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February 2013
About Central Valley
ProfessionalsThe Central Valley
Professionals (CVP) is the local
chapter of Experience Unlimited, a
networking group of unemployed
and/or underemployed mid-to-
senior level technical and
managerial job- seekingprofessionals, which is sponsored
by the Employment Development
Department (EDD).
The EDD provides our active
members with the resources and
guidance on job search activities,
which meet and conform to the
State and Federal laws, Equal
Employment and all Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA)bylaws.
CVPs mission is to provide asupportive environment to allow
active members to assist others andobtain employment, and return to work
as soon as possible. All our services
are free to new and active members, as
well as all Central Valley employers.Listed below are the services that CVP
provides:
Classes/workshops/training
sessions for job searching
Computers, printers and
internet access
Telephones, faxes and copy
machines
Employee job listings, referrals
Resource library Guest speakers that speak at a
one-week long seminar
CVPCommitteeMeeting Times
Marketing: 9-10
a.m. Fridays
Information &Resource: 9-10
a.m. Fridays
Computer
Services: 1-2 p.m.Thursdays
Interview: 11 a.m.-noon Thursdays
Resume: 10-11a.m. Thursdays
Administrative: 11
a.m. to noon
Fridays
Training &
Development:
8:30-10 a.m.Tuesdays
CVP helps job seekers in manydifferent fields, including:
Education Finance/Accounting Human Resources Engineering Information Technology Sales & Marketing
Social Services
Central Valley Professionals
Newsletter To Contact CVP:3302 N. BlackstoneAve., Suite 225 Fresno,
CA 9372(559) [email protected]
Edited by:Lisa M. [email protected]
& Margaret [email protected]
Check out the improved access
to CVP member resumes posted
on the CVP website. Resumes
are searchable by job title.
Address is cvpfresno.org.
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MARKETING: This committee builds and maintains
a positive image of CVP. They create and deliver a
message of value for the membership, clients and
community. They network with local, media, business
and organizations to promote the message of CVP.
RESUME: This committee reviews resumes for
inclusion on the website and resume book, as well as
reviewing and editing new member resumes. They
work together to ensure that CVP members have a
resource for developing their best resumes.
INFORMATION & RESOURCE: This committees
primary responsibility is communication. They use the
web and social media to connect employers with people
seeking employment. They maintain the CVP website
and the CVP calendar of events.
COMPUTER SERVICES: This committee maintains
the CVP member database, providing reports to the
CVP coordinator, and providing member information to
other CVP committee chairs and co- chairs. They also
provide computer assistance to members who need it.
INTERVIEW: This committee offers practice
interviews to new members. They videotape member
interviews, if they like. Practice interviews are done on
the first Thursday after seminar week.
ADMINISTRATIVE: This committee creates and
catalogues all forms and flyers used by CVP, to make
sure all content is approved. They keep track of
membership, create name badges and produce the
resume book.
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT: This committee
is responsible for facilitator training, scheduling
speakers and workshops, preparing handouts and
putting on the monthly CVP seminar week. They
provide administrative support as requested by seminar
guest speakers and maintain the training room during
seminar week.
January 2013 CVP Seminar Class
Central Valley Professionals Member BiographyBy Darlene Lobkowski
Im a true valley girl having been born at my grandmothers maternity home, along
with my twin sister, and raised in the Fresno area. My husband is a first generation Russian-
American, and since we have no children of our own, my sisters three sons and their spouses,
as well as her nine grandchildren (ages 4 15) are like our own.
Im sure my years of involvement at St. Peter Serbian Orthodox Church have and will
continue to serve me well. It has given me the opportunity to improve my leadership skills by
serving on the board of their ladies auxiliary as vice president then president; and later I was
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Central Valley Professionals Member Biography (continued)
elected as president of the church
board.
I obtained a legal secretary
degree and started my career
working in law offices when legal
secretaries performed a lot of the
duties a paralegal now handles.
After working in the private
sector for a few years I had the
opportunity to go to work at Fresno
County Superior Court. I spent the
next eight years there, working and
overseeing the Court expand from
eight to 13 courts. I became the
youngest head Superior Court
Secretary at the age of 25, and was
appointed secretary to their new
Court Administrator for my last
three years with the Courts.
My next venture was as
executive assistant to the
president and vice president ofthe ONeill Companies, a large
farming and cattle operation,
along with ONeills Westside
Market, in the Five Points area,
but with their corporate offices
located at their former meat plant
in West Fresno.
After 26 years with them, the
companies sold their various
Central Valley Professionals Guest Speaker Biography
Dick Sheppard is a regular
presenter during CVP seminar weeks on
self-evaluation techniques and
personality profiling, both individual and
of corporations. Sheppard, who has lived
in Sanger since 1992, has been married
to his wife, Nadine, for almost 30 years.
Dick and Nadine are a perfect exampleof how two people from opposite
personality types can co-exist and thrive
if they share enough interests in
common.
Born in Macomb, Oklahoma, Dick started out in
broadcasting when he was just a sophomore at Dinuba
High School (It beat cutting, turning trays and
swamping grapes).
He went to Fresno as sports anchor at Channel 24
and sports editor and play-by-play guy at KMJ managed KMJ and brought Bulldog sports to KMJ in
1969. He worked in Fresno, Sacramento, Los Angeles
and the Bay Area, managing TV and radio stations and a
national group of radio stations. Dick also served in the
U.S. Army as military intelligence (Dont laugh, he
says).
When he came back to Valley, he started a personnel
assessment (profiling) company and became a profiler for
the Valleys oldest head-hunting firm,
Sherwood Lehman Massucco in Fresno.
Dicks community service endeavors are
too extensive to list, but they earned him a spot
in the Sanger Chamber of Commerces Hall of
Fame.
After a couple of unsuccessful attempts at
retirement I lost all my golf balls. Dick
went back to work as editor of the Sanger
Herald in 2003 to earn money to buy more
golf balls.
He says the Sanger Heralds proactive journalistic
style has won awards, but is not always appreciated by
public office holders and their supporters who slept
through eighth grade civics classes. Investigative stories
triggered two grand jury investigations.
Since I've been playing newspaper guy, I've beenthreatened, assaulted and sued, Dick says. When I was
on the electronic side, I just got yelled at. No wonder
most newspaper guys look like they send their clothes out
to be rumpled before they put them on.
Dick and Nadine enjoy backpacking and traveling.
Theyve been to many countries in Asia and Africa. I
want to stop playing newspaper guy pretty soon and
climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Dick says.
operations and Mr. ONeill retired
and I found myself without a job.
I spent the next two plus years at
CVP, assisting our coordinator, and
chairing the Administration
Committee. Then I trained anincoming CVP Coordinator before
going to work at Childrens Hospital
Central California in the Medical
Staff Services Department.
After five years at Childrens
Hospital, my position was eliminated.
Now, here I am back at CVP as
chairman of the Administration
Committee.