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The Scioto Ridge Job Networking Group
The purpose of the Scioto Ridge Job Networking Group is to help our members find new employment in the most economical way. When you become a member of the Scioto Ridge Job Networking Group, you instantly become part of a thriving, positively focused and motivational organization. All members are dedicated to helping one another move their career forward.
Introducing a new program for members of the Scioto Ridge Job Networking Group. JumpStart is a program designed to get your “new” job search started in the right direction or your “stalled” job search re-energized. Please click on the JumpStart logo for more details!
Introducing our new Webinar Series! Get important career development, leadership strategy and lifestyle advice in the comfort of your home. Please visit our website calendar and look for event dates and times in yellow.
Job Networking
Networking is the most effective path to your next job. It's also the hardest thing to do. Most people are scared to death to network. The Scioto Ridge Job Networking Group allows you to meet and network with other members and alumni in a very positive and open environment. Attendees at chapter meetings vary by location. You may be attending a meeting with 20 people or 100 people. Each member has the opportunity to spend time introducing themselves and discussing their job search progress to date.
Joining SRJNG costs only $10/month or $100 per year. Enjoy free career services when you join SRJNG!
Job Networking Statstistics
The Wall Street Journal reported recently that 94 percent of successful job hunters claimed that job networking had made all the difference for them. Sixty to 90 percent of jobs are found informally - mainly through friends, relatives, and direct contacts. The U.S. Department of Labor reports that 63.4 percent of all workers use informal job finding methods. Mark S. Granovetter, a Harvard sociologist, reported to Forbes magazine that "informal contacts" account for almost 75 percent of all successful job searches. Agencies find nine percent of new jobs for professional and technical people, and advertisements yield another 10 percent or so.
At least 60 percent of job openings in the U.S. are not filled through advertising, recruiters or other traditional methods. They are filled through job networking and informal contacts. The goal is to move into the hidden, un-advertised job market, using every available resource that contact with other people will provide you.
Learn more about how to job network effectively.
Start job networking at your first meeting
Surprisingly, many well-educated professionals who find themselves in job transition have little or no network of local professional contacts. Besides relying on their family and friends for support, job seekers find themselves with no real means to re-enter the workforce other than posting their resumes on the internet.
Our members' job search resources increase immediately upon joining. At each Scioto Ridge Job Networking Group meeting, members may be introduced to corporate recruiters, professional recruiters, career coaches, resume specialists and many more experts in the job transition field. We offer a safe and nurturing environment, if only for a few hours each week, where job seekers can meet and further their job search in a positive and productive manner.
Free employment services at SRJNG
- Website job postings
- Networking events
- Resume tune-up classes
- Networking workshops
- Career workshops
- Interview preparation classes
- Salary negotiation classes
- Low-cost training
- Job loss support groups
- Calendar of Central OH networking events
- Articles and Ask the Expert advice
- Continuing education and training
- Weekly speakers discussing aspects of the job search process
- Weekly newsletter featuring new job postings and upcoming events
- Webinars featuring local and nationally recognized career coaches
Expand your job networking connections -- Join SRJNG today.
What’s New
- How effective is job networking?
If you aren't ready to join yet, please read our articles and newsletters, familiarize yourself with our past meetings, learn more about our benefits and free employment services and get to know more about our history and about us.
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