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2007 and Earlier
MSCCN Recipient of Military Service Award
On August 11, 2007, Deb Kloeppel accepted a
military service award from Major General King Sidwell,
Missouri National Guard Adjutant General, for the
exceptional work of MSCCN and the Pinnacle Foundation
in a nationwide effort to promote vocational training
and job placement to military members and their
families.
Pictured: Deb Kloeppel and Major General King Sidwell
MSCCN Guest of Honor at Longaberger Event
For more about our amazing new partnership with the Longaberger Corporation
to help war wounded veterans and their caregivers, click here.
MSCCN and State Farm Insurance
State Farm®, based in Bloomington, Illinois, became a substantial employment
partner with the MSCCN Program. Additionally, State Farm contributed monies to
the Pinnacle Foundation to support Pinnacle’s continuing efforts to serve war
wounded and their caregivers.
State Farm has reached out to make a firm and cohesive partnership with us.
State Farm and MSCCN intend to corner the market through aggressive and
meaningful job and career placement of military spouses nationwide. Additionally,
State Farm supports our sister organization, Military Spouse Pinnacle Foundation,
when serving the employment and vocational needs of severely war wounded and
their caregivers.”
State Farm's mission is to help people manage the risks of everyday life, recover
from the unexpected, and realize their dreams. This new partnership between
MSCCN and State Farm will help military spouses, war wounded, and their caregivers
to realize their career dreams.
MSCCN
Job Fair Introduces 100 Candidates to Employers at this One-Day
Event!
The 1st MSCCN Job Fair was held on October 23rd in the Waller Hall
Welcome Center
at Fort Lewis, WA. Participants were transitioning or retired servicemembers
and
military spouses who were seeking jobs in the McChord Air Force
Base and Fort Lewis
area. Businesses represented included Gant Travel, Boeing, Macy's,
CB Richard Ellis,
Community Resources, Sears and State Farm Insurance. With more than
100 candidates,
the job fair was a rousing success. More
Job candidate Malinda Moore has only been at Fort
Lewis a few months and was pleased
with the job fair. "It was very friendly and I enjoyed the one-on-one
conversations with
the employers," said Moore, who also enjoyed the diversity of
the businesses represented
at the event. "It opens us (military spouses) up to more and more
opportunities,"
continued Moore. She advises spouses who are looking for work
to use the services on
MSCCN's web site and to turn to their community services to see
what is available.
Sears HR Associate Diane Denton was pleased with
the quality of candidates at the job
fair. Denton, who is also a military spouse, said that Sears hired
two candidates and
had five more interviews to conduct. Denton said that Sears would
participate in another
MSCCN job fair because it is worthwhile, and they were pleased
with the number of
qualified candidates.
Recruiters from Gant Travel and Health Net are in the process
of prescreening applicants
they met at the job fair. "Please include us every time you guys
(MSCCN) do anything!"
says Patrick Linnihan, President of Gant Travel.
Left:
Todd Davis from
Health Net
Right:
Patrick Linnihan,
President of
Gant Travel,
and MSCCN's
Mgr of Bus Dev,
Janet Lee
Janet Lee is Manager of Business Development for MSCCN and she
said, "We were
pleasantly surprised by the outcome. The enthusiasm of Fort Lewis
and McChord
Air Force Base, as well as the candidates and businesses that
participated, made this
an event that should be repeated." Lee said that she is unsure
when MSCCN will hold
its next job fair but that we are considering all our options.
"Janet and Michelle were remarkable in their
organization of MSCCN's job fair," commented
Deb Kloeppel, President of MSCCN.
Kloeppel said, "Several placements are possible
from this one event. Military installations are
calling on us to hold events inside military
installations nationwide. We're in the process
of determining which installations we can serve
in 2008."
Michelle at MSCCN's 1st Job Fair
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