Health Care Reform 101

One week after President Obama signed the new health care reform bill into law, many of us still have questions about what these changes will mean for businesses, our families, and ourselves in the years and months to come. Check out these links to see how you will be impacted:

The Wall Street Journal broadly describes what the bill will mean for small businesses.

The Business Council of New York State provides specifics on the new requirements for large, small and medium-sized employer plans.

NPR answers some Frequently Asked Questions about the effect of reform on individuals and small and medium sized businesses.

Leadership Tips

You don't have to be a manager or have a position of authority to be considered a leader. I'm a strong believer that if we feel inspired to lead, we should strive to be leaders.

It doesn’t matter what position we hold. To me, a leader is someone who: listens to understand, is trustworthy, is positive and passionate about the work they do.

Passion is the quality that influences me the most and makes me want to do the best job possible. When I work with someone who is passionate about what they do, it's contagious! I find myself becoming just as excited about the project as they are. This excitement drives me, inspires me to exceed expectations, roll up my sleeves and get to work! I think others feel the same way.

So, I say, let your passion show! Here is an interesting article that I found about the role “passion” plays in leadership that I wanted to share. Enjoy!


Great Leadership

One Region, One Goal: Your Success

The Greater Rochester Regional Career Conference
One Region, One Goal: Your Success!
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Businesses, Community Agencies and Educational Institutions:

You are cordially invited to participate in the Greater Rochester Regional Career Conference: One Region, One Goal: Your Success! This exciting event will take place on May 27th, 2010 simultaneously and in coordination at three partnering locations: Genesee, Finger Lakes, and Monroe Community Colleges. You choose the one most convenient for your organization.

This is not a traditional job fair but a regional career conference designed to bring together job seekers, businesses with hiring needs, educational organizations and community agencies in the entire 9-county area (Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates).

Career workshops will be conducted for job seekers throughout the day. These workshops will be on a variety of pertinent topics. When not attending a workshop, attendees will be able to visit the various tables and learn about job openings, how to advance their education or which community agencies can assist them during their period of unemployment.

By participating in the most expansive event of its kind, you get the opportunity to showcase your organization, fill your job openings and work together with the community to help transition individuals back to work. The job seeker turnout is expected to be huge. Since space is limited you are encouraged to register quickly.

The cost of the Career Conference is $55. This includes morning refreshments (for up to 2 representatives), one table, 2 chairs, and parking. Deadline for registering is April 15th, 2010.

Registration is online and the direct link is located at: Regional Career Conference.

Hope to see you there!

No Cost Ways to Fill Job Openings

Budget cuts have impacted the amount spent on marketing for most area businesses. Even organizations that are hiring have the financial challenge of creating an advertising campaign that is both effective and affordable. Here at RochesterWorks! we provide no cost solutions to help you assess, recruit and when funds are available train your employees. In the Business Services Team, we consider ourselves an extension of your HR department. If you have worked with us, you have seen how responsive we are to assisting you with your recruitment needs.

Here are some no cost services that we can assist you with when it comes to hiring staff:

We will submit your job opening to Rochester’s Job Bank, posting your position with the Department of Labor’s database. All you need to do is email the Job Title, Description and your organization Tax I D number to HotJobs@rochesterworks.org and we will do the rest.

Once your job posting has been submitted to the Job Ban, we will then post it on our website, within the section entitled “Hot Jobs”. This list is updated every week. Our Career Center is visited by 200-300 job seekers per day. They inform customers of these posting as well as have them displayed within the Resource center.

Your job posting will be assigned a number to be used to identify the job as well as match to potential candidates that have an electronic resume within the Department of Labor database. This pilot program is known as SMART 2010, we are using it at RochesterWorks with a high success rating. The Career Services Advisors are inputting information from the 200-300 job seekers per day into the database and if there is a match an email is generated.

You might want your position to be confidential, in which case you will request it to be suppressed. This means that the job seeker only sees the identification number not organization. They will have to come into the Career Center to request contact information, which will only be given based on the appropriateness of the referral.

Lastly, if you would like to meet a large number of candidates to fill a number of openings, contact us to participate in our signature mini career fair entitled “Recruiting Round Rochester”. It is held every Monday from 10:00 AM-1:00 PM within the Career Center. Only 4 to 5 employers are invited at a time. The Career Center staff promotes the companies and job postings to our customers and we place an announcement on our website under “Hot Jobs”. This combination generates a large number of job seekers to come in to meet with potential employers. If you would like to be considered to be scheduled for this no cost event, contact Laura Seelman at lseelman@rochesterworks.org

RochesterWorks is one of the best kept secrets in town, hopefully you too will become one of our raving fans!

Interested in taking your business international?

Taking Your Business International Workshop

Presented by Laurie DeRoller, Executive Director
International Business Council of Greater Rochester NY (IBC)

Thursday, March 18, 2010
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
No Cost to Attend

The world is flat, which means more opportunities for your company to make money 24/7. If you have a product or service that you have considered offering abroad, this workshop will help you to identify what to consider as well as action steps to take. Join Laurie DeRoller, Executive Director of IBC to discuss:

· What to consider when taking your business international.
· Where to begin the process, should you target certain countries.
· Local success stories that have benefited from going international.
· Which industries are thriving abroad.

Hosted By: RochesterWorks!
Location: United Way Building, 75 College Ave, Conference Room
Contact: RSVP to Diane Lewis, dlewis@rochesterworks.org, 585-258-3545
Registration is required, and seating is limited