Welcome to Neighbors-helping-Neighbors Job Search Support and Networking Group's Blog

On April 25th we will be starting up our weekly meetings in Cranford Library, our first meeting location in Union County. We are very pleased to be able to offer our weekly support and networking group in Cranford and invite all that are struggling with the job search market to come meet with our great members weekly. Our meetings are lead by our volunteer facilitators who guide the 6:30-8pm meeting.

We have a set weekly agenda and each person goes around the table and gives their 2 min speach, we have templates and materials to help create this essential tool needed in the job search process.

we have a member volunteer who will be blogging on the cranford patch to help everyone who is interested in attending our meetings get lots of helpful tips and hints about what we have learning works and what we know does not work.

Marti Allen will be our member blogger.   Feel free to contact me ahead of our first meeting so i can send you all our very useful materials and additional information about our group.       

We have open Linkedin Group please join our Neighbors-helping-Neighbors USA  LinkedIn group

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=3892534 

and an open Facebook group                 

http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/144420372286477

Neighbors-helping-Neighbors was founded on Janurary 27th 2011 in the River Edge Library, and each Thursday night after a small group of people (5-8) who were looking for career transistions came together met each week and helped each other out with techniques, suggestions, networking help, and the support and example of how to attack the most difficult job market in history.

14 months and counting, we now have 18 library based weekly programs in 5 NJ counties, with 495 active members, 92 success stories and the desire to continue to work to find each and every member a job that they deserve.

NhN Mission

NhN is a network of volunteer peer support groups that follow a community-based approach to help under-employed and unemployed residents get back to work.  NhN embraces a ‘pay it forward’ ethos, asking all associates to contribute to other members by sharing job search techniques, related professional career development resources, personal referrals and generally providing a forum where members feeling empowered, energized and focused on the job search. 

The groups cumulative spirit and collective knowledge has already accomplished amazing things and the all volunteer membership shows no sign of slowing down.

We have established a group of nhn members who will be our regular approved bloggers and will hopefully share helpful information to the community at large who may have a need for our job search group. As we know there is no family out there that has not be impacted by this job market, and we feel strongly that we can assist to make that process a little bit more productive.

we also are looking for volunteers to help with the facilitating of our weekly group.