Southwestern Community College Job Opportunities March 13

Southwestern Community College has new job opening offers for students:

Wells Fargo, Franklin - Store Manager 2
Job Description:
· Manages retail sales and service functions. The primary goal is to serve the customers' total financial service needs resulting in greater market share, wallet share and profitability. This is accomplished by creating a vital sales and service organization, promoting teamwork with partners and other corporate departments.
· Creates, trains and coaches a successful sales team through the development of staff as a competitive advantage.
· Responsible for effective staff salary administration and rewards. Develops and administers budgets, business development goals and objectives, staffing models, schedules and performance standards.
· Guidelines:
o The store manager level is determined by valuing a number of key store measurements. This position requires compliance with the S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 and all related regulations.
o Ongoing employment is contingent upon meeting all such requirements, including acceptable background investigation results.

Basic Qualifications:
· 2+ years retail or financial services management experience and 2+ years sales experience.

Minimum Qualifications:
Experience developing strategic partnerships. Good leadership and motivational skills. Ability to manage priorities in a retail environment. Ability to analyze financial metrics. Proven experience leading a team to meet individual and team sales and customer satisfaction goals. Ability to work a schedule that includes working weekends and some holidays. This position requires S.A.F.E. registration at the time of employment. The Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS) web site (mortgage.nationwidelicensingsystem.org) provides the MU4R questions and registration required for employment in this position.

Preferred Skills:
Business acumen - ability to run a small business. Adaptable and flexible coaching style which takes into account the needs and learning styles of a diverse team.

Wells Fargo, Franklin - Personal Banker 2
Job Description:
· Manages a premier/excellent household customer portfolio and proactively cross-sells additional products through referrals and outbound calling with the goal of acquiring 100% of the customers' financial services business.
· Special emphasis is placed on providing customers with personal financial counseling and lending service.
· Gains new customers through outbound calls (in-person and telephone) and partner referrals.
· Develops and maintains relationships with Wells Fargo partners to maximize sales opportunities and achieve minimum sales standards.
· Annual certification may be required. This position requires compliance with the S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 and all related regulations.
· Ongoing employment is contingent upon meeting all such requirements, including acceptable background investigation results.

Basic Qualifications:
· 2+ years retail sales and/or customer service experience.

Minimum Qualifications:
Financial services sales experience. Proven ability to meet sales goals. Previous experience in outbound calling and assessing customer needs. Demonstrated use of PC skills; excellent communications skills. Demonstrated ability to mentor and peer coach others. Ability to work a schedule that includes working weekends and some holidays. This position requires S.A.F.E. registration at the time of employment. The Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS) web site (mortgage.nationwidelicensingsystem.org) provides the MU4R questions and registration required for employment in this position.

Preferred Skills:
Multilingual speakers are encouraged to apply.
Previous experience leading and coaching a team to achieve sales and service goals and desire to be in leadership role are preferred.
Interested candidates can apply at www.wellsfargo.com/careers. Please indicate Southwestern Community College as referral source.

The Swag Country Inn, Waynesville
Reservation Positions
Need 2 very personable, competent, detail-oriented people to work in reservations at The Swag. The shifts would most likely be 2-10 and vary on the weekends.
If interested, contact julie@theswag.com or call 828-926-0430 .between 9 and 4 M-F.

Andrews Auld Heating and Air Cooling, Inc., Franklin
Temporary Week-End Job
Need 2-3 people with excellent keyboarding and computer skills to help transfer data from one software program to another. Accuracy is very important in the process.Want hard workers who can stay on task and take pride in getting it right.
If interested, contact Laurie Auld at 828-349-4662 or laurieauld@andrewsauld.com.


Great Smoky Mountain Railroad, Bryson City
Retail Manager
Group Lead Agent
Cleaning Crew Supervisor
To apply, contact Heidi Jones at hjones@gsmr.com or call 828-488-7019 .
Job descriptions are attached.

For information contact:

Patty Kirkley
Career Counselor
Southwestern Community College
828-339-4212

LinkedIn for Private Equity Jobs in Asheville

Social media and social networks are the way we connect in the twenty first century. LinkedIN is often known as one of those more 'elitist' websites. Originally designed for business connections, its still a great place to find job openings.

Here are two different posts from March first about Management and Business Development foir career openings. Titled as Private Equity and Venture Capital jobs.

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs/ir-Venture-Capital-%26-Private-Equity-Asheville,-North-Carolina-Area/106-us-48

Keep a lookout for Linked IN job opportunities and posts. We recommend that you join a group for Asheville NC as well to get your profile out there.

Upcoming Career Events - Southwestern Community College

Copied from the Southwestern Community College mass email. Upcoming Career Events.

