The resume clinic will provide expert advice on improving resumes, customization, networking and feedback on making a great first impression in an interview.

More than three dozen agencies and private companies, will be represented at the Federal Job Fair including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms (ATF), Federal Air Marshall Service (FAMS), Food Drug Administration (FDA), Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Social Security (SSA), US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), United States Small Business Administration (SBA), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Association for the Advancement of Blind and Retarded (AABR), Citibank, Council for Airport Opportunity, Delta Airlines, JetBlue Airways, New York life Insurance, New York Police Department, New York State Unified Court System, and TD Bank.

Federal Job Fair attendees will have the opportunity to participate in workshops that will provide information and resources designed to improve job-seeking skills. Congressman Meeks will lead a workshop on Life Experiences and Transferable Skills. AARP will present a workshop on Rejoining the Workforce After Retirement.

The event is free and open to the public, attendees are asked to bring resumes and to dress professionally.

York College is located at 94-20 Guy R. Brewer Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11451.

For more information, please contact the office of Congressman Meeks (718) 725-6000 or visit www.house.gov/meeks to RSVP.

For more information about Millennium Personnel, check out www.MPC-NYC.com.

“As one of the founding companies of CCA, we feel that this is a wonderful opportunity for friendly competitors to collectively share ideas, best practices, and industry trends,” said Joseph P. Gillette, President of Stage 2 Networks. “Just about every business will utilize Cloud Communications in one form or another and our industry has only scratched the surface on educating these businesses on the future of converged network solutions. As a founding partner of CCA, I am looking forward to working with the industry’s leading expert counterparts on this new endeavor.”

The mission of CCA is to promote awareness of the Cloud Communications technology and drive its development through the pursuit of new technical standards, capabilities and applications. The CCA will also jointly deliver services directly to customers, allowing enterprise customers to experience more flexible and manageable voice and unified communications systems that will increase employee productivity while reducing costs.

CCA is comprised of 8 founding member companies which began by hosting informal quarterly meetings over the past two and a half years before formalizing the alliance in 2010. Each company has its own geographical focus, resulting in a nationwide footprint and all members support the BroadSoft and Polycom technologies. CCA members currently represent more than $100 million in combined annual revenue.

About Stage 2 Networks
Stage 2 is a New York-based converged network services provider that offers a robust and redundant network with connectivity, quality of service and local number portability available across the country and, often, around the world, with CLEC capabilities in the New York metro market. We provide SIP trunking, Private Line services, PRI and Business T1 circuits as well as hosted PBX and business phone system solutions which do not require the capital expenditure typically associated with purchasing a new phone system. Stage 2 also provides phone line replacement at reduced cost with enhanced functionality, whether POTS or PRI services. Finally, all of Stage 2’s products are supported by robust data connectivity that can fully integrate its customers’ communication platform for both voice and data services across multiple locations. Stage 2’s productivity-enhancing features and functionality serve to differentiate its products and offer an added bonus to its customers. For more information visit www.stage2networks.com.

About Cloud Communications Alliance
The Cloud Communications Alliance brings together leading Cloud Communications providers Alteva, Broadcore, Callis Communications, Consolidated Technologies Inc., IPFone, SimpleSignal, Stage 2 Networks and Telesphere to promote development of the Cloud Communications category. The Alliance is aggressively pursuing new technical standards, capabilities and applications. The Alliance harnesses the power of each member’s individual networks and systems to create a seamless, nationwide HD voice network that delivers outstanding voice quality, apps, features and cost savings. For more information about the Cloud Communications Alliance, visit www.cloudcommunicationsalliance.com.

Gerrus Maintenance, Inc. and its affiliates are the premier providers of professional cleaning services in New Jersey and nearby areas. They offer a full range of services from office building cleaning contracts to specialty industrial cleaning and maintenance, or heavy-duty residential projects. Whether you need one-time or repetitive commercial cleaning services, their quality-controlled staff, supervised and managed by professional chemical engineers, provides extraordinary service. Green maintenance supplies are available.

Choose from their fully insured and bonded cleaning services for offices, multi-tenant buildings, warehouses, factories, pharmaceutical sites, chemical plants, homes needing one-time heavy-duty residential cleaning, or water, mold, or fire damage cleanups and remediation.

Visit their site at www.Gerrus.com.

Our goal and resolution is to optimize your 2009. Contact us to request a detailed media kit, which will explain in more depth our abilities to generate online leads, utilize interactive PR tools, produce and distribute videos, and manage PPC campaigns. Our first Breakfast Networking event of the new year is also just a few weeks away, on January 22nd. This is a great opportunity to make professional contacts in the New York area. (The food’s pretty good, too!) Visit www.breakfastnetworking.com to learn more about the event and to register.

Happy New Year, everyone!

The All-Jewish Cartoon Collection makes an ideal holiday gift. And guess what? If you buy 3 or more copies, the shipping and handling is free, and you get an additional 10% off! Is that a good deal or what? You can also visit booksbyzeus.com and sign up to receive a daily cartoon. Just note that, quickly enough, these cartoons become addictive, and you will want to upgrade to the real thing…. Trust us, The All-Jewish Cartoon Collection really is that good.

Raphi’s seminar was a terrific success.  A full house turned out to listen to him speak about how to “Make More Money this Year with Online Marketing.” His seminar was so successful, in fact, that he was bombarded with requests to make his PowerPoint slideshow available online, which he is, of course, happy to do. Just click here to redirect to the SalemGlobal homepage, where you can download the presentation as a pdf. You can also watch the video below and listen to Raphi dish some wisdom on SEO and optimizing your website.

Finally, congratulations are in order as well: they go out to Frank Manus of www.naa.cc; Valerie Mahoney of Live Your Life Travel; Gavin Sloane of Geneva Worldwide; Matthew Kiger of WCBS Radio; Ashraf Ezzeldin of the Egyptian General Consulate; and Valerie Delaportas of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. These are the lucky winners of the numerous raffles SalemGlobal held throughout the day. Enjoy your brand new 512 mb memory sticks — you earned it!