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1.: FW: Project Manager From: Jim

2.: Star Ledger Article on Stress of Long Unemployment From: Terrence Seamon

3.: Direct Client - Business Analyst - Full Time - NYC From: Srinivas (Novost Inc)

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1.: FW: Project Manager

Posted by: "Jim" jlcollymore@comcast.net jcollymore2006

Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:02 am (PDT)

Greetings.

I received this job posting in my e-mail this morning. I thought I would share it with you in case any of you think that you're a fit.

Jim Collymore

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

James,

We are currently sourcing for a position with our Direct Client and would like to discuss this opportunity with you.

Established in 1995, Rangam Consultants is a multiple service provider in the Information Technology, Scientific, Engineering and administrative fields. We have a proven track record for successfully delivering mission critical consulting, support and recruiting services to various government and Fortune 500 clients.

The details for this position are as follows:

Job Title: Project Manager
Job Code: RCI-ZON-2018-1
Job location: Newark, NJ
Duration: 6 Months
Start Date: ASAP

JOB DESCRIPTION:
Need to be very strong on the Business side, not on the technical side of the process.
Healthcare is a MUST.
Knowledge of Healthcare Reform strongly preferred.
Will be managing legislative items that are received through Federal and State laws, and managing internal workflow creations.
This position is responsible for enterprise, cross-divisional projects with a high degree of complexity and medium to high risk.
The PM-II obtains a clear understanding of the project scope and objectives and of team member roles and responsibilities and applies standard project management methodology, tools and practices to ensure successful outcomes of projects.
The PM-II is also responsible for supervising and mentoring a PM-I that is assigned to their projects.
Manage multiple, larger or cross-divisional projects at one time (projects can be of high risk level and typically involve cross-divisional coordination)
Organize, manage and direct project team tasks and assures proper application of EPMO standards, tools and methodologies in project work.
Identifies and assembles project team(s) and provides leadership and mentoring to assure effective project completion
Delivers full project objectives on time and on budget as well as contributes to development of high-level business cases and post-implementation benefits estimates and recovery plans.
Manages all project risk levels develop appropriate contingency plans and pro-actively identifies changes to eliminate future occurrences.
Responsible for maintaining current and complete project management data and documents in enterprise systems; analyzes and reports project performance metrics as requested
If interested:

Please provide us the following information:

1) Hourly rate on W2 or expected salary _________
2) Resume in Word format __________
3) Contact information, where we can reach you _________
4) Three professional references with their Name, Company Name, Title and Phone # ________
5) Your Status (Citizen/EAD/Green Card)______
6) Date of Birth (Only Month and Date for use as a unique identifier. We DO NOT need the year. You may provide this over the phone)

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Chinthu
Rangam Consultants Inc.
Somerset NJ 08873
Direct No:- 908 704 8843 Ext - 220
Fax: 908 253 6550
Email: staffing@rangam.com
Alt e-mail id: rangamconsultantsinc@gmail.com
WWW.Rangam.COM
FOR ALL CURRENT OPEN JOBS @ RANGAM CLICK HERE

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2.: Star Ledger Article on Stress of Long Unemployment

Posted by: "Terrence Seamon" thseamon@yahoo.com thseamon

Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:27 am (PDT)

Stress of long-term unemployment takes a toll on thousands of
Jersey
Posted by: "alex
nazario" an108@optonline.net anazario66
Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:31 am (PDT)

Published: Sunday, June 13, 2010, 6:00 AM Updated: Friday, June 11,
2010, 6:58 PM
Leslie Kwoh/The Star-Ledger Leslie Kwoh/The Star-Ledger

At 5:30 every morning, Tony Gwiazdowski rolls out of bed, brews a pot of
coffee and carefully arranges his laptop, cell phone and notepad like
silverware across the kitchen table.

And then he waits.

Gwiazdowski, 57, has been waiting for 16 months. Since losing his job as
a transportation sales manager in February 2009, he wakes each morning
to the sobering reminder that, yes, he is still unemployed. So he pushes
aside the fatigue, throws on some clothes and sends out another flurry
of resumes and cheery cover letters.

But most days go by without a single phone call. And around sundown,
when he hears his neighbors returning home from work, Gwiazdowski — the
former mayor of Hillsborough — can't help but allow himself one tiny
sigh of resignation.

"You sit there and you wonder, 'What am I doing wrong?'" said
Gwiazdowski, who finds companionship in his 2-year-old golden retriever,
Charlie, until his wife returns from work.

"The worst moment is at the end of the day when it's 4:30 and you did
everything you could, and the phone hasn't rung, the e-mails haven't
come through."

Gwiazdowski is one of a growing number of chronically unemployed workers
in New Jersey and across the country who are struggling to get through
what is becoming one long, jobless nightmare — even as the rest of the
economy has begun to show signs of recovery.

Nationwide, 46 percent of the unemployed — 6.7 million Americans — have
been without work for at least half a year, by far the highest
percentage recorded since the U.S. Labor Department began tracking the
data in 1948.

In New Jersey, nearly 40 percent of the 416,000 unemployed workers last
year fit that profile, up from about 20 percent in previous years,
according to the department, which provides only annual breakdowns for
individual states. Most of them were unemployed for more than a year.

But the repercussions of chronic unemployment go beyond the loss of a
paycheck or the realization that one might never find the same kind of
job again. For many, the sinking feeling of joblessness — with no end in
sight — can take a psychological toll, experts say.

Across the state, mental health crisis units saw a 20 percent increase
in demand last year as more residents reported suffering from
unemployment- related stress, according to the New Jersey Association of
Mental Health Agencies.