Upcoming Career Events

Interviews in the Round (Sign Up Online - Required)
Students rotate through 8 short interviews and get feedback and pointers so they are ready for the real deal.

Only March 14, 12:00 noon-2:00 has open slots, but you may request to be listed on the wait list for any session.
Call Patty Kirkley at 828-339-4212 to wait list.

March 14 (snow day March 21)
9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
12:00 noon-2:00 p.m.

March 15 (snow day March 22)
9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
12:00 noon-2:00 p.m.
2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

To register, go to: http://www.southwesterncc.edu/interviews-round-registration.

Great prizes for each seminar and students are entered in the grand prize drawing. Grand prize is a loaded laptop! Students must attend at least 3 seminars to be entered in grand prize drawing.

Job Fair
Take advantage of meeting local employers and making contacts that may help you in your job search. Dress to impress a prospective employer!

March 29, 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Balsam Lobby/Auditorium

Great door prizes!

Asheville Food Hardship

Asheville NC actually ranks Third in the United States in food hardship. At least, according to a recent study. The problem has only gotten worse as time has gone on. About 24% of people are having a hard time (in Asheville NC) getting enough food to fill the table.

The only two counties that were having a harder time supplying food were Bakersfield and Fresno California. (100 large areas were surveyed). This has gotten even worse from last year where Asheville was the 7th hardest place (which was by no means ever any good).

The MANNA Food Bank is having a terrible time getting enough support to help feed all these people. They will refuse to sit back and let this happen to Asheville, but they need all the support they can get to help them. They have also released a statistic that shows 29.9% of young adults and children under the age of 18 are "food insecure" in Western North Carolina.

Asheville's US Postal Service Closing Processing Facility

Unfortunately the United States Postal Service's processing facility that is located in Asheville NC will be closing. The jobs will probably be moving over to Greenville NC where they could gain 183 new jobs from the facility!

However, Asheville was heavily protesting the move of the postal service. There were several local rallies.

Camping World SuperCenter Coming to Asheville

Asheville's going to get their very own Camping World Super Center! Camping World is a well known brand name. Many people have seen their advertising on NASCAR and other huge TV shows such as the Apprentice with Donald Trump. They sell used and new RVs and 8,000 other out door related things!

The new Super Center is going to provide you the opportunity to get a job in Asheville NC! The new center will open up 30+ new jobs for the Asheville NC Area!

You can read more about the new center at Google+ Post over here: Asheville's New Camping World SuperCenter That's the full news.

Now, for the Jobs part. If you are interested in applying for a job at the new center, you should do so right away! It was only just announced, and there is still a big opportunity window. Go over to their site and fill out the application form here: http://campingworld.submit4jobs.com/

Of course, you can wait to contact them after they've broken the ground for their new store.

Florida Businessmen Purchase Two Memorable Asheville Buildings

The former S&W Cafeteria and the Windsor Hotel have both been sold to a Miami Beach gynecologist who, with his partners, are planning to do some big business in Asheville. The S&W Building alone has been sold for almost 2.5 Million Dollars (in 2007 it was worth 2.45). Back in 2007 the old Windsor Hotel was worth almost just as much, $2.3K.

The Buncombe County Deeds registry office has confirmed that these iconic and popular Asheville buildings have been purchased. The partners that are located in North Carolina have been unable to be contacted at this moment. It is unclear what is going to happen to these well loved buildings. Whatever happens, we can predict that it will be lucrative for the investors.

Previous investments and business ventures by the same people have been in Colorado and Florida and consisted of expensive ventures as well. Condominiums, Private Planes and Air Transportation methods, Yacht and expensive boat sales are a few of the lavish things they have invested in.

Hopefully any restoration and future plans for these buildings will bring with them extra jobs for Asheville citizens.

But what we can tell quite easily from these purchases, is that businessmen have faith in Asheville NC's economy. Businessmen, especially well established and experienced ones such as these, do not simply invest this much money into something they don't think has potential.

This can only mean good. The future is still bright for an economic turn up which will bring more jobs and opportunities for people looking for Asheville Jobs.

Jobs in Asheville NC - Overview

A nice guest post on an overview of Asheville Jobs.

