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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.