February 1, 201015 yr I don't want to jinx anything by going into details, but if you all could send good vibes and luck my way around 10:30 this morning, I'd appreciate it! :-) clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
February 1, 201015 yr Also, I don't know if you graphics-related folks get the Cleveland Job Bank by Kelly Blazek, but there were several graphics jobs in the latest digest. Email kblazek@nls. net to get the digest directly.
February 1, 201015 yr Hi all, I am a long time fan of UrbanOh, but have never posted before. Because of my interest in cities and how people relate to their built environment, I am thinking about making a major career change and am looking at urban planning. I'd really like to talk to some folks who are working in the field now or working on their masters in planning. Ideally, I'd like to talk to people in different aspects of planning, i.e. public sector, private sector, and consulting. I want to get a feel for the day to day and some insight into the rewards and challenges of the planning. What do you think it takes to be successful? Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.
February 1, 201015 yr I am in Columbus Ohio. I am considering applying to the masters in planning program at OSU.
February 1, 201015 yr This looks like a pretty cool position. --- http://www.clevelandfoundation.org/About/Employment/PositionDescriptions.html Positions Available Publisher, Neighborhood Voice Primary duties and responsibilities • Select, supervise, and lead a high-performing team of students to meet advertising sales revenue targets and produce print- and web-based newspapers • Build up and ensure excellent contacts and relationships with area anchor institutions and neighborhood businesses • Supervise, conduct performance evaluations, coach, motivate, and mentor newspaper staff of local high school and college students, as well as other staff • Cultivate community content; edit and manage newspaper • Determine and execute growth and marketing strategy for the newspaper • Periodically attend local community events to ensure the Neighborhood Voice is capturing the voice of the community • Provide quarterly financial/management reports to Neighborhood Voice staff and the Evergreen Cooperative Fund • Responsibilities include oversight of the design, production, editing, pagination, and proofreading of both the printed and web-based newspapers Qualifications and skills • Demonstrated commitment to the six neighborhoods of Greater University Circle (GUC): Hough, Little Italy, Glenville, East Cleveland, Fairfax, Buckeye/Shaker, University Circle. Preference will be given to GUC residents and/or Cleveland natives. • Degree in journalism, English, or a related field is preferred. Minimum two years experience of writing/copyediting in a newspaper, magazine, or web-based medium will be considered. Applicants should have a proven track record in advertising sales and/or income generation. Prior business and budgeting responsibility is preferred. • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, especially with students. Prior internship supervision a plus. • Proficient knowledge in at least one desktop publishing package such as Adobe Framemaker, PageMaker, InDesign, or Quark Xpress • High degree of organizational skills as well as attention to detail and accuracy • Excellent grammar, spelling, and proofing skills • Commitment to the mission of the Neighborhood Voice and Evergreen Cooperatives • Full-time position (would consider part-time) • Salary commensurate with experience, with a benefits package and profit-sharing How to apply Email letter of interest, résumé, and three references with contact information to Kathryn Hall at: [email protected]. Deadline for applications is Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Our organization The Greater University Circle Neighborhood Voice (NV) is an innovative, “hyperlocal,” community-based information source (integrating print and online media) serving the Greater University Circle neighborhoods of Hough, Fairfax, Glenville, Little Italy, East Cleveland, and Buckeye/Shaker. With the guidance of a full-time professional publisher, high school and college students from the target area will be trained to run the business side of the Neighborhood Voice, thereby developing their entrepreneurial skills. They will also receive invaluable real-life work experience in the communications field. The Neighborhood Voice will be based on the “citizen journalism” model pioneered to great effect in many parts of the country. The principal idea is to create a communications vehicle of, by, and for the citizens of the Greater University Circle area of Cleveland. It will solicit stories, photos, and other content from residents of local neighborhoods and will provide a forum for their unique perspective on community issues, challenges, and opportunities. It will also report on and promote local events, sports, artistic and cultural efforts, and civic activities. In addition to our resident-writers, additional content will be provided by staff and leaders of local institutions, including the area’s major hospitals and universities, cultural institutions, and community-based organizations. Both the print and web versions of the Neighborhood Voice will be supported by advertising revenue, primarily from the large health care, educational, and cultural institutions of University Circle. Additional revenue will be generated from advertising placed by local businesses based in the area. The NV is one of four business ventures that are part of the Greater University Circle Initiative. The pillars on which the initiative is built are: (1) leveraging a portion of the multi-billion dollar annual business expenditures of Cleveland’s anchor institutions; (2) establishing a portfolio of “Evergreen Cooperative” enterprises based on community wealth-building models designed to service these institutional needs; (3) building on the growing momentum to create environmentally sustainable energy and green collar jobs (and, concurrently, support area anchor institutions in achieving their own environmental goals to shrink their carbon footprints); and (4) developing the necessary management and financing mechanisms capable of taking this effort to scale. In addition to the NV, the other three businesses in the Evergreen Cooperative portfolio are the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry, Green City Growers, and Ohio Cooperative Solar.