Jobs are hard to come by in this time of economic recession. Virtually every sector we know has been hit, and hit hard. But jobs in Asheville seem to be pretty steady compared to the commercial hubs of the USA. Although the job market is not quite so promising as it once was, it is not as bad as it could be, and this is something to be thankful for.
Ashville seems to be floating a wave of good luck; its own financial status is quite secure and the little city boasts a good, stable economy. But on slightly closer inspection, one sees that it is not so much good luck that has saved Asheville, but infrastructure. Just have a look at some of the city’s biggest employers – Mission Health system, Buncombe Valley School system and the state of North Carolina; all of these are relatively incubated from the horrors of the corporate world and as such does not have to suffer quite so terribly from its woes. The top three employers – Mission Health system, Ingles and Buncombe Valley School; each employ well over three thousand people, all from the city’s 408,000 employable inhabitants. It is not surprising, then, that the best places to look for steady jobs are in medicine, education and grocery stores.
One thing that many people forget is that due to the prosperity of these sectors, some secondary sectors also flourish. It is not very difficult to become some kind of entertainer or small businessman, with a large number of schools, children’s amusements and school supplies are always required. The thriving local culture has sprouted some interesting music scenes where street performance are very common. Who knows, you may end up getting discovered and become a celebrity if you want to try out as a musician!
Ultimately it boils down to you – what you want, your qualifications and how willing you are. These 3 criteria should dictate what career you choose.

Internet Blackout - Supporting Online Job Creation

The Internet blackout we all experienced yesterday was a final push towards getting our government to stop two big bills that would 'break' our internet. SOPA and PIPA have essentially been killed by the enormous revolt the internet community has taken against the legislation. As of two days ago, there were only 5 senators that were publicly against PIPA. PIPA is a bill relating to IP address control that was being pushed in the Senate. After yesterday's upheaval, there are 35 Senators that are publicly going against this legislation. It just takes 41 votes against this bill. SOPA, the house of representatives partner bill to PIPA has essentially been shelved.

How did this happen? Well, it got to the point where the public simply didn't know enough about these bills. Google, Wikipedia, Reddit, and many other popular online websites blacked their sites out in protest. For sites like Reddit, I can hardly see this doing much good, as all and any Redditors were bound to have seen posts about SOPA and PIPA on the front pages for months. Wikipedia might have had the biggest impact out of all of them. Every single Wiki page was blacked out after a half a second of loading time. "Imagine a world without free knowledge" was written across a black layer and there were links to contact your congressmen and representatives. Most anti-SOPA and anti-PIPA enthusiasts were disappointed with Google's half hearted attempt. They simply added a blackout doodle to their home page. If Google would have blacked out every search result, I can guarantee you thousands of frustrated people would have emailed and called their congressmen. We were all hoping for such an epic upheaval by Google, and were, of course, disappointed.

But, you should be asking yourself, how does this relate to Jobs? Well, the internet has long been the last open 'frontier', if you will, for the free market. There are thousand of people who are self employed because of their internet success. The entrepreneur opportunities the internet can offer are so great that many people are implementing product ideas on e-commerce stores instead of a mainstream storefront. The startup cost is less and the risk as far, far less.

Not to mention, both legislation is extremely unconstitutional and morally wrong.

Another note on the geeky side, if the government was allowed to censor the web, online security would collapse. The way the government would go about censoring the web would lead to open gaps and loopholes that hackers could easily exploit. It would, essentially, 'break' the internet.

On a final note, the man who wrote up this bill, U.S. Congressman Lamar Smith is actually violating the legislation he is trying to pass. That's right folks, Lamar doesn't even know what type of legislation he is passing. He saw $94 million in lobbying money and probably didn't think twice. How exactly is he violating this? His website is using a background that is under a common creative licensee which means he is required to give credit to the photographer in his website. Which he doesn't. He is actually using copyrighted material illegally on his own website that is supporting an Anti-Piracy law.

$94 million from companies that want to be able to sue you for singing along to karaoke and putting it on YouTube. Justin Bieber could face 5 years in prison because of music videos he made when he was 10. In face, under this laws, people like Justin Bieber could have never become who they are. Not that I would miss not having Bieber around, but in all seriousness, he would have been a nobody his whole life.

Save e-commerce, entrepreneurship, and the free market and call your Representatives!

The ANTI SOPA argument that appeared on The Oatmeal here

Contact your Senator and Representative here

Having A Plan For Your Home Business

Have you ever wanted to have a home business? When jobs are short in the public workforce, starting your own business, or working from home can be the best way to go. Of course, it doesn't matter if you live in Asheville and are looking for Asheville Jobs. When you have a home business you are in charge.

Having a home business can be a great way to earn an income if you know how to set up your business correctly. You can be your own boss and set your hours, according to your specific needs. It is important to research the many factors that can help you to be successful.

Don't fail just because you are impatient. You know your business can be successful because the general public needs your products and services. Don't get discouraged by a not too successful introductory period. Stick to your plan and adjust it to the always changing market. Don't forget: it takes several years to build a successful business.

You should know the product you are selling. Study it, inside and out, before you try to sell it. You may also want to test the product out so you know what it does. This way you will be able to describe it to your customers in a knowledgeable way.

