense of being overworked:
- increased job pressure,
- increased multi-tasking,
- doing work that is not valued, and
- the expectation of availability at all times. Cell phones, personal computers, pagers, email, and flexible work schedules encroach on the healthy boundaries between work and personal time. More on help with competing demands...
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Career Vision Partners with Student Leadership Academies
Leadership academy programs across the country develop selected groups of high school students into future business and community leaders. Two local leadership academies have called upon Career Vision's expertise to conduct sessions on Career Literacy(TM) topics: Chase Leadership Academy and DuPage Area Student Leadership Academy.
Chase Leadership Academy is sponsored by JPMorgan Chase, the global financial services firm. The 30 students are enrolled in the Academy of Finance in four Chicago high schools, and meet twice a month from November to April. Through another academy partner, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, students are matched with mentors who are employees of JPMorgan Chase, often supervisors or managers. The interactive sessions are held on bank premises in downtown Chicago and dress code is business casual.
The DuPage Area Student Leadership Academy is coordinated by DuPage County Education-to-Careers and sponsored by local businesses and community organizations. More on leadership academies...
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Thank you for your interest in Career Vision
Career Vision helps individuals identify college majors and careers that best fit their natural talents and lead to success and happiness more quickly. We are part of the Ball Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to helping individuals discover and develop their potential since 1975.
If you know of a parent who has a high school or college student unsure of their college or career direction, or someone who is looking to make a change to a more satisfying career, please forward this newsletter to them or have them call us. It would be our privilege to assist them. Gift certificates are available.
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We'd like to hear from you! What do you like best about the newsletter? What types of articles are not as useful to you? What subject would you like to see covered? Reply via email .
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