cvp newsletter february

7/29/2019 CVP Newsletter February

1/3

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.


2/3

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


3/3

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.

cvp newsletter february

Documents