In search of job seekers

ROGERS — The battle cry of economic recovery is making its way across the country, but its message is tempered for those still looking for a job.

Those whose employment status has diminished during the recession may have never heard of Barbara Safani, but they'll appreciate what she represents. Safani is a resume expert whose national video seminar will be shown at the Rogers Public Library at noon Wednesday.

"It's a Web seminar with a noted national resume expert," library Director Judy Casey. "She's going to actually be going through some resume techniques for an hour."

The library has always been a resource for job seekers and resume writers, but this economic downturn has turned it into a refuge for the unemployed as they scourbooks, magazines and Web sites looking for tips and tools to get them back to work.

"I'm not so sure this isn't the highest demand for those services ever," Casey said. "The last several months, (the staff has) been seeing more and more people coming in and needing assistance."

Among other highlights, the seminar promises to show job seekers how to "write a powerful profile and skills summary that shows hiring managers how valuable your experience is, transform a list of job tasks into powerful success stories, (and) leverage education and internships to prove you have the 'right stuff' to do the job," according to the press release.

Safani's seminar, sponsored by Tutor.com, will run for an hour, but anyone with a Rogers library card can get tutoring help through the sponsor's Web site via the "Homework Help" link at the library's Web site: library.rpl. lib.ar.us.

In addition to the online assistance, Casey said her staff would help job seekers find resources, online and in print, and help, when they havetime, with computer needs.

"We want to be as much assistance as we can be," Casey said.