February 12, 201015 yr Well, the axe finally dropped, and I got laid off today. I'll be moving back to Cincinnati in early March, and will need a job and a place to live. Email me. And if you believe in God, prayers would also be appreciated.
February 12, 201015 yr Oh man. I am so sorry to hear about that. I can't offer much help in Cincy, but we'll keep you in our thoughts.
February 12, 201015 yr Sorry to hear about that Living in Gin! I will pray that you find happy employment. Look for the silver lining.
February 12, 201015 yr Good luck. Hopefully you won't be unemployed for as long as I have been (two years and counting)
February 12, 201015 yr I am in Columbus Ohio. I am considering applying to the masters in planning program at OSU. That's a great program but jobs are few & far between in planning. Tough to even get an internship. Planning firms are struggling bigtime across the midwest as there is not alot of expansion to justify cities doing any planning. Cities that have their own planning depts are making cutbacks too. Not trying to discourage you from the planning field, but if it's ultimately a planning job you desire, I'd plan on moving away. I'm taking masters courses in the planning program at CSU even though I'm in my mid 30's and well established in my career. A masters in planning can be a great partner with a construction/engineering/architecture background or with a finance/economics/banking background too. Good luck.
February 12, 201015 yr ^The planning firm I got laid off from last year folded, got bought out by AECOM. Well, the axe finally dropped, and I got laid off today. I'll be moving back to Cincinnati in early March, and will need a job and a place to live. Email me. Another one bites the dust. You lasted 11 months longer than I did! I moved back to Cincy as well, it's not so bad.
February 13, 201015 yr It's interesting because many people on my floor were former employees of AECOM
February 14, 201015 yr ^Your floor iiiinn? College? Office? Prison? My office. My particular department is full of former AECOM employees. They all know each other very well.
February 18, 201015 yr I wouldn't go back to grad school until I knew I had my foot in the door, well in the door. It's not often said, but getting a highly specialized degree is a gamble. If you're not certain about that gamble, then I wouldn't make it.
February 18, 201015 yr Just my experience as someone who is now a lot older than you, but it's possible there are some other things you would like to do, but you don't know it yet. My tastes changed a lot in my mid to late 30s and it was then that I realized several different career paths I would have liked to explore besides the one I got my degree in. Because I couldn't be gainfully employed by degree-related work in my 20s, I spent most of the time in restaurant and retail positions and you're right, it was miserable. Miserable hours, miserable, thankless work, miserable money. I would not encourage that route. I was pretty sick and needed to find a job that didn't require me to be on my feet all day long and would give me good health insurance, so I quit the restaurant/retail thing and went in to office work. While it's not lucrative, being in corporate america has afforded me jobs with insurance at every position with no lapse, the opportunity to help my finances by participating in things like pre-tax accounts for transportation and medical expenses, and the opportunity to invest for retirement, (though I've been able to do little of that). I've been exposed to a wide variety of types of businesses and though office work is drudgery in many ways, it beats having to work 24 hours straight smelling like sausage grease because 2 more kids called off, dealing with a big cut on your hand from doing prep work and hurting from slipping and falling on the greasy floor while being yelled at by angry customers and by corporate management for not being profitable enough. Do you have any type of office skills that you could use to get some office related work while for a few years? This would give you some income and get you out of your parents' place, and buy you some time for the economy to improve. Even working for a mail room would be better than bob evans or grocery store. I would not go back to pursue a higher degree unless it's really, really what you want to do.
February 18, 201015 yr I'm in agreement with X and RnR. I'll be blunt here...a graduate degree can be a great asset, but the debt that you may have to take out to support it can potentially burden you for many years afterwords. I'm a strong advocate of working for at least two years in the field you're interested in before going back to school both because as RnR said, you're career aspirations may change over time, and also because working gives you tremendous perspective when you actually do go back to school. You've seen real world applications for what you're learning, and can bring something to the class besides an empty vessel. I took out a lot of debt to pay for grad school, and while I'm fortunate in the fact that my employment pays me enough to be able to make the payments, I'm not going to lie to you, it does impact quality of life. That's money that I could use to pay for a new car, vacation with my family, or sock away for retirement, etc, that I'm basically netting out of my account each month. So as part of this decision making, you have to take the financial side seriously. Will you make enough money after graduation to start making payments. Forbearance is a sucker's bet, and a sure fire way to dig yourself into a hole you may never get out of. If your monthly student loan payments are going to cripple you post graduation, then will you really be better off than you are now? If you're really passionate about the field, then you'll be able to find a way to do it without breaking the bank. But I would never advise someone to go back to school just to wait out the economy.