Make sure that you're giving your customers more than they expect, and this goes for any type of business you're operating. If you're selling brownies out of your home kitchen, throw in a couple extra. If you're selling eBooks at a web store, give one away for every one that you sell. It's just good business.

Order professional-grade business cards and other paper goods that you can use in your business. A home business should go the extra mile to impress the client and make them feel comfortable using you. Professional business cards, order or quote sheets, letterhead and other types of stationery will show that you have made a serious investment in your business.

Base your business on something in which you already have experience. Too many people trying to start a home business think that they can simply learn as they go. While this is definitely possible, you will be much more successful if you have solid expertise in the area that you choose. Figure out what your personal strengths are, and build your business on what you know best.

A great tip for your home business is to make sure that no matter what it is that you purchase in relation to your home business that you save the receipts for it. If you ever are audited, it will make the entire process much easier if you have receipts to back up your claims.

Get a business checking account. You can keep your business and home money in the same account, but come tax time you are going to have a difficult time separating one from the other. Get a business account and you will be more organized as well as ready for tax-time.

Before you choose a business, think about all the aspects you will have to handle. Perhaps you have experience or are interested in one aspect of this business only. Think about hiring someone to help you with a certain stage of the production if you believe this would be necessary.

You should do everything in your power to separate your personal and professional budgets. Although it may seem like it is all coming from the same source, it will help to avoid problems in the future, as well as, help you to see exactly how much you are spending per month on your business.

As you can see, by thoroughly researching and planning a home business, you can have a profitable business, run right from your own home office. Take the first steps by following these guidelines and begin charting your business course to victory. You can make your home business dreams a reality.

Carolina Pig Polish - Local Product from Asheville

Carolina Pig Polish, if that doesn't sound like country living, I don't know what does. Its a barbecue sauce / finishing sauce that's made with good 'ol country ingredients like molasses and special spices.

Robin Starrs didn't set out to be an entrepreneur or a specialty sauce creator. In fact, he was in the telecommunications niche for twenty seven years until he retired and started pursuing his hobby in tasty sauces. He was delighted to develop his tinkered sauces into a business. After taking courses in food business, he was able to learn how to market, package, and distribute products in the culinary industry. He was able to hit the market in September with his "Pig Polish".

He has since been modifying his ingredients so that there are no preservatives / chemicals in his sauces, and the ingredients are natural and fresh.

Its not just meant for barbecue, its great on almost every kind of meat as well as beans, shrimp, and roasts.

If you would like to support Mr Starr's hobby-turned business, you can email him at robins.specialty.sauces@gmail.com

The products are also available at Rickman Store Franklin, Chop Shop Butchery in Asheville, and Country Traditions located in Dillsboro.

24 Once Bottles go for a very reasonable price of $7.99 and twelve Once bottles are only $4.99.

Regional Jobs Fair - Success or Hectic

This past week, a few thousand people lined up in the Biltmore Mall. They were waiting to get in for the job fair. It wasn't just Asheville residents that flocked to the mall, citizens from all over WNC came. Somewhere around 2,000 showed up. There were possibly 1,200 job positions open. There is a 10% unemployment rate in North Carolina, and the population of Western North Carolina that falls under this umbrella were the ones who showed up... and looking at it statistically, almost every unemployed worker showed up. People from Waynesville, Asheville, Macon, Jackson, Madison, Swain, and more all showed up. "Its no longer really about location for these people, its about where they can find work... if they can find it." They were all ages, shapes and sizes, and most of them were eager to make a good impression on their future bosses. People in Haywood already travel outside county lines for jobs, approximately 15%.

But is a regional job fair really the way to do it? It seemed almost apocalyptic. People rushing around... desperate to support their families.

The job market is very specific anyway. Lots of niches can't be filled by just anyone. Those who are already specific in their trade or skill could probably benefit more by Google and Craigslist. The jobs that are open, are usually advertised. Its really not that hard to google something in your area and see if there is a company you can contact. Craigslist is much easier, as you can just look in the job section. However, if you are brave, you can try cold calling. This works great with Googling corporations and businesses in your area. Even though they might be staffed, calling a business and showing your potential and eagerness is the best way to get on the 'waiting list'. Heck, there's a good chance you won't be forgotten by the boss the next time he needs to post an ad.

Personal contact is a key in finding a job. In a job fair, the booth owners aren't going to remember your face more than the next 1,999 people that walk by. Is this really the best way to get in contact with workers? Is this really the best way to find jobs?

Looking at job hiring through the manager's or owner's standpoint is a good way to think about it. You have to stand out and make an impression. Does a crowded job fair really do this?

Hopefully people can start becoming more deft in the job field and take advantages of the work that is available under their noses.