Due to COVID-19 Job Forum started virtual programs and will be conducted virtually for the time being.
Who are the Job Forum panel?
Those looking for jobs come to our conference room for the Wednesday evening meetings and there they get advice on their individual job search challenges from local managers at companies like Facebook, UCSF, Visa, Salesforce, Levis, Autodesk, indeed, LinkedIn, SmartRecruiters, and a host of other companies and non-profits big and small.
Job hunters come to the Job Forum to benefit from group discussion as well as the individual coaching ideas they get from local business managers.
The Job Forum is an effective sounding board for help in addressing the challenging aspects of your individual job search.
The Job Forum is sponsored by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
The Job Forum is a volunteer-run, free, community service where local managers and career experts have helped thousands of job seekers become more confident and successful in their hunt for their next great job in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sponsored by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
Who are the job hunters who come to the Job Forum?
Job seekers are from the San Francisco Bay Area, and include recent newcomers to SF Bay Area from other the US states, or parts of the world.
The job hunters at the Job Forum meetings are all ages and stages of their careers. We see recent grads as well as those who have years of impressive career experience and everything in between. The job hunters at the Job Forum are typically well educated with college or graduate school degrees. Some are entrepreneurial and prefer to work for start-ups, others want jobs in midsize or large companies.
We see a mix of talented people including those who are looking for jobs focused on business jobs, or non-profit careers, or government or university employment.
At the Job Forum people seek jobs with job titles such as communications manager, engineer, product manager, marketing manager, social media specialist, project manager, finance or accounting manager, sales, customer service, administrative or operations manager, scientist, data manager, researcher, teacher, HR talent manager and the like.
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Executive Director Letter
At The Job Forum, our goal is to help others find their next job!
This was a year when everything changed and millions of people had their daily lives transformed. Many skilled and wonderful people lost their jobs or had their industry changed forever as a result of the pandemic. The Job Forum is here for them! We know firsthand the determination, positive spirit, and sustained effort that today’s job hunters must possess to find their next job and we are here to provide them with counsel, support and guidance.
While things have changed, some things have gotten better!
Amidst the mayhem, The Job Forum continued its weekly efforts to help as many job hunters as possible meet the challenges they faced by guiding them in how to conduct a modern and successful job search. But during COVID, The Job Forum actually doubled its programming! Not only are we offering the usual Wednesday night sessions, we now offer Thursday night programming as well. And our volunteer ranks have increased significantly too!
We also have a new newsletter, Job Forum Connects, which will be coming out on a quarterly basis. You are reading the inaugural issue! Please share it with others you think would be interested in our practical and valuable programs.
This is a team effort. Volunteer! Mentor! Donate!
We need your generous support to extend our job hunting programs to reach and guide the many who are out of work. The critical funds and/or time you give will help us fuel our volunteer efforts and provide support to those who are out of work. If you know anyone looking for a job, you know it can be a lonely, long process. Give generously to help us help job hunters.
The Job Forum really makes a difference!
https://thejobforum.org/donate/
Thank you!
Janet Beach
Executive Director and Chairman
The Job Forum
janet@thejobforum.org