February 18, 201015 yr Johio, I'm not sure how it is at OSU, but it is pretty easy to get through Cleveland State's urban planning grad school without any debt. Most full time students work as interns somewhere in Cleveland. The internships cover the cost of tuition and provide you with a 20-hour week job that pays $11 an hour.
February 19, 201015 yr Not that I'm encouraging a lifetime of working in an office, mind you, but it sounds like you have enough basic office skills to get a job in an office. Have you considered signing up with a temp service that places office jobs? They often offer free training on other things you might not know how to do; certain office related software programs to sharpen or advance your skill level, telephone/reception stuff, etc. It would take a little burden off you, get you out of your parents' place, and give you a little breathing room. There's nothing saying you can't pursue an advanced degree in a year or so if you feel more like going and think it would be a good thing. You might even try to get an office job at a school, that way you'll get discounted or free tuition.
February 19, 201015 yr I'm in agreement with X and RnR. I'll be blunt here...a graduate degree can be a great asset, but the debt that you may have to take out to support it can potentially burden you for many years afterwords. I'm a strong advocate of working for at least two years in the field you're interested in before going back to school both because as RnR I couldn't agree with you more. I'm one of those people who went straight through to grad school and wish I would have worked in between. It was tough finding a job with internships alone. I ended up getting a good job eventually, but it made more use out of my undergrad degree than it did my graduate degree. Granted I learned some great things in grad school I'll carry with me in life, but at times it's felt more like a novelty than something that has reinforced my career. Regardless, I've begun paying back all those student loans................even with a job it's frustrating.
February 19, 201015 yr I've considered a temp agency but haven't found one yet. I'm always worried whether or not what I'm looking at is reputable. Do you go with a multi-office national firm or a more local firm? Any suggestions? It doesn't really matter. Sign up with as many of them as you can. You don't have to take any assignments they get you. I've never found one that wasn't "reputable," it's just that most of them are guilty of trying to get you to take the jobs that they have instead of jobs that line up with your skills or requirements. For example, if you said "no jobs in Solon" and they got you a job in solon, they'd call you and tell you how great the job was, and then at the last minute say it's in Solon. Or if you say "no receptionist jobs" and that's all they get in, that's what they'll try to get you to take. But you can just politely decline. I've probably been signed up with at least 15 agencies at various times around town, and they were all fairly good. Some got more jobs than other. Off the top of my head, Kelly, Manpower, Area Temps, Champion Staffing, those are the ones I can remember offhand. I got the most work with Area Temps. I also got a very good, long-term job that originated with me being with one of those agencies.
February 19, 201015 yr I got my first job when I moved to Cleveland through a temp agency referral. Worked as a temp for a couple months then they offered me the job permanently. As the economy (hopefully??) starts to pick up, companies are likely to go this route as they begin to staff up, because if things take a bad turn, they can dump temps very easily. If things continue to improve, and they want permanent staff, you've already proven you can do the job. I used Accountemps to find my job, but any of the ones that RnR listed are fine as well.
February 19, 201015 yr Yeah, they are one I was signed up with too, I forgot about them. I think Adecco was another one. There are quite a few of them.
February 19, 201015 yr I am going to throw my endorsement in for the temp agencies too. Both my wife and I used them after we graduated while we looked for permanant positions. No grease, no bleeding (unless you count paper cuts) and most of the work is pretty mindless (like auditing/sorting files) but it is a paycheck and they hours are generally business hours so you can have a social life.
February 23, 201015 yr A good friend is looking for work. Most notably, he is a professional and versatile photographer, with many years of professional photography work under his belt, from corporate photos to site photos to weddings on occasion. However, he also has several years of office work including web and graphic design, PowerPoint, database work. He's a really nice guy and very reliable and intelligent. I know a lot of people on here are looking, but if you know of any leads in any related fields, please PM me. thx.
February 25, 201015 yr Sales & Marketing Coordinator-MMPI Position Summary MMPI's Cleveland Medical Mart is in search of a smart, energetic Sales & Marketing Coordinator. This individual is responsible for supporting the sales and marketing efforts of the Cleveland Medical Mart team. http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?IPATH=JELF3RA&je=myrec&APath=1.39.39.0.0&jrjob=true&sc_cmp2=10_JobMat_JobDet&Job_DID=J7X4Y7649XK9743SVB4&ff=39
February 25, 201015 yr From what they're describing in required experience and job duties, I can't believe they are billing this as an "entry level" job. That just seems wrong. I bet they're just doing that so they can low ball the wages.