"The longer the unemployment continues, the more impact it will have on
their personal lives and mental health," said Shauna Moses, the
association's associate executive director. "There's stress in the
marriage, with the kids, other family members, with friends."

And while a few continue to cling to optimism, even the toughest admit
there are moments of despair: Fear of never finding work, envy of
employed friends and embarassment at having to tell acquaintances that,
nope, still no luck.

"When they say, 'Hi Mayor,' I don't tell a lot of people I'm out of work
— I say I'm semi-retired, " said Gwiazdowski, who maxed out on
unemployment benefits several months ago.

"They might think, 'Gee, what's wrong with him? Why can't he get a job?'
It's a long story and maybe people really don't care and now they want
to get away from you."

SECOND TIME AROUND

Lynn Kafalas has been there before, too. After losing her computer
training job in 2000, the East Hanover resident took four agonizing
years to find new work — by then, she had refashioned herself into a web
designer.

That not-too-distant experience is why Kafalas, 52, who was laid off
again eight months ago, grows uneasier with each passing day. Already,
some of her old demons have returned, like loneliness, self-doubt and,
worst of all, insomnia. At night, her mind races to dissect the latest
interview: What went wrong? What else should she be doing? And why won't
even Barnes & Noble hire her?

"It's like putting a stopper on my life — I can't move on," said
Kafalas, who has given up karate lessons, vacations and regular outings
with friends. "Everything is about the interviews."

And while most of her friends have been supportive, a few have hinted to
her that she is doing something wrong, or not doing enough. The remarks
always hit Kafalas with a pang.

In a recent study, researchers at Rutgers University found that the
chronically unemployed are prone to high levels of stress, anxiety,
depression, loneliness and even substance abuse, which take a toll on
their self-esteem and personal relationships.

"They're the forgotten group," said Carl Van Horn, director of the John
J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, and a co-author
of the report. "And the longer you are unemployed, the less likely you
are to get a job."

Of the 900 unemployed workers first interviewed last August for the
study, only one in 10 landed full-time work by March of this year, and
only half of those lucky few expressed satisfaction with their new jobs.
Another one in 10 simply gave up searching.

Among those who were still unemployed, many struggled to make ends meet
by borrowing from friends or family, turning to government food stamps
and forgoing health care, according to the study.

More than half said they avoided all social contact, while slightly less
than half said they had lost touch with close friends. Six in 10 said
they had problems sleeping.

Kafalas says she deals with her chronic insomnia by hitting the gym for
two hours almost every evening, lifting weights and pounding the
treadmill until she feels tired enough to fall asleep.

"Sometimes I forget what day it is. Is it Tuesday? And then I'll think
of what TV show ran the night before," she said. "Waiting is the
toughest part."

AGE A FACTOR

Generally, the likelihood of long-term unemployment increases with age,
experts say. A report by the National Employment Law Project this month
found that nearly half of those who were unemployed for six months or
longer were at least 45 years old. Those between 16 and 24 made up just
14 percent.

Tell that to Adam Blank, 24, who has been living with his girlfriend and
her parents at their Martinsville home since losing his sales job at
Best Buy a year and half ago.

Blank, who graduated from Rutgers with a major in communications, says
he feels like a burden sometimes, especially since his girlfriend, Tracy
Rosen, 24, works full-time at a local nonprofit. He shows her family
gratitude with small chores, like taking out the garbage, washing
dishes, sweeping floors and doing laundry.

Still, he often feels inadequate.

"All I'm doing on an almost daily basis is sitting around the house
trying to keep myself from going stir-crazy," said Blank, who dreams of
starting a social media company.

When he is feeling particularly low, Blank said he turns to a tactic
employed by prisoners of war in Vietnam: "They used to build dream
houses in their head to help keep their sanity. It's really just
imagining a place I can call my own."

LESSONS LEARNED

Meanwhile, Gwiazdowski, ever the optimist, says unemployment has taught
him a few things.

He has learned, for example, how to quickly assess an interviewer's age
and play up or down his work experience accordingly — he doesn't want to
appear "threatening" to a potential employer who is younger. He has
learned that by occasionally deleting and reuploading his resume to job
sites, his entry appears fresh.

"It's almost like a game," he said, laughing. "You are desperate, but
you can't show it."

But there are days when he just can't find any humor in his predicament
— like when he finishes a great interview but receives no offer, or when
he hears a fellow job seeker finally found work and feels a slight
twinge of jealousy.

"That's what I'm missing — putting on that shirt and tie in the morning
and going to work," he said.

The memory of getting dressed for work is still so vivid, Gwiazdowski
says, that he has to believe another job is just around the corner.

"You always have to hope that that morning when you get up, it's going
to be the day," he said.

"Today is going to be the day that something is going to happen."

Leslie Kwoh may be reached at lkwoh@starledger. com or (973)
392-4147.

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3.: Direct Client - Business Analyst - Full Time - NYC

Posted by: "Srinivas (Novost Inc)" srinivasg@novostinc.com ganaddini

Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:56 am (PDT)

Hello Everyone,

Location: NYC

Duration: Full Time Position

Client Does not sponsor H1B Visa.

. Experienced Business Analyst (2-3 yrs exp)

o Contributed to developing BRDs, workflow diagrams, data flows,
etc.

. Experienced in financial services/capital markets -FO or MO
operations

o Experienced in research portals a plus

. Knowledgeable of Equity and Fixed Income products

. Excellent writing, communication skills

. Strong PowerPoint, Word, Visio skills

Please email me your complete copy of resume with contact details for
consideration.

Srinivas Ganadinni

T I 631 470 8282 F I 631 629 4704

Email - srinivasg@novostinc.com

Web - <http://www.novostconsulting.com/> www.novostconsulting.com

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