February 25, 201015 yr ^yeah but it would be cool if someone on here got the gig, we need someone on the inside
March 1, 201015 yr What resources are out there for students looking for internships in Cincinnati? I'm having a hard time with what is listed on UC's Career development website.
March 1, 201015 yr If you are clear in your cover letter that you are willing to accept an unpaid position, you will get some bites from employers. If you take a gopher position, you might actually make some money with mileage reimbursement (I think the IRS rate now is 44 cents a mile). No shite.... I bought my wife her engagement ring with mileage reimbursement checks from my first job out of undergrad. Then, as the poster above said, you will get your foot in the door and the next time that company/agency/whatever hires, you will be in the "who you know" category of applicants. Good luck.
June 9, 201015 yr NOW HIRING: ARCHITECT My company is now hiring an architect with strong design and multimedia skills. Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AutoCAD and Sketchup is required Knowledge of After Effects, 3D Studio Max is preferred Knowledge of Revit and Ecotect is also a plus Job is in Downtown Chicago. Please send me a pm for more info.
June 28, 201014 yr If anyone is interested in more info, you can PM me, and try to join me on the west coast! Urban Development Project Manager, City of Salem, OR http://www.jobaps.com/Salem/sup/BulPreview.asp?R1=10&R2=0220&R3=01
August 19, 201014 yr While this is not my firm, it's a good firm and would be a good job if you know anyone who is looking for an admin type job that's not a strictly "answer the phones, keep appointments" type job, but instead with additional, marketing-related job duties. http://cleveland.careerboard.com/job/831631-.aspx?job_id=831631&source=indeed&utm_source=Indeed&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Indeed
September 28, 201014 yr Warren, mich has a nice new shiny city centre complex. Guessing the job would be there
September 28, 201014 yr Someone sent me this as well, not my firm but would be a good job if you have the right experience: Business Development & Communications Coordinator. Posted 9/23/10. Jones Day, a prestigious international law firm, is seeking a Business Development & Communications (BD&C) Coordinator for its Cleveland, Ohio location. This position is under the immediate supervision of the Cleveland Office BD&C Manager, and general supervision of the Firm BD&C Director. The job involves working closely with the Cleveland Office Partners and serving as a liaison with Firmwide BD&C to facilitate business development projects and objectives. The BD&C Coordinator is expected to perform all job duties with a commitment to providing superior service to clients, producing quality work products, and maintaining an atmosphere of teamwork and continuous improvement. Above all, the Business Development and Communications Coordinator must fulfill the needs of the Office in a manner which is consistent with the Firm's visions and values. Essential responsibilities include, but are not limited to, assistance with proposals, coordination of client events, such as seminars, receptions, golf outings, speaking engagements, sporting, and civic events. Coordinate all functions related to preparation of proposals, including in-house database research, organization of business development materials and attorney work product, drafting, editing and conforming proposals to Firm standards. Assist in the preparation and distribution of the finished product. Maintain and update computer programs for business development, including the generation of reports and charts. Requirements: Four year college degree. Minimum 5 years experience in a business environment. Minimum 2 years experience in the legal or professional services environment. Proficiency on office equipment used on a regular basis including computers, printers, copy machines, facsimile machines and telephones. Interested candidates should forward their resume to: [email protected]. An Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
October 5, 201014 yr I know of an opening for a graphic artist. PM me if you want details, can't post online.
December 31, 201014 yr If anyone here has interest and talent in writing and editing, send me a private message and we'll talk. Experience (be it academic or professional) can't hurt. Thanks guys
January 6, 201114 yr The company I work for is currently looking for VB .NET programmers. East side company.
January 12, 201114 yr Does anyone know if there is much of a market for GIS careers in NE Ohio. If so, what are the names of some private firms that do this type of work. I have recently been thinking about a career in this, and was intrested in what companies provide GIS services, and what the pay scale is like. Any info is appreciated!
January 17, 201114 yr I'm graduating in June from UC with my BS in Urban Studies. Looking for job opps in Cincinnati. Interested in transportation, mainly. Aside from the City and SORTA, what other companies in Cincinnati do urban planning work in transportation?
January 17, 201114 yr Shot in the dark: Any lawyers around? I have 2+ years work experience as a paralegal in major int'l law firms and am a Cleveland native. I'm currently a first year student at Case Western Law. Am interested in putting down roots in Cleveland but for now just looking for good professional internship experience.
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